Fruit harvesting

continued well into the dark and we haven't really started the apples and so alarms are set for tomorrow.
It wasn't helped by a shopping trip in the afternoon to buy - excitement of excitements - a new washing machine as the old one has eventually packed in after fifteen years of sterling abuse.
Here Tricia is plucking the grapes off the stalks. We have ended up with more than her body weight in grapes to squash tomorrow.