In the first weeks of May there was only asparagus, spinach and rhubarb - but over the coming weeks more delights will come on stream. Harvesting requires a little more organisation than picking bags from the shelves at the supermarket. You need at least two carrier bags; one for the leafy crops, another for the root crops (if you mix the two you spend ages washing the soil off the leafy crops) and some plastic boxes if you want to harvest berries. A sharp knife helps gets a good clean cut on leaf crops. I also like to take my camera and record the changing seasons. This week was a school holiday so there was an informal scarecrow making workshop too.
It's good to rekindle a feel for where one's food comes from, to pull potatoes out of the ground, pick strawberries and wait for the first leeks. It ties me back into a sense of seasonality and reverence for nature, providing a welcome contrast to living a life mediated by portals and browsers. More photos and maybe some seasonal recipes to follow in the coming months.
Wednesday nights is open platform at one of the bars in the ground floor of the student flats. The talent (musical) there is usually of a very high class, the clientele (and performers) very international and English is the language of choice (which makes for a much more relaxing evening out). These Filipino guys (below) play almost note perfect version of Beatles' ballads. And when the evenings over the drummer doesn't need a van (or to be sober) to get his kit home- he just loads into a bakfiets (a sort of delivery trike) and cycles home
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