Lantern scrumping?

I was scrumping for apples on an abandoned property when something caught my eye in a collapsed out building. Can you see it?



Yup, and a Coleman 200 with the mantle intact! It's now in my barn waiting for me to give it some attention that is long overdue.

 

You been in my back yard again!?!?

 

Great find AL and there is a good glass in that wick hurricane lantern, Jeff.

 

Nice find, but did you get any Apples?

Steve

 

I did get apples too! I got about 10 bushels from that area, and three of the trees were in fine form!

I left the hurricane lamp behind since it was very rotted, and they are very common. I might go back for it on principle that it should never have been abandoned.

 

You didn't look for the spare parts box ?

 

Perhaps a total search of that shed is called for?

 

I looked it over slowly from a safe vantage point. The ceiling had collapsed, and there was nothing worth risking life or limb to investigate...

 

Good thinking AL!

Are those old Xmas tree lights which are hanging from the shed? Jeff.

 

AY?

I also noticed the Christmas tree lights and wondered how they'd survived (and why they were put there in the first place...)

 

Hello David, it's AL followed by an exclamation mark, Jeff.

 

Alright, then - AY!

 

Hello David, what do you mean?

 

Al's initials are AY, not AL...

 

Now I understand, I have used a capital L, .

 

It seems traditional with the trailer park crowd in the U.S. to put up Christmas lights and never take them down.... It right up there with leaving abandoned cars and the like in their yards.

 

please explain the word "scrumping" is this similar to the word "scrounging" that we use in the Yukon? cheers jim

 

In the UK at least, 'scrumping' or 'apple-scrumping' is an activity carried out at this time of year by young boys where they surreptitiously enter an orchard or garden belonging to someone else and remove a few fruits from the trees for personal consumption.

I think it must be exactly the same in Al's neck-of-the-woods.

One imagines that this activity must have been carried out on a larger scale in the past by somewhat bigger boys and the illegal haul used to make cider - hence the term 'scrumpie' originally coined to describe rough home-made cider...

 

Scrumping in its classical meaning refers to the stealing or scavenging of apples :

Scrump vb Dialect. To steal (apples) from an orchard or garden. [dialect variant of scrimp]
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003

 

There are no orchards in Shetland, but we say scranning and what has been scranned is called scrann.

It's an old term for recyling stuff. Jeff.

 

I have taken it to a post-industrial level using a tractor and trailer! Lots of abandoned orchards in the area, and many wild trees too. I pressed 50 gallons of juice from scrumps yesterday.

Yes, I'm a cider drinker (and my wife is too)!

 

Which one are you, Al?

 

thanks for the explanation of scrumping. I think I scrumped a little when I was a kid.haha. cheers jim

 

The one that's a member of the American Cider Association, and a board member of the Great Lakes Cider & Perry Association. I take my cider seriously! (My wife takes it cold from the cooler in the barn)