... Folk club at village hall PICKING Sooty Blackberries is the intriguing title of a show at Weaverthorpe's village hall next week. of Keith Marsden, a West Yorkshire songwriter who died recently. It is being organised by the 2nd Wednesday Folk Club, and ...

... and from naked boughs of ash the black buds of flowers had emerged of reddish-purple colour, almost resembling unripe blackberries! Its black leaf buds, however, seemed as tightly closed as they were a month ago. Golden celandines smothered the ditch ...