So, the death of Gene Hackman, his wife, Betsy Arakawa and their dog continues to mystify. It seems they had been dead for around ten days, as indicated by the level of decomposition. Hackman was in a ‘mudroom’, whatever that is, and may have fallen. While Arakawa’s body was in a bathroom, with scattered pills and the still as yet unnamed dog was in a bathroom closet.
They had three dogs, all German shepherds. The other two were still alive and could come and go in and out of the house via a pet door. The local police are still investigating. There was no sign of foul play or death by noxious fumes. It sounds like an episode of CSI.
More shocking American news, though, was the meeting in the Oval Office between Trump, Vance and Zelenskyy where Trump and Vance, like a couple of schoolyard bullies, showed the world that it was now dealing with a backward country that has no idea how to behave on the world stage.
I find it fascinating that the Republican Party appears to now support Putin and the war. I guess, Trump will soon be giving military support to Russia because Zelenskyy was rude by not wearing a suit to their meeting. The US government becomes more childish by the day.
Anyway, enough of the world of the juvenile…here, in Trosa, nothing much happened. With me, at any rate. Though, obviously, I went shopping first thing.
I did manage to research another few soldiers for the Surrey History Centre, knowing that it will stop very soon. And I wrote a first draft for this month’s Letter from Sweden which I’ll record over the weekend.
Oh, and I woke up to a text message from KSP which featured four bags of crisps. They are in preparation for March 8, the Melo final.
‘Melo’ is how the kids say Melodifestivalen. Nicoline told us the other day, and I proved it is so. While chatting to one of the ICA staff this morning, and asked what I was doing on the weekend, I firstly replied not a lot then suddenly remembered and said “Melo!” to which she said “Of course!“
Mirinda, on the other hand, was very busy. This semester, she has to write up each week of study on Fridays. She was working on that for most of the day.
