The weather’s been terrible, and there’s much to clean up at the farm after fierce wind storms, but it’s finally sunny and warm and our olive tree specialist is here in the home grove, inspecting his work and spending an afternoon shaping and directing the branches further upwards and outwards.

With the good weather, we’ve got work to do in the vegetable garden at home, and grass to cut in the grove, and our rows of officinal plants to attend to. There’s also an ad campaign to run, repairs to plan, a website to rebuild, and kids home for Easter to spend time with…