WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.240 --> 00:00:02.279 Who is the nomber number. 2 00:00:02.480 --> 00:00:04.719 He's going to jump in a minute because she knows 3 00:00:05.240 --> 00:00:06.360 what you're talking about. 4 00:00:07.000 --> 00:00:11.679 Honestly, you see, you you live like in a different 5 00:00:11.839 --> 00:00:13.519 world to me, Callum. 6 00:00:13.919 --> 00:00:17.440 It's Callum's little world of urbanite thing that we just 7 00:00:17.480 --> 00:00:18.399 don't see. 8 00:00:18.480 --> 00:00:22.679 The internet, the internet that way to catch on. I 9 00:00:22.800 --> 00:00:29.199 keep telling you. I mean you literally just did the dance. 10 00:00:29.239 --> 00:00:31.640 No, no dance now are you talking about? 11 00:00:31.719 --> 00:00:33.880 No? No, no, that little dance I just did? Was 12 00:00:33.920 --> 00:00:36.200 that what the ladies do at the game fair when 13 00:00:36.200 --> 00:00:38.520 they're on the du Barri stand. See, if you get 14 00:00:38.560 --> 00:00:40.840 to the game fair early enough, not like you callum 15 00:00:41.200 --> 00:00:44.200 there at one pm. If you get to the game 16 00:00:44.240 --> 00:00:48.079 fair early for some reason, the do Barry people do 17 00:00:48.159 --> 00:00:52.439 a sort of like nineteen eighty style like walm up 18 00:00:52.560 --> 00:00:55.960 dance to get them into sales mode, I think. And 19 00:00:56.039 --> 00:00:59.159 so they basically you got this glamorous sort of ladies 20 00:00:59.159 --> 00:01:03.280 and these very handsome young men wearing you know, tweed 21 00:01:03.399 --> 00:01:06.599 mini skirts. That's the girls, and all the chaps are 22 00:01:06.599 --> 00:01:09.640 all dressed the same, and they do this sort of 23 00:01:12.439 --> 00:01:15.280 dance right where they're going this go out and sell, 24 00:01:15.439 --> 00:01:18.000 and then they go and stand in there washing up 25 00:01:18.040 --> 00:01:21.159 bowls of water. That's that's what happens on the Barry stand. 26 00:01:21.200 --> 00:01:24.079 And if you got there early, you know this calum 27 00:01:24.159 --> 00:01:26.040 is real great fun to watch. 28 00:01:26.879 --> 00:01:30.640 I'm not sure. I'm not sure that's the entertainment I 29 00:01:30.719 --> 00:01:31.480 need in my life. 30 00:01:31.920 --> 00:01:34.760 That's the lynch pin of the rural economy, then, is it. 31 00:01:34.920 --> 00:01:37.239 That's that sort of thing that's just what's keeping us. 32 00:01:37.159 --> 00:01:41.280 Going standing around in washing up bowls full of water, 33 00:01:41.359 --> 00:01:46.959 flogging leather boots when Robert was invented by us at the. 34 00:01:47.000 --> 00:01:52.599 Drew Barrymore store. 35 00:01:49.719 --> 00:01:59.439 By true Barry Moore Do Barry I huh do you 36 00:01:59.680 --> 00:02:04.480 be Michael Barrymore? No? 37 00:02:04.640 --> 00:02:06.560 Are they the ones that are like leather wellies? 38 00:02:07.519 --> 00:02:11.360 That's right. Yes, they're very, very trendy, very expensive, although 39 00:02:11.400 --> 00:02:14.000 I did see less about this year of the Do 40 00:02:14.159 --> 00:02:19.520 Barry boots. But they're very basically yeah, exactly, you know, 41 00:02:19.960 --> 00:02:24.919 to be worn with a very short tweed mini skirt 42 00:02:25.719 --> 00:02:30.840 and and you wear yours with of course they do. 43 00:02:30.879 --> 00:02:32.879 You know many human. 44 00:02:34.639 --> 00:02:36.400 I'll tell you what, I saw a hell of a 45 00:02:36.400 --> 00:02:41.919 lot of and I didn't realize how popular they were because, uh, 46 00:02:42.159 --> 00:02:44.960 it's weird because the people I experienced in the countryside 47 00:02:45.000 --> 00:02:48.719 are actually people from the countryside and not people because 48 00:02:48.759 --> 00:02:52.479 playing people in the countryside, and there was a lot 49 00:02:52.520 --> 00:02:57.560 of a lot of the Chatham loafer quite like them, 50 00:02:57.560 --> 00:03:01.159 though there was so many sold. 51 00:03:01.400 --> 00:03:04.479 Tasseled one or is that like a boat shoe. 52 00:03:05.599 --> 00:03:07.599 Yeah, they're like a boat shoe, but they're a really 53 00:03:07.639 --> 00:03:13.280 good version of the boat shoe. But it is funny 54 00:03:13.560 --> 00:03:17.479 that that the the actual people that I know that 55 00:03:17.560 --> 00:03:21.599 do work in the countryside and the outdoors are dressed 56 00:03:22.439 --> 00:03:29.080 in outdoory clothing. And then there's the subset of you know, 57 00:03:29.240 --> 00:03:36.599 your miniskirts and your some some men were very well dressed. 58 00:03:37.280 --> 00:03:40.479 Who was actually attacked you on Instagram in his tweed 59 00:03:40.520 --> 00:03:49.919 waistcoat and thing. He looked incredible man. 60 00:03:48.280 --> 00:03:49.319 Of a man I think you'll find. 61 00:03:49.479 --> 00:03:54.159 Yes, Nigel Vardi is a fascinating guy. He comes some 62 00:03:54.280 --> 00:04:00.319 darbers shit and he's like a proper mountaineer. And twenty 63 00:04:00.360 --> 00:04:05.039 years ago he ascended or attempted to ascend some ridiculous 64 00:04:05.080 --> 00:04:13.159 peak in Alaska and McKinley. McKinley and his and the 65 00:04:13.199 --> 00:04:15.759 weather came in not known to them and it was 66 00:04:15.840 --> 00:04:18.560 sort of like a once in a sort of fifty 67 00:04:18.639 --> 00:04:23.920 year storm and he had the most beautiful Frostby. So 68 00:04:24.040 --> 00:04:29.399 he's lost most of his fingers, he's lost all of 69 00:04:29.399 --> 00:04:32.600 his toes, he lost a large portion of his nose, 70 00:04:33.000 --> 00:04:35.360 and there's a there's a really good I'm going to 71 00:04:35.399 --> 00:04:38.759 watch it this evening. There's a fantastic documentary that's been 72 00:04:38.759 --> 00:04:43.839 made about that called frost Bitten on Amazon Prime. So 73 00:04:43.879 --> 00:04:46.160 he was sort of he received some funding and some 74 00:04:46.199 --> 00:04:49.160 help and he pitched it and made this film because 75 00:04:49.160 --> 00:04:52.959 he's returned back to the mountain and met some of 76 00:04:52.959 --> 00:04:57.600 the people who rescued him and his climbing body off 77 00:04:58.040 --> 00:05:01.040 the off Mount McKinley, and he is top but he's 78 00:05:01.040 --> 00:05:02.959 always so well dressed. But the amazing thing about him, 79 00:05:02.959 --> 00:05:05.120 although he's only got sort of stumps of fingers, he 80 00:05:05.240 --> 00:05:11.079 still shoots avidly, but he's always beautifully turned out in 81 00:05:11.800 --> 00:05:14.959 a tweed suit. And then so he sort of does 82 00:05:15.519 --> 00:05:18.759 speaking public speaking and all that is an author and 83 00:05:19.199 --> 00:05:24.879 he's climbed humpting peaks. So basically, cow, you and I 84 00:05:24.920 --> 00:05:28.839 can shut up and we'll just let Richard and he 85 00:05:29.160 --> 00:05:33.680 talk about crampons and ice picks and bits falling off 86 00:05:33.720 --> 00:05:34.360 on a mountain. 87 00:05:36.439 --> 00:05:40.000 Yeah, that sounds like that sounds like an adventurous podcast. 88 00:05:40.040 --> 00:05:42.600 Yeah, I'm deliberately staying quiet now and to not correct 89 00:05:42.600 --> 00:05:45.560 anything you've just said. I can do it live with Nigel. 90 00:05:45.959 --> 00:05:48.240 Okay, well, I see I don't know anything about this, 91 00:05:48.319 --> 00:05:50.759 because let's be honest, I'd come from Suffolk and I 92 00:05:50.839 --> 00:05:52.680 get VERTI go if I climb the stairs. 93 00:05:52.959 --> 00:05:57.000 So you know it's you're you've got a phobia of 94 00:05:57.040 --> 00:05:57.720 contour lines. 95 00:05:57.839 --> 00:06:00.279 Yeah, we don't need them. I told you. It's a 96 00:06:00.279 --> 00:06:04.000 bit like the internet. Mountains never catch on, never catch on, 97 00:06:04.240 --> 00:06:07.600 just not needed, not needed. Got water towers to pump 98 00:06:07.639 --> 00:06:13.199 water up and down and the sea and that's fine. No. 99 00:06:13.439 --> 00:06:15.639 Well, I'm going to be driving over your way in 100 00:06:15.680 --> 00:06:17.639 a couple of weeks time. So once I get past 101 00:06:18.040 --> 00:06:20.480 I don't know the Coventry area, I'll basically be able 102 00:06:20.519 --> 00:06:21.680 to see the top of your house. 103 00:06:21.839 --> 00:06:25.800 Well, yes, exactly. No hills and you need to develop 104 00:06:25.839 --> 00:06:33.040 your gills. Mm hmm, well no hills, some gills yeah, Suffolk. 105 00:06:35.800 --> 00:06:36.040 Shirt. 106 00:06:36.160 --> 00:06:41.639 Yeah, these episodes the tourists no hills or gills. Yes, 107 00:06:42.000 --> 00:06:44.879 you see. Do you know have you been watching this? 108 00:06:45.040 --> 00:06:48.240 Callum is the Richard's been sending me through some brilliant 109 00:06:48.600 --> 00:06:49.600 country slide. 110 00:06:49.360 --> 00:06:50.439 T shirt ideas. 111 00:06:50.600 --> 00:06:54.199 They make me chuckle and I keep because I can't 112 00:06:54.240 --> 00:06:58.560 work AI like you was. 113 00:06:58.560 --> 00:07:09.399 The start of a pip claiming. 114 00:07:04.399 --> 00:07:05.639 Well he's just gone down that. 115 00:07:05.800 --> 00:07:09.959 You don't need to prove it to me to the 116 00:07:09.959 --> 00:07:10.680 claims advisor. 117 00:07:10.879 --> 00:07:13.199 Yeah, this whole podcast is just an attempt to get 118 00:07:13.279 --> 00:07:14.560 Richard back into the workforce. 119 00:07:15.399 --> 00:07:17.680 That's right, exactly's a care in the community. This is 120 00:07:17.879 --> 00:07:24.879 two hours so you can get his job, see Richard, 121 00:07:24.920 --> 00:07:26.959 that's the side of things. I've been paid for this. 122 00:07:31.360 --> 00:07:33.040 Do you do a Patreon plug right now? 123 00:07:33.199 --> 00:07:34.560 It seems like yes, exactly. 124 00:07:34.600 --> 00:07:38.639 If if you want to make sure that Richard Negas 125 00:07:38.720 --> 00:07:40.959 is in work, you could sign up to the Patreon 126 00:07:41.680 --> 00:07:44.920 for just three pounds a month at country slide dot 127 00:07:44.959 --> 00:07:48.360 co uk slash support and you get extra bodies, and 128 00:07:48.399 --> 00:07:50.680 you get access to our WhatsApp group, which is like 129 00:07:50.800 --> 00:07:52.399 nice Twitter, thank. 130 00:07:52.199 --> 00:07:57.720 You exactly, and the scars don't buy themselves anyway, So yeah, and. 131 00:07:57.800 --> 00:08:00.319 The WhatsApp group for those who've been hearing give out 132 00:08:00.360 --> 00:08:03.279 this for a few episodes. Now it's expanding out because 133 00:08:03.360 --> 00:08:07.240 most patrons have joined, and there's a few extra special 134 00:08:07.240 --> 00:08:09.279 people in there who are sort of friends of the 135 00:08:09.319 --> 00:08:13.639 show and they've been allowed access to But we've we've 136 00:08:13.639 --> 00:08:17.040 done it as a WhatsApp community, so everything's starting to 137 00:08:17.079 --> 00:08:20.399 be sent shuttled off into little topic groups. We've got 138 00:08:20.399 --> 00:08:22.680 a food and drink one, we've got a hunting and 139 00:08:22.720 --> 00:08:26.040 fishing one, we've got one about cars and vehicles, and 140 00:08:26.360 --> 00:08:28.639 people are sort of diving off into different chats because 141 00:08:28.639 --> 00:08:32.440 it's so such a diverse set of topics that we 142 00:08:32.559 --> 00:08:34.559 really have to break it all down. So it's now 143 00:08:34.600 --> 00:08:39.200 becoming like a little forum almost, but it's very. 144 00:08:39.039 --> 00:08:43.360 Active, is Richard, tell me what those what are those 145 00:08:43.639 --> 00:08:46.799 mushrooms that you have picked in the food and drink WhatsApp? 146 00:08:46.919 --> 00:08:49.440 What are those yellow mushrooms? And tell me about them 147 00:08:49.559 --> 00:08:50.480 what you do with them? 148 00:08:50.600 --> 00:08:54.799 So they are they are Canthellus cabarius or siberias. They 149 00:08:54.799 --> 00:08:59.120 are Chantrell's. So they are in growing in the ninety 150 00:08:59.120 --> 00:09:01.039 acre woodland that we've manage, the sort of the long 151 00:09:01.159 --> 00:09:05.759 thin one that's basically a gorge. And I've never seen 152 00:09:05.759 --> 00:09:09.120 a flush like that in this late in July, So 153 00:09:09.720 --> 00:09:14.120 what is it earlier late? It's quite late for these 154 00:09:14.639 --> 00:09:16.799 the normally sort of earlier in July, but never this 155 00:09:17.000 --> 00:09:19.360 much in one go. But on the way down there, 156 00:09:19.360 --> 00:09:20.960 because I was driving down there, to go and clear 157 00:09:21.000 --> 00:09:24.919 some trees off the track, and I'm bumped into a 158 00:09:24.960 --> 00:09:27.919 guy called Mike and we were chatting because there's always 159 00:09:27.960 --> 00:09:30.600 somebody scurrying around in the undergrowth when I go down 160 00:09:30.600 --> 00:09:32.440 the footpath and it's sort of I wanted to find 161 00:09:32.440 --> 00:09:34.279 out what it was up to. But it turns out 162 00:09:34.320 --> 00:09:38.480 he runs the North Wales Mushrooms Instagram account, so I 163 00:09:38.600 --> 00:09:39.799 urge you to go and have a look at that 164 00:09:39.840 --> 00:09:44.120 because he finds very niche the weirdest and most wonderful 165 00:09:44.200 --> 00:09:48.799 mushrooms all across North Wales. And so we spent half 166 00:09:48.799 --> 00:09:51.759 an hour chatting about mushrooms. And there's some quite rare 167 00:09:51.799 --> 00:09:54.519 ones in that woodland that we've got there, some spectacularly 168 00:09:54.639 --> 00:09:55.200 rare ones. 169 00:09:55.240 --> 00:09:58.720 In fact, what's the one of the what classifies as 170 00:09:58.720 --> 00:09:59.720 a rare mushroom? 171 00:10:00.200 --> 00:10:01.279 Not many of them around? 172 00:10:02.360 --> 00:10:04.879 Wow, thanks for that. So give me an example. 173 00:10:04.879 --> 00:10:09.720 It's a definition. So there's a sort of cyanic thing. 174 00:10:09.799 --> 00:10:12.600 There's basically one that doesn't quite glow in the dark, 175 00:10:12.639 --> 00:10:16.879 but it's very very lime green, almost blue. It's it's 176 00:10:17.039 --> 00:10:20.759 very weird color. It's almost metallic. You know, there's two 177 00:10:20.799 --> 00:10:22.919 tone or three tone paint jobs. You used to get 178 00:10:22.960 --> 00:10:26.960 on tvrs and things like that. Yeah, lescent, it looks 179 00:10:27.000 --> 00:10:30.200 like that, but it's all blues and greens, and it's 180 00:10:30.200 --> 00:10:32.159 a sort of it's a fruit to cose like. 181 00:10:32.200 --> 00:10:34.840 And I think, and what do you do with what 182 00:10:34.960 --> 00:10:37.840 do you do with those particular ones, those Chontorell's that 183 00:10:37.879 --> 00:10:39.519 you pick? How will you cook them? 184 00:10:40.240 --> 00:10:42.799 Like every good mushroom is cooked with garlic and butter 185 00:10:42.879 --> 00:10:45.559 and effectively just ends up tasting of garlic and butter, 186 00:10:46.399 --> 00:10:49.519 which is what most French cooking does with mushrooms is 187 00:10:49.519 --> 00:10:51.240 just put them in with garlic and butter until you 188 00:10:51.279 --> 00:10:56.279 can only taste garlic. But they are so Chamtorell's. They 189 00:10:56.279 --> 00:10:59.080 have something called primitive gills on the underside, so you 190 00:10:59.159 --> 00:11:01.279 have not al mustrooms have gills, but these do have 191 00:11:01.399 --> 00:11:04.879 little gill bits underneath. But they as you get down 192 00:11:04.879 --> 00:11:07.320 to the edge of the cap, they split into pears 193 00:11:07.360 --> 00:11:09.440 and they go all wrinkly. So it looks like your 194 00:11:09.440 --> 00:11:11.559 fingerprints when you've been in the bath for too long. 195 00:11:14.320 --> 00:11:19.200 So it looks exactly like that, except it's egg yolk yellow. 196 00:11:20.360 --> 00:11:23.480 Is there a mushroom that you would say that has 197 00:11:23.519 --> 00:11:28.559 a unique and delicious flavor over the normal sort of things? 198 00:11:28.600 --> 00:11:30.759 So you wouldn't sort of go and chuck garlic in. 199 00:11:30.840 --> 00:11:32.360 There is there one that you pick and go all 200 00:11:32.399 --> 00:11:33.200 they taste good. 201 00:11:33.720 --> 00:11:38.039 We were quite sep or puccini belitus edgeless. So we 202 00:11:38.360 --> 00:11:40.519 take those and cut them and slice them and dry them, 203 00:11:40.559 --> 00:11:43.720 and there they are very very special. They're actually better 204 00:11:43.879 --> 00:11:48.879 dried quite like wood ear or jelly jelly. 205 00:11:51.519 --> 00:11:55.960 Judea, which gives you the old passioned name that we 206 00:11:56.000 --> 00:11:57.000 didn't we. 207 00:11:57.000 --> 00:12:00.440 No, no, but it's still the Latin name. Yeah, yeah. 208 00:12:00.919 --> 00:12:04.240 But what we do with those is we dehydrate them 209 00:12:05.200 --> 00:12:07.559 and they'll stay for years dehydrated. And then those are 210 00:12:07.559 --> 00:12:10.879 the ones you've had, which are rehydrated in rum and 211 00:12:10.879 --> 00:12:14.000 then dipped in liquid dark chocolate chocolate. 212 00:12:14.120 --> 00:12:17.480 They were young and they have that there's like no 213 00:12:17.559 --> 00:12:20.559 other chocolate you've had because there's a slight bite in 214 00:12:20.600 --> 00:12:23.360 the texture to you don't taste any mushroom at all. 215 00:12:23.399 --> 00:12:26.320 You't taste the rum and the chocolate where they're the 216 00:12:26.320 --> 00:12:28.559 best truffle we've ever had because they've got this sort 217 00:12:28.600 --> 00:12:33.759 of slight audente bite to them. It's almost like eating 218 00:12:34.039 --> 00:12:39.080 a slightly undercooked bit of rigotoyah, tasting. 219 00:12:38.720 --> 00:12:44.480 Delicious d Turkish delight, almost lovely. Yeah, I mean I 220 00:12:44.519 --> 00:12:47.320 got imagine, callum, do you do anything with wild mushrooms 221 00:12:47.360 --> 00:12:48.120 in the autumn? 222 00:12:49.480 --> 00:12:51.240 No, I cooked a mushroom sauce tonight. 223 00:12:51.360 --> 00:12:52.799 Actually it was quite good. 224 00:12:53.759 --> 00:12:57.559 I don't do anything. We many have wild mushrooms that 225 00:12:57.759 --> 00:12:58.399 used to trade. 226 00:12:59.320 --> 00:13:00.000 Oh no, but I don't. 227 00:13:00.039 --> 00:13:02.679 I mean, like, there isn't anywhere around here that I 228 00:13:02.759 --> 00:13:09.440 know of. And I'm also not clever enough to successfully 229 00:13:09.440 --> 00:13:12.799 pick mushrooms and work it all out. So I do 230 00:13:12.960 --> 00:13:16.519 need I do need the help in hand. 231 00:13:16.879 --> 00:13:17.879 But yeah, I did. 232 00:13:17.960 --> 00:13:20.399 I n a guy that used to trade mushrooms, and 233 00:13:20.440 --> 00:13:22.039 he said it was one of the worst businesses that 234 00:13:22.039 --> 00:13:26.080 he ever had because he'd get them and then they'd 235 00:13:26.080 --> 00:13:29.879 lose so much weight by within like twenty four hours, 236 00:13:30.240 --> 00:13:34.480 that is, twenty five pound of kilo was only worth 237 00:13:35.399 --> 00:13:37.720 fifty That is a thing. 238 00:13:38.000 --> 00:13:39.600 Were they wild mushrooms he was selling? 239 00:13:39.720 --> 00:13:42.039 Or yeah, he was selling quite a lot of Yeah, 240 00:13:42.200 --> 00:13:44.799 quite a lot of wild mushrooms. Because it was French 241 00:13:45.039 --> 00:13:46.759 and he still is French. 242 00:13:49.919 --> 00:13:51.360 Lose your frenchness after all? 243 00:13:51.360 --> 00:13:58.799 While actually is it's perpetual, perpetually French. 244 00:14:00.759 --> 00:14:04.120 There's a T shirt idea. 245 00:14:05.919 --> 00:14:09.120 Right then, dear listener, this is an insert recorded a 246 00:14:09.120 --> 00:14:13.279 few days later, because at some point during this recording 247 00:14:13.600 --> 00:14:17.240 Richard Suffolk Internet decided it didn't want to actually record, 248 00:14:18.080 --> 00:14:20.399 so we have had to cobble this episode together a 249 00:14:20.399 --> 00:14:24.000 little bit to account for that. So from memory, what 250 00:14:24.159 --> 00:14:27.159 he had just asked me but didn't make its way 251 00:14:27.159 --> 00:14:30.879 into the recording, was is it true that in France, 252 00:14:30.960 --> 00:14:34.159 if you go to a pharmacy with your basket of mushrooms, 253 00:14:34.200 --> 00:14:36.960 they'll tell you what species they are or if you 254 00:14:36.960 --> 00:14:42.960 can eat them. It's meant to be true. So it's 255 00:14:42.960 --> 00:14:46.159 one of those things. Yes, by law, if a pharmacist 256 00:14:46.759 --> 00:14:50.240 should be able to tell you identify mushrooms for you. 257 00:14:50.360 --> 00:14:52.720 The problem are there are about fourteen thousand species of 258 00:14:52.799 --> 00:14:55.879 non microscopic fungi you're likely to come across in northern Europe. 259 00:14:56.480 --> 00:15:03.120 So if you go into your pharmacy in beautiful France 260 00:15:03.200 --> 00:15:06.879 with a basket full of unidentified things, what they might 261 00:15:06.919 --> 00:15:08.720 do is pick out two or three that they are 262 00:15:08.759 --> 00:15:11.919 really obvious and they're very commonly eaten, and then just 263 00:15:11.960 --> 00:15:13.639 throw put the rest of the side and say, oh, 264 00:15:13.679 --> 00:15:18.000 they're all inedible or toxic. So they in theory they 265 00:15:18.000 --> 00:15:22.360 could what it actually turns out to be that you 266 00:15:22.399 --> 00:15:25.679 can take in the basket and they will tell you 267 00:15:25.840 --> 00:15:29.440 what commonly eaten ones can be found within that patch. 268 00:15:29.759 --> 00:15:31.519 But this is the thing with you know, they always 269 00:15:31.559 --> 00:15:34.279 people always say that the Europeans eats so many more 270 00:15:34.360 --> 00:15:37.440 mushrooms than we do. And you know, they're always eating mushrooms. 271 00:15:37.440 --> 00:15:40.360 They're always mushroom foraging. What they're doing is going back 272 00:15:40.399 --> 00:15:44.159 to the same spot again and again and again even generationally, 273 00:15:44.600 --> 00:15:46.879 to pick the same species again and again. So they're 274 00:15:46.919 --> 00:15:50.080 not they don't know the names of fourteen thousand species. 275 00:15:50.480 --> 00:15:53.480 They know where to find three species regularly. It's like 276 00:15:53.759 --> 00:15:55.879 so it's like going back to the same apple tree 277 00:15:55.919 --> 00:15:58.399 again and again to get apples and say, you're an 278 00:15:58.399 --> 00:15:59.200 expert in apples. 279 00:16:00.799 --> 00:16:06.360 So this there's this lake in France. This is your 280 00:16:06.559 --> 00:16:08.360 this is your wheelhouse. How do we end up in 281 00:16:08.399 --> 00:16:10.159 your wheelhouse? We're talking about your world. 282 00:16:10.200 --> 00:16:10.639 Bushroom. 283 00:16:10.639 --> 00:16:16.720 Boy, there was this place in France and the guy 284 00:16:16.799 --> 00:16:19.559 that run the lake, mister Gavie, used to go out 285 00:16:19.600 --> 00:16:23.000 every single morning and he'd do exactly as you said. 286 00:16:23.039 --> 00:16:26.120 He'd know where those mushrooms are and he's looking for 287 00:16:26.159 --> 00:16:31.279 the same thing. Although there was a curveball throne and 288 00:16:32.080 --> 00:16:35.639 thankfully he won't be listening to this. There was a 289 00:16:35.679 --> 00:16:41.879 curveball throne that my friend bought some es cargo snails, 290 00:16:42.799 --> 00:16:47.399 and he started cooking thees cargo snails, and mister Gavie 291 00:16:47.559 --> 00:16:53.080 asked where he where he got them, so he pointed 292 00:16:53.799 --> 00:17:01.480 to around the sort of low house that the toilet block. 293 00:17:02.759 --> 00:17:04.559 Pointed to the toilet block, he said, I found them 294 00:17:04.559 --> 00:17:07.880 over there. Next morning he wakes up, it's sort of 295 00:17:08.000 --> 00:17:12.920 six am. Mister Gave's poking around looking at the toilet block. 296 00:17:13.960 --> 00:17:17.920 And then the following morning, and then the following morning. 297 00:17:18.519 --> 00:17:25.319 It got to about day four five, and it was 298 00:17:25.359 --> 00:17:29.519 at such a point that he just couldn't bring himself 299 00:17:29.880 --> 00:17:34.160 to say, actually, I was only joking because four days 300 00:17:34.200 --> 00:17:38.319 on the bounce was quite the commitment. So he waited 301 00:17:38.359 --> 00:17:42.759 off and I think, no exaggeration. Early morning, sort of 302 00:17:42.799 --> 00:17:46.759 like summrise time. For about two weeks, poor old mister 303 00:17:46.839 --> 00:17:50.400 Gavree went out to the toilet block, took the ten 304 00:17:50.440 --> 00:17:55.519 minute walk and looked fores cargo snails that he could get. 305 00:17:56.519 --> 00:18:01.400 It didn't exist, imaginary snails. Do you go out and 306 00:18:01.680 --> 00:18:05.119 get wild mushrooms, Richard? It sounds like a very new 307 00:18:05.240 --> 00:18:05.720 thing to do. 308 00:18:05.839 --> 00:18:09.680 Well, there's about three that I can identify and I 309 00:18:09.799 --> 00:18:16.759 feel confident in and they are in caps, horse, mushrooms, 310 00:18:17.240 --> 00:18:20.720 and puff balls. So I'm quite happy with those three 311 00:18:20.839 --> 00:18:25.039 and I think I can wholeheartedly go and identify them. 312 00:18:25.240 --> 00:18:28.759 There are others, because you know, my friend Ross Guidan 313 00:18:28.880 --> 00:18:31.359 is a bit of a mushroom forager. The chat from 314 00:18:31.359 --> 00:18:34.839 Oakbank Woodland and he got fed up in the end 315 00:18:34.839 --> 00:18:37.720 of people sending him sort of blurred fogras saying is 316 00:18:37.759 --> 00:18:38.599 this all right to eat? 317 00:18:38.680 --> 00:18:39.039 Ross? 318 00:18:39.279 --> 00:18:40.799 And he said, I didn't want to be the man 319 00:18:40.839 --> 00:18:43.799 who said yes, that's fine, And then discovered that and 320 00:18:43.880 --> 00:18:47.240 I got a mushroom foraging book and I realized just 321 00:18:47.400 --> 00:18:50.599 how many looks so similar to the ones that they said, well, 322 00:18:50.599 --> 00:18:54.319 these are delicious, and then they're often confused with you know, 323 00:18:54.799 --> 00:18:58.440 certain death cap and I thought, Nat, you know what, 324 00:18:58.759 --> 00:19:02.519 do you know what, I'm not actually that close to 325 00:19:02.599 --> 00:19:05.039 the land that I'm going to go and run the risk. 326 00:19:05.240 --> 00:19:08.480 You know, I'm not that hungry that I'll do I'll 327 00:19:08.519 --> 00:19:11.119 eat that or pick that that I've eaten, which I 328 00:19:11.160 --> 00:19:14.359 don't really know. I mean, I would probably if I 329 00:19:14.400 --> 00:19:17.119 came out for a joint with you and you're coming 330 00:19:17.240 --> 00:19:21.039 up to or down, should I say to see us 331 00:19:21.079 --> 00:19:23.400 and do and look at some of the fun guy 332 00:19:23.960 --> 00:19:27.720 at Wickan, and I probably might feel more confident because 333 00:19:27.759 --> 00:19:29.559 you would show me. And then I've sort of got 334 00:19:29.599 --> 00:19:32.079 quite a good photograph of memory for that plant is this, 335 00:19:32.200 --> 00:19:34.319 and that is that. Once I've seen it, once I go, 336 00:19:34.400 --> 00:19:36.920 I can idea that. But now I'd be too scared. 337 00:19:37.720 --> 00:19:41.480 I do eat most things that I shoot, and if 338 00:19:41.480 --> 00:19:46.039 I can't eat them, and so I don't shoot shoveler 339 00:19:46.119 --> 00:19:49.039 anymore because I think they just taste so disgusting. I think, 340 00:19:49.079 --> 00:19:51.279 why do I want to shoot a shoveler when I 341 00:19:51.359 --> 00:19:54.119 know I'm not going to eat it? There's no point 342 00:19:54.160 --> 00:19:59.200 in it. I squirrels. We had a conversation on the 343 00:19:59.200 --> 00:20:02.880 old the Country slide, what's happen about squirrels. I'll shoot 344 00:20:02.920 --> 00:20:05.799 squirrels because there's scum and they need to die. But 345 00:20:06.720 --> 00:20:12.240 I'm really not with going and skinning a flipping squirrel. 346 00:20:12.519 --> 00:20:15.440 I would just quite happily chuck it out and say, oh, 347 00:20:15.559 --> 00:20:18.400 buzzards eat that, and then you wouldn't eat it quite good. 348 00:20:18.400 --> 00:20:20.720 Actually, yeah, that's that's a calum thing to do. 349 00:20:21.000 --> 00:20:27.039 Squirrel We had a squirrel Crockett, and we also did 350 00:20:27.039 --> 00:20:30.880 a squirrel. Squirrel pizza pizza. 351 00:20:31.920 --> 00:20:32.119 Thin. 352 00:20:33.160 --> 00:20:36.119 So the trick with a squirrel is to comfee it. 353 00:20:37.000 --> 00:20:40.799 So we basically just filled a tray up with oil, 354 00:20:41.119 --> 00:20:45.240 stuck that in the oven, and then comfeed the squirrel. 355 00:20:46.759 --> 00:20:50.039 And that was really good because the fat means it 356 00:20:50.079 --> 00:20:53.519 doesn't dry the meat out. But the trouble with the 357 00:20:53.559 --> 00:20:56.480 pizza is when you stick it in the pizza oven, 358 00:20:56.839 --> 00:21:01.200 it's insanely hot, like four hundred sea in the pizza rabon, 359 00:21:01.599 --> 00:21:05.000 so it pretty much ensures that it dries out really quick. 360 00:21:05.240 --> 00:21:07.720 So it's not great on a pizza, but it's fantastic 361 00:21:07.759 --> 00:21:08.400 in a crockett. 362 00:21:09.039 --> 00:21:12.599 So another thing to try works well with scull and 363 00:21:12.759 --> 00:21:19.160 rabbits and a few other things is to brine them. Yes, yes, 364 00:21:19.160 --> 00:21:21.920 And when we do rabbits, we do them. I take 365 00:21:21.960 --> 00:21:25.359 the bucket of brian out into the field so they 366 00:21:25.400 --> 00:21:28.319 are gutted and skinned and then the thrown into the 367 00:21:28.319 --> 00:21:29.799 briane immediately so. 368 00:21:29.799 --> 00:21:33.400 Before the lactic acid sort of puts riga Martis sets in, 369 00:21:33.400 --> 00:21:35.440 you're putting them on the still, yeah, probably. 370 00:21:36.160 --> 00:21:39.759 And it gets rid of all the prappertiness of them 371 00:21:39.839 --> 00:21:41.279 and gets rid of the gaminess that you get with 372 00:21:41.279 --> 00:21:45.839 squirddles as well, although one squirrel that we did years 373 00:21:45.839 --> 00:21:47.759 ago Amy I think it was one of the first 374 00:21:47.799 --> 00:21:51.640 squirrels Amy had butchered to eat. And we got around 375 00:21:51.640 --> 00:21:53.160 the sort of skinning to the back end of it, 376 00:21:53.240 --> 00:21:56.000 and we found another air rifle pellet in the leg 377 00:21:56.039 --> 00:21:58.640 of the squirrel from someone else having a go at 378 00:21:58.680 --> 00:22:03.240 it different caliber that obviously healed over a tough little. 379 00:22:02.960 --> 00:22:06.400 Thing skinned munk jack before. And suddenly hear a pink 380 00:22:06.759 --> 00:22:09.400 on the floor of the shed and that's that. There's 381 00:22:09.440 --> 00:22:11.880 a two two air rifle pellet falls out of the 382 00:22:11.880 --> 00:22:16.960 poor old things. Yeah, I know, I think it's I 383 00:22:17.000 --> 00:22:19.279 think it's because you see, the munk jack is so 384 00:22:19.359 --> 00:22:23.440 addicted now to going into village edge gardens and they've 385 00:22:23.440 --> 00:22:25.480 got big shrub in these large gardens and they know 386 00:22:25.599 --> 00:22:29.200 that's pretty safe. And I think these avid gardeners then 387 00:22:29.240 --> 00:22:32.599 suddenly see this thing eating there whatever, and then they 388 00:22:32.640 --> 00:22:35.400 give it a for some reason, they think that shooting 389 00:22:36.079 --> 00:22:39.480 a two two air rifle is perfectly fine as a 390 00:22:39.519 --> 00:22:42.920 munchchak it will only you know, shew it away. But 391 00:22:42.960 --> 00:22:45.559 of course the reality, poor old thing is then bimbling 392 00:22:45.640 --> 00:22:48.720 about with a two two air rifle pellet lodged halfway 393 00:22:48.759 --> 00:22:51.319 between its sort of skin and its flesh. 394 00:22:51.599 --> 00:22:54.960 I just realized we've just done something which was to 395 00:22:56.039 --> 00:23:00.319 condemn the entirety of squirrels that we should show and 396 00:23:00.359 --> 00:23:03.519 then didn't specify in any way, shape or form. Why 397 00:23:05.119 --> 00:23:08.039 that's that's quite bad. It's quite bad to do. 398 00:23:08.440 --> 00:23:12.240 So what, right, let's all say which color of squad 399 00:23:12.839 --> 00:23:13.480 were shooting? 400 00:23:15.599 --> 00:23:15.799 Two? 401 00:23:19.319 --> 00:23:21.680