The country has been covered in snow an ice since mid December. It is not surprising that now it finally seems to begin to thaw that this is welcomed with some exaggeration and misleading... And... read more
Pulled up at the petrol station and saw this car. I looked at it closely and realised it was not a joke or anything, just a guy who really had not taken away the snow from his roof since... read more
I was going to write this post last night. I was going to start with a sentence along the lines of: "while I am writing it is snowing heavily outside. Thick flocks are dancing on the wind -... read more
I was about to give up hope of ever seeing the beautiful white snow flakes coming down from way above again. From my childhood I remember playing in the snow every winter, on most days of... read more
First real frost: -6 degrees Celcius when I got out of the house this morning. A yellow full moon hanging low over the tops of the pine trees, small white icicle hairs on absolutely everything... I... read more
Neatly stacked up behind the trailer so not a soul can see them and get any ideas, they stare at me every time I walk past, to and from the car. Two piles of four tyres with studs, freshly... Each... read more
OK, I moved here about 6 weeks ago now. After a terribly tiring move we finally settled in the archipelago just east of Stockholm. It was still summer. The apples were not yet ripe but hanging... read more