🗁Added 51 photos to album Life in Fife, 2024.
Sunrise writing and dramatic skies, sparkly seas.
Posts between 2024/10 and 2024/11 (24 out of 24)
- Clear skies for sunrise and beach walks.
- Multiple meetings in Dysart about Dysart...
- Made courgette choc chip cake at the Community Kitchen, and helped with another food workshop (about eating seasonally and locally). Fermented tomatoes, and made some beautiful salads, breaded more mushrooms.
- Went to the end of the Fife Climate Festival.
- VEGFEST!
- Garden catch up.
- Worked late, too much, mostly on a bid.
- Rewarded by amazing aurora from the beach though.
- Made spiced pear cake with maple apple sauce at the Community Kitchen.
- Anti-racism workshop with Pen Pals.
- More sunrises, visit from children and animals.
- Birthday party for Lowenna.
- Walk with Tara. Found a handful of chanterelles and one cep.
- Started two batches of kombucha. One of them seems to have failed already.
- Went to Newcastle for Co-op.
- Spent a day in hospital for sinus surgery.
- And then some time recovering from sinus surgery. Mum came.
- Finished The Full Cupboard of Life and read Ecotopia and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and started The Alchemist.
- Made random-plants pesto, pickled aubergines, and blended my 3 week fermented cherry tomatoes into sauce.
- Lots of recuperating on the sofa. My sinuses hurt. Not up for much. Mum left. Lots of nice people brought me treats.
- Finished The Alchemist. Read Kindred, The Color Purple, started Worthing Saga.
- Wrote and did a lot of plotting.
- Made lots of nice things to eat.
- Fought (and won) TDBank, got my USD back after they made my account "dormant".
- Planted winter brassicas and did some more harvests.
🗁Added 9 photos to album VegFest.
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.
🗁Added 42 photos to album VegFest.
The first ever Fife VegFest went incredibly well, with us selling out and closing up early. Read more about how well VegFest went here...
🗁Added 23 photos to album Homemade food.
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.
Week in review: 30th September - 6th October
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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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🗁Added 2 photos to album Stuff I made.
🗁Added 26 photos to album Life in Fife, 2024.
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.
🗁Added 10 photos to album Misc visits.
Spontaneous trip to visit Wenna for her birthday. Many belly rubs.
🗁Added 22 photos to album Foraging, 2024.
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.
🗁Added 42 photos to album Life in Fife, 2024.
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.
🗁Added 14 photos to album Homemade food.
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.
Week in review: 7t - 13th October
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🗁Added 11 photos to album Misc visits.
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.)
🗁Added 7 photos to album Homemade food.
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...
🗁Added 29 photos to album Life in Fife, 2024.
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.
Week in review: 14th - 20th October
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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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🗁Added 15 photos to album Stuff I grow.
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.
🗁Added 21 photos to album Homemade food.
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!
🗁Added 19 photos to album Life in Fife, 2024.
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..
Week in review: 21st - 27th October
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