The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society (Lemons Trilogy)

The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society (Lemons Trilogy)

Language: English

Pages: 256

ISBN: 0956003826

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


The Good Life goes on at El Valero. Find yourself laughing out loud as Chris is instructed by his daughter on local teenage mores; bluffs his way in art history to millionaire Bostonians; is rescued off a snowy peak by the Guardia Civil; and joins an Almond Blossom Appreciation Society. You'll cringe with Chris as he tries his hand at office work in an immigrants' advice centre in Granada, spurred into action by the arrival of four destitute young Moroccans at El Valero. And you'll never see olive oil in quite the same way again...In this sequel to 'Lemons' and 'Parrot', Chris Stewart's optimism and zest for life is as infectious as ever.

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bones. Next there was the business of making holes and hammering in the posts, more often than not into solid rock. That took me a good day, and a bit of the next morning. Then I decided I deserved a day off, before I got started with setting up the strainers and stringing the wires. Including the day off, it took me two full weeks to fence from the slope by the house up to the top and then along the upper border of our land. On the fifteenth day, in order to admire my handiwork, I walked up

they started to echo the complexities of the rhythms with their feet and arms, and hips. It was the hip movements that got the crowd going – and it was hard not to sit with your eyes glued to those lubricious hips that swivelled and writhed with such speed and grace. The dancer nearest our table seemed to be putting on a special show just for me, fixing me with her deep, dark eyes and gyrating her hips with absolute confidence in her allure. Mourad and my table companions kept nudging me and

Anthropology, a marine biologist and a teacher of comparative religions. We stuffed the crop into old sheep-feed sacks and stacked them under cover from the rain that by good fortune started to fall just as we finished the harvest. I rang the mill to ask when I could bring them in. ‘I can’t possibly do them this week,’ said the miller. ‘I’m stuffed up solid with a backlog. Bring them in next Tuesday.’ The rain stopped and the temperature rose a little and the week ran its course. On the Tuesday

flood the river-beds and acequia channels. The lack of rain that year became a talking point, as old sayings were dusted off and bandied about. The Spanish, who are much given to pithy and often meaningless rhymes, have a doom-laden saying for just about any weather condition in any season. The air that autumn was thick with gloomy predictions in doggerel, but still there was no rain. So there was no grass, either. The baked earth of summer stayed the same, whereas normally one of the beauties

faster and faster until I was completely out of control. My eyes filled with tears of cold; the world raced past in a blurred vision of white… faster and faster until suddenly I was airborne, feet and skis somewhere up over my head. An almighty blow and I was half-buried in cold soft snow… Ah, the peace; ah, the softness… But something was wrong. I did what I could to pick myself up, and only half of me responded. My left side no longer worked; the arm didn’t react to the commands I was sending

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