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Archive for August, 2009

I still haven’t sorted out the aerial pictures of the house that Dad & I took during our scenic flight around Onsala. But while you’re waiting, here’s a pair of baby socks that I recently finished:

Our pumpkins are ripening!

These are a small type of pumpkin, but it looks like we’ve got around 30 of them.

And we’re really looking forward to trying one. We’ve also had ripe tomatoes to harvest:

And they are super delicious

Speaking of delicious, I made my honey a birthday cake on Saturday:

It was my first time baking kladdkaka. This might be Sweden’s favourite type of cake – a dense, sticky, chocolatey delight that you’ll almost always find in cafes here. I used a recipe from Leila Lindholm’s book, ‘A piece of cake’, and it came out wonderfully.

Anneli has turned 6 months old! There are a few recent pictures here.

Here’s a preview:

We’ve been enjoying the fruits of our labours in the garden. Delicious baby broad beans:

… and some crazy carrots:

… as well as big beautiful beetroot, peas, fresh herbs and the first few padron chilis. Then there were the smultron, which we didn’t have to labour over at all:

The red squirrel has been enjoying our wild hazelnuts:

And a little frog was spotted enjoying the shade under one of the tomatoes:

I’m hoping that little guy has not been eaten by the snake I saw lurking around one of our vege patches a couple of weekends ago. It was a viper, quite common in Sweden, but the first time I have ever seen a live snake “in the wild” so it came as a little bit of a shock!

Now here is some floral eye candy: