#365daysofbiking How do you like those apples?

September 24th – Interesting to see this year the large crop of healthy, plump fruit, which has turned my understanding on its head: I always thought that in hot, dry summers fruit harvests suffered.

This autumn, the hedgerows, commons and woods are populated by trees laden with fruit – from hazelnuts to apples, beech nuts to pears, it’s been a fine harvest.

These apples growing by the canal at Darlaston actually look delicious, but sadly, well out of passing reach…