L'Ombre de l'Olivier

The Shadow of the Olive Tree

being the maunderings of an Englishman on the Côte d'Azur

20 October 2006 Blog Home : October 2006 : Permalink

Friday Olive Tree Blogging

Rain soaked rotten over-ripe olives fallen to the ground and lying on our driveway. Just hoping most of them stay on the trees for another week or 10 days.

As always clicking on the image shows a bigger version and don't forget to look at the rest of the series if you missed them

In other news the new gardener we got to help us with the basic jungle taming is a local with extensive olive tree knowledge who promises to come back and pruen the trees properly in March. He has a great local provençal accent - the swear word "Putain!" turns into "Puteng!" and I think that sounds so much better :) 



I despise l'Escroc and Vile Pin