Giapo, artisan icecream maker

Today we delivered  the last few kilos of plump dark red guavas from our prolific guava tree to be turned into NZ Garden icecream.  It is a sorbet mixture of beetroot, guava, mint and passionfruit flavours and comes in a tub with a slice of beetroot as a cap and this in turn is piled high with edible micro greens and marigold petals. Yum! Just a little difficult to eat but is delicious.

Giapo was there in his trendy glasses and shook our hands mournfully, bemoaning the fact that that was the end of them for this year.  I didn't even keep any of them back for guava jelly for us this  time.  

Queen St was a buzz with interesting looking people, great to observe, while waiting for the Orange Link from Wellesley St. It is usually a long wait, but this afternoon, sitting in the sun with our icecream vouchers for a few ice creams in return for our labour of love, in retrospect,picking these fruits off the ground"didn't seem quite so onerous.