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I went out for a walk today with a hippy girl I know, and I didn't bring anything along with me to eat, except a bottle of chilli sauce and some mustard, and no money. But we basically had a feast. I found food everywhere, and this is winter! I collected about forty edible roots, including arrowheads, phragmites reeds, bulrushes, pignut and wild onion, in an hour, which is something of a record for me. We also had plenty of greens, from nettles to hedge garlic, cleavers, dandelion leaves (which normally I wouldn't eat, but there were loads of them), sea purslane (just like spinach, and I had loads of it). No meat, though, not even any fish. Tasty lunch, cooked on the beach. Large salad, and some skewered, roasted vegetables. Quite amazing. Used a fire plough set to start the fire, and my companion was very impressed. The only downside was Fawley oil refinery, visible across the sea. It is a tremendously ugly thing, the price of a modern life. It's also very loud. It must have been twenty ks away, but we could hear the sounds coming from it, a sort of dull hum. It was ok if we didn't look in that direction, and the sea was nice, but....
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