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mikey4444 | 16:43 Tue 12th Sep 2017 | ChatterBank
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I have been working for the last few days on the Gower Peninsula. Today has been typical......I have come home with 6 fresh ducks eggs, some rhubarb and some wonderful looking Bramley apples, all from road-side honesty stands.
And 2 jars of home-made plum jam !

I have also bought some scrumpy cider......I was instructed that this is sitting-down cider, not standing-up cider by the Farmer, so I am limiting myself to have a pint a day !

I shall report back tomorrow ( if I survive ! )
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I found a clutch of 15 hens eggs in the garden yesterday, probably rhubarb flavoured as they devour it despite it supposedly being poisonous.

Which I had a neighbour with a bramley tree to go with the blackberries another neighbour gave me.
We must be an honest lot down here in good ol' Saarfuk, Mikey!

Although I live on a modern-ish (1970s) housing estate, there are still plenty of people around here who put eggs, apples, etc outside their houses, together with honesty boxes. Until they re-designed Ipswich station, even W H Smith had an honesty box system for paying for newspapers.

Go steady (or should that be 'unsteady'?) with the scrumpy!

;-)
I have apples, pears, rhubarb, 24 dogs next door, rats.............
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Looks like a good year for sloes....my nephew and I will be sloe picking over the next week or so !
ASBO....LOL
miss all that in Norfolk !
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It also appears to be a very good year for apples, from what I can see growing in peoples gardens.
My trees are laden. It's fab. Shame I wont have time to deal with them before I go away.
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Barmaid....it only takes a few mins to make some apple sauce and then freeze it !
Apples, pears and plums in my orchard, my mate keeps chickens so I buy my eggs from her, fresh veg from the farms shop 2 mins down the road.
Mikey, I am already borrowing time..... apple sauce just aint going to happen.
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Pity....give them to your neighbours !

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