Beautiful summer
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I'm really pleased to announce that Soak Up The Wild is back online, and what better time to do it than on this beautiful summer day, after months of turmoil?
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I'll speak to you soon and I'll leave you with this text published in summer 2017 in the French online magazine Holistik (which is sadly not edited anymore, but if you speak French you can read all previous issues here), which is a celebration of this beautiful season.
Bring on the summer!
Summer harvest on the journey through life
Summer’s here. We like him a lot, and he likes us in return. He wraps his warm tenderness around us, as generous, caring and charming as he is. He takes us far away from our scheduled lives. He loves our dreams, our long nights under the stars, our cheerful conversations and our slow mornings bathing in the sunshine. We celebrate his arrival, just like we do when a special friend arrives with their suitcase for the holidays, and our hearts sink when he leaves, just like when a special friend goes back to their life, leaving us to deal with ours.
But let’s enjoy him while he’s here! He is elegant, and puts on his best leaves, his best flowers, his best fruit and his best light, to entice us to go for a walk with him. At any time of the day, alone or with company, on foot, on a bicycle, with our dog, our favourite music, let’s get off the beaten tracks and start exploring the countryside paths.
Our friend Summer never arrives empty handed, so it’s time to harvest: let’s pick some helichrysum to flavour our dinner vegetables with its hint of curry. Let’s find some redwood pigweed seeds: they will make the perfect ‘pop-corn’ for our movie night. Daisies and mugwort, for our afternoon’s doughnuts. Pineapple weeds, to add a subtle pineapple aroma to our fruit salads. Let’s find a bit of marsh-mallow roots to soothe this little teething child’s pain. Let’s decorate our summer salads with common mallow petals. Let’s fill our baskets with wild strawberries and raspberries to make refreshing sorbets, keeping a bit of space for blueberries and cranberries that will be a delicious addition to our breakfast porridge. Spaghetti with pesto for lunch? Then we will need to find some charlock mustard and a bit of rocket. A bad sunburn? Roseroot decoction evening infusions. A sprinkle of oregano on the barbecue. Hedge woundwort for a foresty velouté. Fennel to add flavour to the sea bream we brought back from the market. Let’s not forget caraway seeds! They’ll be helpful as a digestive tea after a few (extravagant?!) meals with friends.
And we will not come back from our harvest walk without the two best gifts from our friend summer: thyme and lavender. Both with savours and properties that are endless: we could almost say that they encapsulate the essence of summer, for ever, wherever we are. You only need to close your eyes, smell their scent, and it feels like the sun on your skin. You hear the sound of crickets, you’re having a nap under the fig tree or a picnic on the grass, dry soil under your bare feet, blue sky above the olive trees, sat on the warm stones of a low wall. Summer, in all his glory, is whispering: ‘Lovely to meet you on the journey through life’.
