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,…
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31 January, 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
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
Cold and dark…
...but with the occasional bursts of light. December is the month when winter really takes a grip.Most of the time it's grey and overcast, but on some rare occasions the…
10 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
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,…
19 March, 2023
Epiphany
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…
8 January, 2023
The in-between days
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…
30 December, 2022
A cold spell
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…
18 December, 2022
3rd Sunday of Advent
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…
11 December, 2022
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