Are these figs?...

Work was quiet this morning so I got let out early! Go me! Went home, showered, and headed out to do a few jobs that might have eaten into the long Easter weekend. Those were achieved fairly quickly so I went for a wander in Chorlton which was out enjoying the spring sunshine.

By two I was in ODDEST having an early glass of chilled Pinot Grigio and some seriously moist and wicked Guinness Cake. For those of you who haven't come across this treat yet, it's a rich moist chocolate cake with incorporates Ireland's greatest export (well one of them), topped with a rich, creamy layer of frosting. It looks like a glass of the black stuff but in cake form. It was good!

In a garden just off Chorlton Green I saw this tree which I'm pretty sure is a fig. And you can see all the little fruits. I have it at the back of my mind that a fig begins to fruit one year but it takes two for the fruits to ripen. Of course to do that properly you need a long, dry, hot summer and they are few and far between in a northern city like Manchester but I do remember seeing the fruits on the fig trees outside the National Gallery on Trafalgar Square in London, further south with a drier, warmer climate. The trees seem to like Manchester though all the same.

Of course this may not be a fig at all. So if you know different, let me know.....