“Have
you ever made raspberry couli?” are not the words you often hear
being shouted at you from across the road, by a gardener, whilst out
on a walk!
I
should mention that this particular gardener is a friend, who
was doing a garden in the next village to us where we were walking to
vote for our so called 'local' police authority person.
I
always vote whatever the occasion, regardless of whether I believe in
the reason. Women died to give me the vote and I exercise my right
every time.
Anyway
back to the gardener. He has an allotment and grows huge amounts of
fruit and vegetables on it. His raspberries this year were not great
but he managed to give us some. The rest he fancied turning into
couli.
He
told me he had sterilised his bottle well and stored it in his fridge
but after a month, the top had blown clean off and it smelt vinegary.
I
haven't made couli before but told him I was under the impression
that it is to be eating fresh.
As
we prepared to walk away he yelled “Do you know how to get gloss
paint of a carpet, only I recently painted the storage heaters and
must have stepped in the paint and now there is a footprint on the
new carpet”
“How
old is it?”
“What,
the carpet?”
“No,
the footprint”
“A
couple of weeks, I tried wiping it of with a cloth, then I used a
furniture polish cloth and it looks a little better but my daughter
can still see it. Don't want to use white spirit as it stink, don't
it?”
I
said I would check it out and get back to him. Eventually we finished
our conversation and walked away.
A
few steps later came “Have you see the price of a sackful of
taters?”
Back
we walked, “I saw £7.50 on a sack driving back from somewhere”
Turned
out it was a rhetorical question as he wanted to tell me that he had
recently seen a sack in a shop for £9.50.
We
discussed the rising price of food for a few more minutes then he
went back to work and we carried on to vote.
it's always nice when your neighbours talk to you. Our raspberry crop was miserable this year.
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