Heuresement Justine, from an engineering college in Bordeaux, was a very cheerful and hard working etoile. Below we see her setting about a particularly unkempt raspberry row.
And apres
Meanwhile the more experienced farm workers were left to operate the heavy machinery
Gibson's Organic now has a regular pitch at Deddington Farmers Market (4th Saturday of every month) and a glamorous part-time sales and marketing manager, Roz, (full-time glam, part-time worker). Her mini Eton messes drizzled in raspberry liqueur went down a storm with the public as does her general bonhomie.
Eventually the blackcurrants, taking pity on Justine's la vie en weeds, were ready to pick and two more tres sympa undergrads also from Bordeaux - Audrey and Florine arrived to help.
It wasn't long before there were enough picked, 60kg, to do the first pressing of the season and start the 2012 vintage of blackcurrant liqueur.
I always remember my childhood hero 'King' Kenny Dalglish response on winning Shoot Annual's Goal of the Season - 'it's nice to win awards, I've won them in the past, the thing to remember is keep your feet on the ground'. It is with these words in mind, and with a groundedness befitting a farming enterprise, that I must report a series of recent accolades for Gibson's Organic Liqueurs. At the end of July we heard that we had won a Great Taste Award gold for the blackcurrant liqueur, and both the raspberry and the blackcurrant have been commended at another prestigious food and drinks award, though I am not allowed to reveal which one until September...!! This month we also heard that we have been awarded a scholarship to Jamie Oliver's Big Feastival Sept 1st-2nd as a 'homegrown hero'. In the parlance of the less modest breed of contemporary footballer - GET IN!
Returning to terra firma, below are the first precocious raspberries of the autumn crop - the real stars of the show.
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