Sour cherries

I haven't been posting that much recently - but that doesn't mean I'm not doing much. Au contraire.

Among other things, I'm doing some gardening. For the first time in my life, I've seen an aubergine or a watermelon blossom! And the sour cherry was ridiculously full so that gave us all a lot of work.

I'm so looking forward to a winter full of sour-cherry cakes, brownies, muffins, scones ...

Family history, again

My mother-in-law decided to publish a book on the history of her village and the people who lived there in the past century or two. And I offered help, as an editor and page designer. Of course there is much much more work needed than I imagined so this is basically what I've been doing the last couple of weeks.

Here is just a photograph of a house from the neighbouring village. Unfortunately, the house is now in ruins, overgrown with ivy ...