I wish I could say that I’d been lazing in the Bahamas or putting in 400 feijoa trees, but I have been recovering from my long awaited back surgery. So I wish to apologise to those of you who come here regularly looking for more great recipes and who’ve found that nothing has changed. It’s a cardinal rule to keep things fresh, isn’t it, but I hope you will understand.

To those of you who know a little of my situation, I can say that early signs are good that everything has been successful. However, I am really planning to give myself a rest until the new year – and as funny as it sounds, sitting at a computer is a terrible terrible thing for a lower back in distress. I may of course sneak in a few of the great posts that are waiting to go up but I hope you’ll allow a little more recuperation. I know those feijoas are ripening at the moment and I hope to be back with a whole lot more inspiration before the season is on us.

But I’ve been thinking about how great a year it has been in many other ways and how this little site is finally nearing the vision that I had quite a while ago. So it’s time to give a little thanks.

  • Thanks to everyone who passes through. I get a little stat counter that tells me you’ve been here… I have no idea who you are or if you thought the site sucked or rocked, but I can see your footprints.
  • Thanks to my followers and subscribers and anyone with feijoafeijoa in their RSS. You make my day. Really. (And I feel guilty that you’re not getting more).
  • Special thanks to those creative feijoa lovers who said ‘yes’ to my request to use their brilliance on these pages. You’re all awesome and I have loved discovering each of the blogs and businesses and ideas that are out there. Special thanks also to those people who I didn’t ask in advance and who followed me back here and gave me a thumbs up anyway.
  • I don’t think I can ever say thanks enough to the effervescent Sally of Hinterland Feijoas. She has cheered me on, shouted me out on her Facebook page and kept me going when I really wasn’t sure this was a good idea. Well, it’s great idea, but anyone with a proper blog probably has also had those moments of self-doubt about how much effort is required and whether you’re creating something new and useful, or extraneous and destined for derision and contempt.

Hopefully this won’t be the last post for the year but if it is, then I wish everyone the very best for their holidays, Christmas, Hanukkah and the transition into 2012.

feijoa flavoured hugs
Juliana

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