Today's walk had the same aim...apples!!
Two large bags of apples have been mushed and pressed, now the juice is being filtered....
I can make some jam when I have some waxed circles for the jars...four pounds of apples are sitting ready for that!
And we head into lockdown again...because even as an island the drawbridge wasn't lifted, as New Zealand did....because some people have no self respect of respect for others....because big business rules all including politics.
Our one consolation is that with just under 9% of the UK population, Scotland has 5% of infections, even with a better track and test regime, apparently based on the Irish one.
Grasping at straws? Maybe.
My brother contracted covid 19 ....he is alone, but in a bubble with his friend and family...and friend' s wife is a teacher...who only goes home and school and shops on-line 100%..... So don't let anyone tell you schools are safe areas..... Luckily he doesn't seem to have a bad case of Long Covid, but time will tell.
And for some light relief....a tiny house from the local Wee House company....makes me think of some older houses in New Zealand..,
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It sounds as though there are a lot of abandoned apple (and other fruit) trees there.
Personally, I think schools are as infested with covid as with snotty noses.
That tiny house is charming. I hope there are more windows on the other side.
My eldest son's girlfriend is a teacher, and has had covid, the school were told that teachers could not use masks (fabric mouth/nose or clear plastic shields) as it creates a barrier (duh) and so can not make a good contact with the children. So instead they have a yellow line drawn across the floor separating the pupils from the teachers ... this was the ONLY barrier between them .... wonder why so many teachers fell ill...?
The apple trees are along what appears to be old trackways to a farm that is no longer there apart from half a sidewall, and the outline and a heap of large stones.
Depending upon the weather we may get sloes in a couple of places, but last year spare hard frost wiped out sloe, apple and pear crops in many places.
The tiny house is the office block of the company that builds them, and yes there are other windows!
As I understand it (I think I saw it in the Manchester Evening News?), schools are second only to supermarkets as sources of infection.
I recently read that 20000 lives would have been saved if they'd started the first lockdown earlier. It makes you wonder how many people who died since who would have lived had the government done everything since then differently and not procrastinated and vaccinated the way they have.
This dithering's causing chaos and spreading the virus even faster.
The school cook tested positive just after she and her team, including one of my daughters, had spent Monday preparing the kitchen for the term ... which was cancelled at the last minute that evening.
Daughter's now self-isolating while home schooling two children and avoiding NHS working husband.
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