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(12-08-2025, 06:12 PM)Mark_Riga Wrote: Not done a lot today except have a look around at all the fruit trees. The pears on the tree that lost a branch, a williams bon... are quite big now and likely ripe for picking even though shouldn't be ready till September. The branch that fell had 50 small, about 50 to 80g, pears. I was going to bin the lot but I left it lying about for a couple of days and noticed wasps going for a couple so I collected the rest. Though small they are perfectly ripe now and delicious to eat. I think lots of fruit has ripened early this year with the hot weather. We have just too much ripening now. Even the Victoria plums seem to have ripened over the last 4 days. They are not half as tasty as the Czar which finished a week ago but are quite pleasant. Katy apples the same. The tree is loaded with small ripe/ripening apples. Last year it was raided by all the local pests and we ended up with just a very few that managed to ripen.
Don't think I've heard the phrase 'Titied up' before.
I think it should be incorporated in the Oxford dictionary!

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