Small sweet surprises
It is seven months since we went into isolation. My husband and I have been at home avoiding contact with people since early March. Thousands of others, for health reasons, have done the same. We imagined that all would be well, at least, by the summer. But here we are in autumn and we are still isolating. To keep ourselves busy and give us an aim we decided, at the very beginning, that we would try and be self-sufficient in fruit and vegetables. And luckily that is what we have been able to do. Today, I have made the last raspberry crumble. They are autumn rasps and normally I don’t bother with them because they are soft and squashy. But this year everything we can eat is precious and must not be wasted. Every week this month my husband has been saying – “I think these are the last of the crop.” But every week there have been more. Then, yesterday he picked another bowl full and left them in my cool utility. I didn’t see them at first, but I knew they were there by their str...