Re: Proof that people in GX have more money than sense.

Rowland McDonnell wrote:
Rosemary wrote:
Rowland McDonnell wrote:
Rosemary wrote:
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My dad used to wonder why his strawberries didn't crop as well as he
thought they would. Or the raspberries, plums, apples, peas, etc... I
wonder why? :-)

Should have had more trees. There was enough fruit in our back garden
(suburban though it might have been) to keep three growing boys happy
without causing any distress to the parents who might have been hoping
for some crop. We never got all the apples picked, and there was
always a glut.

Fair enough, I didn't make much of a dent in the apples, come to think ot
it. I think we had twenty-odd fruit trees. Is that enough? :-) The thing
is, the cropping seasons are all different for apples, pears, plums,
cherries, greengages, damsons, etc. We were lucky, cause my parents
bought the house, which was in about an acre of land with a nicely
established orchard, for not a lot of money, cause it was in a horrible
area and the house was pretty much derelict. AFAICT the locals were all
amazed someone had actually bought the place.

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Also, he could never understand why the only cherries on
the trees were higher up than could be reached by, say, a ten year
old girl.

<cough> Lucky there wasn't a ten year old boy involved. The only
cherries on a cherry tree out of the reach of ten year old boys are
those on the very high thin branches that can't be reached from a
branch that can be stood upon. Oh yes, and there was a bubble car to
help you get into the think in the first place.

Cherry trees are foul to climb. Apple trees are okay, but cherries are
really tricky cause they seem to sprout lots of thin, whippy, non-weight-
bearing branches straight from the trunk. I'm impressed you managed to
climb cherry trees much higher than what you could reach standing on the
trunk.

The best
strawberries I ever had were halfway up a massive hill and about
the size of small blueberries.

I could argue that the taste you experience would have been
significantly enhanced by the fresh air and healthy exercise, but
that would be churlish.

Doesn't hurt, no, but I spent my childhood eating home-grown
strawberries and other fruit,

And you think I didn't?

No :-) I said that so you'd know I wasn't comparing the wild ones with
the shiny red bits of swede they sell in the supermarket.

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Strawberries are like chilli peppers - a birds-eye chilli has more
heat than half a dozen large chillies. I ate one once for a bet.

I had a nasty experience with a chilli pepper when I was very young.

My boyfriend told me he'd buy me a box of chocolates if I could eat a 2cm
long red birds-eye chilli, so I did. And I crunched the seeds :-) The
only thing that stopped me throwing up was determination not to have the
thing burning me on the way up as well. I may have had to drink a pint of
apple juice straight out of Sainsbury's fridge but I won those bloody
chocolates.

Rosemary

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