When Pedro (the water man) offered us these two olive trees it was too hard to resist. He is turning some of his land, down in Velez Rubio, into lettuce production and these two were surplus to requirements. They needed a home and the price was good (including a lorry of top soil) so we said yes please.

We have been avoiding buying in things like mature olive trees as they seem to have become the signature mark to announce a new golf course or a dreaded ‘urbanisation’. These, however, are not too mature and look natural in the places we have put them.

So today is a day of pruning, watering and harvesting the olives that came with the trees.

I wonder if I would be allowed to claim it as the first olive harvest at Los Gazquez?