tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42628082822931343042024-03-13T20:46:03.224-07:00The Orchard Tea Room & Farm ShopThe Orchard Tea Roomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05778421955782410844noreply@blogger.comBlogger174125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4262808282293134304.post-28717387174765432502020-04-16T13:47:00.002-07:002020-04-16T13:47:35.217-07:00The Orchard in Spring<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;">A little known fact is that our tea room is actually built on the site of the farm’s old hen house. We don’t keep our own chickens in the orchard anymore but we’re fortunate to have the most </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;">marvelous</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;"> supplier of free range eggs only a short distance from us. Meaning that our eggs are incredibly fresh especially when compared to supermarket eggs and as you can imagine eggs are of immense importance to us. We use them for our delicious cakes, sandwiches, quiches etc and they’re one of our best sellers in the farm shop. All this brings us to another recipe we’d like to share with you</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our kitchen is still OPEN for takeaway food & drinks- it has to be taken away you cannot consume it anywhere on our premises & that includes the orchard itself.</span></div>
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We're still accepting orders for Cake-away, our cakes freeze beautifully so don't have to eat them all at once - unless you want to of course! Tel Jim to discuss what you want, sorry collection only : 07527046184</div>
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Gov guidelines state that we must<br />" Ensure a distance of two meters between customers and shop assistants; and<br />• Let people enter the shop only in small groups, to ensure that spaces are not crowded.<br />• Queue control is required outside of shops and other essential premises that remain open"</div>
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Finally, sorry dog walking CLOSED - NO dog walking until further notice.</div>
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The Orchard Tea Roomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05778421955782410844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4262808282293134304.post-38833916055596748332020-03-21T03:07:00.003-07:002020-03-21T03:07:28.993-07:00The Orchard Tea Room ~ COVID-19 Update<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">In an attempt to slow the spread of COVID-19 the UK government has closed all food and drink venues therefore our sit in tea room is closed until further notice. However </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our kitchen will remain OPEN for takeaway food, telephone orders prior to collection are welcome 07527 046184</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Also regular customers if you want to bring your dog along when shopping in the farm shop or purchasing take out food & drinks you can continue to walk your dogs here providing you keep them on a lead at all times, dogs don't understand social distancing so sorry no fetch games.</span><br />
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The Orchard Tea Roomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05778421955782410844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4262808282293134304.post-53988928121137062292020-01-18T13:35:00.000-08:002020-01-20T15:43:09.262-08:00The Orchard Year ~ Wassailing<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">As <a href="https://theorchardtearoom.blogspot.com/2019/11/the-orchard-year-winter.html" target="_blank">previously mentioned </a> last year we were writing for a magazine, this is article that went out in February 2019 we thought it would be interesting to put it on the blog so we can compare last winter with this: </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">For some the Orchard Year starts with a Wassailing ceremony, it’s not a Fenland custom, but, they’ve been Wassailing cider orchards to scare off evil spirits and encourage the apple trees into growth for hundreds, maybe thousands of years in Devon, Somerset, Dorset, Gloucestershire and Herefordshire. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">I’m sure the birds appreciate the toast next day.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">We’re in the middle of a cold spell here and the birds are decimating the windfalls and unpicked apples. It’s a hard time for birds, they only have 8 or 9 hours a day to find enough food to ward off starvation during these winter months. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Frost and ice make it especially difficult for our orchard woodpeckers, we leave as much dead wood as possible to provide food for invertebrates who in turn provide food for the woodpeckers, but, even so frozen conditions reduce the supply of beetle larvae.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">As the old saying goes, “When the days begin to lengthen, then the cold begins to strengthen”, we’ve certainly been grateful for our wood burning stove in the tea room! </span></span></div>
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<br />The Orchard Tea Roomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05778421955782410844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4262808282293134304.post-64420927122440768592019-11-17T15:51:00.005-08:002019-11-17T15:55:11.160-08:00Interview with the Artist ~ Sue Bates <span style="font-size: large;">Sue Bates is our <a href="https://theorchardtearoom.blogspot.com/2019/11/art-at-orchard-sue-bates.html" target="_blank">Art in The Orchard artist for the month of November</a>, we're delighted that she has agreed to do a little interview for the blog:</span><br />
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 20.79px;"><b style="line-height: 20.79px;"><b style="font-family: "Lucida Grande", Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20.79px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-weight: 400;">I always wanted to draw and paint and as my dream to attend art </span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-weight: 400;">college didn't happen I promised myself that I would attend classes, funds </span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-weight: 400;">permitting, when I retired.</span></span></b></b></b><br />
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 20.79px;"><b style="line-height: 20.79px;"><b style="font-family: "Lucida Grande", Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20.79px;"><b style="font-family: "lucida grande", verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20.79px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-weight: 400;">The best advice ever received was to spend 90% of time looking at </span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-weight: 400;">the image one is trying to copy and 10% drawing/painting.</span></span></b></b></b></b><br />
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 20.79px;"><b style="line-height: 20.79px;"><b style="font-family: "Lucida Grande", Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20.79px;"><b style="font-family: "lucida grande", verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20.79px;"><b style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 20.79px;"><b style="line-height: 20.79px;"><b style="font-family: "Lucida Grande", Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20.79px;"><b style="font-family: "lucida grande", verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20.79px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-weight: 400;">I am a keen gardener and grow chillis, peppers, melons, cucumbers,</span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-weight: 400;">tomatoes and more in our tiny greenhouse. We also spend time making a nice </span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-weight: 400;">show of the miniature front garden which was actually entered (not by us)</span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-weight: 400;">into the Downham in Bloom competition this summer!</span></span></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: monospace;">At 73 I have not much on my bucket list except to improve my </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: monospace;">painting.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.79px;"><span style="line-height: 20.79px;"><span style="line-height: 20.79px;"><span style="line-height: 20.79px;"><span style="line-height: 20.79px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">Sue you're currently exhibiting some of your artwork here at The Orchard where </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>else</b></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: bold;"> can we find your work?</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.79px;"><span style="line-height: 20.79px;"><span style="line-height: 20.79px;"><span style="line-height: 20.79px;"><span style="line-height: 20.79px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace;">My paintings can be seen on eBay and suebatesartist.com and as cards </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace;">in Knicat bakery, (Downham Market) Sarah's flowers (Wisbech) and various </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace;">craft fayres. Prints and personalisation of cards can be ordered.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace;">Web site: suebatesartist.com</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: monospace;">Facebook page is: Sue Bates</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You probably know how much we love collecting apple recipes well today we're sharing an apple recipe with a difference, it's not for eating, it's for putting on your face, it's a recipe for a homemade face mask. The pectin in the apples is apparently very soothing to the skin. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Dip a cotton wool ball into the mixture and apply over the face and neck, avoiding your eyes, </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Warning: Don't use this mask if your skin is particularly sensitive or you know you may have an allergic reaction to any of the ingredients. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As some of you will know we host the occasional florist workshop, on behalf of The Sunshine Centre for Therapeutic Riding, here at the tea rooms. Well here's something that you can do at home </span><span style="font-size: large;">without attending a workshop</span><span style="font-size: large;">, if you have access to a hydrangea bush.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">A "bouquet" of dried Hydrangea flowers would make a stunning gift this Christmas and if you get started now it could cost you absolutely nothing other than your time but that's dependent on your choice of wrapping.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Hydrangeas couldn't be easier to dry. In fact they are so obliging that they can be left to dry on the shrub.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">But, if you'd like petals with some colour that are a little less crunchy you can dry them using the water dried method, it's very easy.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Simply cut your flowers with a 12" stem, strip the leaves and place in a vase in fresh water. Put them in a cool, dry place away from direct sunlight and leave. When the water has evaporated the flowers will have dried and be ready for you to wrap as you choose. How about:</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Packaging some long stems in a box with tissue paper of flowers - so glamorous.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Wrapping a bouquet with vintage sheet music</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">or</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">a remnant of beautiful fabric</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">even</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">some newspaper or brown paper with a gorgeous bow.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Making an arrangement in a vintage vase found at the charity shop or car boot.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Using the heads to make a wreath.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Add a homemade tag, you could make one from a brown luggage label, and present!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">PS. Our next 2019 florist workshop is on December 14th it's a Christmas Wreath Making and Demo workshop again run by the lovely Mel Tomlinson of The Sunshine Centre for Therapeutic Riding, more details <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/511034106110235/" target="_blank">here</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: large;">If you haven't already now is the time to make your sloe gin for the Christmas festivities. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: large;">Sloe gin is a (nearly) always well received gift so make extra if you can. It looks wonderful in a vintage decanter which you can often pick up quite cheaply from the charity shops and it makes a good gift for the hard to buy for person on your Christmas present list.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">You'll need:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> 1lb/454gm of washed sloes</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">4 ozs/112gm of white granulated sugar</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> 75cl of gin</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Large sterilised jar</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> Prick the washed sloes with a fork or something and put in the jar, add sugar and gin. Shake daily but keep the jar out of sunlight. Around Christmas time strain off the liqueur and bottle.</span></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Image: </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;">Otto Wilhelm Thomé</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;"> (1840–1925) </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1410818</span></span></i>The Orchard Tea Roomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05778421955782410844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4262808282293134304.post-27876974856212732872019-11-11T09:45:00.001-08:002019-11-11T09:45:03.442-08:00Colour Me In Christmas Cards<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">We loved colouring in when we were children, a new colouring book and / or pencils and best of all felt tip pens were prized gifts. Of course we had no idea then how good it was for our mental state it was just fun!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">There's been a lot of research over recent years about the benefits of colouring in especially since the emergence of adult colouring books and psychologists have found the following benefits:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Colouring in can help to relieve stress and anxiety.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The act of colouring in requires focus so helps with the practice of mindfulness.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Colouring in can help to promote more positive thoughts.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Colouring allows you to "switch off" the brain thus relaxing you.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">And of course it's fun!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">We currently have for sale packs of<a href="https://fascinatingfens.com/" target="_blank"> Fascinating Fens</a> colour me in Christmas cards, robins in front of Ely Cathedral and Oliver Cromwell's house, 6 cards for £1.50 a pack. Fun to colour in yourself but also great to do with the children / grandchildren / great grandchildren for a quiet hour or so.</span></span><br />
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<br />The Orchard Tea Roomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05778421955782410844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4262808282293134304.post-14935069533191567242019-11-11T00:09:00.000-08:002019-11-11T00:09:26.235-08:00Art at The Orchard ~ Sue Bates<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our November 2019 Art in The Orchard artist is <a href="http://www.suebatesartist.com/" target="_blank">Sue Bates</a> who received her first Royal Drawing Society Certificate at the grand old age of 5!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A few years down the line in 2016 Sue's painting of the Downham Market railway signal box was to win first prize as the "people's choice" in The Downham Market Art Trail.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You can view Sue's art show, completely free of charge, in our tea room throughout the month of November.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">And there's a barrel that I didn't fill</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Beside it, and there may be two or three</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Apples I didn't pick upon some bough.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">But I am done with apple-picking now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Essence of winter sleep is on the night,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">The scent of apples: I am drowsing off.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">I cannot rub the strangeness from my sight</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">I got from looking through a pane of glass</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">I skimmed this morning from the drinking trough</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">And held against the world of hoary grass.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">It melted, and I let it fall and break.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">But I was well</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Upon my way to sleep before it fell,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">And I could tell</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">What form my dreaming was about to take.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Magnified apples appear and disappear,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Stem end and blossom end,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">And every fleck of russet showing clear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">My instep arch not only keeps the ache,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">It keeps the pressure of a ladder-round.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">I feel the ladder sway as the boughs bend.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">And I keep hearing from the cellar bin</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">The rumbling sound</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Of load on load of apples coming in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">For I have had too much</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Of apple-picking: I am overtired</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Of the great harvest I myself desired.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">There were ten thousand thousand fruit to touch,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Cherish in hand, lift down, and not let fall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">For all</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">That struck the earth,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">No matter if not bruised or spiked with stubble,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Went surely to the cider-apple heap</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">As of no worth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">One can see what will trouble</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">This sleep of mine, whatever sleep it is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Were he not gone,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">The woodchuck could say whether it's like his</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Long sleep, as I describe its coming on,</span></div>
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Or just some human sleep. </div>
The Orchard Tea Roomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05778421955782410844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4262808282293134304.post-4781900209482167712019-11-09T13:07:00.000-08:002019-11-09T13:07:58.003-08:00The Orchard Year ~ Winter<b id="docs-internal-guid-c023523f-7fff-b9be-382b-ad1507bafc16" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">About this time last year we were asked to write an article for a new quarterly publication this is what we came up with:</span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Writing in early December and we’re already welcoming some of our favourite winter visitors, flocks of Fieldfare thrushes are arriving from Northern Europe to feast on fallen apples in the orchard. We’ll be enjoying their chatter and aerial displays for most of winter.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">The trees themselves are entering dormancy now preparing for their winter hibernation with the fall of leaves. We grow a variety of British apples and plums here on our 8 acre Fenland orchard including the iconic Bramley. It’s Bramley apple trees you see framing the view from our tea room. They’re mature trees, some nearing 100 years of age.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Odd to think that Britain’s most famous cooking apple, Bramley’s Seedling, should by rights be known as Brailsford’s Seedling as the first Bramley tree was grown from seed, sometime between 1809 and 1813, by Mary Brailsford of Southwell, Nottinghamshire. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">It was after Mary’s death that the then owner of her cottage, Matthew Bramley, allowed nursery man Henry Merryweather to take grafts from the tree. Merryweather subsequently went on to win a Royal Horticultural Society First Class Certificate for Bramley’s Seedling in 1883 and the rest as they say is history with Bramley apples being grown commercially from the 1890’s onwards. Many a fruit growers fortune was made from the Bramley, travel around Fenland villages and you’ll come across quite a few large old houses bearing the name “Bramley House”, named for the apple that enabled the grower to build the house.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;">Diversification first came in the form of a farm shop, a natural progression from the farm gate sales of apples, pears and plums. At first that’s all that was sold in the shop and it closed for several months of the year when the apples were all gone. Now days the farm shop is open 7 days a week and as well as selling our own fruit, grown on site in the orchard, stocks a variety of locally grown seasonal fruit and veg, freerange eggs, local honey, apple juice and homemade jams and chutneys. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">But no matter how much one diversifies from fruit growing the orchard trees still need tending and the winter months are some of the busiest of the year when the apple trees are pruned. So while our customers are enjoying tea and cake or a warming bowl of homemade soup by the log burner on a cold winter’s day some of us will be outside in the wind and rain pruning!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Another winter project, this time for the dark evenings at home, is to catalogue the vast number of apple recipes we’ve collected over the years, many of them given to us by customers. We sometimes share a recipe on The Orchard Tea Room blog http://theorchardtearoom.blogspot.com here’s one, given to us by a jam and pickle making local lady, that may be of interest to jam makers. It’s a recipe for fine shred orange marmalade made using apple jelly:</span></span></div>
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The Orchard Tea Roomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05778421955782410844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4262808282293134304.post-30175765729570145342019-09-28T12:09:00.000-07:002019-09-28T12:09:09.546-07:00A Dragonfly summer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">We've had so many dragonflies and damselflies in the orchard these past few weeks, do you know how to tell the difference?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well, dragonflies rest with wings outstretched whilst damselflies fold their wings together over their bodies when resting. Also damselflies tend to be smaller than the dragonfly and slower. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We get lots of hawker dragonflies, they spend their time hawking to and fro in search of their insect prey, they're wonderful to watch but normally too fast for me to identify. The one I seem to most readily identify is a damselfly, the large red damselfly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A book like The Natural History of Britain & Europe, edited by Michael Chinery, can be really helpful when it comes to the identification of dragonflies and damselflies, and loads of other insects, birds, mammals etc, that is where the above illustration comes from. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It just so happens that we currently have a copy for sale in our secondhand book section for the princely sum of 50p. Now that's what we'd call a steal so if you want to know your Emperor Dragonfly from your Downy Emerald or your Brown Aeshna from your Banded Agrion you know where to come but you'd better be quick because it's unlikely to gather dust on the book shelves!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our carrot cake is a firm favourite with tea room customers but if you'd like to try something a little different we're sharing a customer recipe for carrot and apple cake today: </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">250g butter divided into 2 portions of 125g each</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">250g caster sugar divided into 2 portions of 125g each</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">4 large eggs</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">100g plain flour</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">125g ground almonds</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">50ml milk</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">1 medium apple sliced</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">200g thinly sliced and diced carrot, the carrot slices should be much smaller than the apple slices.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">1 tbsp cinnamon</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Preheat oven 180C / 350F / Gas mark 4</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Line and grease a 8 inch cake tin</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Melt 125g of butter and leave to stand </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Cream 125g of butter with 125g of butter, beat in 2 eggs into the creamed mixture then fold in the flour and add the milk. This mixture then goes into the prepared cake tin.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Next sprinkle the ground almonds evenly over the cake mixture then place the sliced apples and carrots on top of this mixture, making sure to keep them away from the edges.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Take the melted butter and beat in 125g of sugar, the 2 remaining eggs and the cinnamon. Pour this over your cake mixture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Bake for approximately 1 hour, checking that it's fully cooked before removing from the oven. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This cake should be left to cool before removing from the tin.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">For an extra treat it's delicious served with creme fraiche.</span> <br />
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<br />The Orchard Tea Roomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05778421955782410844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4262808282293134304.post-7727201627261664082019-08-08T12:19:00.004-07:002019-08-08T12:19:48.974-07:00Norfolk Rocks<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Look what I found sitting on the house leeks by the tea room terrace today</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">a sweet painted rock</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and when I turned it over there was a special message from RG</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"NORFOLK ROCKS</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">RE-HIDE </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">OR</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">KEEP"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Do you know what I did? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well although very tempted to pop this in my pocket</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I re-hid it to put a smile on someone else's face.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I don't know who you are but thank you RG for this sweet gesture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I wonder how many more Norfolk Rocks are hiding up and down the country?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our plum trees came into blossom very early this year and have been in full blossom since the end of March, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">followed swiftly by the cherries that can easily be viewed from the tea room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Much of the apple orchard is in bud</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">with some of the Ida Red trees now in blossom</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">if this warm spell continues they'll be in full blossom over the Easter weekend.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So it looks like we can have a Hanami Easter </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>About Hanami:</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">"Hanami</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> (花見, "flower viewing") is the Japanese traditional custom of enjoying the transient beauty of flowers; flowers ("hana") are in this case almost always referring to those of the cherry ("sakura") or, less frequently, plum ("ume") trees." </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>About Ida Red apples: </i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Idared's aren't an English apple, they were developed at the University of Idaho Agricultural Experiment Station (hence the name Ida) in 1942. We grow them for their exceptional keeping abilities. Harvested in September / October they can actually be kept, in the correct conditions, up to June the following year. </span><br />
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The Orchard Tea Roomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05778421955782410844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4262808282293134304.post-71856743249662062412019-04-06T12:43:00.003-07:002019-04-06T12:55:50.106-07:00Easter Flower School Saturday April 20th<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Watch a demonstration by city and guilds qualified florist then have a go yourself, all flowers and sundries provided in the price which also includes scrumptious cake plus tea or coffee. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The course is just before Easter Sunday so you'll be leaving with a fabulous floral arrangement for your Easter table. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Price per person is £18. Either pop into the tea room to book or text Mel on 07717553778 to book, she can accept payment via Paypal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">All profits to The Sunshine Centre for Therapeutic </span><span style="font-size: large;">Riding.</span><br />
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The Orchard Tea Roomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05778421955782410844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4262808282293134304.post-22539551143684984332019-03-24T14:53:00.000-07:002019-03-24T14:53:19.863-07:00Mothers Day Floral Workshop with Tea and Cake Saturday 30th March <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"> We're delighted to be hosting a Sunshine Centre For Therapeutic Riding flora work shop this Saturday 30th March 2019. It's being run by qualified florist Mel Tomlinson who will demonstrate how to make lovely floral arrangements like this:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then, with Mel's guidance, you get to have a go yourself so at the end of the workshop you have a floral arrangement to take home with you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Keep it for yourself or give it to Mum for Mothering Sunday or better still how about bringing Mum along to the workshop and you both make an arrangement, a lovely way to spend some quality time with your Mother. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Price of £18 per person includes tea and cake. You can either pop into the tea room before Saturday and book in person or text Mel on 07717553778 to book, she can accept payment via PayPal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Everything you need to make an arrangement is included in the price but please bring scissors with you if possible. </span>The Orchard Tea Roomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05778421955782410844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4262808282293134304.post-53812867767856268962019-03-11T14:21:00.004-07:002019-03-11T14:22:16.842-07:00Art at The Orchard ~ Richard Carrier ~ RichBot Art <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our March 2019 Art at The Orchard artist is Richard Carrier, he last exhibited here back in 2016 so it's great to welcome him back to the tea room with some new pieces. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You can read Richard's <a href="https://theorchardtearoom.blogspot.com/2016/03/art-at-orchard-interview-with-artist.html" target="_blank">artist interview here</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And before we go we want to show you a piece of Richard's work that isn't being exhibited at the tea room, but we think it's fab. It's a chest of drawers that went from this</span><br />
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The Orchard Tea Roomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05778421955782410844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4262808282293134304.post-2789788724860103762019-02-28T14:11:00.002-08:002019-02-28T14:11:44.548-08:00So that was February ~ Welcome Spring<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">February a month of contrasts we've had snow and our younger tea room customers had fun building snowmen</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">and we had a February heatwave which saw customers sitting outside in their shirt sleeves and the scrub plum break into blossom. Bees and butterflies have made a brief reappearance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In other news we've been writing the Orchard News section of The Jam Guild and Preserve Makers new quarterly digital magazine, "Simply Preserved"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here are a couple of extracts first up from the winter edition:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large; white-space: pre;"><i>"Odd to think that Britain’s most famous cooking apple, </i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><i>Bramley’s Seedling, should by rights be known as </i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><i>Brailsford’s Seedling as the first Bramley tree was grown </i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><i>from seed, sometime between 1809 and 1813, by Mary</i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><i>It was after Mary’s death that the then owner of her cottage, </i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><i>Matthew Bramley, allowed nursery man Henry Merryweather </i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><i>to take grafts from the tree. Merryweather subsequently went</i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><i>on to win a Royal Horticultural Society First Class Certificate</i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><i>for Bramley’s Seedling in 1883 and the rest as they say is </i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><i>history with Bramley apples being grown commercially from</i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><i>the 1890’s onwards. Many a fruit growers fortune was made</i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><i>from the Bramley, travel around Fenland villages and you’ll </i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><i>come across quite a few large old houses bearing the name</i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><i>“Bramley House”, named for the apple that enabled the </i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><i>grower to build the house."</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And now it's March and Spring with the 1st of March marking the first day of meteorological spring and the 20th of March the first day of astronomical spring.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We're now taking orders for traditional foliage Christmas wreathes for you to collect on a specific collection date of your choice. Examples can be seen here and hanging outside the farm shop. Pop in to order or telephone 07527 046184 </span><br />
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The Orchard Tea Roomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05778421955782410844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4262808282293134304.post-67359734607686839382018-11-29T15:10:00.000-08:002018-11-29T15:10:36.189-08:00After the Armistice Ball A Dandy Gilver Murder Mystery by Catriona McPherson<span style="font-size: large;">Another of our occasional book reviews</span><div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">After the Armistice Ball A Dandy Gilver Murder Mystery by Catriona McPherson in which Dandy Dahlia Gilver decides on a spot of amateur sleuthing to discover who stole the Duffy diamonds after the Armistice Ball. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But things get a lot more serious when a member of the Duffy family, the lovely Cara Duffy, is found dead in a seaside cottage. Although recorded as an accident neither Dandy Gilver or Cara's fiancee, Alec, can believe that to be the case so they set out to find out the truth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Both Dandy and Alec are charming characters and I thoroughly enjoyed this murder mystery, I have to say that I agree with this Scotland on Sunday review:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Society sleuth Dandy Gilver, is the most engaging and ingenious crime-cracker I've met in ages."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">After the Armistice Ball is now for sale in the second hand section of our 50p book sale in the tea room and farm shop. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">November, still relatively mild for the time of year but Autumn has well and truly arrived with apples falling and leaves dropping. We've had a few ground frosts and the occasional misty morning, the log burner is back in use making for a lovely warm and cosy atmosphere in the tea room.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our final dog show of year took place at the end of last month and we're pleased to be able to tell you that it was a great success for <a href="https://theorchardtearoom.blogspot.com/2018/10/halloween-dog-show-sunday-28th-october.html" target="_blank">The Sunshine Centre for Therapeutic Riding</a> who raised £275 for their centre and an additional £30 for Buckhouse RDA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Back to November, our Art in The Orchard artist is <a href="https://theorchardtearoom.blogspot.com/2016/11/art-at-orchard-interview-with-november.html" target="_blank">Gill Repper</a>. We're always pleased to welcome this popular Wisbech artist back to exhibit her art in The Orchard Tea Room. Paintings are for sale and what fantastic Christmas gifts they'd make.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Gill is also selling a range of greetings cards in the tea room, very reasonably priced at 5 for £5.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Talking of Christmas and gift ideas, new items have been added to our gift selection including these colourful birds</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">and what about a hand crocheted woolly hat to keep out the winter chills</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">if vintage is more your thing we always have a small selection of vintage collectibles waiting for new homes</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">and take a look at these vintage galvanized flower buckets wouldn't they look fantastic all cleaned up and planted up with Spring flowering bulbs or even a small Christmas tree</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Also on November 10th we're hosting a Christmas Wreath Making Workshop, proceeds to The Sunshine Centre for Therapeutic Riding Centre, <a href="https://theorchardtearoom.blogspot.com/2018/10/decorate-your-home-for-christmas-wreath.html" target="_blank">details here</a>. </span>The Orchard Tea Roomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05778421955782410844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4262808282293134304.post-82420315951530900932018-10-22T00:00:00.004-07:002018-10-22T00:00:45.364-07:00Halloween Dog Show Sunday 28th October in aid of The Sunshine Centre for Therapeutic Riding<span style="font-size: large;">The Sunshine Centre for Therapeutic Riding's annual Halloween Dog Show is on Sunday 28th October so we thought we'd share some photographs from previous shows just in case you need some inspiration for the Halloween Fancy Dress contest:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The Sunshine Centre for Therapeutic Riding's Fun Dog Show starts at 10am here at</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There are classes to suit everybody and spectators are always welcome. Refreshments available from the tea room which is open 10-4.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">1.puppy split pedigree/ x</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">2.veteran " as above</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">3.Heinz 57 best mongrel judged by organisers</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">4.Best Rescue </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">5.Open terrier </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">6.Hound judged by Kerrie Picolo Kaymark</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">7.Best Bull breeds </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">8.companion</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">9.Best utility</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">10.Best Toy</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">11.Best Pastoral.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">12.Working woofers</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">13.Movement</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">14 Condition</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">15.Handsome Dog</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">16.Prettiest Bitch</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">17.Dog the organisers would most like to take home. Judged by organisers.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">18.Open class in aid of Buckenham House RDA.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">19.Handlers </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">20.Best Brace Family of dogs judged by the organisers</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">21 Fancy Dress judged by the organisers.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">All classes except 18 . £1.50 pay in the ring .</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Awards best puppy best veteran Reserve in show and best in show </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Judge Victoria Watkinson from Upwell ringcraft.championship judged by Victoria.</span></span><br />
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<br />The Orchard Tea Roomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05778421955782410844noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4262808282293134304.post-33670744876082169582018-10-21T01:45:00.004-07:002018-10-21T01:45:53.199-07:00Apple Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif;">Today, 21st October is Apple Day.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", trebuchet, verdana, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", trebuchet, verdana, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif;">Apple Day was launched in 1990 by Common Ground. The aspiration was to create a calendar custom, an autumn holiday. From the start, Apple Day was intended to be both a celebration and a demonstration of the variety we are in danger of losing, not simply in apples, but in the richness and diversity of landscape, ecology and culture too. It has also played a part in raising awareness in the provenance and traceability of food.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", trebuchet, verdana, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", trebuchet, verdana, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here's some information about the very first Apple Day taken from the </span><a href="http://commonground.org.uk/portfolio/apple-day/" style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", trebuchet, verdana, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Common Ground Website </a><br style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", trebuchet, verdana, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", trebuchet, verdana, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif;">"The first Apple Day celebrations, in the old Apple Market in London’s Covent Garden, brought fruit to the market after 16 years’ absence. Forty stalls were taken. Fruit growers and nurseries producing and selling a wide variety of apples and trees rubbed shoulders with juice-and cider-makers, as well as writers and illustrators with their apple books.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", trebuchet, verdana, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif;">Representatives of the WI came laden with chutneys, jellies and pies. Mallorees School from North London demonstrated its orchard classroom, while the Hertfordshire & Middlesex Wildlife Trust explained how it manages its orchard for wildlife. Marks & Spencer helped to start a trend by offering tastings of some of the 12 ‘old varieties’ they had on sale that autumn. Organic growers were cheek by jowl with beekeepers, amidst demonstrations of traditional and modern juice presses, a calvados still and a cider bar run by the Campaign for Real Ale. Experts such as Joan Morgan identified apples and offered advice, while apple jugglers and magicians entertained the thousands of visitors – far more than we had expected – who came on the day.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", trebuchet, verdana, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif;">For two weeks before Apple Day, in a marquee on the Piazza, Common Ground exhibited the photographs of West Country Orchards we had commissioned from James Ravilious alongside a display of more than 100 different apple varieties. People were amazed at the diversity of shapes, sizes and colours. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif;">We also offered lunchtime tastings of some of the varieties on show, and many people bemoaned the lack of such choice on supermarket shelves.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", trebuchet, verdana, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif;">We will never know just how many people came to that first celebration – it was certainly thousands and even now we meet people who effuse about it as a memorable event. Many wanted it to be repeated, but our intention was to spread the idea far and wide, encouraging people to celebrate Apple Day for themselves in their own city, village, parish, allotment or garden orchard.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms", trebuchet, verdana, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif;">And so the tradition of Apple Day began. Over the next few years, the number of events being organised around the country grew from more than 60 in 1991 to 300 by 1997 and over 600 in 1999, some attracting thousands of people. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif;">Apple Day has played a part in raising awareness not only of the importance of orchards to our landscape and culture, but also in the provenance and traceability of food. It has been one impetus behind the developing network of farmers’ markets and is helping people everywhere to discover they are not alone in valuing the links between food and the land, between natural resource use and the impact we have on nature."</span></span><br />
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