APPLES

Hi All,

We have just come to the end of what is probably the longest week in our lives! We have been packing apples (to be sent to Tescos and M&S!) in a packhouse near Motueka. Apple packing is pretty dull. You stand on a conveyor belt, pick up apples, check them for blemishes and put them in cardboard trays... for nine hours a day! Honestly - I dont know how apples with bruises ever make it to our fruit bowls with old ladies breathing down our necks moaning at us for packing apples with a a slight little bruise. By the end of the day you are exhausted and your back is aching like mad from stooping over the belt. Also the apples come out pretty fast and there is no let up at all!

Anyway - enough of boring apples! Other than that we have done little but watch TV! (British repeats mostly - thats all there is!) Unfortunately (!) there packhouse is now closed for the season so we are out of work again but we have lots of apple based crumbles, pies and cakes to bake so that will keep us amused for a few days or so!

Ruff decided apple packing wasnt for him and lazed around in bed all day - we were not impressed!

Laura, Niall and Ruff. xx