THE other day a friend of mine gave me a jar of honey and I decided that I would use some of it to make an old English apple pie.

These days we take supermarkets for granted and most of us are not hungry all the time.

In the old days country folk kept bees and scoured the hedgerows for food.

I followed their example and around Gisburn I found crab apples and branches full of large juicy blackberries.