No walk/roll today because it's been raining continuously (and probably enough to make most of the off-road routes muddy and impassable until they have a chance to dry out again. Once this heavy clay soil gets thoroughly wet it just sticks in great clumps to everything... So I devoted myself to puncture repairing this morning instead. Here are the thorns:
Blackthorn, I think. The one on the left did it, I found the other two in the tyre as well, not (yet) far enough in to do damage but they would probably have worked their way through eventually. Also wrote a long answer to someone on the Facebook Myeloma group who is about to start VTD chemo and is worried about the long lists of side-effects.
My horticultural adviser says they look very like prunus spinosa; on the other hand we do like sloe gin!
ReplyDeleteIt's Mr. Anonymous again! Cheers!!
ReplyDeleteThere is quite a lot of blackthorn around - in fact a lot of what we casually refer to as hawthorn is really blackthorn. I think. Never been all that great at plant identification, I'm an invertebrate man (in one sense, at east)