Of gorse!!

When it's barren outside you really notice the lovely yellow flowers of the gorse. Apparantly it was used for dying wool and boiled eggs at easter time in Ireland. It was grown for animal shelter and crushed up for horse feed. I saw a programme (Victorian Farm) where the Dartmoor ponies were eating the gorse thorns and all! Here's a great page on it.
          Driving to East Sussex with veg and took a picture of the ruins at Brambletye. Also of the woods nearby.

The house (ruins) go back to the English Civil War.

                                             The wood nearby. I stop here for a break.

As I was delivering to Harvest Home which is situated in the middle of Ashdown Forest and has a shop full of organic, biodynamic, alternative medicines etc. I picked up a copy of the 'Positive News' which is a newspaper full of positive news! It's a great and refreshing approach to news. Here is the website link.