Allotment gardening
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I’m so glad you could make time for coffee today! There’s going to be a storm tonight, at least that is what they are saying at the weather channel. We’ll see. We are ready as can be. Let’s enjoy our coffee and conversation about our week. I saw this cutie on the way home from…
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Welcome to the weekend coffee share! If we were enjoying coffee together this weekend you’ll probably notice that I am very relaxed, almost more than during my vacation. It has been a great week, working the three first days and starting out with my own school projects (for the University class I am taking this…
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Welcome to the weekend coffee share this last week of my vacation. Can I get you a cup of coffee? This last week of total freedom has been very relaxing, I have been on bike rides, but there’s been fewer miles compared to the rest of the vacation due to heavy rains. The temperature is…
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Welcome to the weekend coffee share! Can I offer you a cold cup today? The weather is a little too warm for my likings, close to 30C/86F. Earlier today when I was standing outside of our house saying goodbye to my son I noticed an elderly lady struggling with a huge grocery bag looking like…
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Most summer days I arrive to my allotment garden before 6am. It is a 7,5km/4.6mi bike ride one way for me to get there. Yesterday morning I saw a gorgeous fox cross the trail just ahead of me on my way to the garden. The fox looked so healthy in his shiny red coat. When…
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Can I get you some coffee? Or tea? If we were enjoying our coffee and conversation outside I’d say that ice coffee or ice tea would be a good choice. Or if you’d rather I have a fresh batch of lemon-rhubarb lemonade in the fridge, perhaps you’d like to try some? This is the second…
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Today was the day when it was finally time to pick berries! I love having red currants in my yoghurt and smoothies. They are sour, even when they are ripe. My daughter don’t enjoy eating them straight from the bush (perhaps that is an acquired taste) but she loves the jam and lemonade I make.…
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This is today’s harvest of the sugar snap pea “Norli”. This is what it looked like when I came to my allotment this morning. I wrote about how my daughter and I love the Norli variety last week. To be honest, the harvest is so abundant that it seems like it is never ending. At…
