Wednesday 22 August 2018

Plummy Songs for Nits


Have you noticed how whereas it was once considered commercial suicide - or at least being at the end of your career - for your music to be featured on a TV commercial, it's now almost de rigeur and the hallmark of success?

The plums on our plum trees this year are the smallest I've seen in 11 years, yet the trees are bending over with the sheer number. Not only that, but they're the sweetest ever.


It's always a race to harvest them as our trees have some fungal disease which makes them rot within a week of becoming ripe. It takes just one to turn and the rot spreads like wildfire. We did consider chopping them down, but eventually thought better of it. So long as we can get a decent harvest, we boil them up and freeze them for making jams and compotes later in the year.

Heard someone talking about removing nits from their child's hair while listening to the radio the other day. Can't say I've ever had nits, nor am I aware of any of my friends at school in the 60s ever having them either.


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