Had I seen any fireworks with apples on the end of them flying through the air, my neighbour asked with all seriousness over the weekend.
I thought, well, it's not Halloween, it is not bonfire night, but I did hear an enormous bang in the lane the other afternoon. It crossed my mind that someone might have gone mad with a gun in the lane, but then I decided to control my fevered imagination and put it down to a car's exhaust backfiring.
I suggested he go and visit our Polish neighbours as they might have had some sort of celebration that needed them to let off fireworks with apples on the end. I asked if he had gone to enquire today and he meekly admitted there had not been an answer at the door.
All I can say if it was worrying me that much I would be stalking my Polish neighbours to see what the dickens they might have been up to. As I told him you don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to uncover the culprit we have lived here for many,many years and have never been disturned by fireworks carrying apples before, that is until our new neighbours moved in.