Resurrection of a blog

Ok so just over a year since the last post, with its optimistic title of returning to blogging. Let's try again....

Since the last post, we have moved house, away from the 80 acre property and shack we were living on, to a place with just 11 acres but it has a "real" house. Like, one with insulation and windows that open. Quite a novelty. It also has three amazing garden beds. They are amazing because they have this soil that makes things grow like weeds. In actual fact our tomatoes are looking more like trees at the moment. Some more fruit on them would be nice...

Speaking of fruit trees, there is an orchard here too and the three plum trees in it are going hell for leather producing fruit. The Black Doris tree has provided a few ripe plums so far and I suspect it'll be a matter of days until we are inundated with plums to make into jam, preserve, and gorge. There are also apple trees, a pear tree, lemons, limes, guavas, feijoas, passionfruit, tangelos and persimmons.

The vege garden is full, with beetroot, peas, lettuce, tomatoes, potatoes, courgettes, spring onions (that are turning into actual onions because we can't quite keep up...), beans, and broccoli. I love this time of year for having an entire dinner made up of our own vegetables and some homekill meat!

We have also been drinking some fabulous Maltese wine that Ben has been importing. First time ever into New Zealand and it is really very nice. Different to Italian, French or Spanish, it kind of takes the good qualities from all of these. Lots of yummy fruit, and they are real food wines. Amazing the difference food can make to some wines - and vice versa....