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from "Mary Fisher" contains these words:

Yes. And delicious raw - well, at one school only 5 pupils ate them,
and 3 of those were called Maclaren :-)

But we also chew on sloes ....

mouth puckered so much that am speechless

Out brushing late in the year I sometimes eat the odd really ripe sloe.

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Rusty Hinge
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