New apple variety discovered by Wiltshire jogger

[Biskit]

It seems to be a day for nature-related stuff in the news...

A new variety of apple has been discovered by a nature lover while he was out running.

New apple variety discovered by Wiltshire jogger

 

[Danny McG]

He doesn't fit the mental image I have of a typical jogger

 

[Biskit]

When the Biskitetta first saw this she thought it was a photo of me holding an apple...

Shows how much attention she was paying - my hat looks nothing like that.

 

[tinkerdan]

Just goes to show....

When the Biskitetta first saw this she thought it was a photo of me holding an apple...

Shows how much attention she was paying - my hat looks nothing like that.

You get a new hat; you find a new apple.
I can't confirm the apple without a taste, sorry.

 

[Dave]

I was going to ask who says it is a "new variety", but the article goes on to say RHS Wisley, so I'll take their word on it. However, Brogdale in Kent are the experts. The fact is that until the 20th Century, every village had its own apple varieties, and none were the same. Bramley Apples are named after those from the tree growing in a garden of a house bought by Richard Bramley, the local butcher, in 1846. Now that they are imported from abroad, the number of varieties we eat today is far, far smaller, but there are places, like Brogdale who still keep the old varieties alive. Personally, I would think it is a "lost" variety rather than a "new" variety, but as it is "unrecorded" then that really means the same thing.

 

[Elckerlyc]

Is the apple that big or is the jogger with the hat rather small?

 

[The Big Peat]

When the Biskitetta first saw this she thought it was a photo of me holding an apple...

Shows how much attention she was paying - my hat looks nothing like that.

Glad I'm not the only person who noticed the resemblance.

 

[RJM Corbet]

Thought you were talking about a new i-phone, for a second, lol

 

[Parson]

When the Biskitetta first saw this she thought it was a photo of me holding an apple...

Shows how much attention she was paying - my hat looks nothing like that.

I wasn't convinced it wasn't you until you said it wasn't. Now I'm only half convinced.

 

[Danny McG]

I suppose it makes a nice change for a jogger to find an apple, they usually find dead bodies

 

[Biskit]

I wasn't convinced it wasn't you until you said it wasn't. Now I'm only half convinced.

The sad reality is that I have rather more grey in my beard.

 

[Parson]

@Biskit ..... There are some of us who were totally white at 30.

 

[Biskit]

@Biskit ..... There are some of us who were totally white at 30.

I'm more following the lead of my grandfather who used to complain that he had looked forward to going bald to save on the barber's fees, but kept his curls.
(My solution is to not go to the barber,)

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

My father kept all his hair until the end, and it was curly, too, but he did keep it cut fairly short.

 

[Biskit]

The last time I had a haircut was somewhere around 2006(?) - I needed a new passport photo as I was due in Amsterdam for a meeting, and there was a general need to look respectable.
Hair and beard have long-since reached their equilibrium length.

 

[Parson]

I suppose it's only fair that I reveal my white hair too. Two years ago (and given Covid a lifetime ago) in Alaska.

 

[Biskit]

I knew I had the before photo somewhere...

12(ish) years back when the curls were in control, grey was only just getting started, and it looked like I was destined for a badger stripe rather than the all-over grey I got.

 

[Danny McG]

I wish my hair had turned white, instead of turning transparent

 

[Karn's Return]

Hooray. Another outlet for the corporate world to fleece you out of $6 a pound. :|

 

[Biskit]

I wish my hair had turned white, instead of turning transparent

It doesn't show in the photos, but there seems to be an increasing tendency for the individual hairs to practice social distancing.