{"id":1584,"date":"2013-10-22T22:40:54","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T21:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/?p=1584"},"modified":"2013-10-29T23:13:50","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T23:13:50","slug":"lonely-planet-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/22\/lonely-planet-secret\/","title":{"rendered":"Lonely Planet have let the secret out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ -->\n<div class=\"48e5397a39c6ea4ae31e40d674b2fea7\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- july 2019 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9380921822254336\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"9798147637\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>The last week in September I saw damsons for sale in my local Supermarket but at extortionate price, \u00a34.99 a kilo, I ask you? As with my previous hedgerow makes it\u2019s not the right thing simply to buy my ingredients in the sterile environment of a supermarket, I want to know where they were picked, to pick my own if I can. I wanted to make some damson gin for Christmas and perhaps some damson wine too, so I persuaded my Dearest that we needed to take a road trip up to the Lyth Valley over the County boundary in Cumbria.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1591\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1591\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Lonely-Planet-9.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Lonely-Planet-9.jpg\" alt=\"The Lyth Valley\" width=\"620\" height=\"620\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1591\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Lonely-Planet-9.jpg 620w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Lonely-Planet-9-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Lonely-Planet-9-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1591\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Lyth Valley<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Lyth Valley has made the Lonely Planet beautiful world list. The Lonely Planet has published a new book to showcase beauty from across the globe,they describe the valley thus: \u201cThe unspoilt Lyth Valley is tucked in a hidden corner of Cumbria, where trees are laden with fruit and rolling hills are the most magnificent green.\u201d<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1587\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1587\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1-IMG_4651.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1-IMG_4651.jpg\" alt=\"damsons picked locally\" width=\"640\" height=\"456\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1587\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1-IMG_4651.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1-IMG_4651-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1587\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">damsons picked locally<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThis hidden corner of Cumbria is famed for its damsons. In autumn, the trees are laden with purple fruits and roadside stalls appear advertising damsons for sale.  That\u2019s where we were headed; a stall we often pass and which I am always happy to see still trading. Up close it\u2019s just a shack, but the produce on sale is good fresh locally grown goods.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1589\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1589\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1-IMG_4655.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1-IMG_4655.jpg\" alt=\"local fruit  and veg stall\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1589\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1-IMG_4655.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1-IMG_4655-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1589\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">local fruit  and veg stall<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nWe got the last of her damsons ripe to the point of no return. She advised me to use them up immediately, so I did, a brew of wine and a jar of damsons steeping in gin were put to bed that very evening.  It may have cost me more to drive up to the Lyth Valley to buy my damsons but a glorious sunny autumn afternoon in the Lyth Valley is priceless.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1592\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1592\" style=\"width: 266px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/images.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/images.jpg\" alt=\"wonderful bloom\" width=\"266\" height=\"190\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1592\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1592\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">wonderful bloom<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nDamsons were originally imported from Damascus for their dye, and given the name \u2018damascene&#8217; &#8211; later shortened to damson. ( Prunus domestica subsp. insititia, or sometimes Prunus insititia), also archaically called the &#8220;damascene&#8221;) some say it was introduced by the Crusaders but others claim the Romans brought them, and there were damson stones found in archaeological digs of Roman York.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1590\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1590\" style=\"width: 427px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1-IMG_4671.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1-IMG_4671.jpg\" alt=\"generous harvest\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1590\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1-IMG_4671.jpg 427w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1-IMG_4671-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 427px) 85vw, 427px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1590\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">generous harvest<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe proprietor, had a wonderful elderberry tree hanging heavily in fruit, she told me many people had asked her what she planned to do with the fruit to which her reply was \u201cabsolutely nothing\u201d she said I could help myself\u2026 if only I\u2019d known a couple of weeks earlier.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> In autumn, the trees are laden with purple fruits and roadside stalls appear advertising damsons for sale. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[63,11,335,5,447],"tags":[580,579,570,32,584,568,582,581,566,565,577,572,569,567,574,575,576,573,583,563,578,564,571],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1584"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1604,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions\/1604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}