· James Torr · Personal · 1 min read
Bloody hell I’ve finally gone and found one. Found a very fresh roe deer carcass on the way home yesterday. Bled and gutted yesterday evening, hung with the help of some friends, 6am start this morning to skin and butcher it. All in the freezer by midday.
Garden Snails. Yup. You can eat them, you might even enjoy it. Done 4 batches now, so can share some experience. Some of the thinking points on this project are: 1.
As some folks may know, I'm a big advocate of repair not landfill. So, I darned my first sock! It's ugly as buggery but I don't really care. I'm unlikely to take this next week on the Camino as I've no idea whether it'll last! This guy got a small hole burned in it from a San Juan festival pallet burning on the beach in Brighton.
Urban foraging with some added bonus pics. This is a Nicotiana, probably alata, aka Persian tobacco. The leaves are a bit sticky and the flowers are often trumpet/horn shaped. The rest of the shots are from around some Brighton mews in Kemptown. Very cool little spot, and nice to see this city still has some surprises left for me after all this time.
Amongst the excellently named mint family black horehound, next to a tree stump on Ditchling road in Brighton, are some potato plants. At the bottom of the pic. They've been growing here for some years apparently. Who knows how they got here?