wow. isn't it amazing that the plants right here with us can literally help us live? I keep forgetting about olive tea - we planted twenty olives so I have no shortage of olive leaves, and used to brew tea, but I've been fighting fit hte last few winters so haven't felt the need for it! But I should just brew some anyway and maybe drink it with lemon, iced, in the summer - that'd be pretty nice!

Carob - in what form do you eat it? I remember Mum getting us carob chocolate frogs at the health food shop when we were kids, and I always wondered why we couldn't have 'real' chocolate, haha. For that reason, I haven't tried it in years, and probably should give it another go!