saw this on another site

You did say olives?

I can see the murky Welsh weather from within Jeni! Can see the mountains too but not many sheep today. The sky is very overcast although the rain has now stopped.
Yesterday I saw my lovely Dordogne garden and, after the fruit trees and the walnut tree, the farmer's maize crop which is now taller than me and obliterating the rest of the view. I must try and speak to the new farmer who has bought the field as when the maize flowers especially if it then gets damp it makes OH have a bad chest with his asthma - can give you farmers lung we hear. The last farmer stopped growing maize when I told him and grew wheat, soya or best of all sunflowers!

jeni I was given an olive tree in a tub and parked it next to a south facing wall, expecting it to die, but it's thriving and has had a few olives on it, none of which have yet been edible. I must put it in the ground, as it seems to like the warmth of that spot.

You can't eat raw olives ,they have to be soaked for ages and treated!! I looked it up online as we have some olive trees but it looked so complicated that it's easier to buy them at the local market!! We use our olives to make oil. We pick them and take them to be pressed and end up with lovely fresh green oil!!

Sorry, didn't mean edible in that respect - they're small and bullet like, and there are so few that they wouldn't be suitable for treating. I like lovely fruity Italian olives from Carluccio's!

nonnasusie I'm sure I've eaten olives straight off the tree in Portugal

My small tree has a few olives as well. I also have lemons outside! [smug]
Well it is the SW

Sorry,I stand corrected ! Apparently some olives can be eaten sraight off the tree but most need treating!!

Looking out of my window I see a small front garden, framed by laurel bushes and a couple of small trees, the border is dominated by a large fuschia plant which travelled with me from my office in Manchester twenty four years ago and has accompanied me to four other homes before finally being planted out here. I see a bird-feeding station busy with tits, finches and just now, a cheeky robin; hey like the fruit and fat feed. Beyond the garden are many mature trees, two of which have rookeries. Seagulls are squawking from a neighbour's roof opposite and through the garden gate I see the lane leading to the river and the hills beyond. It's a beautiful sunny day.

nonnasusie I wouldn't argue as my memory is not reliable these days

Just to prove that I wasn`t joking, I`ve posted pics of views from my windows, back and front!

Ooops! 2 of them seem to have got on there twice! Don`t know how to rectify it.

It tells you how to delete if you go back to photos. When I put new ones on my profile they always go to the top, but yours are at the bottom

I don't get it