“The olives are too small, they have the fly in them, not enough rain has fallen, it is too early to harvest them? Is the olive press open yet? The amount of olives and the olive oil you get is too small, the weather is going to change again.
All these questions circle in conversations held by those who want to collect olives. The gossip about quality, accidety etc. reach the villages and make you even more uncertain about when to start collecting or even if you are going to start.
Well our start of collecting olives coincide with me trying to start writing again for the blog.
Yesterday a friend of mine asked me to find a post about her son where I asked you readers to help out. I could not find the post immediately and had to scrawl through a year’s blog posts. I was surprised at how many posts I had written.
I want to start again and today seems a good day. I hope you are all well.
We decided to take only the olives that are left on the trees. It seems such a waste to leave these olives on this piece of land that has given us so much already this year: wild cherries, apricots, almonds, many varieties of plumbs, pomegranate and quince!
I am glad to be back, xx
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It’s just so wonderful to have you back. thank you for the lovely pictures. I miss Skopelos when I am not there and you keep me connected. Thank you.
Welcome back ! Beautiful photographs, thank you.
Glad to have you back have missed you
A very very warm welcome back,we have missed you x
Wonderful you are back. Have missed you. Love Anna-Carin
Brilliant we missed you👏👏👏
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Hello again
Greek olives are my favourites and remind me of happy holidays
Welcome back! You’ve been much missed. It’s good to be reconnected.
Lovely to have you back Daphne – I’ve missed hearing your take on life and the island news – I didn’t realise how much until I saw skopelosnews message in my inbox xx
Great to see you back on the blog, and keeping your customers up to date 👏👏👏 …
Welcome back Daphne with your lovely photographs of the olives. What could be more in tune with Island life and the seasons.
Very pleased you are back we have missed you and the updates of what’s going on in Skopelos.
I have missed you Daphne.
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Great to read your delightful comments again
I am so glad you are back, Daphne! Have missed your fantastic photos and comments! Hope you and your family are well and safe too.
Hope you will have a good harvest of olives so you get lots of oil… 🙂
Best regards from Stockholm
Marika Lindén
Good to hear you sounding positive again – may your days continue to be brighter. Take care.
Sally D
I too am glad you are back Daphne and good luck with your olive harvest. A friend of mine on Crete has told me that this year’s harvest is expected to be good and so I hope it will be also, on Σκοπελου.
It is wonderful to hear from you again, Daphne. We wanted to move to Greece for ages, and Skopelos was certainly one of the places we considered. In the end, we moved from the Netherlards (Heerlen) to Crete just a couple of months ago. We will find a way to visit Skopelos next year. The olive harvest on Crete started already some weeks ago. I guess being much more to the south has something to do with that. I understand that harvesting the olives here usually starts before the end of October. It is so much fun to see all the olive grove owners driving their pick-ups laden with sacks of olives, often with people on top of those sacks. When we visited the Melissakis Olive Mill in Tsivaras (near Vamos on Crete) a couple of days ago, it was buzzing with all the farmers off-loading their cargo, the press was running at full capacity and a fast-food stall was smoking enormously, catering for all the people too busy to have proper diner during the harvest so a quick meal at the mill makes sense. It is like everybody is having fun, while working very hard to get the olives in. Lovely to see. Take care, Daphne.
I am sooo happy for you that you made to step to move to Greece and Crete. I hope you will be very happy there. Thank you for the comment Rob, xx Daphne
Yay! so glad to have you back online Daphne. We have missed you and are so pleased that you are feeling ready to go again!