Keith B

By keibr

Picking Vaccinium vitis-idaea

Janet and I often have similar blips, due to doing the same things a lot of the time and today is no exception. We try to make sure our blips aren't too similar, even if (like us) they are a pair.
Today Janet's blip shows the cleaning and sorting of the lingonberries (Vaccinium vitis-idaea) we picked today.
My blip shows them in situ, on the forest floor.
We were out three hours and picked two litres of berries so you can see they were rather thin on the ground. On the other hand we were never more than 400 m from home. This was important today as Jan is struggling with a virus at the moment.
As I've mentioned before I wasn't sure what to call them in English, but according to Wikipedia their common English name is lingonberry or cowberry, so the English language seems to have pinched the Swedish name. Considering how many English words appear in Swedish it seems fair enough that this word should join the rather select group of Swedish words that have been absorbed into English. (Orienteering, smorgasbord, gravad lax, ombudsman, and now lingonberry.)
As I'm writing this Janet's sourdough bread has cooled sufficiently for us to eat a slice, four slices... That's the first loaf half gone!

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