Daylight saving ends tomorrow
Another couple of weeks and the trees will be bare and the world will be dark, cold and drained of colour until spring returns. Today the sky was deep blue and…
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29 October, 2016
Week 37:5
Week 37 is Swedish for the third week of September. It indicates that 71,15% of the year has elapsed. It says nothing about the September full moon, the noticably shorter shorter days, the…
16 September, 2016
Our garden…
Gardening has never really been our thing. Things grew here when we moved in, some things have withered and died, other things have thrived. Our dogs have dug the garden…
18 July, 2016
Spring in Backa
Spring came suddenly this year also in Backa on the island of Hisingen. Warm enough to do the morning walk with Roxy in shorts and sandals. Apple and cherry trees…
15 May, 2016
Backa – March 7, 2015
Just when you thought it was all over and nearly time to swap to summer tyres we got more snow. The only one to get excited about it was Roxy,…
7 March, 2016
November 21
First cold snap this winter. -3° C at 9 am when I took Roxy on a morning stroll over the hill. Blue sky poked through the high clouds and lit…
21 November, 2015
Good morning!
Every week day morning at 7 am Anna and I take Roxy for her morning walk around Backa. It's a round of roughly 2,5 km and takes us around half an hour. Sometimes…
10 November, 2015
27 October 2015
Reverted to Winter Time this week. Now we can see the sun rise on our moring walk with Roxy. In a couple of weeks darkness will swallows us once more.
29 October, 2015
10 September 2015
Mornings are getting colder. 5° C means shoes and socks and no sandals. At least it is not raining. In the sky the vapour trails threw shadows on thin veils…
10 September, 2015