Good luck finding any. My niece works at wilko and even she wasn't quick enough to get me any

Forgot about this

I need help IDing some purple plum like fruit - very small, growing wild, south facing - will post pics in a bit.

Think they might be bullaces, as opposed to damson or sloes.

The middle photo of the three is Skimmia Japonica I think and the bottom looks like clusters of haws on a hawthorn bush. Re your black sloe like fruit, difficult without some size indication. Assuming no thorns (rules out sloes) and smaller than damson size, they could be bullaces.

No thorns.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullace

Been doing a bit of research on rosehips ,lot of false info about the effects of boiling on vit C which led me to think if only the British gov knowed this when using it during WW11 .Turns out a lot of tinternet exspurts are full of it ,the truth is VIT C is not destroyed by boiling ,it is depleted but the hips have so much it’s still a goer and reason they have to be boiled is to destroy an enzyme that destroys the vit c after they are picked .Got a load picked and mixed with some brambles and produced a very nice syrup that’s a treat drunk hot.Reckon jam is ok but is a bit dated with the use of sugar ,it’s there as a preservative imo and think most fruits frozen and used raw is the way to go or stewed and stored . Vintage year for fruit (that’s a wine term that also needs researched ) and the freezers are already getting full.Good time for non fruit tree owners to buy British food although find it perplexing why the  uk grown hard fruits are not cheaper atm .Soft fruit must be getting dumped by the ton load or left unpicked .The big food conglomerates want to hike prices due to import costs but there must be more than enough uk stuff atm ,suppose they need to favour the suppliers who can produce stuff out of season for them .                        Never seen the trees so laden ,my pears are diff class this year ,gave them a bit of an early season prune and they had been fed but reckon it’s all down to the weather ,everything has came up trumps although was a tad late getting stuff in and still waiting on the onions but what a growing year ,feck I even have pumpkins .

^ agree

tho paragraphs would have been good