The cold returns
We're at the summer house again. Two weeks back at work and more than half way through January. The days are noticeably longer, at least when the sun is shining.…
We're at the summer house again. Two weeks back at work and more than half way through January. The days are noticeably longer, at least when the sun is shining.…
Cold winds swept in from the east the week after New Year and the temperature nose-dived into double digits below zero. We decided to make it a long weekend at…
The leftovers from the Christmas dinner are all eaten and gone. The final days of 2023 have been a mixed bag of frost, sunshine, snow and rain. The sun creeps…
Mid-November is a pretty depressing time of the year. The leaves have fallen off the trees, it gets dark by half past four, it's generally grey, overcast and cold. When…
Babet drew in from the east, not the usual direction for a storm. Normally they come in off the Atlantic and the North Sea. This side of the island of…
Summer 2023 is drawing to a close. What began with a heatwave turned into the coldest, wettest summer for years. From the day we returned from the continent you can…
Wasting days doing nothing. Watching the weather change. Listening to the rain. Running outside to catch the sun. Face stuck to the screen scrolling through mindless crap waiting for the…
The local highlight of the year here on the island of Orust on the west coast of Sweden is "Tractor Day" arranged by the Myckleby historical society. It's a day…
Summer took its time this year. Then, suddenly, there it was. Weeks of glorious sunshine, warm evenings, and no rain. Now the "no rain" part is beginning to be a…
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…
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…
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…