The Appeal of Mrs Toogood

Amateur adventures in orcharding

Lincoln

  • A Walk Out to Greetwell Church. For a loop.

    I’m not going to lie; I’m struggling with the weekly blog thing. My urn of cider is now happily bubbling away wrapped in a Vote Lebowski 2020 t-shirt in my bedroom so that’s that particular vat of content sealed away until March at the earliest. There’s been all kinds of action at the orchard site Continue reading

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  • Under Lincoln Bypass

    Bypasses are odd things. I suppose as a pedestrian, I’m not really their target audience. To me, they feel like urban grumpiness made flesh/tarmac. They snake around cities that want to ward off gawkers and outsiders and are apparently prepared to pay hundreds of millions of pounds for the privilege. They’re not a modern phenomenon. Continue reading

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  • Cross O’Cliff Orchard

    This has been a big week for my blog. An extensive advertising/begging campaign on social media has resulted in me building a small community of follower (my sister) and a group of friends who felt obligated to click on the link and who are now justifiably concerned about my mental health. I’m taking my new Continue reading

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  • Windmills of England

    My plan this week was to track down the William Ingall and describe how I moved it to its plush new home along the canal path to Ticklepenny Lock. Unfortunately, events decided not to transpire in accordance with my design. Crawling around my friend Martin’s field and finding the last traces of the Ingall is Continue reading

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About Me

I’ve been writing about orchards and Lincolnshire heritage apples for over five years and still don’t know my arse from my elbow. This blog is supposed to be an almost humorous record of my attempts to raise apple trees in a field just outside Louth. Mrs Toogood is just one of the lost varieties I probably won’t find.