Sitting there I noticed a tree with some cherries on... so we popped out, used the meringue box to put the cherries in and, within about 30 mins we had about a pound of cherries.
While there, I noticed there was also apple and plum trees, nowhere near ripe. The cherry tree was a planted tree, it still had its deer protector, long outgrown, on the ground.. but it had seeded about 4 other cherry trees. The apple and plum however.. I think came from being discarded in a lay-by by lorry drivers. I've seen this elsewhere, most notably in Gloucester where there's a lovely apple tree on a very busy lane... and it normally dumps its entire harvest on the roadside, about half a ton of apples, cos it's too busy to collect (and probably polluted too)
So.. here's my question(s).. have you gone scrumping in a lay-by? And if so, what have you managed to snaffle? Are the best source of fruits now in our lay-bys? Is there any reason we can't help ourselves to this little bounty? (like that'd stop me!)
* I had to look up the plural of lay-by. It's lay-bys. Not layby, or labies. It's lay-bys..
