Author: Roger Evans
Year: 2002
Format: Paperback
Page Count: 126
Price new: £7.95 (Amazon)*
Price used: £0.01 (Amazon)*
*accurate at the time of posting
Description: (TLDR)
A book of funny cider related stories from Somerset.
On the back of the book it says:
"Somerset was once a county filled with cider orchards. They could be found everywhere, even in the years just after the war.
Local writer Roger Evans was born, brought up and still lives in Somerset. He remembers the happy-go-lucky times when children were free to roam and the orchards played host to jenny wrens, robins, blue tits and grazing pigs, cattle and sheep. With his friends, he would go scrumping and once in a while, cider tasting - mostly from the stores kept in forbidden territory - neighbours' garages and barns.
In this funny, nostalgic book, brimming with anecdotes and amusing incidents, all attributed to the effects of drinking cider, Roger takes the reader on a journey round the county and finds a hilarious or chaotic story to tell wherever he goes.
One evening in Bridgewater a local man, much the worse for wear after several pints of strong cider, was forcibly ejected from the Blue Boar in the Penel Orlieu area. Unhappily for him, this coincided with the passing of a police officer on a bicycle. They collided noisily and fell together in a heap onto the road. The law was not amused and action was demanded. The man was dragged some 50 yards to the Duke of Monmouth pub in the High Street. There the officer proceeded with an arrest, advising the drunk that the reason was for knocking him off his bike outside the Duke of Monmouth. 'That's not true !" Shouted the drunk. 'It's a bloody lie, it was outside the Blue Boar.' 'Can you spell Orlieu ?' Asked the officer. 'Course I bloody can't' retorted the drunk. 'Well I can spell High Street.' Replied the officer and continued with his arrest."
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