Long-ish -- and colourful! -- update!!

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Sorry!
It's been a while again!!!!

Ahhhhhhhh, My exams start in 2 weeks!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Before I went for a walk tonight,
I thought "Wouldn't it be funny if I met my mum on the way back coming back from work",
and then "Nahhh, that won't happen!"...
Well, well, well, guess you was just coming into the parking while I was... :)
Syncronicity, you showed me wrong! ;)

We have a (temporary) circus set up across from our appartement :(
And they have animals - including 'exotic' ones!! :( NOOO!!!
I'm bummed out, because they are all chained up!!!!! (you can't really see the chains on the photos, but they all have a certain restricted - and very small - space/length/radius that they can go in) :(((((
While I was walking past, I just wanted to untie them!

They looked so unhappy.....













I did a GORGEOUS yoga workshop last weekend!
It was brill!... 3 hours on Sat and 2 hours on Sun (It was meant to be 3 h again, but we got the timed muddled, so I only made it to the last 2h!)
I loved it!
Woooooo, my plants are GROWING!!
And I'm growing some new other stuff aswell.... (I'll take pics to show you guys next time :)

Physalis and yellow tomatoes are the newest additions.. and they are already starting to come out!... I've also got cherry tomatoes, lots of parsley, rosemary, spinach, rocket, chives, mint.... YAY!

The mountains were lovely today!!!!!!


Other pics from my walk today:






FIGSSSSSSSSSS are flowering on the treeeee!!!!!!!! YUPPEEEE!!!


The pic below was taken LAST WEEK!:


Look how much it's flowered!!!


We also stopped by a local organic farm shop... there wasn't much in terms of fresh produce this time round but we got some more herbs (chives and mint) to plant ...:)



my mum and grandma :)




A few days ago, we went for a lovely walk by the lake....



I love lilac!!!





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me and my mum! (:
Love you mum!


YUM!!!!! I made this SUPER delicious smoothie a few days ago....
Only 2 ingredients!!!!!....
made with a sugarloaf (white flesh) pineapple and (raw-- I get Dr Martins) coconut water!!!
(1 medium pineapple to 1, 500ml bottle of coconut water)
It is SUPER yummy!! Sooooo sooo super yummy!!!
!
BUT WARNING!!!!:
It may be SOO super yummy, you have over the amount your mouth can bear!!!!... Mm mouth was BURNING all day after a few cups of the stuff!!!!!!! OUCH!!!








Greeeeeeeeeen juice:
(this is from last week, havn't had any this week... I've just been munching on whole lettuce heads this week!!!!....
seriously, I've been LOVING mono romaine lettuce and endive!!!! SOO good! :)




I cannot get enough of tomatos!!!!
Why are they so expensive though!?!? :(


YUM! RIPE bananas!



OOOooooo! On my walk last week, I encountered a really cute geco (sp?) , which just stayed in the same position for AGES, while I took photos! ;)
So cute!



Hehe, I love deformed tomatoes!!! :)


This is just before a storm hit!:



Gladiator Guy!

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Mmmm, I think one of my new favourite fruits are Chirimoyas (thanks rost0037 for the name! :D), they are delicious. Please, if you haven't tried one, act today and go and get one! You deserve it!

Okay, I admit it: I didn't make any raw Halloween treats. Instead, I agreed to go to the pub with my dad and brother. Hmm, I only approved to go because it's Smoke-Free! ;) Actually, it's a pretty nice place to hang out.

Andddd I beat their arses (asses :) at Pool!!!!!!! Haha!
Okay, I didn't exactly win but I came pretty darn close. Not bad for my first time, eh (ah, I hope it's not just 'beginners luck'!).


Ohhh, we also went to an old friends house, and she has loadsssss of fruit trees!! Of course, most of them had no fruit except a fig tree! Yayyyyy! Mmmm, they also have a Mulberry tree, and they said we can come back in May for those! ;)


My mum was talking to the lady (Claudine) about my diet and such, and she was reallyyyyyy interested! - especially about green smoothies, surprisingly ;) She even asked me to come back and do a demo for her, and that she will pay for the produce!! Woooooop, how cool is that?!!


Me with a different friend, Cara, in mum's friends garden (:

Awww, Claudine had such a cute dog that seemed to like washing a lot, as practically the whole time we were there, he staying in the washing bag! (;


Claudine's mum is a very successful statue maker (is that how you say it?), and she has an array of statues' in her garden. In fact, in India, there's a whole public park dedicated to her with all her statues in! They're also scattered around all over the place around where I live.
Here are just a few photo's of many that were there:

After, we went on a walk in a rural park/public grassy place and I found a persimmon tree!!! Okay, the tree it might have actually been in someone's garden as I found out afterwards (signs are confusing) but anyways, I never even knew they could grow here!! :O
Unfortunatly, they weren't yet ripe.

I'll have to come back for them.


My brother has left now :( But before he went we go to go to this Martial Arts thingy, where they show off. It was Very good. Most of it, anyway. We didn't stay for the whole thing, as it went on in till 1AM, no joke! (it started at 6:30PM).

Before it started


We meet this Gladiator guy there who was meant to go on scene, but unfortunately we left before we could see him on stage.
Gladiator guy and my brother.

Gladiator guy getting a drink... as you can see, I'm distracted by shiny objects

Oh oh, cool news! They have raw crackers hereeee!!!!!!
hm, except I read an interview of the person who owns them and he thinks he invented them. Ha! If only he knew.....



Thanks for reading!




Figs!

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Hellooo, just a quick, short update!
Yesterday evening, we went for our usual walk around our village, up to a casle, nd on the way we pass a fig tree.
We thought it was too cold a climate for the fruit to come out and its already wayy past summer, butttt to our plesent surprise, some were ripe!!!
yayyy! mmmmmmmm, figs! ;) my fav!
Here are some pics!




















mmm, our wonderfull collection of figs straight off the tree! (:





















Secret window looking onto the gates of the castle (;


Hhh... iv got to tell you though.. it took some work to get these lil' beauties down - it involved climbing a wall taller than me! :D
But it was worth it!

I'll leave you with a quote
"If you can dream it, you can achieve it"

... and i certainly dreamed about getting those figs down! (;