Adelaide heat wave
We're in Adelaide, the closest thing to a hometown, where my family lives. I haven't lived here for nearly 30 years but I know the streets, they are familiar, I…
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13 March, 2024
Göteborg January 2024
Gothenburg lies 57 degrees, 42 minutes north of the equator, and nearly 12 degrees east of Greenwich. Only a couple of degrees more south than the southern tip of Greenland,…
31 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
The shortest days
Just days from winter solstice. This coming Friday the earth starts tilting the north pole back towards the sun again and the light will slowly return. This week, and the…
17 December, 2023
Misty evening on Lindholmen
An otherwise dull November night gets interesting when a light fog rolls in off the water. Time to get the camera out and take pictures in the dark. Streetlights, traffic…
9 November, 2023
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…
29 January, 2023
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
LED Christmas madness
We are week short of the northern winter solstice and we desperately try to defeat the darkness with millions of LED lights. They adorn trees, balconies and windows everywhere. It's…
16 December, 2020
Autumn has arrived
First weekend in October was unusually cold. The whole week was cold. Even had overnight frost. Perfect weekend to head to Orust and the summer house. Light a fire and…
10 October, 2019
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…
1 May, 2019
Happy New Year!!!
The last hours of the last day of 2018 was spent in Normanville on the Fleurieu Peninsula south of Adelaide. "The farm" is down here, out on Hay Flat Road.…
1 January, 2019
November on Orust
First weekend in November. Halloween. Friday is cold and wet and the cloud cover so thick you can feel the weight of it. We escape to the summer house on…
4 November, 2018
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