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Already in the middle of winter. It has been mild so far with a minimum temperature of 7-8ºC.
I have a chest infection which has been a drag. The virus had been incubating during the summer. I didn’t bother to expunge it then so I am now saddled with a chesty cough. In general I feel it to have been a difficult year so far but not a bad one.
Just keeping busy with the pruning at the moment and picking the odd almond even though it is very late. The almonds I picked are mostly still good. Breaking them is tedious - nut by nut. That nut cracker from China still works very well.
The olives were good this year. Finished with them this month. I had at least 150 kg picked. All by myself in case you were wondering :). I has to donate the last lot as the queue was very long at the press and the sun was going down. At least they didn’t go to waste.
I took the olives down the usual way on Pepe. Still have to go pick up my oil.
I pickled about 10 litres of olives. Not sure how they have turned out as yet.
Speaking of pickle, I also made some lime pickle. I flowed my dear mother’s recipe. It would have turned out really good but I used too much vinegar. The recipe said half a bottle of vinegar. I did flag it but failed as I did not take the appropriate action. I poured in half a litre of cider vinegar which was a bit too much for qauntity of limes being used.
I had some Bonnet type chillies. Proper hot heads. I use these sparingly. I am over wintering two of the plants.
The Wesco 8303 chainsaw is still doing a fantastic job. I am still on the original chain and bar. I find the chain runs a little dry so I lubricate the chain manually as well during the cutting process. I find that I use twice the about of oil that is used by the auto chain lubricating system. But it is worth it.
That's all for Now. Thank you for reading.