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I have found a load of sloes, right beside the sea on a promontary so they probably escaped the frost. Not that I want them but was just surprised to see so many given the plum problems this year!

thats not fair...MMM has some and don,t want them ... and the west country is rich .... I hope when their time is ready they will all be big and juicy for you mollie...

i seek them high, i seek them low,
and yet i can't find any sloes,
i seek them here, i see them there,
but i can't find sloes anywhere.
it is so, the seasons thin,
how will i last the winter without sloe gin?!!!!!!!

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!

I also have no sloes in Bedfordshire.

I've reached the point of desperation where I'm just drinking the gin I bought to make sloe gin, diluted with tonic & a slice of lemon.
The depths one is forced to go to survive!

i am finding it hard to get a decent amount of sloes this year, so i have picked all the blackberries i possibly can from the common land near my house, and frozen them. i have enough for about a gallon and a bit of blackberry vodka lol!

No Sloes, and a bad year for most of our fruit this year, fortunaty good stock of gin and wine from last year ( if we sloe down a bit) but plenty of nut wine and peach wine so all in all we will be OK. 'Hic'

Apparently they're all down in Cornwall! Still loads about:) I hope you've found some now.