I wrote recently about the bountiful crop of Alexanders (smyrnium olastratum) which grow abundantly around here and turn out to be edible (We'll be ok if celery and leeks sell out, 13 April). I noted that it can be found on waste ground, adjacent to ancient ruins and in hedgerows, especially near the sea. Well here's a lovely display on waste ground adjacent to the river Conwy estuary near some ancient ruins that, I think, were once called a "golf course", featuring rather curious earthworks which must have had a purpose at one time.
And here's another crop nestling at the base of a blackthorn hedge adjacent to a different ancient structure called a "railway".
That stretch of railway is still in use although no-one here knows why as it was hardly used by anyone even in the long forgotten days before the "lockdown". We assume it's some sort of job creation scheme for train drivers and signallers who, after all, are amongst the lowest paid and neediest in society. (Sorry that's not irony, it's just not funny in both senses).
I wondered about trying to make Alexanders soup. I found a couple of recipes, one with herbs and creamed another supplemented with parsnip. But Mrs H squashed the idea with a resounding "yuk". I guess you don't know which dog has been peeing on them.
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