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by cartimandua
Wed May 18, 2011 9:20 pm
Forum: Wild Foods and Foraging
Topic: Where can I pick bilberries near the Vale of Glamorgan?
Replies: 7
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Re: Where can I pick bilberries near the Vale of Glamorgan?

My cousin is not Clark Kent, she is Whinberry Woman. Upholding Foraging Traditions On a Moorland near You. I have asked around at work and have identified two promising bilberrying locations in the Valleys, with an obliging lookout living in one of them who will alert me to a ripening harvest. I wil...
by cartimandua
Wed May 18, 2011 1:02 pm
Forum: Wild Foods and Foraging
Topic: Where can I pick bilberries near the Vale of Glamorgan?
Replies: 7
Views: 5423

Re: Where can I pick bilberries near the Vale of Glamorgan?

Sounds like you know more about her than I do, but yes, it was because she was a tough Northern lass and because my own forename, which was my first choice, is already taken. I came across Cartimandua, Queen of the Brigantines as I understand, in Robert Graves' "I Claudius" - Claudius view...
by cartimandua
Tue May 17, 2011 5:43 pm
Forum: Wild Foods and Foraging
Topic: Where can I pick bilberries near the Vale of Glamorgan?
Replies: 7
Views: 5423

Where can I pick bilberries near the Vale of Glamorgan?

I'm an ex-pat Lancastrian living in the Vale of Glamorgan in south east Wales. Bilberries abound on my native soil and I really miss going bilberrying - each year I swear I'll find out where to pick them fairly locally and this year I'm actually getting round to it. Can anyone please tell me where I...