The bad apple.

The bad apple - either very creative or very desperate?

The apple tree has been trimmed over the years as it has just got far too big. Needless to say, I can no longer reach the cooking apples and they just fall - splat on the patio below, no use really to anyone.

I have to keep Sam off the patio when he visits this time of the year as the consequences of a cooking apple falling 20feet or so on the poor thing would be disaster.

Hey ho, it's still raining and it's dark already. Must ring the coal man to deliver the winter fuel !