Our New Life in the Country: Cor What a Whopper

Sunday, 11 September 2016

Cor What a Whopper

This huge beauty fell out of the tree and just missed me earlier today. I'll be needing to wear a hard hat to go over to Chicken World at this rate.

I got a 'normal' sized large apple out of the bucket (yes we need to keep them in a bucket ... a fruit bowl is just not big enough) to compare it too, and it's almost twice as heavy.

All our apple trees are doing brilliantly well this year, still absolutely brimming with fruit. So Lovely Hubby is all set to do another bucket of cider this weekend and I've just finished making a batch of 'Pam the Jams' Compost Heap Jelly to make good use of a big bag of sliced lemons that I found in the depths of the big chest freezer as well as lots of lovely red apples, including my big beauty here ... the kitchen smells gorgeous.

Cor What A Whopper ... as they used to say in the Carry On films ;-)

Sue xx

7 comments:

The Weaver of Grass11 September 2016 at 08:56
Our apple trees are doing well too; isn't it pleasing when we get a good year?
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Anonymous11 September 2016 at 09:23
Gosh ! And although I hated the Carry on films, that "Cor what a whopper !" made me quite nostalgic for them .. Stay safe ! xx
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local alien11 September 2016 at 10:59
Great apple. What's the secret?
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Jackie11 September 2016 at 14:51
That is what I call an apple!!! Wow is that ever big.

God bless.
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Patricia (La Chatte Gitane)11 September 2016 at 15:24
That is a whopper indeed ! :)
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Beverley11 September 2016 at 22:47
If you are going to have one, then have a big one!! That's a big one Missus!!! :-)
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Elderberry-Rob11 September 2016 at 23:22
Lovely to catch up on your blog - that's a whopper indeed, shame there isn't a competition that you could enter it in, it would certainly win!
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This was my Blog, just me writing about our day to day life learning all about and then living the smallholding life. First we started on a farm in Oxfordshire, then we moved to a smaller place in Berkshire (both in England) and then we found a place of our very own at the bottom of a hillside in North Wales. Along for the ride were all our various animals, and we ended up with just our dogs, Suky and Mavis, our cat Ginger .... who secretly thinks he's one of the canine gang, a sheep called Ethel who wandered in off the road and stayed... and a roving band of egg laying chickens that live cheek by jowl with the local wildlife.

We grow our own fruit and vegetables, selling surplus plants and edibles at the gate. We sell the eggs the chickens lay, we reuse, recycle and rethink ... and life ticks over at a pace that suits us.

It was simply the wild and wacky ramblings of a 50 something townie turned country girl called Sue, who lost her heart to a sailor and started a new life in the country .... many years ago. On a path that took us from Cumbria to Oxfordshire, to Berkshire and then we found our home at the bottom of a wet and windy Welsh hillside by a busy main road.

Pull up a chair, grab a coffee and relax into a world of dogs, cats, chickens, polytunnels and veggies with the occasional grass munching sheep thrown in for good measure.

Sue xx

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