22 April 2007


Purple sea kale on Dungeness beach last week. It feels like you are at the edge of the world on this huge peninsula of gravel, the biggest in Europe, I read. For years it was just extracted for building materials but the area is now classed as an SSSI. It was great to pass the late film maker Derek Jarman's old house too, Prospect Cottage. I grew up 3 1/2 minutes' (that's one song on the radio slung over my shoulder from the Sunday Radio 1 chart count down...) away from the cliff top at Bournemouth, so I always feel very much at home by the sea, where ever I am. Sea kale is usually great to eat, but Dungeness has a large nuclear power station, and sea kale is a good absorber of environmental radiation, so I didn't gather any.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Sea kale can also grown in the garden