The old peach tree that has appeared to be on the way out since we bought La Basse Cour (the trunk has a huge hole nearly right through it) failed to produce any peaches last year. This year it has surpassed itself and we've been eating the most wonderful peaches for the last four weeks. Hopefully our cold store will enable us to enjoy fresh peaches for another couple of weeks and then there will be frozen and, the greatest gift to a cold winter evening, peach chutney.
The shops and markets are full of "Oignons de Bretagne" and "Oignons Rose de Roscoff" at the moment. I think I can just remember, when I was about 5, seeing one of the "Onion Johnnies" who travelled over to the UK (in the days before cold storage, lorry shipments and supermarkets) with strings of onions for sale. We're storing ours in the traditional way this year:
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