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Friday, 21 November 2025

Friday, November 21/2025


 Still eating our own oranges. They have grown a little but still suffering from a year of drought. Sweet, though. But we have, as the saying goes, picked most of the low hanging fruit already, and the lovely ripe oranges we can see at the top of the tree are mostly out of reach. And would be even if we were to acquire a stepladder.

So J has devised an orange picking tool. It’s on the end of a broomstick - a plastic bottle cut to pluck and collect one orange at a time. And yes, it works.