Thats great Judy, thank you. Hope the buns like them then as there's a plentiful supply. No doubt esme will try them but not sure about Eric. Mind you, he actually ate a dandelion leaf I picked for him yesterday!
My dad told me about eating the leaves with bread and cheese. May try it myself! Also, an elderly gent in the village is always chewing one of the sticks as he walks about. I love old oddities like that.
:lol:
well, i'm happy to say that both buns scoffed their few hawthorn leaves instantly - without the bread or cheese tho in fact, eric ate those and left his cabbage:shock:
i'm not feeling too great at the mo so i haven't been shopping - bunny tea tonight will be dandelion leaves, hawthorne and bramble. i've noticed a hedgerow full of nettles over the road too.......
i didn't mean that you were tho old oddity judy, sorry! but eric, esme and i love you anyway
I know you didn't mean it that way Wendy, I couldn't resist a bit of a giggle at my own expense. I'm one of the very few people in this area with any natural colour left to their hair. So I stand out a bit differently than expected.
I'm so sorry you are poorly again, & hope you get back on form soon.
Please let us know how you get on with Eric & Esme & their "natural wildie diet". There is one very major issue with it. Most of the food sources dry up at the end of Sept/Oct. So it's a case of drying extra in mid summer, & weaning them back to our greens in time. Someone with a winter veg garden or allotment is a good standby for coarse leaves.
Every good wish for a stasis free summer. :wave:
ETA Another very old oddity re nettles. Before we had plenty of cotton from India, country folk used to gather mature nettle stems, steep them, & spun the linen like fiber from the stems to make smocks etc.