Sunday 2 October 2022

The other night...

 Our doorbell rang and it was our gardening neighbour. I had asked him 10 days prior if he had a few cooking apples. This is what he brought us - two buckets full to the brim:

Cooking apples above.
Hard but small conference pears, they will ripen in about two weeks. Lovely chap. I usually bake him a cake or pudding as a thankyou.


12 comments:

  1. I have been given lots of apples. I'm going to make chutney

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    1. I don’t think I need anymore but could do one if necessary.

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  2. Oh that's a brilliant doorbell surprise!! You can do a lot with that :-)

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  3. What a wonderful neighbour.

    God bless.

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    1. One winter we ran out of kindling and a few days later, he gave us a ‘safe’ pallet to chop up.

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  4. Oh, my word, how lovely is that! I'm sure he will appreciate the pay back too. xx

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  5. Brilliant, he would make a good neighbour during rationing wouldn't he, and I bet he loves getting a cake or pudding in return. Alan loved the crumble I shared with him that was made from our individually scrumped apples.

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    1. As a gardener, he says he sees so much fruit rotting on the ground that his customers don’t use.

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  6. What a lovely neighbour. Currently waiting for my apples to ripen, unfortunately my neighbours don't "do" trees, they make a mess in Autumn. Why some folk move to the countryside I'll never understand.

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    1. Me neither. Some tend to move for peace and quiet but don’t like nature or wild life or the peace and quiet.

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