Monthly Archives: February 2023

Playing piano, on a pontoon, in the middle of an Italian lake

Today I was off into Stockholm while Mirinda luxuriated in a Gazless Day with the girls. As for me, I managed to catch an express bus into Gullmarsplan, followed by the t-bana into Centralen in order to take breakfast in … Continue reading

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Missing Weasels

I had another vivid dream last night. This time it involved me and the Weasels. We were in a Chinese restaurant in some European city. I didn’t recognise the city. Or the restaurant. Anyway, I was waiting for my meal … Continue reading

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Home alone II

Mirinda went into Soder this afternoon to attend her first Internations Go event. Internations Go is an amazing, worldwide community of ex-pats who meet up to chat and, basically, socialize. Mirinda joined ages ago, but this was the first event … Continue reading

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Who ate the snowman’s nose?

It was the usual Saturday nothing day for me as Mirinda was off to language lessons in Stockholm. I watched a few episodes of Alice in Borderland, took the girls for a walk around the block and threw the tennis … Continue reading

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Frozen shoelaces

Five days ago saw us hit a 25 year anniversary. Not of our marriage, I hasten to add. That isn’t until May and has been longer than 25 years. No, this anniversary was of our arrival in Europe on 20 … Continue reading

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Nicktor of my dreams

We had planned to go into Stockholm today. We’d organised Fifi to take the girls and were looking forward to celebrating our 25th anniversary of arriving in Europe as well as visiting a museum. Then, last night, Freya became unwell. … Continue reading

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Worst shopping time

Most of today was spent inside. Mirinda had a few Visual Effects sessions she wanted to attend (online) and I had washing to do. Naturally, Mirinda took the girls on a lovely long walk during which she saw an owl, … Continue reading

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Finding the lost soldiers

Last night I attended a WFA webinar about The Fromelles Project 2008-2020. It was presented by Professor Margaret Cox PhD who was Scientific Advisor for the project responsible for archaeology, anthropology and identification. It was utterly fascinating. The project involved … Continue reading

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Importance of fluorescent poles

We had snow today. Quite a bit of snow. I walked up to the Coop in the snow and even managed to BeReal a photo of the snow. I should explain that BeReal doesn’t generally request a photo when something … Continue reading

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Varying shades of cold

We haven’t seen many people walking on the local lakes this trip. There’s been a couple of isolated incidents when we were surprised that the ice was thick enough but, otherwise, people seem to be avoiding the watery drop. Then, … Continue reading

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