Foraging as a child

I still go blackberrying each year to my old haunts, same with elderflowers and sloes where the bush positions were closly guarded secrets  

. Tickled small brown trout and ate them around a small fire in the woods. Gathered rose hips when they were in season and used to get 5 old pence per pound if you took them to school where they were sold for rosehip syrup. Scrumped apples and got a clip round the earhole for doing so off the local bobby. Went tattie picking for 50p per day. went grouse beating for considerably more and 5p for every lead shot that was in you at the end of the day. Turnip or 'snadger' harvesting and leading in strawbales and haybales which made your wrists blead.
Rabbiting by smokig rabbits out of holes so dog could catch them as they came out.
Mushrooming for field mushrooms (in the dark with a torch) and puffballs, blewits and inkcaps.
Pinching moorhen eggs and having a fry up next to the river.

Happy days!