Coca leaves

The food here is always great. Mami Noemi is always cooking for us and it's always more than I can eat. Fruit and veg here are just miles better than England (although there is no effort to make the stuff look perfect in the shops. So apples have spots etc.) and we have gone out for breakfast a couple of times too. The local micro-restaurants do excellent Quaker (thin porridge) and bread with palta
( Avocado ) and often a big savoury stew for breakfast if you want it.
Here are Rocio and Michael enjoying rice and veg for breakfast

and here's the cup that gave me so much pleasure to read. Is that Spanish or English? no it isn't.

Michael is having a great time here I think. He is always playing and running around. His Spanish is improving steadily and he seems quite comfortable going off into town with his granny to go shopping or for his haircut or whatever. At the end of the day at about 9 he just collapses and falls asleep wherever he is.
Here he has fallen asleep before eating his sweet churro.

Hat production is still in full swing usually starting at 3 or 4 in the morning and going on all day. The little adobe shed in the garden where most of the work goes on gets crowded with 5 or 6 family members all ironing washing cutting or sewing hats. The stereo is always on and it's almost always Peruvian folk music pounding out of the speakers.
Here is a collection of new hats out to dry in the sun

Rocio's sister Sonia has two sheep who live roped up in the garden. They eat whatever veg they can get and are brought arms full of grass during the day ( you can buy grass from passing tricycle grass sales people ) One of the sheep, Ivan, who is the bigger one with the horns, loves to play football as much as his rope will let him and he's always up for investigating whatever he can reach. I had to stop him eating washing powder today. But it seems one of his favourite things to eat is coca leaves. When Sonia walked past with a bag of coca he started jumping around wanting some. She gave him a couple of hands full and he gobbled them down.
Here he is...


Ivan eating Coca - YouTube