Thanks Pete. I used to forage and still do pick up some wild foods, oyster mushrooms being my favourite, which are found on the dead lying tree.s in spring, in the first warm spell when the sycamore buds have just opened. A warm shower brings out an abundance, buckets of the Oysters if you know where to go. I get rock samphire from the beaches here down the road, although I do prefer marsh samphire. You have me thinking of lichen, I wonder how edible it is. But I wonder if picking lichen is a done thing or not. Probably not as I suspect t is slow growing and more useful to the environment than my stomach. Must have a google later and see. There were plenty of mushrooms near this tree, but of a magic kind so gave those a miss.
