Crumbling. (Or 'eating humble crumble'.)

I think I may have seen enough apples for now. I made 14 apple crumbles this morning (as you do) which went in the fridge with the other 26 I made with some of the girls yesterday. To these 40, a further 20 were added tonight. Yes, it's well and truly crumble season again. It's a tradition that dates back a year now(?!). We arrived eager and fresh-faced in our new job, to be told of the annual 'Sale of Work' charity event. 'What fun', we said to ourselves. As we've got an orchard (it must count as some sort of benefit in kind) we figured our contribution as a house could be to make apple crumbles. So we did. 59 last year, all of which were sold and greatly appreciated. Having set the bar high last year (when will we learn to be sensibly average?) the pressure was on for this year's event. So an email was pinged out inviting orders for apple crumble before the charity day on Saturday. Within ten minutes, we had four orders, and the number had passed 20 by teatime. Oh dear. But it's a good way of getting the lower sixth to make a real contribution to the 'Sale of Work', and they seem to enjoy it. The crumbles don't seem to be as crumbly this year (oops, but maybe it will discourage people for next year!) but taste ok nonetheless.

But the reason I'm actually writing about this is it all got me thinking. We're putting on a big charity day in order to raise money for those who are less 'fortunate'. But it struck me that maybe there's not much point (hear me out here). You see, the reason they're all 'less fortunate' is because I'm more fortunate. I mean, if there was no-one above them in the 'fortunate' stakes, they wouldn't be less fortunate at all would they? But there is someone above them, and it's me. And the fact of the matter is, I like it just the way it is. I'd rather be 'more fortunate' than 'less fortunate'. And surely however many charity days we have, it won't make a permanent difference, because I (and people like me) would rather be in the position of being able to help 'less fortunate' people, than being one of them myself. And so that's what I'm thinking needs to change. And that's a pretty humbling thought.