Scrumping!

We celebrate Ian’s birthday by scrumping figs. I guess we could say we foraged for them, except for the fact we are in someone’s olive grove. BUT we do know that they don’t pick the figs so we don’t feel too bad!

This year, we celebrated early and scrumped some almonds too. Again, we know that these don’t get picked because we see them still on the tree when we pick asparagus in the spring.

So we filled a bag with figs, a small bag with almonds, picked our own harvest of the smallest apples in the world (we will be picking the smallest pomogranates in the world soon too – they are so tiny I might make them into earrings) and our grapes which had started turning into saltanas and I made up a batch of chutney with it all (except the almonds). So we are ready for the cheese feast that we are looking forward to for Ian’s birthday!

I can see the weather forecast through to the 14th, and still no rain, so imagine that it is going to come with a  force during the fiesta next weekend…