3rd Oct
The sky was clear this morning, so drove to Greenwich Park to see how the chestnuts were doing. Quite a lot of nuts on the ground were not fully grown, but found a few trees that they had matured and some where they were a reasonable size. As it was a windy day the technique of finding a good, unpopular tree and waiting for them to drop proved fairly successful. Recommended to me by an unusually chatty chinese guy of few english words and a jade buddha on a chain round his neck. He actually stayed in one spot, but I collected twice as much by checking out lots of the good trees from last year. Was also able to pick off a few trees. Looks like there will still be plenty for next w/e and an earlier start will help. Rough count for today 700.
PaulA