Apple pressing day

A perfect day for it! For a number of years it’s been an annual event at the village hall. There’s no shortage of good fruit around here – this year the crops have been exceptional. It grieves me to see piles of rotting apples where no-one has bothered to pick them, but there are no such piles around Willey (and windfalls are not allowed access to the press). They’ve all been picked and are being chopped by the scratter and squeezed in the press. We’ve parked about a mile and a half away and walked here (the lanes are very narrow and parking could be tricky) so we’ve earned a drink and a piece of (delicious!) home-made cake, bought some local (Willey) honey and had a large bottle filled with golden juice. Something to enjoy over the next day or two…