A Monday like any other? It’s all so deceptively ordinary until you go near a grocery store and see people coming out with bales of toilet paper and bags of spaghetti and tinned food. Dropped […]
Category Archives: Sannegården
The winter that wasn’t…
A day that only comes once every fourth years: the 29th of February, and a winter that never was. Cooper’s first. Was hoping he would get to experience some new, fluffy snow, but no, not […]
View from the top
What to do on cold, wet and grey Saturday in the middle of December? Take Cooper for a stroll up to Ramberget, the large granite rock from which we can look down on our terrace […]
Last day of summer time
It’s cold now, and wet, and windy. Today is the last day of summer time. Tomorrow we get to sleep an hour longer. Means it will start being dark when we leave from work in […]
Summer in Sannegården
Anna and Cooper came home from puppy class and after his bowl of “nammi” (dog pellets) we took a walk around Sannegården and Lindholmens odlarförening (Lindholmen’s allotment association). It’s early July, the sun is shining […]
View from the terrace
The sudden leap into summer took a turn this week. The temperature dropped to freezing at night and the days barely reached 10°C. A bit of a shock after the summer weather we’ve been enjoying […]
Winter in Göteborg
Spring is here and winter is finally behind us. The birds are busy wooing partners and leaves are sprouting on every tree. The wood anemones are covering the ground and there is ecstasy in the […]
Late April evening on the terrace
The fabulous Easter weather continued into the week. It’s first today that we actually saw some clouds. Nights are still cool so no breakfast porridge on the terrace yet, but the evenings are warmer and […]
Remembrance Day
The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month is when we remember those who died in the first and second world war, and all wars since. It marked the end of hostilities […]
Indian Summer
It’s mid-October and it’s 20°C. Britt-sommar in Swedish. Something to do with the name-day Britt last Sunday. Indian Summer in English. Whatever you call it it was lovely. In Sannegården the trees are on fire […]
Fast boat to Källö Knippla
So the unusually warm and sunny summer continues. The lack of rain is wreaking havoc with the Swedish farmers and one can’t help wondering if it is Global Warming that is making its presence felt, […]
Summer arrives early
The warm weather that settled over the west coast of Sweden already in May continued well into June. Still a couple of months away from vacation, but with quite a few public holidays thrown in, […]
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