Life & travel scribbles

...or already came? :) A few shots from my morning walk around the house, the neighbouring river Severn, fields and the Forest of Dean in the background. Stunning ^_^ "Our" backyard, gate to the fields River Severn. Forest of Dean it's like a meter high ;) looking at me for a good few minutes ;))) I moved and it was gone in a sec... Our house owner's son has only seen snow twice in his life, lying on the ground more than a few seconds that is. He is over 20 y.o. now. Isn't it awkward? Especially than in the adjacent, a bit more northern, shires snows like a shit ;) It is even now, i.e. Worcestershire, where even some schools are closed! Oh well ;)))

Some time ago we were invited, by our neighbour living on the same property, for juice making! He's been making it every single year since he was 18. So probably for over 30 years now! (although I am not entirely sure how old he is ;) ) The juice. It is made from apples picked from a few places where Sebastian works as a handyman and there are  sacks of them offered to him as the owners are not going to make any use of them. This way, every year at early fall, he starts his apple juice production in his hut, which is built in the furthest corner of 'our' garden. He lives there, in that hut. He built it himself many years ago out of recycled material and made it self-efficient energy-wise.  Now, to the point > about the juice: To start with - cleaning the bottles: Using branch shredder - apples are getting shredded to a pulp: then it's taken in a bucket to a tumble-drier (yep, the one for clothes) and part by part ...