Adrian and Eric came back from Hälsingland with loads of blueberries (bilberries). Adrian and his friends – the ones with a cottage in Hälsingland – made bluberry muffins and then went out and sold them to people.

First they put up a table in central Spånga, just outside the supermarket. They didn’t get a single muffin sold and came home quite demoralized. Then they went house to house, knocking on doors – and had no trouble finding buyers. The whole project took all day and earned them 240 kronor.

There was so much constant debating and arguing and deciding about the smallest things that really can’t matter to anyone but small children. “You mixed the dry ingredients last time so now it’s my turn. You’ll carry the table and you’ll carry the sign and I’ll carry the muffins.” I wasn’t even involved in the project, other than very peripherally, and still it left me exhausted.