Free food!

Mmmm, look at those delicious chantrelles being gently fried in butter! We met a man in the woods who was collecting them and I queried how you can tell false chantrelles from the real thing and he said they just don't grow round here. Well, take a man at his word, we picked a small amount and then tried them a home. No halucinations - the false chantrelles are halucegenic apparently. (think I need to check the spelling on that).
So now our daily walk is turning into a fungus foray. Tonight Ralph is just adding them to his Shephards Pie but yesterday we consumed all of the above as a starter...yum.
Please note; Ralph's Shephard Pie. Yes, he still does turn his hand to the kitchen duties occasionally. The Channel 4 news often gets in the way.
Also there are wild raspberries and blaeberries (blueberries to you lot in England) for picking. These are tine though and we are just eating them as we walk round. The paper said today that soft fruit in England is way behind the usual time for ripening but with all the rain, the fruit is well formed, therefore delicious. Scottish strawberries grown up the road at Nairn and so nice but we do have to buy them, next year I'm planning on my own being abundant enough.
4 days until my walking holiday!