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Patersons Fruit Fayre in Cupar, 66 Bonnygate, Cupar (2026)

31/05/2026

Sugar cane.

Hello all,

Main news this week has to be a bedding plant avalanche! I’ve had to send Mr G for three loads of bedding plants and, being him, he has also returned with single-pot large Geraniums, Nasturtiums, Cyclamen, Petunia Mix, Dicentras, Pinks, etc, etc. Right now, I’m not sure how many of anything is still in stock, but I’ll be sending him for more either tomorrow or Tuesday.

A surprise on the vegetable front comes in the form of Peas in Pods, from Italy. Molto appetitoso!

I’m now selling (and selling-out of) surprising amounts of Okra and fresh Turmeric every week so to be sure of your Saturday afternoon portion please speak to me before closing-time on Friday. Most other “exotic vegetables” are available to order including Yams, Edoes, Karela, Baby Aubergines, Mooli, Horseradish, and raw Sugar cane!!

After another run-in with Scottish Power this week about his direct debit, Mr G was reflecting on times when buying energy was a much simpler process. During his childhood in Back Lebanon there was a gas meter under the front window which took old pennies. Over about three months his mum put in maybe a pound or £2 worth of pennies and that paid for all the gas – including switching the oven on and opening its door in winter for some heat whilst putting your clothes on! Then you got a visit from a poor lady who had to empty the meter. She brought with her a huge leather bag that she could hardly lift and was relieved when a customer offered to change maybe half a crown back into old pennies to be able to start filling the meter again. He can only assume that there was a van somewhere that the collector went to and tipped out the big leather bag of pennies periodically, otherwise her arm would have been pulled out its socket by the end of her shift. Simpler times, indeed.

Mixture of photties from Mr G this week so hopefully you will see some you like.

Take care, and I hope to see you in in the shop soon.

Audrey

24/05/2026

More nostalgia

Hello all,

I’ve had a few customers this week being inquisitive as to what took Mr G down to Methilhill where he got some of his photos last week?

Firstly, congratulations to these customers for wading through what he now admits was an excess of coup fire photties, to find more colourful ones at the bottom of the pile. The trip through Methilhill was on his way to the Euronics shop in Buckhaven where he forked out for a new cooker to replace the one I reported had developed an oven fault. I think I mentioned that the broken cooker came from the old house and in view of space constraints there, was only a 500mm wide model so he took the opportunity to replace it with a much more common 600mm wide cooker. This has exhibited three remarkable features so far - the first being that when he bakes my banana cake it’s no longer so close to the edges of the oven that it doesn’t over-do the heel/end of each cake. The second “feature” is that the oven door is so close to the floor that it nips his toes every time he opens it, and the third “feature”, which he discovered accidentally - was that when you open the oven door you got a steam facial! The old oven had a rear vent which any steam escaped through but this one seems to be pretty much a sealed fan unit so the steam stays in until you open the door. He was mentioning this to the apprentice on his way to Glasgow yesterday and the apprentice told him that the steam coming out is a feature of all cookers and ovens in the homecraft department at Bell Baxter as well, so it must be a design feature nowadays? I can see him having to head out again to the dew on the grass next May Day if this goes on! :-)

On their way to Glasgow yesterday morning Mr G and the apprentice passed a petrol tanker the logo FTS on it. That started his mind rushing back to coming out the La Scala picture house at 10:00pm on a Saturday night and seeing the FTS lorry sitting outside with engine running waiting to take the film everybody had just seen back to wherever films came from, so that it could go out to another picture house for the next week. He thinks that FTS was something like Freight Transport Services so unlikely to be connected with this one which Google explains is called Fuel Transport Solutions.

Were you lucky enough to see the “Hastings DEMU” passing through Cupar with a “GOSH Ness Monster” headboard last night? It was on a three-day round trip from Tonbridge covering some bits of rarely used track and raising funds for Great Ormond Street Hospital. The Hastings DEMUs were diesel-electric trains built in the late 1950s to replace steam-hauled stock operating between London and Hastings via Tunbridge Wells. The six-coach units incorporated diesel generators at each end and were unique in having especially narrow bodies which enabled them to pass through the unusually narrow tunnels on the Hastings line. They might even have fitted through the notoriously narrow tunnel under the A92 on the now removed line into what used to be the Tullis Russell paper mill!

I twisted Mr G’s arm to take me to Glasgow this morning to visit the sweets wholesaler which isn’t open on a Saturday. That meant he couldn’t go to the vintage vehicle show at Craigtoun Park but we did see a lot of the exhibits making their way to Craigtoun as we headed out through Muchty. I got about 90% of the sweet varieties I had run out of, but please bear with me as it will take a few days to get everything made up into the 50p bags.

Remember to check out my extensive range of Rummo Italian Pasta in both traditional and gluten free varieties.

Take care, and I hope to see you in the shop soon.

Audrey

17/05/2026

A Panacea to deliver handsomeness?

Hello all,

I mentioned last week that I sometimes forget by the weekend to mention things that have been happening. Well, no chance of that this week. We first got smothered in a plume of guff from the Melville Wood Coup fire on Tuesday and an extremely variable wind has ensured that everybody got a reminder with another plume just about every day since. However as they say, it’s an all wind that blows nobody any good and Mr G is well-chuffed with a phottie he got on his way back from the St Andrews Transport Society meeting on Tuesday night. It brings to (his) mind a Broons story where the family intercepts a press photographer on his way to cover a fire to get him to take a phottie of a human pyramid (which has collapsed by the time he gets up the close), on the strength of a promise that the authorities will keep the fire burning till he gets there!

If he was lucky with the phottie on Tuesday, he certainly got the other end of the stick whilst driving the train at the Deer Centre this afternoon. The wind engulfed the place with Coup smog at least three times and it got so bad the dinnertime Owl flying demonstration had to be downgraded to a chat in the shed to avoid exposing the birds to the worst of it.

One thing I can’t believe I forgot goes back to the first of May. When I woke up to find an empty space in the bed where Mr G should have been I got up and looked out the front window. There he was out on the front green on his knees? After he came back in he explained that in a vain attempt to improve his handsomeness he had gone out and washed his face in the Mayday dew about 50 years ago and on having a look in the mirror recently he realised a wee top-up wouldn’t go amiss!

Meanwhile back in the shop it’s still bedding plant time, accompanied by runner bean plants which are almost two feet high and will be producing beans almost before you can get them into the ground. Also substantially sized Dwarf Rhododendrons and Fuchsias, Rhubarb Crowns in pots, and still a few Tomato plants. And not forgetting strawberry plants in flower and ready to reward you with lovely strawberries in just a few weeks. On the fruit and vegetable front this week I have Pittenweem strawberries (now in 400g punnets), and very tasty Scotch tomatoes from Hawick fighting for a place in the shelf with beautiful looking vine tomatoes from The Netherlands.

Also available again after many months out of stock are the large (1 kg) packs of Turkish Honeycomb and tins of Cooks & Co Green Figs.

Take care, and I hope to see you in the shop soon.

Audrey

10/05/2026

Is it still Irn Bru?

Hello all,

As the week goes on I dream up lots of interesting things to mention here on Sunday, but never actually make a note of them at the time, and here we are on Sunday night and I cannot think of any of them, Sorry! So this will just need to be what’s sloshing about at the top of the brain right now.

Mr G was back on election duty at Muchty on Thursday and came back saying he’d had a lovely time chatting away to all his friends from Muchty as they came in to vote, and to the other members of the election team.

Customers might recall that Mr G brought me back some bottles of vanilla ice cream flavoured Irn Bru the other week and now he has turned up yesterday with cherry flavoured Irn Bru.

I’m reminded of yon episode of Mrs Brown’s Boys where Rory and Dino are getting married and they bring in La La Doggy to organise the wedding and develop a theme. After listening to La La’s tosh for long enough Mrs Brown comes out with a classic phrase “Here’s an idea for a theme, it’s a fe***** wedding!” Well here’s an idea for a theme for Irn Bru - go and just stick to Irn Bru flavoured. However, if Ice Cream and Cherries excite you, then please drop in for a bottle.

Mr G has just come through and reported that it looks like the thermostat on his oven has gone belly-up. It’s no shame on the cooker as we had it in our old house (that was 26 years ago) but it is still going to need a tin opener to get his wallet out tomorrow.

Still a great range of top quality bedding plants and more arriving during the week.

Take care, and I hope to see you in the shop soon.

Audrey

03/05/2026

Vim and Ajax

Hello all,

Some customers had a pop at me during the week saying they were disappointed at the brevity of last week’s epistle and suggested I try harder to entertain them!

So, whilst Mr G was celebrating one of his birthday’s today I asked him if he could come up with a wee story and somehow it was those historical scouring powders Vim and Ajax, that came to mind first….

Each new term at the Bell Baxter started with two industrial sized tins of Swarfega being delivered to the Metalwork Shop. Within about a week both tins were empty – wasted by folk who took out whole handfuls. That wasn’t helpful in the following weeks as hands still had to be cleaned to prevent oily smudges transferring onto white shirts and English jotters. Cue a raid on the Cleaner’s Cupboard for a couple of containers of Vim or Ajax – adorned with warning that rubber gloves must be worn - which would then be used neat on hands to remove any oil, and sting like **** on any cuts. He says bairns today don’t know they are living!

The bold boy was also looking at a new 32GB SD card for his camera and on finding you can get them for about a tenner he decided to delve back to his early days in computing at North East Fife District Council. To begin with, the Ledgers, Rent files, Benefits, Wages etc were all stored on five CDC/NCR 65MB disc units which each had a price in the tens of thousands of pounds. Each unit weighed upwards of a hundredweight (50kg in new money) and was the size of the average parcel Amazon used to send everything out in before they decided they needed environmental credentials and switched to smaller boxes. So for just 1GB you would need a large room with a floor that could support the best bit of a ton, and a cheque for at least a quarter of a million pounds. And, not forgetting an electricity meter that could cope with birling round at breakneck speed! Now you get 32 times as much storage for a tenner on a card which is the size of a postage stamp and weighs about 5 grams!

Right, that’s enough from him, what’s happening in the shop? Whitakers of Skipton sent in a delivery of their superb chocolates this week. This time I have no fewer than fifteen varieties of chocolate fondant creams including the famous Pink Gin flavour and a new one based on Liquorice which I have to say is delicious. Whilst all the smaller boxes are ideal for gifting, if you want to make a bigger impression and still just spend single figures, there are “Collections” boxes of Orange and Lemon, Mint, Coffee, or Rose and Violet variety combinations which look splendidly upper-class.

Lovely selection of top quality bedding and vegetable plants too.

Hopefully this write-up, and better selection of photties from Mr G., will satisfy even the most demanding readers this week. ;-)

Take care, and I hope to see you in the shop soon.

Audrey.

26/04/2026

Wye Aye Mon – Is that Rhubarb?

Hello all,

Yes indeed it is, fresh new season Rhubarb from the lovely Wye Valley on the border between England and Wales.

I’ve also got a small box of the earliest Jersey Royals but it really is only the affectionados who will be going for them right now. Another new season delivery is Yellow Sungold plums from South Africa. And, back in stock again – from a lot closer than that (Glasgow!) – are the tart shells to make your own Strawberry Tarts.

Sorry to inform you the cheap packs of Rubicon juice sold out very quickly and there is no more available.

Spring/Summer bedding plants for the garden are now becoming available and the quality really has to be seen to be believed.

I’ve had an unexpected “bonus?” day of housework today. After volunteering on the Deer Centre train for four days over the Easter School Holidays Mr G thought he could drop below the Radar for a while but there was no cover for today so he agreed to step in – and now he admits he has signed up for the early May Bank Holiday Monday too! Ach well, it will stop him wearying.

Mr G is a wee bit short of photties again, so your bonus this week comes from the 2008 Gala Parade.

Thake care, and I hooe to see you in the shop soon.

Audrey

19/04/2026

New Season

Hello all,

April might not be the New Year, but it certainly marks the start of a new season in the shop.

In addition to Scotch Tomatoes from Hawick, I now have both Strawberries and Asparagus from Pittenweem. I tried some of the Strawberries – purely from a quality control perspective you understand – and can report that they are delicious!

Another product that looks superb right now is Aubergines from The Netherlands.

My usual wide selection of fresh chillies has been further expanded this week with tiny red Birds Eye Chillies that come with a heat alert.

For anybody on a budget, and school tycoons, I have taken in a big delivery of end-of March dated 500ml Rubicon Spring in Blood Orange and Grapefruit flavour which is on sale at just £1.00 for a case of 12 bottles.

Mr G was fair excited this week on seeing Stewart’s of Tofthill using eleven tractors and a telehandler to plant a field of tatties at Hilton of Carslogie. The field was so big he couldn’t get everything into one phottie but hopes you will get the overall picture.

Take care, and I hope to see you in the shop soon.

Audrey

12/04/2026

Lucky White Heather

Hello all,

We went and collected a good range of plants this morning including large white Cineraria, mixed colours of Astilbe, Dicentras and more. In the small border range there are Pansies, Violas, Primulas, Myosotis and lucky white Heather.

This won’t please folk who complain about supermarkets stocking up with selection boxes as soon as the summer holidays are over, but I also have a nice showing of (in flower) Christmas Cacti (Schlumbergera) in the shop right now. As this is clearly the quiet season for such plants they are priced at a very attractive £2.99 each and should flower again at Christmas time.

New season Cyprus potatoes are available now, as is English Rhubarb.

Staff holidays meant Mr G was needed in the shop on Saturday so he re-scheduled Glasgow to Friday and was pleasantly surprised to note that the school holidays had curtailed some of the expected heavy traffic levels.

There has been a run (no pun intended) on James White Prune Juice recently but I’m happy to report that fresh stock arrived last week. Another thing that has been hard to find recently is blocks of Ritter Sport chocolate but I have rectified that with a delivery of nine different flavours.

Regular customers will know that I’m game for stocking pretty-much anything new that appears on the food front but I am having serious doubts over the latest “big thing”. It’s Crispy Cluck, which resembles a fried chicken drumstick on the outside but is actually a bar of chocolate in the middle. The fact it is being “pushed” mercilessly by Internet influencers probably tells you as much as you need to know, so it’s a no from me.

With Mr G being busy for me and also volunteering on the Deer Centre Train his phottie time has been limited this week but he has managed some shots.

Take care, and I hope to see you in the shop soon.

Audrey

05/04/2026

What’s in a name?

Hello all,

Mr G was working himself into a bit of a tizzy on Friday when he heard on the wireless that this weekend’s storm was to be called Storm Dave. Wondering why they had settled on Dave rather than some of the other D names like Daniel, he read an A.I. genuine fake news suggestion that Storm Daniel had been vetoed by the USA because they‘d already had a Stormy Daniels and The President was worried about confusion! :-)

Recalling some of the unpronounceable storm names from recent years and others “In the breach” for later this year, - Tadgh, Eowyn, Henk, Wubbo, Goretti, Babet, etc., - he was starting to wonder if Heather the Weather was having a go at him personally, but on checking he realised that there a number of more common names used as well. So he’s just going to have to take Storm Dave on the chin, but notes the next available name for a storm is Eddie, so you had better batten down the hatches, Mr Kivistik up at Star of Markinch!

Bringing the conversation back to planet Earth, it’s starting to look like we may have come to the end of the road with dirty carrots for this year. My main supplier is in a never-say-never phase, but tells me that additional supplies are starting to look unlikely.

Rhubarb is starting to become available, as are Cyprus potatoes. Brussels Sprouts (sprouts and dogs are not just for Christmas!) are in superb condition for this time of year so grab them while they are cheap before we have to start importing from Morocco.

Just a few new photties from Mr G but he promises to try harder next week.

Take care, and I hope to see you in the shop soon.

Audrey

29/03/2026

Fresh Tamarind and Okra

Hello all,

Now that all the excitement of the past few weeks has died down it’s very much back to an “Auld claes and parridge” theme for tonight’s posting.

With the sun still poking through periodically, the chilly wind has done little to deter local gardeners from dusting down their trowels and secateurs.

Whilst I still have some of the red Nasturtiums from last week, they have now been joined by a batch of the more common yellow/orange variety. More Sweet Peas have also been delivered, as has an amazing variety of colours and shades of both Pansies and Violas. Nice selection of other plants also available. On the vegetable side, pots of young leek plants are also now available.

Turning to “eatables”, I have had a delivery of blood oranges, flat peaches, figs and South African red Laetitia plums. And, I continue to take in weekly deliveries of fresh Turmeric, Tamarind, Dates and Okra. As these can sell out fairly quickly, if you have a specific requirement let me know by Friday afternoon, then collect from the shop late Saturday afternoon.

Mr G has put his phottie archive back under the bed this week and has returned to documenting contemporary scenes for you.

Take care, and I hope to see you in the shop soon.

Audrey

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