TWO EGGS AND A LEMON

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Today started just like any other day, with the sun shining into the bedroom window showing us that it was going to be another blue sky, and sunny day. Though the temperature has gone right down in the Maltese islands, there is always the sun to warm you up. Something else has been very warming today, it has warmed my soul rather than my body. The story goes as follows:

After my morning walk and as I approached the entrance to our flat, our neighbour woman came walking across the street with a tin in her hands, in it she had some eggs laid by her own hens whom she keeps behind a wall in our street. We got talking and we must have stood there in the sun for half an hour. Then, with a smile she handed me over two of her precious free-range eggs, here she said for you and your husband, one each. I thanked her and was touched by her kind gesture.

Later on today I again nipped out to go to the shop, and this time from across the street, out of the house where Rita lives (another friendly neighbour who has connected with us)came Tessie. Now I’ve never in my life met someone as generous in her approach to a stranger as Tessie, she chatted and told me all about her life, and brought me into her home, as she lives only around the corner, to show me the huge nativity scene that her son had made. We immediately hit it off with each other and talked ten to the dozen about life here on the island, how very interesting! When I left it was with an invitation to come and visit, and then she ran out into her garden and handed me a home grown, beautifully scented lemon.

It is not about the lemon or about the eggs, but it is about the friendship that these local women are generously offering us. It is exactly what I wanted here, to meet the people of this land, and to hear all their stories, stories about their lives on Gozo.

For me this is a perfect ending to 2016! and a great beginning to 2017 – the year in which I would like to give the gift of my time and attention to new friends, and to friends from the past.

A hearth warming way to end the year!

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My feeling about seeing the world is that it’s going to change you necessarily, just the very fact of being out there and meeting people from different cultures and different ways of life. Ewan McGregor

29 thoughts on “TWO EGGS AND A LEMON”

    1. Thank you. Well I just had another look at the eggs, and they are definitely brown. Would it be a trick of the camera, come to think of it I took the picture with my mobile phone. Glad you like the colour though.

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  5. Glad to be in a place that offers good neighbors who in turn offer gifts such as these to people like you who are gifts for friends like us.. Happy New Year, Ewan!

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  10. It’s nice when people sincerely care. So much disingenuous how are you’s these days. Seems a good sign that you’ve met these people and probably says much about the energy you are emanating as well. Are those eggs and that lemon green?

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    1. Thank you Melissa, no the eggs were ordinary colour but somehow my camera decided to play games and turned it out this soft lemon green, more suited to Eastertime! 🙂
      I hope it is not too cold and wet at your place these days, here a bit bold but sunny, so happy.

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