Now we’re talking! Sam and I worked our way through a tonne of Cox last weekend.
It took all day but we made Appletinis to keep us going in between each pressing.
That’s 750 litres cider made so far. Half way there for my intended 1500 litres this year.
I’m taking this weekend off to watch Star Wars for the first time with my boys (I am clearly even more excited than them!) and to go fishing.
But then it’s back into the pressing, hopefully with another tonne delivered the weekend after.
I got down to my first serious apple pressing of the season this weekend: about 300 kilos of Windsors and Grenadiers from the orchards of Bob Thompson in Chainhurst.
We made 50 litres last weekend from Discovery apples but this was the first real test of my new hydropress and mill.
Have to say I’m delighted with the results. Even working on my own I got through the apples in no time. Indeed, in time to get down to Dungeness to catch my first codling of the coming Winter.
I’ll be pressing the same again this weekend. Then we’ll be looking to order some apples by the ton and I’ll really see what this new press is made of.
In a quiet moment at work I followed this guidance on entrepreneur.com on how to channel your inner Bob Dylan.
This guy Peter Himmelman has a five step process to writing a song in 20 minutes. It’s great fun. Himmelman’s advice it then to put your name to it and send it someone. So here’s mine, this took about five minutes:
Autumn is coming and it’s time to go home
No time to work, no time to roam
I hear the guitar strummin’
The tramp a’ hummin’
It’s time to go home
The sound of the chatter, the sound of the phones
Ringing in my ears, aching in my bones
I love my wife, I miss my boys
It’s time to get away from this noise
It’s time to go home
I smell the cold wind a’ comin’
Hear that guitar a’ strummin’
Got to be with those I love, got to be with my wife
Got to take control of my life
It’s time to go home
“Time to go home,” copyright 2013 by Phil Turner.
Just wanted to post this photo for posterity.
PHIL TURNER 