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                                                                        Worcester Pearmain apples and blossom

Dear Reader,

The Worcester Pearmain is an early season English cultivar apple tree which was developed in Worcester by a Mr. Hale of Swanpool in 1874. It was once the most popular cultivar in England for early autumn harvest and is still popular to keep in the garden.  Apparently in order to grow it successfully a Worcester Pearmain needs nearby bees to pollinate it. The Pearmain apple has a strawberry-like flavour and its early season property is passed on in breeding programmes to other cultivars. Its taste is smooth and sweet and it is recommended for stewed apples.

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October 13th, 1787, from Gilbert White's diary

'We saw several redwings among the bushes on the north side of the common.  There were swallows about the village at the same time: so that summer and winter birds of passage were seen on the same day.'

 

October 16th, 1851, John Everett Millais in Surrey

'Worked on my picture; painted nasturtiums; saw a stoat run into a hole in the garden wall; went up to it and endeavoured to lure the little beast out by mimicking a rat's or mouse's squeak.....Succeeded, to my astonishment.  He came half out of the hole and looked in my face, within easy reach.'

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Truth Modern

Through a kaleidoscope's
shifting, bright colours,
set close to the eye,
the viewer's truth is reflected,
assuring the mind of its veracity,
acknowledging its fantasies
as realities,
seeing truth
not as it is, but as we would
like it to be,
spinning words,
detaching truth from its moorings,
setting it loose in murky waters.
Illusion of truth
sandwiched between lies
is the authentic truth
of our times. 

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Very best wishes, Patricia