February twenty twentythree
Strange month February. The light starts returning, you notice it first in the mornings when the glow starts creeping in from the east. It's cold and it's still winter and,…
Strange month February. The light starts returning, you notice it first in the mornings when the glow starts creeping in from the east. It's cold and it's still winter and,…
It's 2023. We spend the first weekend of the year at the summer house and get a dose of real winter, if only for a couple of days. It's a…
In Sweden we call them the "in-between days" or "mellandagarna", the days, or rather, the week in between Christmas and New Year. This year, both Christmas and New Year being…
An arctic cold spell meandered down from the north and had us its grip for the past couple of weeks. The mercury dropped below -10° some nights. A couple of…
Not long now. Doesn't feel like a year has past since the last one. Christmas again in less than a fortnight. Bloody cold weekend. Snow and ice and several degrees…
Second Sunday of Advent before Christmas. Drove out to Orust Friday after work in my new electric lease car, a pearlescent white Polestar 2, Long Range Single Motor. A new…
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…
Winter isn't over yet. Woke up to a cold, sunny morning at the summer house on Saturday, and 10 centimeters of snow. A stunning day and perfect for a stroll…
A storm called Malik thundered in from the Atlantic the day we drive up to Kungshamn to visit our next door neighbours at their summer apartment. Malik made landfall on…
The lovely, white snow disappeared overnight. 2022 is here and everything is the same as it has always been, and at the same time it's completely different. Orust is as…
Another year with Covid draws to a close. After a quiet Christmas in town with the family, Anna, Cooper and I headed to the summer house on Orust for some…
Winter blew in over Göteborg in the last week of November. 30 centimeters of snow and sub-zero temperatures for another week at least. Will it stay until Christmas? Probably not.…