luzula

It's good to be home after a total of almost three weeks of outdoors living, although I'm actually not that tired of it. Possibly this is because of good weather; we only had rain showers on a couple of days and dried out quickly. Although I did have to get up in the rain at half past six and start a fire and cook breakfast one day (we took turns cooking). In all, there was good company, lovely views, interesting old-growth forests, and lots of skinnydipping. A friend of mine who works with refugee children brought along a 16-year-old boy from Eritrea, and he was usually far away during the skinnydipping. I guess people in his culture do not do this? OTOH, he might now know more about the boreal forest than most Swedes.

We have sent out a press release and sent the inventory results to the authorities and the company, so we'll see how it goes. A journalist called to interview me and then sent me what she'd written and I had to correct basically every line. *sigh* Probably she was a summer substitute and not very experienced.

Before this, I was at a feminist camp where we learned various practical work: there was one workshop where we built a (very small) house, one where we renovated old-style windows, one where we did bike repairs, and one where we harvested grass with scythes. I enjoyed it a lot, both trying new things and meeting interesting people.

I planned the food for both of these activities, and one person called me a "genius at food planning." \o/

Photos to follow at some later time...