During the hot summer months when the plums are ripe, we fill several huge plastic bins with them, leaving them to rot. Just before Christmas they are collected by one of the local distillers to be made into a very strong clear alcohol called Prune not to be drunk lightly! I use it to make various kinds of aperitifs.
By the time that I have come, once again, to the start of my new year in autumn, I have bottles some 300 jars of fruit /vegetables, made 50-60 bottles of various aperitifs, frozen bags and bags of vegetables and have enough meat to last me some months.
It is like living in a gone-by era. Sitting out on the patio at the end of a day’s harvesting in late September, we watch the sun set with a pre-dinner drink. The sky is full of pinks, blues and purples. The children are out playing somewhere, and if you listen very carefully you can hear nothing! Sheer bliss!
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