General Chat

Tiddlers school has theirs next wednesday.


our corn on cob at allotment still not ripened neither have other plotholders up there. Pumpkins been good and also the marrows are large.

I remember Harvest Festivals, it was up to us girl guides in the village to take the harvest offerings at the church to the poor and needy in the village (usually pensioners without gardens/allotments or who couldn't cope with their garden any more).

I also remember Harvest Suppers, usually a selection of cold meats, home-made chutneys and pickles, jacket potatoes and vegetables, and apple pie, washed down with fairly local cider or ale. It was a brilliant way of getting the village together ending with a good sing-song and natter.


Birds, I saw on the local news it's been a good year for corn this year, conditions have been right for it...that may be why. Something to do with climate change too. If it gets too much worse, corn (Maize) will be our chief crop rather than wheat.

Have to admit, Harvest Festival type things were never really something my schools seemed to be into, but then I went to Catholic schools - the ones that did do the harvest themed things always tended to be C of E or Methodist etc. Maybe there's a connection?

I'm scouring the local papers looking for autumn fairs just lately - I have a strange desire to have another craft stall!

Cynthia - that's a much better idea. Fresh stuff doesn't keep for very long. When my children were small we used to send all this fresh stuff to school and it was delivered to the elderly in the area. It was a bit of a laugh one year when we all had a bumper crop of apples, pears and plums. The recipients, mostly, had their own trees and must have thought 'Oh, no, not more blooming fruit!'

It has been a good year for " corn on the cob " ... we had a bumper crop on the allotment ( certainly not GM ......one of my all time hates ) .

Yes, Harvest is still celebrated in some schools - especially church schools. Churches still celebrate it of course. We had ours last week and we were standing on heads there were so many people in!!

At our last church we stopped collecting fresh fruit and veg because so much had gone off by the Monday. We collected tinned goods instead which were then taken to the homeless, women's refuge etc the following week. We also took flowers to the elderly and sick and sent donations to Christian Aid. Always very well supported.

A Harvest Supper followed on the Monday night - hot pot with all the trimmings followed by apple pie. Mmmmm.

I was just thinking about the Harvest Festival the other day - must be the time of year lol. I don't know if children still celebrate it in schools, they certainly did 15 years ago.

I suspect that the enormous corn cobs are due to genetic modification!

Looking around the market stalls recently I thought we must have had a blooming good harvest; corn on the cobs are record winning sizes, surely.

Do children celebrate the Harvest like we used to? At Brownies one year, Mum sent me with an enormous marrow. I was a bit embarrassed as the other girls seemed to be the daughters of greengrocers. When it came to dishing out the fruit to the needy I said my grandmother loved fruit. Actually she never ate fresh fruit, but I did.

There, now I have confessed I feel better for it!