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I love Ray, he is a wild food and living God for me.  I love the enthusiasm and I love watching him make fire - like magic.  Anyhow, this show has been very interesting and I love the chap who is trundling around with Ray.  He is studying what ancient people ate, from reed mace roots to water lilly seeds and other plants, fungi, nuts and pulses.  Amazing how much there is that is edible, even if only in tiny amounts.

Good stuff!

Funnily enough, EJ, when I saw the first programme I immediately thought of you! I remember you mentioning gathering quite a vast array of edibles from the hedgerows round your way.

 ;D ;D

I loved the programme! Watching him try to spear a fish was a study in concentration!
If you could take a human as your luxury item on Desert Island Discs, I would take Ray!

;)

SIX HOURS he fished for 2 get 2 fish!  That trout looked great, but that other little weeny chub I think I would have thrown back!!

He is great, and yes Katy, if I were ever lost in the wilderness, I would prey that I stumbled across Ray.  ;D

He's probably have done better with a worm.

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Missed this weeks but watched last weeks with intrest as it had some stuff on sea buckthorn juice  ;D

Cambourne7

He is a ledgend,

so annoyed I have missed the first two,
due to constant webdesigning!

Anyone know when the repeats are on?

I say Ray for Prime Minister!  :)

he is great but .......isnt there a teeny tiny bit of you that wishes he would accidently wittle the top of his finger off or that a flexed branch would swing back and t@@t him in the nose? or is that just me being all pre menstrual and stuff?  :-\

I would say it was just you....
and its ceraintly not me!

but I just read your commetn to my GF (who gets forced to watch him)
and she laughed alot,
so it seems you are not alone!

hehehehe Sarah.  I think the beauty of TV means we see everything as though he has instantly done it.  They don't tell us that he has been sitting scraping two stones together for 3 hours to light the fire, or that when making that spear, he broke the first three.  ;D

Quote from: sarah on January 18, 2007, 13:50:34
he is great but .......isnt there a teeny tiny bit of you that wishes he would accidently wittle the top of his finger off or that a flexed branch would swing back and t@@t him in the nose? or is that just me being all pre menstrual and stuff?  :-\

lol! I'd like it if he shaved a little bit between his eyebrows so that he had two instead of one ginormous one!

yes and hes has been on various chat shows - must have a new book comming out soon!

He is a bit of a geek though..

Anyway, last night he was going on about eating nettles, and that its somthing our hunter gather ancestors whould of done... well were'nt nettles brought over by the romans ??? bl**dy romans, what did they do for us eh?

I agree a great prog and I particularly like the Prof who seems to eat anything within his reach

I said the same thing to the old man Okra.  He pokes leaves, flowers, seeds, bulbs, anything into his mouth and chews away.  And apart from the lilly seeds which seemed to be foul, he enjoys every strange thing he scoffs!

Amazin, I'm not quite as brave as Ray, although I do forage and come home with some very curious weeds and seeds to try and eat.  I have never braved Fungi though and I always forget to mention to my nearest that a fungi forage with a expert would be a top birthday gift.

An excellent & interesting programme - I think if I'd been fishing in the Mesolithic period I might have invented the net - pretty darn quick.

I've seen repeats listed on the 'sign zone' section of the BBC1, which of course is in the middle of the night - the upside being that you can set the video for it!

It's bound to be repeated again anyway, it's such a good programme.

And now, inspired by Ray, I'm off to forage in the larder.

Wish me luck, folks, I'm going in!!!

;D

take a net you will need to to catch the food as it flys off the hedges :-)

wild food fishing - dont think it will catch on though   ;D

Quote from: Amazin on January 18, 2007, 23:17:02
I've seen repeats listed on the 'sign zone' section of the BBC1, which of course is in the middle of the night - the upside being that you can set the video for it!

It's bound to be repeated again anyway, it's such a good programme.

I am normally up late, so I will keep an eye out for it!

:)

Quote from: keef on January 18, 2007, 17:36:18
Anyway, last night he was going on about eating nettles, and that its somthing our hunter gather ancestors whould of done... well were'nt nettles brought over by the romans ??? bl**dy romans, what did they do for us eh?

I think it's a particular (rare) species that was supposed to have been brought by the romans - Urtica pilulifera is called the roman nettle. It grows only in a few places near the east coast of england. It was actually recorded by historians at the time that the romans had brought nettle seeds with them.

Common stinging nettle is found all over the world - Japan & most of mainland Asia, South America, Europe etc. Dock leaves aren't so common, though....

Did Ray talk about the use of nettles for making cloth, which was fairly widespread until the industrial revolution? The Germans started large-scale farming of nettle to make uniforms, bedsheets etc during WW I, as they had no access to cotton. It needs rich soil, so the experiment did not work very well.