6th of June – Sweden’s national day
The 6th of June is Sweden's national day and a public holiday. We celebrate that in 1523 Gustav Vasa became king, and Sweden became a united country and broke the…
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8 June, 2016
Summer in May
Suddenly summer is here! After months of unusually cold and wet weather it's suddenly unsually warm and sunny. Summer arrived in time for our May long weekend and we spent…
8 May, 2016
Spring has sprung again…
There is chirping and twittering in every tree, bush and shrub from birds desperate to find a partner to nest with. The trees are morphing back into green and the…
5 May, 2016
Easter 2016
The Easter weekend 2016 was a contest between seasons. One day cold and pouring rain, the next blue skies, sunshine and warmth (when out of the wind). The rainy days were…
28 March, 2016
12 March 2016
More daylight hours promise the end of winter and the coming of spring, but the snow lingers on Orust and this weekend the sun refused to shine altogether. Anna, Roxy and I took a…
12 March, 2016
Orust, February 13
Even though the days are getting noticably longer winter has not yet lost its grip and lets us know by dropping the temperature below feezing and letting it snow. Woke…
15 February, 2016
Orust, December 19 2015
Ended an intense week of work on Friday by heading to the summer house with Roxy. The relentless rain would not abate so I had to fight it off with a…
19 December, 2015
Orust, December 12, 2015
The days are short. At 9 am the sun breaks over the horizon, hovers low and sets again just after 3 pm. Hardly a cloud, no wind and the temperature…
12 December, 2015
Orust November 2015
A weekend at the summer house on Orust. Just Anna, myself and Roxy. Weather was mild and mainly overcast but every now and then the sun broke through. A strong wind blew…
18 November, 2015
