It was great to be back volunteering in Pensford Field on a Saturday morning weeding around the base of the fruit trees and anticipating the flowering of the wildflower meadow as well as enjoying a talk by the beekeepers who passed around a comb and wax cells from the hives. At NT Hinton...
October bonus: If you cut them around the equator and remove half of the shell, you end up with a really creepy monster eyeball with red spiky eyelashes growing out of its eyelid. Creepy but delicious. So, what are the things you have overpaid for because you were missing them so much?
I have always thought of pineapples as the echidna (or hedgehog) of the fruit world. Tough, leathery skin covered in thorns and that spiky tuft of leaves on top all scream TOUCH ME AND DIE (or at least, touch me and get the equivalent of a paper cut). Yes, when it comes to self...