No these cumquats are not another food gift that I found on my front porch from Corrie, Harry or Lanie. These cumquats are from my next door neighbours abandoned cumquat tree. You see Steve and Ava have been living in Paris for the past couple of years, as Steve was transferred to IBM's Paris office.

So for the last couple of years I have collected abandoned cumquats from their poor lonesome tree. But today as I collected these cumquats I realised that I won't need to do so next year as Steve, Ava and their now five year old girl Olivia are returning to Melbourne in the next month or so.

I look forward to picking up where we left off and am also grateful that their silent house will breathe life again. Their home will soon be filled with the hustle and bustle of life and the 'oh so LOUD' Olivia! Hoover is so looking forward to play dates with Olivia and Fussy can't wait to get his hands on their Wii console. But I think Corrie and I are most excited to be resuming our long lost 5pm cocktail ritual with Ava.