Summer 2024
If you watch the news a lot these days you will be depressed by the cruelty, death and destruction we humans are wreaking on one another. You would have thought…
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11 August, 2024
Summer solstice 2024
The North Pole will slowly begin to turn away from the sun after reaching its climax last Thursday, the Summer Solstice of the Northern Hemisphere. In Sweden it's a holiday…
22 June, 2024
Warm, sunny days
It was warm, really warm, the last half of May. It culminated in a fabulous first weekend of June. 25 degrees in the air 19 degrees in the water. Naturally…
3 June, 2024
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.…
20 January, 2024
-14°C at the summer house
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…
7 January, 2024
2023 coming to an end
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…
28 December, 2023
Cooper’s weekend
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…
19 November, 2023
Windy weekend
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…
21 October, 2023
Indian summer on Koster islands
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…
3 September, 2023
…and it kept raining
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…
17 August, 2023
Tractor day in Myckleby Parish
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…
5 August, 2023
Summer begins
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…
18 June, 2023
