We went to a produce swap meet - and meet an old acquaintance

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Our nearest town has a produce swap meet every fortnight. We don’t grow anything but I did have a lot of little jars and egg cartons that I didn’t like just throwing out. We’d never been before but we took the jars and cartons in yesterday. There were about eight or ten people there. We all put our ‘produce’ on a table under the trees. There were vegetables, pot plants, eggs, some sugar cane which we don’t see here too often and a few other bits and pieces. Then we each introduced ourselves and said what we had to offer. Once we’d all done that, you just helped yourself to whatever you wanted. We came home with some marmalade and a pot plant. What was interesting was that, when we arrived, a young man asked me if we’d ever lived in Esperance. It turned out his mother and I had been friends and fellow piano teachers in the 1970s. Glen had learnt Suzuki violin. He had only been quite young when we left. We met his partner. Both are quite heavily tattooed. It was lovely talking to them. I guess I’m going to have to get over my aversion to tattoos or I’ll be biased against half the population! Photo is of butternut pumpkin/squash and capsicum which we’ve grown in past years.