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My wedding dress?
I am getting married soon and I joked that this dress (which I saw in a local charity shop), would be my wedding dress. Look at those sleeves!!! My fiancé was horrified, but I promised him I would find...
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Java Whiskers Cat Café, Stockholm
When it was my fiancé’s birthday in February, he booked for us to go to Stockholm’s first cat cafe, which had opened just the week before. I was so excited you would have thought it was MY birthday! I...
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Decluttering
It will be no secret to my regular readers that during 2017 and 2018, I decluttered every single area of my life. It was life-changing, and I can recommend it if you are starting to feel you need to...
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Having curly hair
When I was little, my hair was very straight. It only started to curl a little when I was about 7 and then went very curly by the time I was about 11. I think my curls are about a 3A. Here are some...
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Spring is here!
Yesterday it was a beautiful spring day in Stockholm – sunny, warm, no wind. We went out on our first bike ride of the year and it was wonderful! I never understood the absolute and utter joy of...
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Sponsoring animals in need
I used to be a cage sponsor at the Stockholm Cats’ Home. You pay a monthly or annual fee for a cage and that covers costs for any cat that is in that cage. I sponsored a cage in Paddy and Tusse’s...
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My beautiful workplace
…the Swedish Riksdag (Parliament). That is the Stockholm City Hall in the background, where the Nobel banquet is held.
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A map of procrastination
I procrastinate by making tea and telling myself I will get to doing stuff once I have finished it!
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Karlshamn in Blekinge, Sweden
This past weekend so we went to Karlhamn to visit my partner’s family. It is a much bigger city than the one that I come from but still really small. This is 8.30pm on a Friday night. Not a soul in...
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Out and about
Since spring arrived in Sweden about six weeks ago, we have been doing day trips on the bike to nearby towns and villages and also into the Stockholm archipelago. Here are some photographs of our...
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Glad Midsommar!
Midsummer Sweden is when Swedes celebrate the most. For me, the national day of Sweden is not the official day on 6th June (which was not even a bank holiday when I moved to Sweden), but Midsummer....
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So true!
I was once in a really stressful job, where nothing I said made any difference. In the end I resigned, citing workload as the reason. They replaced me with two people, both of whom resigned in a year,...
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The family wedding dress
In my family, 5 brides have worn my mother’s 61 year old wedding dress since 1959. Just about everyone who could fit into it, wore it to be married. I really wish that I could have, but my swimmer’s...
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More photographs from our travels
This time to and around Mariefred: And Östervik And Trosa: And watching vintage cars cruising on Friday nights:
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5 days to go!
It’s going to be a pretty low-key wedding and my outfit is very basic. My dress comes from one of H&M’s concept stores, & other stories, and was on sale for $18. The shoes are from H&M and...
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My favourite watch
My second mom gave me a really cute watch in 1990. The second hand has a little mouse on the end of it. So the mouse goes round and round the dial, and it looks like the cat is chasing it. In 1994 I...
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I’m back!
We have been out and about quite a bit this last week and I had nail extensions for the wedding so I just could not type. I am not sure how people manage with long nails because I kept poking myself...
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The wedding
As promised, a report-back on the wedding. July was a great month for our families. My partner’s daughter got married on the 12th, my daughter Amanda got engaged on the 12th (a surprise proposal while...
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