Darkness, darkness…
These are dark times. The sun is low and the days are short. The world is in a tailspin, and it's difficult not to worry about what is come. Taking…
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29 January, 2023
Epiphany
It's 2023. We spend the first weekend of the year at the summer house and get a dose of real winter, if only for a couple of days. It's a…
8 January, 2023
The in-between days
In Sweden we call them the "in-between days" or "mellandagarna", the days, or rather, the week in between Christmas and New Year. This year, both Christmas and New Year being…
30 December, 2022
A cold spell
An arctic cold spell meandered down from the north and had us its grip for the past couple of weeks. The mercury dropped below -10° some nights. A couple of…
18 December, 2022
3rd Sunday of Advent
Not long now. Doesn't feel like a year has past since the last one. Christmas again in less than a fortnight. Bloody cold weekend. Snow and ice and several degrees…
11 December, 2022
Biting cold
Second Sunday of Advent before Christmas. Drove out to Orust Friday after work in my new electric lease car, a pearlescent white Polestar 2, Long Range Single Motor. A new…
4 December, 2022
New look!
Less than a month until Christmas! And I feel like I just got back from summer vacation. Time flies, hope I'm having fun. Had our first snow a week or…
29 November, 2022
First snow
After an unusually mild start to November winter suddenly struck hard with severe snowstorms and cold weather in many parts of southern Sweden. Stockholm and parts of Skåne where particularly…
21 November, 2022
November
Allahelgonahelgen (All Saints), the first weekend of November, a time to visit graves, light candles and remember those who are no longer with us. It nearly coincides with Halloween, a…
6 November, 2022
Warm and stormy
It's an Indian summer weekend with 15°C in Bohuslän at the end of October. It's windy, really windy. Good for spinning wind turbines and keeping electricity prices down, but hard…
30 October, 2022
Week 42…
…the dullest week of the year? When I came to Sweden, a long time ago now, I was introduced to the Swedish concept of counting the weeks. Summer vacation starts…
23 October, 2022
The colours of autumn
It's autumn in this crazy year. It looks as fabulous as any autumn this lovely Sunday as we take a walk to the top of Ramberget, Anna, Cooper and I.…
9 October, 2022
