Last night the doorbell rang. This only happens on the odd occasion; and usually when we have to pay our water of electricity bills. I got quite excited but also slightly nervous, who could it be?
I opened the door to find an unfamiliar man standing on the doorstep brandishing a black bag with leaves poking out of it. He said ‘hello’, I said ‘bonjour’, after a little while of him speaking English and I French he got the message and we conversed in the same language. His name is Arthur and he is a neighbour of ours. He has a large productive letchis tree in his garden and had come to share some of them with his foreign friends. What a kind man.
This now means we’ll have to make him a chocolate sponge cake. Whenever a neighbour presents us with fruit from their garden -this has happened a few times- mangoes, bananas and paw paw (papaya)- we thank them with a cake. Sometimes this has been retaliated with yet more fruit and then we are stuck, as it is a bit too expensive to make endless chocolate cakes for everyone who is kind to us.
Anyhow, the letchis from Arthur’s tree were delicious- and as the summer goes on they are set to get ever redder, fatter and juicier!
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