I feel a clafouti coming on. Along the side of our chemin where we walk our dogs, there are 6 cherry trees which very conveniently bear fruit at different times in the season. The first tree has just given the first crop .
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Wow, is that early for a cherry crop near you? Ours are still in the formation stage/blossom dropping. Ours is a huge tree in our garden and is much appreciated for the shade it provides in summer as well as the crop of cherries. Sometimes we are here to appreciate them and other times our neighbours and the birds have them. Lovely just to have a huge tree, we could never reach the top to get, probably the choicest of cherries but the birds are well fed.
These are pale yellow blushed with red and, in à good year, fairly large. They look pretty sitting in a bowl of water before being demolished.
What you need is a cherry picker. The ones used by the telephone people are rather expensive but if you use your imagination …
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I know this is my usual answer but Lidl will probably be selling them again this year. It’s a fruit picker on a telecopic10 foot pole. It has a ring of metal teeth to cut the stalk with a bag around the teeth into which the fruit drops.
No idea if price will be the same if they do it again this year but was 10 euros. Think they offered it online sometime in June. It was around for 2+ weeks, then sold out.
Called “cueille-fruits telescopique”. Product number was 100390528, likely different if it comes back. I think it’s likely to.
Hi Karen
Yes, have seen this product for sale in both France and the UK. The height of our tree means that we would still be unable to reach more than a little way up. After a certain height the rest is “for the birds” as they say. It brings interesting birds into eat the cherries which is a good thing in itself
No sign of our newly discovered baby great tits I understand that they need their parents for a couple of weeks after hatching
That’s some invention you have there MiK. Referring to the cherry tree fruit picker
We saw the wheelbarrow you were talking about in an enormous Carrefour store today. On the outskirts of Rouen together with other big stores and an IKEA. I saw the feature about the wheelbarrow on UTube and it certainly looks impressive. We may well buy one, especially if the one we have now gets any rustier that the body falls out of it.
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So many cherries this year! Got a bit clafoutied out so I asked AI for an interesting recipe. Between us we came up with this superb cherry cake which is definitely a keeper (for my recipe book)
Thanks for the recipe Mik, I love cherries.
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The cherry fruit / high fruit picker is back in Lidl. It’ll be in stores on Thursday 28th May. It’s on a telescopic pole and gathers the fruit into a kind of basket. It sold out quite quickly online last year though not on the first day - it took a week or two.
Obviously Lidl was pleased with its performance because it’s looking like it’s only instore this year and not online. Annoyingly they do that with sought-after products like the 8ah batteries - anything to get you doing your shopping in their stores.
The 8ah batteries I’m desperate for never appear in any store round here within the reach of lifts I can get to despite being advertised repeatedly, as available instore (only). Lidl got a multi-million penalty for false availability advertising on TV, last year I believe. But the practice of advertising product availability implying a great number of stores will have it but there’s actually not enough, seems to be continuing in their catalogue advertising.
The price this year is also lower indicating they really want you in their stores. It’s 8 euros and it was well worth the price of 10 last year. Sorry no IAN or product number for this year visible yet but it’s in their paper catalogue or will appear online under “ cueille-fruits ”.
Many thanks for the heads up. I will try and find one.
Are you sure it is June 28 and not May? I can’t seem to download their catalogue
Thank you
Many thanks for that tip Karen. Nipped out this morning and bagged me one. Very useful for reaching the pears from my balcony.
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Scrumping pears, are we?
Well no - they are my pears but you have given me a very good Idea. If I get caught I will blame you 
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Yes believe me if the telescopic handle on the Lidl cueille-fruits fruitpicker device would telescope enough to be easily concealed on my bike it would save much of the fruit from an unoccupied property nearby going to waste.
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Be careful with long sticks and bikes. I remember going fishing with my dad on our bikes. He caught his fishing rod in the front wheel and did a graceful somersault over the handlebars.
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