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Our new apartment part II
We are on the first floor (in Sweden it goes ground floor, first floor). And here is the overnight apartment that people were curious about. There are two of these, and this one sleeps at least six....
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Weekend trip to Dublin and Belfast
My husband’s birthday was last week, so to celebrate we took a weekend trip to Dublin. It has been years since I have been in Dublin (I trained as a teacher there) so it was lovely to go back. The...
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Different kinds of ear piercings
This graphic from bodycandy is the most informative one I have found regarding different types of ear piercings. I had my ears pierced with a piercing gun when I was 12. Unfortunately this led to...
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COVID-19
All jokes aside, this is what our local supermarket looked like yesterday. Around us, Denmark, Norway, and Poland are in complete lockdown. Further south, Italy, France and Spain are in lockdown and...
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My hectic months – update!
I wrote a while back that I had a pretty hectic schedule coming up. We are somewhat through some of it but with the busiest time yet to come. Our weekend trip to Dublin went pretty well. For that one I...
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Photos from a deserted Stockholm today
9am 1pm I am still doing most of my work on-site. Because I work in the government and Parliament, there is a lot of work with other countries also battling this pandemic. Local information also needs...
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Today’s COVID-19 ponderings
In a way, I am rather overwhelmed by the fact that COVID-19 has overtaken every corner of life. When I see newspapers and my social media full of it, I do feel fatigue and anxiety. But on the other...
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Ponderings
And so ends another surreal week in these corona times. For brief periods in the supermarket or at home, it can seem as though the world is normal. Then reality intrudes and you are in these...
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Thoughts
My thoughts go out to all my readers today. All of us are affected by COVID-19 in varying ways. This virus has affected not just those who are infected but economies, family relationships, and mental...
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Happy Easter!
Wishing all my readers a wonderful Easter in these different times. I guess many of us are not celebrating Easter as we usually do, but I hope your weekend has brought you some happiness. We would...
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Why are video meetings so exhausting?
I usually work out in the field, so to speak. I am in up to 6 different places a day, with lots of walking in between. I show go through different receptions, I walk miles to different offices and...
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Snapshots from our new apartment
The cats settled in immediately. This is Ziggy I took up most of the shoe space immediately! The cats got a brand new cat tree and moved in immediately We slid open the glass panes for the first time...
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Scottish chest of drawers
Last weekend we spend an afternoon giving my beloved Scottish chest of drawers some loving care. My carpenter grandfather made this in the 1920s. The central drawer was apparently for a top hat. My...
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Imagine…
Imagine you were born in 1900. On your 14th birthday, World War I starts, and ends on your 18th birthday. 22 million people perish in that war. Later in the year, a Spanish Flu epidemic hits the...
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I love these vases
I like these vases by Onetic design. I have a feeling they could look pretty kitschy if you didn’t style them correctly, though and I don’t have the instinct to avoid that. We have a pretty plain...
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Snapshots from our new apartment
Our apartment seen from Google Maps. We are in the building in the middle of the left U-shape. We are so happy in our new home. It is a dream to keep clean, close to everything, but set in huge...
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Weighted blankets
When I was little, my mother always used to tuck me up really tight at bedtime. I liked the feeling of the weight of the blankets and that I could not move around. I am naturally a very restless...
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Quarantine eating
Do any of my readers find that, like me, you eat a lot more when working from home and staying inside? I snack a lot. I am not sure why. Maybe I am avoiding doing certain tasks I don’t enjoy, maybe I...
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Duck island in Mariefred during a coronavirus summer
Yesterday we celebrated the end of the ‘2-hour travel ban’ by going on a long ride on our Harley. It was lovely to be out all day but by the end of it we were both very stiff! As we passed Mariefred,...
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