steve_cronin
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Manos was obsessive about the shape and quality of his cherries. His family had grown the cherries on Anti-Paxos for generations and made not riches but a good living. He however was not content with this and so he set about breeding his cherries until he got a strain that were the best looking cherries in all Greece if not the world. A "New Beginning" was what he wanted. Everything about his cherries must be the changed for the best - as he saw it. He worked fanatically for many years on his new strain (some said that he left his existing trees to neglect but he didn't care). At last he achieved his goal. The new cherries were perfectly shaped and disease and fungus free. They shone crimson red in the late summer sunshine. Despite all that the others on the island said he was very satisfied with his results. But there was one drawback.
"Look at our lovely cherries" said Katarina, the wife of Manos. "See how magnificent our new beginning is. Manos has done wonders. He is a great cherry grower. The best there has ever been. Yes indeed said old Stavros the ladder maker, yes they are very fine but the longest ladder we can safely make by our methods is thirteen metres and Manos' trees are nineteen metres to even the LOWEST branches. We need to import expensive machines from the mainland to pick these "new beginning" cherries and we cannot afford that. But we must do it for in the years that Manos has been creating the new cherries, all the old trees have died of the diseases and insects repelled by the new trees. Our new cherries are indeed a wonder to behold but they are beyond our reach!
After a great deal of expense on getting machines to the island which almost bankrupted him and his old mother and much effort, they eventually managed to harvest the first of the new cherries.
Evryone agreed that they were the finest cherries they had ever seen but oh dear, they were also the bitterest.
Steve Cronin
Everybody have a great weekend's sailing.
<hr width=100% size=1>The above is, like any other post here, only a personal opinion
"Look at our lovely cherries" said Katarina, the wife of Manos. "See how magnificent our new beginning is. Manos has done wonders. He is a great cherry grower. The best there has ever been. Yes indeed said old Stavros the ladder maker, yes they are very fine but the longest ladder we can safely make by our methods is thirteen metres and Manos' trees are nineteen metres to even the LOWEST branches. We need to import expensive machines from the mainland to pick these "new beginning" cherries and we cannot afford that. But we must do it for in the years that Manos has been creating the new cherries, all the old trees have died of the diseases and insects repelled by the new trees. Our new cherries are indeed a wonder to behold but they are beyond our reach!
After a great deal of expense on getting machines to the island which almost bankrupted him and his old mother and much effort, they eventually managed to harvest the first of the new cherries.
Evryone agreed that they were the finest cherries they had ever seen but oh dear, they were also the bitterest.
Steve Cronin
Everybody have a great weekend's sailing.
<hr width=100% size=1>The above is, like any other post here, only a personal opinion
