Plums!

[Greybeard]

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[Catz]

What did Tarzan say when he saw the elephants coming over the hill?
"Here come the plums". He was colour-blind.
That's the only joke i can remember from a book we had in the early 70's called "1001 Elephant jokes"
I'll get me coat.

[Topdad]

When I was growing upwe used to have our hols in the last 2 weeks of august in Savs neck of the woods Kent particularly Ramsgate .No motorways so it was a real drive from Manchester .One year on the last leg "thanet way " apple orchards down its length all with signs similar take what you want don't damage the trees , we filled a box they were great (discoverys) took some pictures in the orchards there was so much fruit the pictures wouldn't develop ! I beleive the orchards all have gone when we joined the EU  so we could enjoy Golden delicous ugh !! Bastards

[Joolstacho]

They call it 'the garden of England" -Kent... All those Hops too!

[BagONails]

Mmmm Shepherd Neame of Faversham, Kent. Still my favourite bitter. Luckily available here in Aus if you know where to get it.   

[Worty]

Wouldn't mind a few of those plums myself (hurgh, hurgh, fnar, fnar)

[olev]

What's the bike?

[Joolstacho]

Shepherd Neame. Ah yes my used-to-be local The Farningham Bull had it on tap. And I keep a bottle or 3 of it on the shelf way down here.
Note I said on the shelf not in the fridge!!! (wash your mouth out!)

[BagONails]

Shepherd Neame. Ah yes my used-to-be local The Farningham Bull had it on tap. And I keep a bottle or 3 of it on the shelf way down here.
Note I said on the shelf not in the fridge!!! (wash your mouth out!)

Lol I have to put my beer in the microwave to bring it to a drinkable temp here in Aus...

[jhg1958]

I moved to Shropshire (Craven Arms) last year and found I had a small orchard with a mixture of new and old trees. Come August we were up to our necks in apples and could not give them away as most of our neighbours have a tree or two and as I do not spray the trees they are rarely unblemished.

October found ourselves overwhelmed with cooking apples, again not sort after but at least they will keep a few months.

It seems to me that something is wrong when there are people not able to feed their families and I am busy throwing apples away.

Assuming we get the same crop again, If you are ever in Shropshire in late summer you are welcome to drop in and have some apples.

Now I need to get back to my apple pie (yes another one!)

John

[Worty]

We have been known to stay around Craven Arms, there was a lovely place we stayed in Clunbury a few years back - beautiful countryside.  We're even thinking of moving to Shropshire ourselves if we can ever get the kids out.  Shopping at Tuffins was like being in a mini department store!!

Turn those apples into cider mate, I'm sure you'll get a lot of 'back door' interest from people.  You won't 'sell' it, of course, you'd give it away and people would return the 'gift' in a brown paper envelope.

[Catz]

The Mrs and me often head down there in the summer months, we live in South Cheshire near the Salop border.
The road i normally take to Craven Arms is the B road from Much Wenlock. Great views, lovely villages and lovely twisty winding road. How would we know where you live?

[Rex]

Look for the skip full of rotting apples outside his house?

"People not able to feed their families" sounds more like Charles Dickens than 21st century reality, especially where those New Poor have better phones, clothes, TV's and cars than I do.
Not to mention the booze, fags, weed, scratch cards, dogs, vapes, takeaways, etc etc.

[Worty]

Look for the skip full of rotting apples outside his house?

"People not able to feed their families" sounds more like Charles Dickens than 21st century reality, especially where those New Poor have better phones, clothes, TV's and cars than I do.
Not to mention the booze, fags, weed, scratch cards, dogs, vapes, takeaways, etc etc.

I once read about a woman who lived entirely on benefits in a lovely bungalow and a nice car on Motability.  When it was suggested she lose the car, her reply was that 'she has the same right to a car as anyone else'.  When you're dealing with a mentality like that, coupled with a broken benefits system, what do you do?

I used to work on a fairly desperate 'sink estate' in Bradford.  My answer to these issues were to stop giving money to claimants and only issue them with non-transferable vouchers for necessities only.  If they tried to get round the system by having more than a couple of kids, then all benefits would stop and the kids would be taken into care.  After all, people who have kids to get more child allowance aren't really interested in loving and raising children, are they?  With the money incentive gone, I'm sure there'd be far fewer single parent families with 8 kids from 8 different fathers!!

Seems draconian, but life on benefits is a 'career' choice for many.  The problem then self-perpetuates until you have generations of scroungers who do nothing but sponge off society (and who still have all the stuff Rex mentions above).

[berger]

yeah worty the king and the rest of the establishment spring to mind , the poorest in the country paying more percentage out, there may be and are benefit scroungers but thatcher put that generation well onto being scroungers and they will NEVER get to the level of scrounging that the politicians and royalty have got to, the next thing is stop the winter fuel payment but they can chuck millions at a new queeny statue , the day should come when people stop being turned against each other by billionaire newspaper bullsht and try and live on 70 quid a week like i had to, and for what it's worth while i am here i have just received a rise in my mine workers pension  { a pension that the profits for at least 30 years went in government coffers now they are giving it us back } and get no benefit from it at all because now my council tax goes up and i pay more tax on the pension, they don't GIVE us anything they TAKE!! sod the bird on benefits having 50 kids look at at the ESTABLISHMENT who scrounge BILLIONS!!!!