One of the good things about Coventry is that it's a fairly compact city. Even living so close to the city centre, we are only a couple of miles drive from the countryside. This morning we drove out to the Allesley/Coundon Wedge area to look for a suitable spot for gathering blackberries. We seem to have been a bit too late - most seem to have been picked already by the locals, but we did manage to get half a pound of them from the small area we investigated. We did better with elderberries, collecting 2½ pounds of those (which we washed and froze, ready to turn into elderberry wine later on).