Home again!


We got home very close to midnight.
It was the first time driving at night for quite a while and I realised "The White Nights" really are over now. I actually needed the headlights, for the first time in 11 weeks!
This morning I took a wander around the garden and was very happy to see the bumper crop of raspberries we have this year. This is the most advanced area, being up against a south facing wall, but a few meters away another set of bushes are just ripening. ı picked a lot of raspberries, both for breakfast and to freeze. Freshly picked berries on your breakfast is a real luxury, but so is unfreezing a batch in the midst of the winter and enjoying the memory of summer! 

I picked more berries as I walked through the garden. The cultivated ones were; honeyberries, raspberries,  strawberries, blackcurrants, and redcurrants. Then there were two wild berries which grow in the garden;  bilberries and wild strawberries. Seven different berries for breakfast - Yum!
(Later we tried the cherries from Jan's birthday plant of a few years ago - the chocolate cherry bush, extremely juicy and with a slightly weird but pleasant taste.)
Right now it's peak berry season when it comes to the different varieties of berries. Today there were 8 types of berries available but the strawberries are waning now, as are the honeyberries.

It was very nice to be home and away from the dampness. Today we got a lot of clearing up and clothes washing done.
The kombucha got bottled too, about a week late so it may be a little more sour than usual. I mixed some of it with apple cordial, and some with elderflower cordial. It'll be another week before we can taste the finished product.

One job that didn't get done was backblipping the three missing days from the Urkult festival - perhaps tomorrow!