Responding to this, my circle of VSO volunteer friends and I became very English and talked about the weather! We appreciated the brightness, the opportunity to dry laundry and importantly for this posting, I took more notice of the delights of the garden I share with the other tenants here.
Enjoying fruits in season, picked when fresh, is one of life's pleasures in Guyana. In the markets there is always an abundance of fruit for sale, mostly local, but with imported produce too.
If any acquaintance at work has fruit trees in their garden, ripened fruits are brought in by the bagful to share and enjoy. So far mangoes and gnips have been office treats.
The following photographs will give a virtual tour of the fruit trees in our garden.
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| A gnip- for Nichola Budd |
Gnips- (any botanist may be able to supply the Latin name?) grow in clusters. The fruit is small- about the size of a golf ball, and the skin is pierced by running the thumb nail around the circumference and squeezing out the soft flesh within. Actually, there is only a small surface of soft peach coloured smooth flesh to eat, surrounding a very large stone, which you spit out into a conveniently placed bin! The gnip season is now almost finished.
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