I really enjoyed today as for a lot of it I was up a tree. I like being in trees, up ladders, and especially picking fruit.
I didn't get a lie in and got dressed quite early, luckily, as Mike from The Pizza Farm arrived much earlier than he'd planned and delivered two sacks of logs, as promised, as part-payment for the work I did there a couple of weeks ago.
Then I took my giant stepladders round to Sally's house, which she rents out, and started picking her pear tree which this year has the best crop I've ever seen. Some of the pears are really huge, 8 or 9 ounces... so that 4 big pears weighed a kilo. I got 7 fruit trays full plus 4 drawers from old chests of drawers I'd rescued, literally hundreds of pears. I also picked 2 trays of apples.
I was really thrilled with this haul, and as I'd nowhere to store them, I spent an hour at dusk removing all the tomato plants from the conservatory, as they've more or less finished fruiting, and therefore made space for some of the larger drawers which wouldn't easily fit anywhere else. These are 'Winter Pears' and will ripen over the next few weeks and in December, should be really juicy and delicious, to be eaten raw, cooked, or dried.
I didn't get a lie in and got dressed quite early, luckily, as Mike from The Pizza Farm arrived much earlier than he'd planned and delivered two sacks of logs, as promised, as part-payment for the work I did there a couple of weeks ago.
Then I took my giant stepladders round to Sally's house, which she rents out, and started picking her pear tree which this year has the best crop I've ever seen. Some of the pears are really huge, 8 or 9 ounces... so that 4 big pears weighed a kilo. I got 7 fruit trays full plus 4 drawers from old chests of drawers I'd rescued, literally hundreds of pears. I also picked 2 trays of apples.
I was really thrilled with this haul, and as I'd nowhere to store them, I spent an hour at dusk removing all the tomato plants from the conservatory, as they've more or less finished fruiting, and therefore made space for some of the larger drawers which wouldn't easily fit anywhere else. These are 'Winter Pears' and will ripen over the next few weeks and in December, should be really juicy and delicious, to be eaten raw, cooked, or dried.
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