🗁Added 51 photos to album Life in Fife, 2024.
Sunrise writing and dramatic skies, sparkly seas.
Sunrise writing and dramatic skies, sparkly seas.
Pre-VegFest trip to end of the Fife Climate Festival to see Fergie's Kitchen (who ended up not coming for logistical reasons. Then time in the King's to start setting up.
The first ever Fife VegFest went incredibly well, with us selling out and closing up early. Read more about how well VegFest went here...
Breaded more pufflballs, and shaggy inkcaps too..
Courgette cake at GK. And fancy salads with courgette pakoras at the Plate Up For Fife workshop.
Made some pretty salads at home too.
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The first ever Fife VegFest surpassed all expectations. I did a little writeup here and we got some good press.
Also one person said they heard about it on Mastodon. Own up! Who was it?!
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Worked late, and was rewarded by finally getting to see the aurora from Scotland! And better than when I was in Finland tbh. Went down to the beach, and as soon as I was clear of lamp posts it was super vivid. Sat out freezing for an hour and a half, watching it ripple around the sky.
Spontaneous trip to visit Wenna for her birthday. Many belly rubs.
Tara came to visit. We went for walkies and found a handful of chanterelles and and a single baby cep. Lots of russulas and fibrecaps.
Shaggy pholiota, shaggy inkcaps and shaggy parasols in Ravenscraig Park.
Just a normal week.
More dramatic sunrise skies.
O turned up with Tigger (the cat) and Miley (the dog). Decided to take Miley home and leave Tigger behind. Tigger not impressed. Persuaded O to take Tigger home in case he decided to wee in my flat. Got Miley back. Eventually took O for a walk without any pets.
Lunch in Roots & Seeds with Pen Pals people.
Spiced pear cake with apple maple sauce at the Community Kitchen. Emergency pickled watermelon (because why not).
Bottled tomatoes at home. Started two different batches of kombucha.
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Coop meeting in Newcastle. Nice venue, good vibes, mostly good food. Great colleagues. Sad I had to leave a day early. (Super Natural, Pink Lane Bakery, Pizza Punks, Thali Tray.)
Had carrot tops for pesto, but not enough, so supplemented it by [sending Mum outside in the rain to harvest] nasturtium leaves and wild sorrel.
Pickled aubergines according to L's Mum's Persian recipe. It has mint in.
Blended my yellow tomatoes - fermented for just under a month - into sauce. It's not as funky as the last batch, and works well as a sauce, a relish, whatever else I can think of...
Bright skies early in the week, before heading to Newcastle.
Came back to sinus surgery and grey skies. Mum came, and I did much convalescing.
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I still have an old account at a US bank, who have recently disabled my ability to transfer money out, cancelled my debit card, and told me my account is now dormant and can only be reactivated if I transfer some money or make a debit card transaction. How helpful of them.
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Day 6 of post FESS recovery: novelty has worn off. I'd harboured fantasies of enjoying 2 weeks off work but being basically functional. Permaheadache, face feeling full of cement and continuous bloody snot production are slight hindrances to being enthusiastic about being awake. My lovely friends and mum do keep supplying me with treats though.
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I really need to get my sleep cycle sorted out again.
*British summer time ends*
Well that was easy.
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R away this week, so I've been gardening at my own pace. The tomatoes are getting blighted, but still producing more than manageable quantities. Still harvesting beet, rocket, mustard greens, celery and some runner beans. The peppers and chillis seem to have got the message and started ripening, better late than never.
Put some sprouting broccoli, asparagus kale, belarussian cabbage, red sorrel and spinach in the ground, and planted cauliflower seeds in the polytunnel. For hopefully some early greens in spring.
Keep eating my sourkraut, but it could go for longer I think. It's about 2 weeks, but it's not really zingy and still very crunchy. It has been bubbling away happily.
Pickled aubergines are excellent. Made some exciting grated veg salads for colourful bowls.
Peanut stew, with masses of fresh tomatoes to make the sauce.
Used my fermented tomato sauce for extremely high effort beans on toast (haricot beans from dried, homemade bread). Dead good.
Made the rest of the beans into hummus, which is also delicious.
Used fermented tomato sauce on a pizza too, with some chanterelles that really needed eating, and an array of other garden veg.
Discovered I can cook barley in the rice cooker!
My nose stopped bleeding, I reduced the amount of painkillers I was taking every day, and started to be able to go out in public without my face being swaddled in tissue. I didn't do much though, because I was still completely knackered and felt like my head was full of cement.
I did manage a little adventure to Pillars with Mum before she left. And on Sunday I finally had lunch at Betty Nicol's. Work in progress to make their vegan burger the best it can be..
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