... under a foot across. ipened blackberries. threatening tapeworm carried by foxes. The eggs (microscopically small) are destroyed in the cooking process, but so is much of the flavour of the blackberries. Sunripened blackberries are second in taste only to ...

... dried herbs, when they could pick them on their doorstep. Anna refused to taste either herbs or wild mushrooms, avoided blackberries like the plague after her first (and only) shield bug experience (who can blame her?), but became addicted to wholewheat ...