AN APPLE A DAY There Used
AN APPLE A DAY
There used to be a huge old apple tree near my granny’s house though at the time I was just a shy little girl and all the trees in our garden were enormous giants for me. Every autumn the tree bore not very big and a bit sour apples but my granny managed to cook delicious pies with them.
“Treat yourself to one more piece of pie, honey,” used to tell me granny. “You know an apple a day keeps the doctor away.”
“So it’s because of the apples that we haven’t got one in our village, isn’t it?” asked I seriously one day. Granny only laughed heartily and said nothing. And what could she say? That the good old doctor had retired a few years before and they hadn’t been able to find a new one because nobody had wanted to go to the middle of nowhere, meaning our tiny village, of course. I’m not quite sure whether it was due to the apples or my granny’s love and care or rather both, but I grew a happy and healthy little kid, feeling somehow protected by that gigantic apple tree, with its great thick boughs touching the sky.
“An orange a day keeps the doc away,” used to say my mum giving me my standard school lunch box. There used to be a piece of cake, a bar of chocolate, a can of Cola and an orange, of course. I usually had lunch after my third lesson. Sitting in the school canteen my classmates and I took out our snacks and argued whose was the tastiest and healthiest. We used to be young and hungry so no matter who claimed the first prize our lunches were shared and eaten to the last crumb all the same. By the way, mummy is a wonderful cook and her cuisine is extremely tasty and a bit on the vegetarian side meaning we eat a lot of various fruit and vegetables, nuts and cheese, not only apples and oranges. But you may easily guess her favourite special dish is the apple pie, of course. It is really fantastic and I suspect she has got the granny’s secret recipe which will be revealed to me one day, I suppose. Anyway, we try to keep to a healthy diet in my
There used to be a huge old apple tree near my granny’s house though at the time I was just a shy little girl and all the trees in our garden were enormous giants for me. Every autumn the tree bore not very big and a bit sour apples but my granny managed to cook delicious pies with them.
“Treat yourself to one more piece of pie, honey,” used to tell me granny. “You know an apple a day keeps the doctor away.”
“So it’s because of the apples that we haven’t got one in our village, isn’t it?” asked I seriously one day. Granny only laughed heartily and said nothing. And what could she say? That the good old doctor had retired a few years before and they hadn’t been able to find a new one because nobody had wanted to go to the middle of nowhere, meaning our tiny village, of course. I’m not quite sure whether it was due to the apples or my granny’s love and care or rather both, but I grew a happy and healthy little kid, feeling somehow protected by that gigantic apple tree, with its great thick boughs touching the sky.
“An orange a day keeps the doc away,” used to say my mum giving me my standard school lunch box. There used to be a piece of cake, a bar of chocolate, a can of Cola and an orange, of course. I usually had lunch after my third lesson. Sitting in the school canteen my classmates and I took out our snacks and argued whose was the tastiest and healthiest. We used to be young and hungry so no matter who claimed the first prize our lunches were shared and eaten to the last crumb all the same. By the way, mummy is a wonderful cook and her cuisine is extremely tasty and a bit on the vegetarian side meaning we eat a lot of various fruit and vegetables, nuts and cheese, not only apples and oranges. But you may easily guess her favourite special dish is the apple pie, of course. It is really fantastic and I suspect she has got the granny’s secret recipe which will be revealed to me one day, I suppose. Anyway, we try to keep to a healthy diet in my