Although it's in the grape family, the berries don't even look edible to me.  I don't think anyone would be tempted to taste them.  It's assumed they would be toxic to some degree.  When it's been planted intentionally it's been used as a decorative plant in gardens, not for making porcelainberry wine.  The problem from a landscaping persepctive, like I said, is that it's a little too vigorous, and ends up taking over.  But along the fences in the Fens I think it's fine.

I found some vacated snail shells in one of the beds I was working in.  Two or three snails in a good-size bed are tolerable, I guess, but technically they're a blight, too.  I do admire the shells, though.  The one in the first picture looks like it was part of Crate & Barrel's fall collection.  Both shells pictured belong to white-lipped snails—Cepaea hortensis—which, if I'm not mistaken, are edible! 


That's a striped acorn in the bottom picture, about the size of the tip of my pinkie finger.  

There are actually a lot of flowering plants still in bloom in the Fens, but, alas, not in my garden.  I'm working on that.  Next year.