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| Having a milk pail is essential - you pick the sloes into the lid, which you decant occasionally into the pail |
Today I went sloe picking for the third time. It was a lovely afternoon, and I needed another pint or two to fill up my two large sloe gin bottles.....
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| Lovely area of Oxford |
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| A full pail! About 2 litres worth |
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| To prevent the cows from escaping, I shouldn't wonder! |
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| The Canada Geese are congregating - soon it will be time to fly off again. I once watched a fox trying to ambush them here - it was fascinating, I kept watching until it got too dark. The fox kept trying to sneak up on the geese, but they were vigilant, and flew at them en masse, so he had to re-treat. Ten minutes later he would try again, from another direction. He kept this up for hours, but the geese always spotted him! |
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| Spot the punter (boat stalker) |
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| Hawthorn berries in good shape, too. |
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| And from another angle .... |
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| A lock - can be lowered or raised, depending on how much water there is |
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| The old mill |
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| This is a popular walking area for families and dogwalkers |
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| There used to be a waterwheel, but it disappeared a few years ago |
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| The old mill pond - probably contains massively huge sturgeons! |
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| Oxford is surrounded by a girdle of college playing fields - most have their own,though some do share. |
