Counting apples on Heritage Open Day
And a few pears too! I was at Durham Old Gardens. Where better for a Heritage event than with these ancient fruit trees and an old stone wall?
Midway through Becky’s September Squares challenge. Hope you are all In the Pink! It’s my ambition in life to be two steps behind Debbie. She takes Six Words to the loveliest heights. Wishing you all a great Saturday!
restlessjo 
Fab post!
Been wondering about Le Drake Noir?
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Thanks a lot, Resa. 🙂 🙂 I was glad Nils left me a message. I hate to loose touch with friends and not know if they’re ok.
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Hmmmm…..they are quite small and beautiful. Methinks you should have double-dipped them! Thanks for worrying about me Jo – all good here thank goodness🙃
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I was just this minute at yours, Tina. It’s been a busy weekend here so it was my first opportunity 🙂 🙂 Glad all is good.
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Great photos and lovely flowers and berries at the end. I don’t like apple as they are but love apple crumble with lashings of custard 🙂
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Exactly the same here Eunice! 😃😃
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Lovely! What’s the count 🤔😂
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Lots! 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Wow! Such delicious looking produce and lovely flowers. Wish I had some of that fruit at the moment! LOL! Nice captures with pink! 😀
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Pears for me Linda. Raw apples don’t agree with me much. No problem with apple crumble though 😃😃
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Like a pear of apples! Nice photos Jo.
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They all looked fabulous, Jonno. 🙂 🙂
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Ancient apples! Yikes I have not had the like of them 😉 Hope you are having a good weekend. xx
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Exhausted myself with zumba and a trip to Newcastle to see more Heritage events. I must be due a day of rest? 🙂 🙂
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You are a trooper to keep up with zumba. My motor skills let me down there. I think the most I can manage is street jazz (but that is just about it)!
Sounds like a super duper day, Jo. We were watching a Geoffrey Rush movie today and JLT I missed our life there so. We would have been puttering around the countryside right about now. Do live it up for me. Here’s to that cuppa now. xx
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You all must have had so much fun! 🙂 wish you a very happy weekend!
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How many did you count? I had my eye on the pears 😃😃
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Love that old wall, Jo!
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A nice rosy pink, Sue 😃😃 xx
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So much produce this time of year, I wish I had another freezer!
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I do but I’m too lazy to cook 😃😃
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The apples look yummy, Jo! Typically, I eat two apples a day, but this summer I’ve yet to eat one that has much flavor. Enjoy your Saturday!
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Raw apples always upset my stomach Jill but I love them cooked. Apple crumble 😃😃
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Lovely old apple orchards, I have always dreamed of having my own apple tree, though I find the modern ones rather tasteless. I could do with your neighbour Jo to help me out with my blackberries. Happy Saturday – I expect you’ll be out somewhere or coming back from Zumba 😉
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Waiting outside Trinity House, Newcastle for 2.00 tour 😃😃
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Tour of a lighthouse?
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No. A very lovely old building that controls navigation and pilots around the north east. As expected, no photos, but there’s a website. Guildhall rather grand too. 🙂 🙂
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Lovely that these old varieties are surviving. Was just saying to Sue Judd that we’ve been watching the old ’80s Victorian kitchen garden TV series, and one of the sad and striking things is the scale of fruit and veg variety loss. Much too our own loss I think.
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I used to love Cox’s Pippin’s, Tish. Not sure that you can still get them. 😦
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Not like the ones we used to have. They’ve been bred larger and aren’t the same at all. But they will be there somewhere, in someone’s old orchard.
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You simply cannot beat a good English apple!
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Pippins for me 😃😃
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Always reminds me of Aunty Mable in that kids TV programme ‘Come Outside’ She had a dog called Pippin. My children used to watch it.
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Mike Sarne? Come outside… 🙂 🙂
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I remember that as well!
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One of the few downsides of being out of England at the moment is missing out on the chance to celebrate English apples on the various days on offer. Glad you celebrated for us!
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Did my best 😃😃
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Ah! I was just over at Ken’s bench and wondered why you were taking apples not cakes. Now I see 🙂
What a beautiful day for your wander and I love those apples – you have caught them so well, Jo. It’s unusual for an apple to really make me feel hungry but these shots are doing it.
Have a good weekend!
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I’ve turned over a new, healthy leaf, Debs. 🙂 🙂 Well, today, anyway! Thanks, darlin!
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I bet those apples taste great too.
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I always used to love Cox’s Pippins. Haven’t had one for the longest time. 🙂 🙂 Happy weekend, hon!
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I’m having a quiet weekend at home – writing, crochet and catching up on Poldark. It’s blissful.
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Lovely pics! Happy Saturday and weekend my roving apple loving friend 😄
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Thanks, Miriam! It’s quite funny because I have a bag of them from a neighbours tree, just waiting to be peeled for a pie. 🙂 🙂
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Yum! I was thinking of Apple pie as I read your post. Great minds! Mind if I invite myself over? 😬
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Not at all 🙂 🙂
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Great post 😁
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A bit of fun! 🙂 🙂 Glad you liked it.
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Sure captured some old fruit, Jo 🙂
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I did, Ken! Nearly helped myself to a pear 🙂 🙂
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