Apple Day at West Grinstead
If rain helps the apple trees than the harvest from the orchard at West Grinstead next year should be brilliant. Unlike the Amberley weekend, we did manage to load the car in the dry but on the Saturday evening it started to rain and I reckon it stopped at lunchtime on the Sunday.
The weather could not have been much different from the two preceding weeks and this had a knock on effect on the attendance, which was well down on the last few years. The Woodlanders’ stand was manned by Jo, Mark and myself and apart from trying to keep dry, we were making bird feeders and tool scrapers to bolster the stock.
Compared to previous years, takings and interest were down but I reckon this was due to the weather but as always events at West Grinstead are fun.
