BELATED NEW YEAR GREETINGS…
Several eminent British space scientists have all just predicted that 2024 will be the year that the existence of extraterrestrial life is finally proved. Nothing concrete has yet been published, but murmings about distinct “biosignatures” and exoplanets detected by the Webb Telescope are apparently soon to be revealed in a British scientific paper.
I first heard these rumours the same day we picked the “alien” lemon pictured above. The tree from which the bizarre fruit comes is our oldest lemon tree (we planted it 30 years ago on the terraces of our finca in southern Spain), and while the tree has often presented us with freakish fruits – including one lemon the size of a rugby ball and weighing over a kilo (over 2lbs) – this was by far its weirdest offering to date. So weird in fact, it had me recalling the fruit bowls dotted around the sets of the (Next Generation) Enterprise, filled with wax creations of the studio props team, and how even they never dreamed up anything as odd, or indeed alien looking as our lemon.
So, with this in mind, I would like to wish all my readers – terrestrials and alien – a very happy and peaceful 2024.
ARKS, ADAM AND AXARQUIA 
Photoshop the background to become some sort of misty shiny ethereal area, post it on social media and soon you will go viral as having documented the first “alien sighting of the year.” 😉 He, she, it appears to have eyes. I wonder if it feeds through that green feature, and are those antennae, horns or what? So much room for fantasy – pardon me, I meant to say speculation.
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I was thinking tentacles!😂
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Are those lemons still edible? Perhaps suitable for Limoncello?
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Yes – some of it
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Extra-to-zestrial, that lemon of yours, Adam.
2024 has the potential to be a very strange year. Your citrus fruit might well be a sign – I do hope not.
Wishing you both a happy, healthy and peaceful new year.
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Thanks Ian, your good wishes reciprocated
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