And there's a lot to celebrate! Wales have made it into the Rugby World Cup quarter finals, I celebrated by making wontons with our leftover sunday BBQ pork and a few other odds and ends!
Another thing to celebrate is that I've got five minutes spare time to write the blog, after almost a year, of not quite blogging. In no small part due to the fact that Amaiterai has started school, so I am blissfully 'free' to concentrate on the guesthouse!
Spring is in the air, we have flowers on our wedding gift lychee tree (for the first time ever), so hopefully some fruit in december. We're busy, busy, busy with guests - the salon du tourisme in september was the best yet for us. Unfortunately, with a strong El Nino it's really quite cold here, and it seems that the whales move further north, up towards Tahiti, making whalewatching a little more challenging, but it's nearly the end of the season, so that's another thing to celebrate too! Another downside of El Nino is the risk of a super cyclone season this year. There is general panic in Tahiti, but at least it's motivated Viriamu to cut down a few of our older, taller, menacingly close to the house coconut palms - which means: timber, green coconuts for
mitihue, lots of coconut palm mulch for the taro fields and palm hearts. I'm trying pickled palm hearts for the first time.
I like raw palm hearts thinly sliced with some balsamic vinaigrette, but after parboiling they are also good and taste a bit like artichoke hearts, today I tried pickling with a few veggies, Philippine-style - it looks pretty good - can't wait to try in a few days time.......
And there's a lot to celebrate! Wales have made it into the Rugby World Cup quarter finals, I celebrated by making wontons with our leftover sunday BBQ pork and a few other odds and ends! 
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