Our house is built in an area that used to comprise citrus groves and fig orchards. There are still some orange trees (the sour kind, not eating oranges) and fig trees at the end of our street. When my friend Sue was visiting from England, she used to go fig gathering, as she jokingly affirmed that she "loved to find free food!"
Looking through my new recipe book (see previous post), I found a recipe that involved camembert cheese and fig chutney.... so off I went to the end of the street to pick the figs that I needed. The chutney turned out to be really easy to make.... and I'm beginning to wonder if I should gather some more figs and make a pot of jam too.
Sue is also something of a bird-watcher, so when she was here we also went to another part of town where a flock of green amazon parrots have made their nests in the palm trees. What a noise they make! The last piece of news today is that I've finally received a letter with a date for my hospital appointment to see the foot specialist in Torremolinos. It will be on the morning of 14th November. Unfortunately, that's right in the middle of the Strategic Leadership Course that we're running in November, but at least it's not on a day when I'm scheduled to do any teaching.