My late father’s childhood friend, Dave.

My parents and hers knew each other for all their married lives and my dad grew up in the East End with her dad. Her mum and dad are both mentioned in my second book, “Cohencidence” (Amazon). Her lovely mother is now 97 and her father nearly 100!

She was keen to feed Dolly the kid

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The generations remain in contact and now our children have children of their own.

Their fruit eventually fall to the ground.

Time to get in the sugar and get out the preserving pan to make greengage jam and plum jam and plum compote.

The usual time to pick them is August through to the end of September. They are ready a month early because of the exceptionally hot weather.