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I agree!
I would not put it as bluntly as above, but I do agree with this. Swedes generally have very good English and they usually love to practise their English. This means that when they hear me speaking...
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Lego bouquet
I saw these Lego flowers at a Stockholm restaurant, and loved them. So I bought some And we had great fun making them over the weekend. My first ever Lego!
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Outfits for travelling in hot weather
Dressing for hot weather travel is a challenge. I don’t like to bare a lot of skin at my age, but I still need to be cool. I hate feeling constricted and sweaty. When you are travelling in hot...
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Wednesday was long
I taught for 8 hours in 6 different places on Wednesday. On Tuesday night, I let my students know that we could have an online lesson if I was unable to get in to work. When I woke up on Wednesday, it...
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Patron Saint of Cats, St Gertrude of Nivelles, has her feast day today
Read more here My Catholic confirmation name is Frances, after St Francis of Assisi, patron saint of animals. And more about Catholic confirmation names:
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Cat Corner
This is my little cat corner. It contains two gorgeous photographs gifted to me by the wonderful Nastassja, after Fluffy and Ziggy died. Beside it are the little urns with memorial discs recording...
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True
Personally, I think many of our traditional male/female characteristics came from this stage in our evolution. Men were the hunters so were very focused, and had almost tunnel vision. Women were the...
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Easter Bunny Heebie Jeebies
I had a good laugh at the photos above! Friends of mine sent a couple to me because they had seen me in the photo below. That Santa used to give all us kids the creeps and he held on to us with a...
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Spring may be on the way
I spent most of my life in a hot country with no clear seasons. Sun and heat is guaranteed. There may be a rainy couple of weeks but you know that sun and heat will return. In Sweden, there are four...
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Garbo’s tears
Greta Garbo was born in the part of Stockholm in which I live. There is a door nearby me with a mural of her on it (sadly defaced by graffiti when I took this photo, later restored). We also have a...
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It’s not what you eat between Christmas and New Year that counts, but what...
I was born prematurely, refused to breastfeed, and was not a good eater as a baby. My mother thus spent my first few years desperately trying to feed me at every opportunity. When I was about five,...
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I am not sure I agree with this
My parents were born in the 1920s. Their parents lived through the Spanish flu and two world wars. Life was hard for them. My dad worked in a factory and hated it, but he had a family to support so he...
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Mental labour
I have previously written I think many women carry a mental load of which they are unaware. A women is generally the person who remembers all the family birthdays, is responsible for buying birthday...
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Thank you to all my readers
I received this message from WordPress recently. I cannot believe it has been twelve years and that I am still going, almost 8000 posts later. For that I have all my readers to thank. The views, the...
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My unconventional family
When you are a stepmother, people tend to put you in two different categories. You are either the bitchy witchy stepmother, or else you are trying to steal someone else’s kids away from their mother....
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Another orbit around the sun completed
The 20th of July was our 4th wedding anniversary so my husband and I went to the Thai Boat for dinner. It is about one minute’s walk from our apartment so we like going there. On the 22nd we met my...
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