So there I was fretting about how to clear brambles from around the fallen pear tree,
when Eldest Son solved the problem for me by inviting his friends
around for the last few weekends. His friends mostly live in apartments
or houses with carefully manicured suburban gardens, and spent Saturday
climbing on the fallen tree, using dangerous things like garden shears
to hack the brambles down and discovered an apple tree in the middle we
never got near before. This was denuded of all fruit and a pack of happy
boys were delivered home at dusk, a bit muddy, but ready for bed and
with all the apples they could carry.
The fallen tree is now a ‘spaceship’ so I have to wait until the mission is completed before cutting the branches back.
(Update: one of the lads just appeared with two bottle of apple sauce made from our apples. I could get used to this system…)
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