Scrumping

Irwell typed thus:
[nq:1]When was the last time you went scrumping?[/nq]
I never did that - we were not so poor that we couldn't afford fruit, and in any case we had our own trees.

David
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[nq:1]When was the last time you went scrumping?[/nq]
August 1948
Mike

M.J.Powell

[nq:1]When was the last time you went scrumping?[/nq]
1960-ish.
Why do you ask?

Mike Barnes
Cheshire, England

[nq:1]When was the last time you went scrumping?[/nq]
Thirteen minutes past three, September 2nd, 1969.
DC

[nq:1]When was the last time you went scrumping?[/nq]
1956

John Dean
Oxford

[nq:1]When was the last time you went scrumping?[/nq]
Depends. Is it still scrumping if the tree's not owned by anyone?
John H
Yorkshire, England

[nq:2]When was the last time you went scrumping?[/nq]
[nq:1]Depends. Is it still scrumping if the tree's not owned by anyone?[/nq]
I heard someone - in the late sixties or early seventies - refer to shoplifting as "urban scrumping".
Fran

[nq:1]When was the last time you went scrumping?[/nq]
About 1953.

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Robin Bignall
Hertfordshire
England

[nq:2]When was the last time you went scrumping?[/nq]
[nq:1]Depends. Is it still scrumping if the tree's not owned by anyone?[/nq]
Every square inch of the UK is owned by somebody or other, so I guess that the trees are, too.

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Robin Bignall
Hertfordshire
England

[nq:2]Depends. Is it still scrumping if the tree's not owned by anyone?[/nq]
[nq:1]Every square inch of the UK is owned by somebody or other, so I guess that the trees are, too.[/nq]
Not necessarily the fruit of the trees, though. The law allows anyone to pick edible parts from wild plants (as distinct from cultivated crops). They have no owner until they are "reduced into possession". The