pomegranate hockey
Back in the early 90's we rented a large house with a garage that had been converted to another room. Most of the kids were with me, the oldest with her partner and daughter were in the big garage room. When they moved out, second eldest and his girlfriend came home and moved in there. With his drum kit. So the house was always full. Good times. Along the back of the house was a porch, very wide, and running the whole length of the house before turning the corner to a larger open porch area behind the garage. This was our barbecue area. We had a huge old fig tree, a lemon tree, a grape vine along the back fence and a big old fashioned Golden Queen peach tree. Freestone peaches. BEST PEACHES IN THE WORLD!! They grew to softball size, golden yellow with a soft rosy pink blush. Picked fully ripe from the tree, rinsed under the tap, you had to lean forward when you bit into them so the juice would drip down your chin, down your arm and onto the grass instead of down y...