https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/12/03/dennis-christine-reeve-walnut-farmers-iii/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Wed, 03 Dec 2025 14:39:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/12/03/dennis-christine-reeve-walnut-farmers-iii/#comment-1868993 Wed, 03 Dec 2025 14:39:35 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=205445#comment-1868993 What a wonderful article! Perfect for the Christmas holidays!!

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/12/03/dennis-christine-reeve-walnut-farmers-iii/#comment-1868891 Wed, 03 Dec 2025 11:50:36 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=205445#comment-1868891 We had a large walnut tree where I grew up and each autumn my great-aunt would make me knock the nuts down with the washing line pole. Your photo brought back those memories and made me smile. The walnuts that had fallen already had brown, slimy skins. Picking them up and peeling them down to the shell stained my fingers for days.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/12/03/dennis-christine-reeve-walnut-farmers-iii/#comment-1868786 Wed, 03 Dec 2025 09:00:30 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=205445#comment-1868786 My mother in law loved wet walnuts,maybe something yo do with her mother who came from Norfolk.
Her mother was a cook in a grand house in London. Family story it Buckingham Palace , most unlikely.
One late November night she woke with colicy pains blaming too.many wet walnuts.
My husband arrived very shortly afterwards, just after the midwife.
My father in law lived to 102 and swore by walnuts. Watercress and walking!
I eat walnuts

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/12/03/dennis-christine-reeve-walnut-farmers-iii/#comment-1868684 Wed, 03 Dec 2025 06:13:28 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=205445#comment-1868684 Walnuts remind me of the “ Mars “ chocolate advert .
“ A Mars a day helps you work rest and and play “

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