i need to learn non-attachment to grapes.
so this late summer and early autumn for me has been all about grapes: plump, black, bursting globes of sweetness that come from the giant vine in john's back garden.
john's house dates from the 1920s and i reckon the grapevine must be about as old. it's a great overgrown thing with a stem like a tree truck, and branches that appear to be aiming for world domination [or at least domination of john's garden and the gardens of about six of his neighbours].
for the past month or so i've eaten grapes with every meal, as snacks or, well, every time i go in to john's back garden. john will eat them if i give them to him but he doesn't have quite the same attachment to them as i do. so i can have as many of them as i want. [i can eat a lot of grapes.]
the problem is, i want all of them.
"take some for your flatmate / workmates / family / etc", says john, generous man that he is. and i nod my head and think, "are you kidding? that means less for me!" now i don't even want john to eat them - and they're his grapes.
once the grape season is finished, i don't know what i'll do.
oh yeah, then the feijoa season will be starting. phew!
i can't imagine a world without fruit.
3 comments:
huh - I'm exactly the same I get very precious when there's good fruit around. Growing up sitting under feijoa trees & tamarillo vines scoffing them til I could burst is a fond & much missed memory - we tried to grow both here but climate is too harsh and with tamarillos costing $2 each, if you're lucky, its bound to stay a menory. Coming home next year so will try and plan the trip to coincide with tamarillo season - hope it's July.
mmmmmmmmmmm grapes!
I try and limit myself from buying them - as i like them so much that i forget to eat other fruit!
Bananas - cant stand them :(
Feijoas just arriving in the shops - yay! Love the scent and the flavour :)
You're just a sensualist at heart, sister of mine!
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