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Cremel, I ate figs for the first time last year. I can't remember how to tell if they are ripe. Can they be kept in the frig for a couple of days? (I try to avoid frig for fruit in general. It's easy to forget that I have fruit in it.
I think fruit juice stains turn brown after a while and I think they are supposed to be hard to get out.
They are ripe when they are soft. I would definitely put them in the fridge in a closed container.
PbP, your garden photo is like a painting...beautiful!
Do I refrigerate figs until they ripen or let them ripen outside the fridge (or get close to ripe) and then refrigerate them?
I have heard of people that were unsuccessful getting stains out that over dyed their scarves that turned out beautifully, or hid the stain(s) by pliseeing their scarves. Last resort: make necktie or crest something else with it. Think Petit H kind of things. Line a Levi jacket with a scarf. Make a tote bag. Possibilities are endless.
When I hand wash my HS, I sprinkle a bunch of salt into the basin I use. I sprinkle salt into the rinse water, too. Somebody who had chemistry classes told me this would prevent dye runs.. I don't measure the salt but it's enough that if someone next to you sprinkled it on a chicken (I have seen this IRL), you're pretty sure that that person has or will have have sky high blood pressure. (Real scientific standard being applied here.
I used to have problems with the ones from the 80's having dye runs when hand washed. That's probably why a card from H was enclosed with the scarf in those days saying to keep the scarf out of the rain. Red dye is brutal.
The other problem with 80's scarves is that it's possible that a reseller or the original owner put them in a dry cleaning machine. Those scarves tend to look stripped of color, not totally of course, but it's noticeable as a faded look.
Earlier scarves in my experience tend to have been drycleaned by a professional.
It was the same here in Milan last night
Anyway, I really love to read all your comments during the small bits of time I have, I don't write so much here because I'm a young mum and I live very far from my parents (they're in Rome), I take care of my daughter during the day and I start working in the afternoon until I come home at 9-10 pm.. and you know what? I really understand your point of view, living and choosing to not have any babies..
Growing up here in Italy (in my small village near Rome) you would have seen all your friends having 2-3 kids at the age of 25, I'm not joking! Just a small group of them go to the university, but then they're under a terrible pressure to hurry and have husband, wife and babies.
I had a bad moment in my life when I was 25 and I felt so "old" because I didn't have a family or a university diploma yet, because I found my actual job at 23 with a life long term contract (and you know here in Italy it's a miracle to have a job when you are young) but still I felt so empty, and I knew my boyfriend since 2003, so we felt it could bring us joy...
No one told us how hard it is to grow a daughter by ourselves in another city! How it is hard to be judged in a town (milano) where all women start having children at 35-40 years old, and I feel so alone being the only 28 aged mum in my zone!! All my mum friends are 45-50 now! Same age as my mum!
My precious daughter (Leyla) is so similar to me, so she's not a problem being with her, she's now 2 years old and things are going so well because we have a special connection, but I realize that she's different from other kids! I hate (and she too) other kids when they scream, they touch my daughters toys and make her cry, cause she's the one that prefers to play alone and at a certain point involve someone to play with her, but the thing I can't bear is the screamers parents... they don't care about what their kids are doing, thinking just about their own business.
My boyfriend and me are maybe martians?
We can't wait to our daughter to grow up and enjoy all the vacations and beautiful things we like to do, I took Leyla with me in Paris a lot of times at Hermès boutiques too and she enjoys to search for "the horses"I can't wait to pass her all my scarves and little treasures (not my Kelly wallet ahah! Or my future Birkin bag!)
I think that living as a parent and enjoy freedom and shopping can cohexist, but requires a lot of patience, and after my last (and first alone!) trip to Paris, where I discovered how relaxing it can be even to travel alone and enjoy a flight, a private room in the heart of a city, it can be heaven!
So, enjoy every single bit of that freedom! In the while, I'll continuing arguing with the old ladies in my condo telling me "it's time for baby number 2" and "why are you always going around alone! Take your daughter to the park!!" And other things said from strangers [emoji23]
. They steal ALL my fruit so I started disliking them. I take figs off the tree then store in the produce compartment in the fridge. After a few days they become soft and sweeter. If you don't have wild animals around your house then you could let them ripen on the tree. 
