While I am on the subject, I am at least grateful to you for keeping your bonfire on the far side of your garden this year. Last year neither I nor your children had any apples because the smoke from your bonfire destroyed all the flowers before the apples had time to form.I very much hope that next year-for the first time since I have been in this village-I shall have my apples, your children will have their apples, and that the sight of the line of apple trees will be a pride to us both.