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07-09-2008, 08:41 PM
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I was just out in the garden when I noticed a little crab apple with a small bite out of it. I was transformed to my early teens when a group ' gang ' used to spend wild exciting evenings daring each other to nick crab apples . I am not sure if we had a better name for it , my wooly brain says there was  .
Does any one else have such memories and if so did you have another name for this !!
Annmaia
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07-09-2008, 08:44 PM
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'Scrumping'...we were naughty!  Actually all we nicked were the odd apple or pear. To be honest I can remember feeling guilt ridden after and scared stiff in case my parents ever found out that my brother and our friends had 'scrumped' the odd fruit! 
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07-09-2008, 08:47 PM
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Wow Scrumping sounds much more exciting and I know just what you mean about the fear factor .........still when I think back I still get a buzz. Crazy youth.
Thanks Pam I hope it brought back fun memories
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07-09-2008, 09:02 PM
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'Scrumping'...we were naughty! Actually all we nicked were the odd apple or pear. To be honest I can remember feeling guilt ridden after and scared stiff in case my parents ever found out that my brother and our friends had 'scrumped' the odd fruit!
| Pam I am sitting here chuckling ... I did alot of scrumping, thats what we called it too, a right tom boy! I was found out once when I came home bruised, cut, scraped, my new jacket and jeans torn after falling out of the tree from quite a hight  We went into the same orchard to pick conkers too, it was all the more exciting because of the KEEP OUT signs.... 
Thanks for posting annmaria, reminising now...........
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08-09-2008, 12:09 AM
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Yep Scrumping!!! we found an empty house with an overgrown garden with a fantastic apple tree, I cant eat supermarket apples now, they just don't taste the same..
We used to cherry knock too..Tie a piece of cotton to the letterbox and hide then pull the cotton and watch them open the door..
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08-09-2008, 08:20 AM
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Someone scrumped my car once!
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08-09-2008, 09:14 PM
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08-09-2008, 09:15 PM
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08-09-2008, 09:18 PM
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08-09-2008, 09:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Kayleigh Yep Scrumping!!! we found an empty house with an overgrown garden with a fantastic apple tree, I cant eat supermarket apples now, they just don't taste the same..
We used to cherry knock too..Tie a piece of cotton to the letterbox and hide then pull the cotton and watch them open the door..
We were sooooo bad.. | Did you do the double knock Kayleigh where you tied two neighbours together?...... and waited to see if they came out at the same time
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08-09-2008, 09:26 PM
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Originally Posted by gess Did you do the double knock Kayleigh where you tied two neighbours together?...... and waited to see if they came out at the same time | Yep! but most we just used to knock and run.
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09-09-2008, 09:34 AM
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Lovely to read all your adventures, some not that long ago Nick !!
It was not about the apples , I dont recall eating the darn things.We had our own apple tree (baker which is still going strong having its best year ever)
One sunny day helping my Mum carry shopping home a young lad was sat straddling the garden wall , inching his way to our tree when Mum asked what he was doing up there he replied ,
" Its Ok the lady said I could climb up "
Poor lad I think it was this chap that was made to eat most of a large baker 
I would love to go back to those days , I wonder if kids still go srumping.
Annmaria
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09-09-2008, 09:39 AM
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Originally Posted by annmaria Lovely to read all your adventures, some not that long ago Nick !!
It was not about the apples , I dont recall eating the darn things.We had our own apple tree (baker which is still going strong having its best year ever)
One sunny day helping my Mum carry shopping home a young lad was sat straddling the garden wall , inching his way to our tree when Mum asked what he was doing up there he replied ,
" Its Ok the lady said I could climb up "
Poor lad I think it was this chap that was made to eat most of a large baker
I would love to go back to those days , I wonder if kids still go srumping.
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10-09-2008, 12:18 AM
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My brother and I used to go scrumping as young 'uns!
The tummy ache we used to suffer after scrumping under ripe pears was noboddy's business!!!
The last time I was caught scrumping (sadly!) was when I was in my 20's, somewhat innebriated! and couldn't resist some rather lovely, ripe Victoria plums one night!!
Luckily the farmer didn't recognise me, but I got a fair few bruises and thorns that night by going straight through a Bramble hedge!!
I'm a BAD girl!!
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10-09-2008, 12:25 AM
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It must be a Kentish thing naturegirl....seeing as we are in 'fruit' country...i cannot really remember doing anything OTHER than scrumping for my entire childhood into late teens..and beyond.
It was a yearly custom with me, my bro...our gang...even mum...
Cobnuts...apples...pears.....plums...golden guages, cherries...basically anything that grew in the local orchards. I have just made about a gallon of damson jam an hour or so ago....from the village green trees...but technically thats not scrumping...
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10-09-2008, 01:13 AM
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I made some damson jam the other week Dan but had to buy them, cost £5 something for about 1.7lb of fruit!!!
Where we used to live when I was a nipper we had a damson tree and we could fill our boots but I found that price quite shocking. |
10-09-2008, 01:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Dan Salter It must be a Kentish thing naturegirl....seeing as we are in 'fruit' country...i cannot really remember doing anything OTHER than scrumping for my entire childhood into late teens..and beyond.
It was a yearly custom with me, my bro...our gang...even mum...
Cobnuts...apples...pears.....plums...golden guages, cherries...basically anything that grew in the local orchards. I have just made about a gallon of damson jam an hour or so ago....from the village green trees...but technically thats not scrumping... | even mum...!!!!
A gallon of Damson jam!!! What are you thinking dear boy????????
How about a gallon of Damson wine!!! Yummy!!!
We too, scrumped daily in our youth years, I agree that it may be a 'Kentish thing'!!
I remember picking Blackberries and adding pond water, Bramley apple bits, then boiling the whole thing up in a Cocao tin over a bonfire, then eating/drinking the contents as though it was Nectar!!!!!!!!!
We were young then though.........
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10-09-2008, 01:36 AM
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Talking about Cobnuts.....
I still carry the scars from being stampeded by Friesian cows into scurrying up a tree upon which I left my knee!!!!!
Whilst seeking Cobnuts!!!!
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10-09-2008, 11:55 AM
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We get damsons here from one of the farms. He bags them up and charges £1 for a 1lb of fruit.
NG you will drink anything
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10-09-2008, 01:19 PM
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Originally Posted by naturegirl even mum...!!!!
A gallon of Damson jam!!! What are you thinking dear boy????????
How about a gallon of Damson wine!!! Yummy!!!
We too, scrumped daily in our youth years, I agree that it may be a 'Kentish thing'!!
I remember picking Blackberries and adding pond water, Bramley apple bits, then boiling the whole thing up in a Cocao tin over a bonfire, then eating/drinking the contents as though it was Nectar!!!!!!!!!
We were young then though.........
Naturegirl | Hey...also...i have a heap of female cousins that i grew up with and remember regularly collecting all different rose petals from nans garden into a little pot with water...and left or mushed up to make 'perfume' ha ha
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10-09-2008, 01:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Dan Salter Hey...also...i have a heap of female cousins that i grew up with and remember regularly collecting all different rose petals from nans garden into a little pot with water...and left or mushed up to make 'perfume' ha ha | I used to do that..It smelt disgusting..
oops.... glad you pointed that out in the NICK of time lol
Maybe I did
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10-09-2008, 01:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Kayleigh I smell disgusting.. | Now come on my dear, down be so harsh on yourself |
10-09-2008, 05:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Pam_M 'Scrumping'...we were naughty! .....To be honest I can remember feeling guilt ridden after .....( |
We nearly always ended up not 'guilt ridden' but 'pain ridden'. usually 'cause the apples were not ripe.
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