Pondberries

The second pick of blackberries, a very modest pick, came from the bushes around the back of Stamford Green Pond. Visited for the purposes of feeding the various birds there with rolled oats: pigeons, ducks, coots and moorhens, including some very young moorhens. There were some seagulls and geese about but they stayed out of the way.

The small tub had not been for oats, but for raisins to form part of a snack for Felicity. The half-eaten apple was another part.

Rewarded by the sight of a large rat as we got back onto the path running along the front of the pond. And so home to cook the blackberries, along with the half-eaten apple and another.

As it turned out, just about the right amount of sugar and water, sometime I often get wrong. But then, on this occasion I had two supervisors. Down in one.

The leaflet top right turned up just before we tucked into the blackberries, featuring the work of one Chi Chi Maté Langlah, BA(Hons), Fashion Promotion and Imaging, UCA Epsom. We wondered where Chi Chi came from and what her life course would turn out to be. Presumably not High Street photographer, the breed being more or less extinct.

A leaflet which was by way of a massive thank you to the residents of Epsom for making the students of UCA (and their spending money) so welcome.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2021/08/blackberries.html. The first lot.

Reference 2: https://www.uca.ac.uk/. A university with no fewer than five campuses. Apparently 'the guardian's top-ranked creative university', although the website does not clarify which guardian that was. Presumably not the sort that ladies are supposed to carry around with them in certain Moslem countries.

Reference 3: https://chichimatelanglah.wixsite.com/mysite/project-04. Possibly based in the Netherlands. Whatever else she learned here in Epsom, it appears to include generating a substantial web presence. The photograph above is one of hers, not sure if is also one of her.