Apple Harvesting Time

 

Back at home now, but still on Holiday.

So, time to harvest some pommes.

Bonus - 

Colonel Sanders meet Alice Cooper

What a firm pear !

 

The best way to judge the ripeness of a pear is by feel. Go on, have a try.

Bonus - 

Danish CAESAR 155mm artillery

Christine's Picnic

 

Today's the day for Christine's Post-Lockdown Picnic Thing, and I hope she's remembered that an axe is not the ideal implement for slicing a watermelon.

That said, I do recall using an axe to split a melon flung towards me. Ah, the folly of youth.

Bonus - Fancy a long, entertaining tale of revenge done beautifully? Owner Makes A Terrible Mistake By Firing Contractor. Regrets It Later

A Fine Crop of Blueberries

 

(Or so it looks)

A slide that harks back to the good old days of growing your own fruit for canning, bottling or pickling.

Ah. Nostalgia.

Bonus - Guy Reveals Thin Plastic Liner Inside Pop Cans

Bonus 2 - 

By Force of Habit

 

He was on his holiday, and this market was 700 miles outside of his jurisdiction, but Henry was a Weights and Measures man to his very core.

"That scales does not have a certificate of calibration on display" was hist first thought.

Henry was a very lonely man.

Bonus - Thirty Five Years Ago Today

Fruit Balancing

While the England vs Croatia World Cup Semi Final is playing (1-1, playing extratime, as I write), let's take a few moments to celebrate the ancient skill of Fruit-Balancing.



Basically, it's the ability to balance colletions of fruit on one's head.  Obviously.

Bonus -

What a Monster !

Indeed, it' not often you see one that size, is it? 

No information on the slide, so I guess the original photographer is keeping the location secret

Good Plan, there's probably a ruthless gang of smuggler who would want this...   umm, this....Large Lemon ?????

Bonus - Complete Incomprehension

Bonus 2 -

Not A Good Day

Bonus 3 - Derby - Familiar, but different.  Nice.


From Here

The Fruit Market

Hello Children.

How many different sorts of fruit can you spot?


Bonus -  In 1972 the CBC's Peter Gzowski challenged listeners to complete the saying "As Canadian as..." Winner

Bonus 2 - Adolescent Cannabis Use Does Not Increase In States With Legal Medical Marijuana

Helping at the Apple Harvest

Seemed seasonally apposite.
A slide from a a mini-set at a Pick Your Own Apple Farm.

Bonus - Do you think your home country is the Best or Worst? (Click for +Pixels)

The Citrus Thieves

"Heck. They grow them at the side of the road....they must be expecting to lose a few"

Seconds later, the criminals were vaporised.


Bonus "During their jolly to Washington for Trump’s inauguration, Nigel Farage and Brexit financier Arron Banks staged the most solemn of pilgrimages to Arlington National Cemetery to lay a wreath at the grave of a British soldier who perished in 1944. The fact that he succumbed to anaemia whilst working a desk job approximately 4,000 miles from Normandy – perhaps the only person in Arlington not to have actually died for their country – was somewhat de-emphasised."     The Subject Briton

Grandmama Goes Orange Scrumping

Never one to miss out on some freebies, Granny prepares to "fill her boot" with free oranges.

Bonus - Fake News - The Source Identified

A Norange

People photograph the oddest things.

Before you try and correct me, I refer you to the interesting origins of the fruit's name.

Bonus -

"Feel My Plump, Juicy, Ripe,

...Oranges."

Why, what did you expect?







Bonus -
That Would Work.

Maggie's Juicy Pear

Oh come on. It's was the obvious thing to say.   You'd have done the same.

   Stop judging me !


Bonus - Dresden Red Panda Has Concussion after 10 Meter Plunge

Freddy's Fruit Tree

Not a British slide, I suspect.  A rather bounteous crop from this fruit (Apple? Orange? Pear?) tree, but could raise a smile from old Freddy.

Bonus - University of Limerick Students Union rejects claims livestock were ‘groped’ at Farmers Ball