This blog collects notes from Höfen, a small village in Southern Germany, where Kathrin from public works was living and working for a year.

Erna is in hospital


To do with hot weather and low blood pressure. The many raspberries in her garden are more than ripe, and it seems such a waste not to pick them. There is surprisingly a lot of fruit in and around that doesn't get picked and processed. The picking is always the fun part, and the sticky juicing and jaming and freezing and drying always takes much longer than planned. But there is so many rasperies that it's almost worth considering some schnaps making ......