The grapes have done very well this year especially the green ones at the front of the house. Even so they are not the lusciously sweet dessert delicacies that one would wish them to be. Eating them involves a lot of lip puckering and spitting out of skins.

However I found that after a bit of crushing and sieving and the addition of a soupcon of sugar they produce a delicious juice. I daresay that if I had a big barrel I could pluck the lot and dance up and down on them in traditional manner.

But I haven't so most of them will wither on the vine.