A couple of weeks before I left Oslo, I took a trip to Bygdøy to visit Oscarhall. It is a pleasure palace built for King Oscar I of Sweden-Norway and his wife, Josephine of Leuchtenberg. It is still in use today by the royal family for special occasions, and Queen Sonja has set up an… Continue reading Royal Residences: Oscarshall #21
Gooseberry cordial
I made some cordial last summer with plums and apples – but then I saw this blog post early in July. It is a gooseberry cordial! I immediately went home to my parents and robbed their gooseberry bush. (I asked first. Or maybe said – I will drop by to get your gooseberries. Either way, I informed.)… Continue reading Gooseberry cordial
Quotation Monday #74: Books and summertime
“Come with me,’ Mom says. To the library. Books and summertime go together.” ― Lisa Schroeder, I Heart You, You Haunt Me
Garden flowers
Quotation Monday #73: Summer
“I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.” ― Edna St. Vincent Millay
Summer
A selection of photos from the åast couple of weeks. I moved home from Oslo, and went straight to work. My holiday time is in the end of August… But I still have managed to enjoy the summertime.
Quotation Monday #72: Summer afternoon
“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” ― Henry James
Quotation Monday #71: Sunshine
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Cookies & Cream
One reaction to this was: It tastes much better than the cookies & cream ice cream you can buy in store. Which, honestly, is the chief point of making ice cream from scratch. I used the recipe from Sweet Cream and Sugar Cones: 90 Recipes for Making Your Own Ice Cream and Frozen Treats from… Continue reading Cookies & Cream