[Luckily the water is about as fresh and clean as you can get without cleaning materials.

Unluckily, apples are notoriously slick and hard, and therefore hard to grab hold of when suctioned into an underwater ceramic hole.

Richard watches with bated breath, almost self-aware of his role in this situation but mostly waiting to see if the kid can do it.]

It's, er. It's quite a large apple, isn't it. The ones in the orchards back home are only about yea big, but this is as big around as my fist.