As part of his job Martin works with farmers on a number of different farms around the Alice Springs region. One of the great perks of this is that we often get lots of free fruit and veges. Sometimes perhaps slightly too much that I am at loss what to do with it. Last winter I became an expert on potato salad, potato bake, potato soup as I tried to use up all the potatoes. Of late we have had grapefruits and lemons.

The farm at his work also has a number of orange trees on it. A few weeks ago we had a group of six pretty wild aboriginal children staying with us. In an effort to keep them entertained and thus not writing on walls etc etc we took them to pick oranges. We literally filled the whole back of Keith’s Hilux. We then drove around Alice for a bit dropping them off at various friend’s houses as well as the church got a whole stack and we still had heaps left over. Yesterday we bought a citrus juicer, one of those cool manual ones (that you see all through South America and Keith tells me Asia as well) that you don’t actually have to peel the fruit, you just cut it half and pull down on the lever. We figured it was a good investemnt given how much citrus fruit we get. We made so much yummy lemonade and orange juice. What a blessing to wake up to freshly squeezed orange juice in the morning especially when you have a flu stalking you that you are trying to manage.