We recently became a jam factory! It's all Robert's fault. Robert, our neighbour, kindly suggested we headed down to his garden in beautiful Josselin and collect some very tasty cherries! We needed no encouragement and within a few hours an army of enthusiastic fruit gatherers were on their way to harvest the crop! We were a diverse group made up of babies and adults from Paris, Singapore, Denmark, Bulgaria and Ireland! We arrived at a beautiful laid out cherry orchard, surrounded with fruit hedges of redcurrents, blackcurrents, rasberries and roses. It was a delightful setting reminding me of a scene from a Chekhov play I had seen at the National Theatre in London!
The cherries, a beautiful hue of reds and yellows tasted so sweet with their delicious tarty sharpness that they were initially consumed immediately. Every tree was targeted in the search for easy access and a ladder was soon found to enable the sweetest cherries at the top of the trees to be reached. Within an hour we had a real cherry bounty and it was time to move on to the hedges. With all hands harvesting we soon had an inordinate hoard and it was time to relax in the garden and do what we do best - open a cold bottle of rosé and relax in the afternoon sunshine.
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