Well I'm going to start growing some shoots in the window soon

Oooh, like beansprouts or micro greens?

The coriander doesn't like the heat here and bolts so quickly. I can imagine it will do well there.

In the summer there are plenty of apples in various parks around town to be harvested

I miss scrumping! Do you call it that in Scotland? There are always apples, blackberries or sweet chestnuts somewhere to be harvested. A lot of the places we used to go as children got built on, but where we lived in England before we emigrated, there were blackberries across the road and the kids loved collecting them in autumn.

Thank you for the link. I'm in no rush, so that should be perfect.