Make sure to properly clean the seedcases, and remove all seeds, to ensure the small hairs on the seeds within the hips does not irritate the intestinal canal. The seed hairs if separated make a really vicious itching powder too.
Tea here was a roast chicken, some fresh strawberries and triple chocolate choc ripple icecream, plus a couple of packets of mini-cheddars. After which involved going for a fag and doing some ID work on a fungus fruitbody recovered after my last hiking trip. Looks like a dog turd, but isn't. Looks like I've found something really rare here, although quite common apparently in north america, Pisolithus tinctorius, otherwise known as the dye-ball fungus or dog turd fungus. Its used for mushroom-based fabric dyes where its common, but very rare in the UK. I'll have to properly section it so I can examine the spores under my high-powered lab microscope properly, and test w/Melzer's reagent, but that will have to be done tomorrow methinks, using the hacksaw or better, the coping saw, as that has a really thin, wire-like blade that should show a much clearer internal view of the structure. I tried cutting into it with the biggest kitchen knife we have, a really sharp butcher knife type thing we use when cutting up big bits of meat, carving roasts and such things, but its so damn dense and hard that I barely managed to chip off a piece a little larger than a fingernail from the surface of this fungus fruitbody.
Ugly looking thing, looks seriously like a dog shit, I'm a little surprised I actually managed to see it at all in the dense duff of the hilly, steep woodland I was strolling through at the time. If it is what I think it is, methinks I'll have to try culturing it on agar plates and introducing it elsewhere in the UK, given the great rarity of the species I think I have here.