Monks Eleigh - Crunch time for charity.

From: Suffolk Free Press (Sudbury, England) | Date: October 25, 2007 | Copyright information

Fun, food and very nearly a transatlantic visitor meant a fruit farm's fourth celebration of Apple Day was a hit.

Games such as pin the maggot on the apple and find the golden apple were played at the SummerHouse, at Bridge Barn Farms, Monks Eleigh, which opened up its orchards on Sunday.

Parents enjoyed bowls of apple pie as their children were tasked with making monsters out of their Granny Smiths.

Most came from Monks Eleigh and surrounding villages but there was one man, who had come from ...

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