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Archeology at the farm. Telecom has (is) retiring the copper network to the cidery . Not that it was any good before for telephony or ADSL. The line out into the countryside was always getting damaged in a switch box that got flooded and lines crossed. No fibre replacement 😢

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To get the bees ( bumblebee and native solitary ones) excited in Spring we have planted crabapple trees that blossom a little earlier that the cider apple trees. The crab apples hang on later in the autumn and look beautiful in the sun.#apples #crabapples #cider #orchard #bees

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Alcohol sold in NZ has a Health Promotion Agency levy as well as tax. 2.6 cents on a bottle of wine. This raises $11M/yr used to fund the HPA to reduce alcohol-related harm. This is a recent poster campaign. What’s your thoughts? Effective? #alcohol #Harm #levy #Tax #NewZealand

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Here we are. Teepee Cider as seen from the ISS recently by astrophotographer Don Pettit. NASA’s oldest astronaut. Happy 70th birthday next week mate. #cider #orchard #ISS #space #NewZealand #Aotearoa #DonPettit

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Here we are! A photo of Teepee Cider taken from the ISS recently by Don Pettit, and just about to have his 70th Birthday! NASA’s oldest astronaut. #cider #ISS #space #astrophotography #NewZealand

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And as it’s a wet wet Friday here in NZ Aotearoa, a bit of humour to cheer us up. Today’s TGIF #comedy #humour #apples

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Great new book on apples. Focussing on the rise and fall of Apple growing in New Zealand and especially Kumeū region. As well as family histories from the region it plots the political and economic reasons for the decline of this once important export industry. #apples #NZ #book

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Very sad to see this. 🥲 A drum of pear concentrate seen recently in Somerset England,(of all places) a traditional cider and perry county. This is manufactured from dessert pears in Türkiye by göknur, a very large industrial food product company. Do your research, read the label make sure your cider is local and wholesome. There are many cideries that are local and harvest driven giving you the authentic drink. #cider #perry #agroindustrial #notfromconcentrate

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“I want to astonish Paris with an apple,” announced Paul Cézanne from Aix-en-Provence who, painted more than 270 still lifes of apples and occasionally other fruits like pears.

He obviously never tired of them, just like Monet unceasingly painted flowers. #art #painting #apples

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At TeePee Cider we have done a deal with nature. Beau Vista orchard is organic and we encourage the wildlife . In return they provide comfort and security for the apples. This is what I found as I scaled the apple picking ladder on a large Bramley tree. #apples #cider #orchard #harvest

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For my European and American friends TGIF humour. I reckon you would get better mileage with cider though! #wine #cider #humour #TGIF #friendship

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Rosalind Buckland was Laurie Lee's cousin and grew up in the Gloucestershire village of Slad where the book “Cider with Rosie” published 1959 was set. The childhood story set after WW1 includes a scene where Lee drinks cider with Rosie under a wagon. Rosalind died days before her 100th birthday on 17 September2014 .

Speaking about her grandmother - the "real Rosie" - Rosalind Buckland's granddaughter Guila Gregory (Rosalind Buckland's granddaughter) said:

"She was a real character, she'd remember all the things about Cider with Rosie, Slad and have lots of tales to tell. She was Rosie, but she kept it a secret for years. She didn't go on about it and she always maintained she never drunk cider.

"I got her a bottle of champagne for her 99th birthday last year and she said then 'oh it tastes like cider' - she gave the game away there I think."

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Cider With Rosie" being ridden at Epsom England by champion jockey Lester Piggott, 5th June 1971. #racehorse #cider #LesterPiggott #Epsom

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Corning Museum of Glass in New York USA has an extensive range of glass and glasses. Including these on a postcard covering early English glass. Beilby were a family of glass makers in Newcastle upon Tyne and were famous for enamelling. They made at least one cider glass. #cider #glass #history #Corning #NewYork

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George Woods, was a skilled photographer who worked in Sussex in the late 1880s. He focused on working people, in rural areas to record life before mechanisation transformed farming methods and traditions. Charcoal burning used for forest glass. #glass #charcoal #Sussex #Weald

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This may be the first colour photograph of an apple. Made by the Autochrome process. Dana Glover was the wife of the photographer Edward Steichen. 1923 The Autochrome process, invented by the Lumière brothers and patented in 1903 in France was a pioneering additive color photography technique using a glass plate coated with a mosaic of microscopic, dyed potato starch grains acting as color filters, leading to the first practical color photography #autochrome #photography #apples

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Gordon Minhinnick was a NZ cartoonist for the NZ Herald. His drawings depict a number of controversial scenes from New Zealand history and politics, including the pirate radio Hauraki. This one from April 3rd 1941 extolling the virtues of over abundance of NZ grown to the detriment of health. Apples yes but perhaps not the tobacco now. #apples #NZ