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Potted weekend update:

-First Saskatoon berries of the year. Delicious. Still many to ripen.
-Last Suzuki gig until September was on Saturday morning. I forgot my music and had to go back for it (though mstevens brought it part of the way), was an hour late. Embarrassed, but I got to the performance bit with the right music.
-Brunel Engine House tunnel tour thing didn't happen due to advanced organisational incompetence on their part. I'm afraid it might be terminal. Instead had a lovely meal in the Mayflower. A bit pricey, but seriously good food. I will be going back there again.
-met up with pfy and had pasta and icecream at Marine Ices. Other very delicious food places I have discovered in the last few months include Base Camp in Leytonstone (if you mind sticky tables then I suggest the takeaway but the food is superb) and this posh hippie place in Grennitch. For years, the only reliably good restaurants I knew about in Lodnon were Diwana (in Euston), a kosher takeaway or two and maybe the odd chippy (George's in Islington comes to mind). Suddenly all these other things are coming out of the woodwork. What happen?
-Today: morning greetings from the neighbour's cat being all the cute at me, lots of teaching. Saskatoon berries in Hendon Park not quite ready yet, oops. Pretty sure I've got Fat Hen (Chenopodium alba) sorted out in my head now, though.

Sleeeeepy.

Landlady is coming to get her post and a certificate on Tuesday afternoon. Tomorrow I will be mostly tidying, probably in 15-minute bursts. I did some of the living room this evening when I got in, though. You can nearly see the table.

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[mwana-isimu.livejournal.com]

I saw that you friended me, so I popped over to see your journal. Saskatoon berries are the same as serviceberries or juneberries, right? The domesticated juneberry trees here are absolutely overloaded with berries right now. The only limit is on how long I can keep my kids entertained to pick berries! I saw a few wild juneberry trees the other day, but there were so many birds around, I decided to leave the berries for them. Black raspberries are getting ripe here. Yummmm!!!

[ewtikins.livejournal.com]

Yes, Saskatoon berries are Amelanchier alnifolia, also called juneberries or serviceberries (although I don't call them that here because confusingly, there is another plant in the UK that is called a serviceberry...)

I've been eating a few every time I walk past a plant. Delicious. The birds are getting loads too, they're thirsty this year.