Sunglasses and History.

Jan saw our neighbour, Gun, in the field outside our house, this morning. Gun was pulling up lupins and throwing them into the scoop on the tractor, so Jan went out to chat to her and ended up helping her rip up lupins. Once Gun had gathered a scoopfull she drove back to the farm and then took the lupins to the recycling centre, for burning.  They are considered, and are, an invasive pest in Sweden, and at the moment there is a drive on to get rid of as many as possible.
Unfortunately the lupins in her field come from our garden. On the other hand they are delivering free nitrogen to her soil. When this exchange started I was still asleep but I got up as it was going on and took the photo. 
We are also doing our bit to reduce the lupin population in our garden and we are succeeding, but it will take a good few years before we finally have just a few in a very controlled area!
Gun was born, and grew up in this village, so she played all around this area as a child, including at tant (auntie) Betty's, so Jan took her up to see the cottage we call Betty's, and later Gun sent us photos, one showing "Auntie" Betty, sitting on the steps that are still there, and another with Betty and her ancient mum Ida (see Jan's blip). Jan learned more of the village history and who fell out with who!
I went out onto the internet and found that Ida bought the land for Betty's in 1921. She had the house built immediately and moved in, with her two daughters, one of whom was Betty. The house had two rooms and a hall, was heated by a wood burning range, and had cold running water. She lived there the rest of her life and eventually died there. Betty carried on living there, hence the name.