Given I’m off to Stensund with KSP tomorrow, I went into town today to visit the System. It was quite a warm day, though it was probably just me, given I was the only one in a t-shirt. Everyone else I saw had at least a cardigan on. If not big, bulky, puffy jackets. I even saw one mamakorv.
Not that I cared. As I walked through the school, I noticed I wasn’t alone after all. There were plenty of healthy, little kids running around in short sleeves. Not the teachers, mind you.
Interestingly, we woke in the stuga to rain. Quite a bit of rain. Fortunately, it had stopped by the time I left. It didn’t take more than sticking my head outside to know I only needed a t-shirt. Maybe, everyone else thought they’d better wear a few more layers in case the outer ones got wet.

When I was leaving Trosa, I realised something. I had seen one or two men but an awful lot of women. Even in the System. Lots of women. I almost felt like I’d been dropped into the 1950’s and all the men were at work while the women shopped. It was almost a pleasant experience.
By the time I returned home, all evidence of the earlier rain had vanished. I knew I had to start mowing the grass.
It was already thick and lush but with the extra moisture from the morning, it was almost impenetrable. I had to use the mower like a muncher, lifting the front and dropping it on the clumps. It was laborious having to unclog the blade every few metres. Still, I managed to reduce the forest growing around the deck before the battery died.
In the meanwhilst, Harald and Roger worked away in the lounge room, heading towards an end to their painting labours. By the end of play, the walls were looking decidedly green.

Having said they’d finish by tomorrow, I reckon they just might make it.
Speaking of ‘making it’, in Eurovision news, Sweden is through to the final while Belgium is not. I don’t know why they didn’t like Belgium. I’ve had all the songs playing on Spotify and I liked their song. But, no one asked me and I don’t have the TV in the stuga. I am powerless in the music voting stakes. Roll on Saturday.