"Plums are smart" as Bob Mortimer famously said in the Reeves and Mortimer TV comedy show. They are tasty too, as I can testify, having just eaten some of the 26pounds (12 kilos) of fruit which our plum tree has given us this year. Gathering the plums was great fun. Claire, Thomas, Sophie, Jenny and I each held a corner of a large bed sheet whilst Ben rocked the tree vigourously. Most of the plums landed in the sheet but some hit us, which was more painful than you might imagine. Others fell over the hedge into the lane and were retrieved and washed carefully. The photo shows just part of the crop - the rest are in the deep freeze waiting to be converted into jam, pies and puddings.
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