It's never too late to....
When we lived in the house we had a huge garden....
now we live in a flat, we have a microscopic garden (thank god!)...
but NOW finally I planted my first strawberry plant...after all these summers in Sweden....!!!!!
Aaah well....
Its never too late to.....
fall in love... give up prejudices....take care of your health...follow your passion....
and of course, grow your first strawberries!
And so, on 9th June, a sunny summers' day, in a beautiful terracotta pot I planted my first strawberry plant and placed it on our makeshift stairs to the back garden (our landlord is going to build us a veranda, he says) ....
Then the first flower bloomed... then tiny green spotted strawberries.... oh what joy! There were at least seven of them.... they turned from pale green to orangy-red to pink-red to the deep strawberry-pinkish red that we all know but is so difficult to describe!
One day ALL of them were gone!
Well I know the thieves r-a-t-h-e-r well. They are Larry and Liddy, the cheeky magpies who live in the birches and fir trees around the garden...!
Well, actually I don't really mind at all. I can always go to the market square or to the supermarket and buy some ...or to the strawberry farms and "pick and eat and buy" some! (One can do that in Sweden y'know ☺ you can eat as MUCH as you like while picking and you only pay for what you pick)
But then... a few days later I got the better of Larry & Liddy and picked the two that they had left for us!!!
Oooooh! How delicious they were... our very own sun-warmed, small, sweet succulent strawberries. One of Nature's myriad bonbons!
We shared them of course. With a dollop of vanilla custard cream.
We ate them with great pomp and ceremony indeed....
Signing off for now.
C.S!
(Cresat Scientia)
