And so it begins again......
Plenty of blackthorn blossom this year = Plenty of sloe berries later on. Shaping up to be a good crop.
Damsons seem a bit slow though, shame, as I thought the damson gin last year was as good as the sloe.
Doom'n'Gloom in the Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtm...27/eaice127.xml Arctic sea ice is now retreating so quickly that scientists say there is now a 50-50 chance that it will have gone completely by September.