Our apple tree has been the same. The apples haven't grown much and the wind has battered most to the ground where the rabbits have got to them. Won't be many if any still there in the winter for the birds.
Washed both cars today and been shopping again, bored now.
I can relate Bob....our pear tree has virtually NO produce this year....& very little on the Italian plumb trees. It was a Bumper crop last year, too bleedin' hot this summer w/ minimal rain in the spring....
I only ride the bikes for pleasure so commuting is out day or night as i don't find any pleasure in that at all, I will go out in the dark but it has to be nice out there
The BFG.
I used to play rugby with a guy we called the BNG, he thought it was for Big Nasty Ginger, it wasn't, to us he was Big Nosed Ginger. Obviously not to his face as he was an evil fucker on the pitch.
Get yourself a tin of Surstromming by mail order from Sweden, then get back to me about stinky canned fish once you have opened it.
Its fermented herring, someone told me they open it in a bucket underwater to try to stop it stinking the house out.
I’m in the far south too, but every 3-4 years we get a good dump of snow…makes riding a bit difficult. And of course as we don’t have equipment to clear it we need to wait until it melts or the local farmers clear it. Dog included for scale
This about the average snowfall that we have had around here for the last few years, snow on the ground when we get up, usually thawed by mid afternoon, I think our last heavy snowfall (around here) was 2015, our winters are mostly wet and mild, with a few sub zero days thrown in.