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Saying goodbye…Ha. I don’t feel THAT strongly about it, but for ME – it’s time to give it a rest. I started this blog back on April 28, 2006 to see what all the fuss was about. Now I know. And I’ve enjoyed it.I had been laid off by Cisco...
He's a winner!: Hasse won a golf tournament yesterday. Yippee! He's winding down his golf season with some real good play!Go get ‘em, Danny!: Collectively, Americans Abroad Are 21st Most Populated “State”... the US State Department has released these estimates of Americans residing outside the United States...
SEPTEMBER CALENDARSep. 1: While my brother started his new job in Dallas, TX this week, Hasse and I went into Stockholm yesterday for another taping of our favorite ‘music’ tv show - Så Ska Det Låta!PhotosVideoThe artists this time were:Markoolio (always fun)Benjamin Wahlgren(He's a kid! And - he's a natural!)2...
Welcome to September!Hope you had a good August!I did. We did.:)I’ve decided to stop doing this blog,so this week I’ll be winding things down.Let’s start withWhat I/We Did in AugustAugust CalendarAug. 1: We drove an hour or so up to a zoo/entertainment center called Furuvik and had a delightful day...
People!If I told you ONCE, I told you a MILLION times.Well, ok, I told you once yesterday…I’m on vacation!!!Thanks for stopping by, but…See you again on September 1st !Posterous blogPhotosVideosWhat's going on in Sweden?Peace Out:)...
The Further Adventures of Miss Kitten
And apparently, the heavy snow season hasn’t even started yet.
It’s been snowing here in Gothenburg pretty much non-stop since November, more than making up for the snowless winters of previous years. I woke up this morning to discover that my balcony was nearly filled up with snow, and this left me wondering if I should be worried about a...
I’m feeling a bit poetic today
The Teacher’s Lament You have some time today, I see. Your teacher’s canceled Chemistry. My class won’t start till three-thirty. And would it okay with me, Since there’s some place you’d rather be, You ask, I hope, facetiously, Whether I would mind terribly, If you skipped my class and left early. I try not to take it personally, But it’s...
I keep hearing from my American friends and family how much it sucks to live in America right now and how horrible President Obama is, but I just wanted to make it clear that it’s so much worse over here. Tomorrow I’ll have to go and see my neurologist and it...
At the moment I’m lying in bed with a box of lotion Kleenex and my laptop toplap. Under normal circumstances I’d be at work, but I’m taking a few days off due to an annoyingly bad headcold. My sinuses are all congested, making both breathing and thinking somewhat difficult and...
As explained by Professor Stretchy Cat:...
A bit of classic Python for you: I’m starting a war for peace…
Monty Python was satirical in a timeless way, which is why their Crackpot Religions sketch is (unfortunately) just as true now, if not more so, as it was back then. Now of course we have Scientology, and I cannot help but wonder what Crackpot team would have to say about...
Anne's Food
Sorry for the silence. I haven't been able to eat, or think about food, for a few days, but it's much better now. To make up for it, I thought I'd let you in on the secret of cookie nirvana. It's simple. See, it's all about the sweet and the...
Sorry, another round of stomach flu, hence the lack of posts...© Anne's Food, all rights reserved....
Another not very successful bread
I've lost my bread mojo. First, I tried to make bagels. Using the same recipe as always, but MAN did they fail. They didn't rise, at all, and were just sad little things. Compact, hard - I threw the whole thing out, didn't even bother baking them, it wouldn't have...
Ok, this photo isn't exactly something I'll send to Tastespotting, but the soup was good and I think it's well worth trying even though it wasn't photogenic. I've been wanting to try a soup with ground meat and rice ever since I had a fantastic one at a little tiny...
My current favorite chocolate!
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Crunchy granola crust, frozen caramel filling and yummy wild raspberries.© Anne's Food, all rights reserved....
Home education (or not) in Sweden
This photo got deleted somehow..
but it says it all itselfhome education (or not) by English Muslim mum in Sweden...
Again life has been keeping us busy, and we are trying to look forward to Spring as it edges it's way out of the grey snow. The greyish, brown grass may have a chance of becoming green if the temperatures decide to rise and the sun comes out for longer...
My memory is so bad, short-term as well as long. So if I don't write it down it'll most likely be forgotten. Although this time is quite testing at the moment, I still want to remember it and reflect if I get time! I do remember, though, a dear friend...
Kind DH has got me a new laptop, mashaAllah. So no more waiting for the rest of them to get off the computer. I use the computer nowadays, like probably many others, for so many things: communication, paying bills, finding directions, recipes, even the kid's school has it's menu on...
but we can a get a feeling of how this popular character feels about the snow. I am still quite happy for the world around to be white, but from the local media, I sense people are tiring of the flaky white stuff. The children still build snowmen, throw...
Busy doing I don't know what....
but that's how it is sometimes, and that's when you get more photos than text.Biryani doing her Matilda impression at the local library, which we frequented more than often this past holiday as we had no internet!and finally DH came home, after lots of delays due to the snow, so...
The Local - Sweden's news in English
Anti Swedish protests continue in Turkey
Diplomatic efforts are underway to mend a rift between Sweden and Turkey, caused by the Swedish parliament's decision to recognize the mass killing of Armenians and other ethnic groups in 1915 as genocide....
Swedes' generosity undented by recession
The economic downturn and rising unemployment figures have not dented Swedish support for charities, according to new figures from the Swedish Fundraising Council (FRII)....
Stockholm police issue melting ice alert
Two walkers fell through melting ice on Lake Mälaren in central Stockholm yesterday as warmer temperatures and underwater currents prompted police to issue a melting ice alert....
Fourth murder plot suspect released
A fourth suspect in the plot to assassinate Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks for his caricature of the Prophet Muhammad has been released without charge by Irish police....
Malaysia slams Sweden over cartoons
The Malaysian foreign minister has asked Sweden to take action against newspapers which reprinted a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog last week....
Anna Bergendahl wins Melodifestivalen
Anna Bergendahl won Sweden's Melodifestivalen on Saturday night with This is my life and will represent the country in the Eurovision Song Contest in Oslo in May....
Daniel´s birdblog
10:th of March 2010Can´t help to be impressed by the abundance of Crossbills in the forest this season. They are everywhere! Like little rubys they are. This one´s a male Common Crossbill....
9:th of March 2010This Small tortoiseshell woke up and crawled the stairs in our house today. It was very dozy though so I hope it goes back to sleep again. But still... a sign of a season to come....
6:th of March 2010Erik Hägg gets a good session with at least 4 White-tailed Eagles on the site today. 2 juveniles and 2 adult birds. 1 of each clearly ringed, should be identifiable....
6:th of March 2010Walking about. Photo: Erik Hägg....
6:th of March 2010...and flying away. Photo: Erik Hägg...
6:th of March 2010On our way out to a family picknick we find a dead Crossbill female on the road. It´s not an unusual phenomenon. On a 20 km road I found no less than 7 Crossbills today. Sad, now that they breed as well. This female almost look like...
How to learn Swedish in 1000 difficult lessons
I dreamt I was pregnant. About three months pregnant, and I could feel the little fetus in me, a hard little knot twirling around in my gut. It was so strange, but a good thing. And then suddenly it was gone.I think it was a dream in sympathy with a...
We stood in line to get on the bus to take us out on the tarmac at the airport on Gran Canaria - the Canary Islands sound so exotic to us Americans, who rarely know that they are the southernmost outpost of the European Union (though geographically they're part of...
Christmas has been swept out the door at last: the smell of oranges, cloves, saffron buns and sage stuffing, of hyacinth, pine branches and cold winter air, the glitter of glass and metal-filagree ornaments, the guests and the wrapping paper and finally, the tree all rolled up in a sheet,...
Are 21st century Americans the New Victorians? A culture inordinately influenced by a wacked view of Christianity that values censure over love, exclusion over generosity and generally is mostly concerned about extending its power to control people’s lives? Check.A squeamish prudery when it comes to the realities of sex? Check.A...
If I lived close by, I would be a doting uncle. Or if I had lived close by when my nieces and nephews were little kids. Which most of them are not anymore. Take my oldest niece, of whom I am inordinately proud (well, I'm proud of all of my...
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Peruvian cyclists take to road in buff
Dozens of people wearing bathing suits, or nothing at all, rode bicycles through the streets of Lima to promote the use of non-motorised transportation as an alternative to the automobile as well as to defend the environment in Peru....
Malaysian Sikhs observe Nanakshahi New Year
Sikhs in Malaysia observed a low key New Year, as per the Nanakshahi calendar named after the founder of the faith Guru Nanak....
Jaguar undergoes dental surgery
Reina, a female jaguar who lives at the Santa Fe Zoo in the northwestern Colombian city of Medellin, underwent an operation on her canine teeth because they showed damage that was preventing her from eating properly....
Spanish boat fights off pirates near Seychelles
The security team aboard the Txori Argi, a Spanish fishing boat, have fought off a group of pirates who attacked the vessel off the Seychelles Islands, but no one was injured in the incident, the shipowner said....
Nepal Appeals For Gay Tourists
In this photo taken Friday, Feb. 19, 2010, a transgender Nepalese person walks down a busy street in Katmandu, Nepal. The conservative Hindu nation wants to host the world's highest same-sex weddi......
Contractors Tied To Effort To Track And Kill Militants
From left: Michael D. Furlong, the official who was said to have hired private contractors to track militants in Afghanistan and Pakistan; Robert Young Pelton, a contractor; Duane Clarridge, a former ......
The World According to Pia
Major goal for weekend is to get as much sleep as possible. To be honest I would very much like to go into hibernation in awaiting better days but for various reasons that's probably not possible. Alas.I had also hoped to read, write, knit, run errands, clean, cook, bake, an...
When you feel stuck, for most parts of the days, weeks you just want to scream in frustration, at least the arriving of very blue skies and a couple of perky coffee - tea cups to bright up those overwhelmingly dreary, pointless trapped-in-office-with-mindless-tasks parts of the weeks.Now and then good...
Whether the International Women's Day is a day for celebration or not is debatable. The world is after all, after all these years, still so very far from having equal rights and equal opportunities for all no matter gender - or specie for that matter.I read a tweet that gave...
friday friends and coconut tops
Today there was definitely spring in the air! Sun shining, bright blue skies, birds singing and snow melting, happy vibes. So when I got home there was an distinct urge to make, bake something springy and sweet in celebration.Coconut tops. Easy to make, look sweet and perky, though, personally, texture-...
I have this baby chair - of a rather clever multi-purpose design - that was mine when I was a wee one. It recently moved in with the intention of being used as a free-standing flower pot.But as with all things moving in that are possibly roomy enough to host...
'Alice in Wonderland' ticked many of my boxes. Like in every Tim Burton movie I just adored the costumes, make-up and scenography.Johnny Depp rocked in the role as the Mad Hatter - oh the make-up alone... - so did Helena Bonham-Carter as the Red Queen and Matt Lucas as Tweedledee...
family Molin
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Well, since I haven't posted in awhile, I suppose it is obvious about the uncertainty of the future of this blog. :( There are just not enough hours in the day. At least not right now.There are just so many options when it comes to blogging right now. Since I...
After our return from Kentucky this summer, Leia decided to have a little posing session and I was able to take lots of pictures of our beautiful baby girl.We had a nice day to Karlstad yesterday! We bought a few things, especially presents for Leia's birthday. The days are going...
Leia can't say much, but she did say "happy" today. :)) The "birthday" didn't sound so good. :)) But I think Fredrik liked it anyways. :) He turned 31 today. :) I don't think he really minds being in the 30's. :) We had yummy food today, his favorites, and...
Better than we ever could have thought!
So we were able to do our painting today in the dining room! And it turned out so well. :) We are very pleased with how it looks. We did such a good job that we only had to put on one coat of paint. We anxious to now paint...
So here is the color we chose for the rooms:And my horrible attempt at trying to get an idea of what it will look like on the walls:We're a little afraid it is too dark, but we really like it. :)Mormor and Morfar should be over the Atlantic now. :)...
Photos From Haninge
The infamous Swedish Olympic hat!
During the recent Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver the Swedish Olympic crochet hat (designed by Eva Christensson),became incredibly popular. In Sweden the wool yarn needed to make it sold out in a few days, so my mothers attempt to make one for me failed. In case you would like to...
The Painter and the Dirt Rider
As it was a very sunny winter's day, (hence the squinting), I decided to go for a bike ride and shoot a few street portraits. This is Ida and Kalle. I noticed them walking hand in hand across a snowy lawn in Handen and figured they would be...
This is Färglådorna, (the color boxes). A housing area in Tungelsta built back in the early 1970's. It looks like the people that live here don't know how to use a snow shovel, or that they perhaps have shovelled enough snow for a few years already this winter. The alleyways...
As we are honouring Eric Tenin at Paris Daily Photo today I set out a take a photo in his style. As suggested by Kim in Seattle. And this is it. And it's a bit of a fun story here. I shot the top photo at Håga earlier today. The...
Spotted these two guys, who works for the municipality, at the water and sanitation department, enjoying a cup of coffee in the winter sunshine at Åbyplan in Västerhaninge today. In my book that counts as a true sign of spring. Erik and Harry may not be as pretty as Charlotte...
I have a few favourite places in Haninge when it comes to photography. This is one of them. I call it The Dancing Building. It's a big window at Campus Haninge in Handen which always gives this cool reflection. On this visit yesterday I noticed a group of workers shovelling...
An Englishman in the Borg
...Living the Swedish Sumer, Living as a couple and Malmo
Hej!Wow, a full month without blogging...this isn't exactly how I envisaged this going! But yet again, I have been caught up in everything that has been going on. Not that I have really been anywhere to stop me blogging, its just that I have been busy :)So what have I...
...Tenerife, U21 Championships and good friends
Hej!Warning....this might be a rather long blog! Seeing as how I haven't posted anything for over a month!And what a good month it has been! I guess I better go in order or no doubt I will miss things out...!So first after my last post (so end of May..!) I...
Hej!Wow, its been ages since my last post! Time really has flown by! Well, since my last post I am now a year older...and of course so much wiser.....!I had a really nice week back in the UK with my family and friends, did a lot of catching up with...
...missing the sun and watching Henrik Larsson in Helsingborg
Hej!I guess I had better apologise! I can't believe how fast this week (10 days?) has gone since my last post! It doesn't seem possible that it was so long ago! Well where to start....? I guess the first place is the dodgy weather we are now having in Helsingborg....
... enjoying the beach (ish) in Helsingborg
Hej!Ok, so its not a week since my last blog, but it is Sunday, so it seems right.Its been a pretty busy few days since my last blog! Thursday I had a friend from the UK staying, and he cooked me a really good curry! Steve and Keri turned up...
...being trained, 3 months in!
Hej!Well the sun is still out here in Helsingborg....or rather it was until about 12pm (midday) It seems to be hiding behind a rather large cloud just now. But generally speaking it has been a glorious couple of weeks! I have had several very nice 'after works' down by the...
Sweden News
Culture Clash: European Art Provokes Muslims
With the West locked in conflicts across the Muslim world, why would anyone throw fuel on the fire? Swedish artist Lars Vilks talks during an interview with the Associated Press in Stockholm, Sweden,... Swedish artist Lars Vilks talks during an interview with the Associated Press in Stockholm, Sweden, Wednesday March...
Sweden labels mass WW I killing of Armenians Genocide w/1-vote margi
Date : Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:34:13 PST Waterloo Chronicle March 11, 2010 Thursday Final Edition Sweden labels mass World War I killing of Armenians genocide with 1-vote margin STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Sweden's parliament narrowly approved a resolution Thursday recognizing the 1915 mass killing of Armenians in Turkey as genocide....
Sweden to vote on Armenian genocide
The Swedish parliament will vote Thursday afternoon on a motion to recognize the 1915 Armenian genocide....
Solar wind pulses help blow away martian atmosphere
Scientists found that Mars' atmosphere does not drift away at a steady pace; instead, atmospheric escape occurs in bursts....
People with variable blood pressur ...
People with occasional spikes in their blood pressure could be at higher risk of having a stroke than those with regularly high blood pressure, new studies said Friday....
Skanska: Skanskaa s Annual Report Available on Website
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Regulatory News: The Skanska Annual Report for 2009 is now available on Skanska's website, at www.skanska.com/en/investors where also the printed annual report can be ordered....
LearnSweden Blog
Just a few days after arriving back from Paris, we had our first day with spring here in Stockholm. It felt so strange as we have had winter since November now and we all thought that we had to wait......
By Per Svangren Last week, me, my wife, and my youngest daughter went to Paris for a long weekend. First of all I had a couple of things to do and second we wanted to feel a little bit of......
Following the ski trail..... we find people walking unintentionally in a line. Some fine a solitary moment. Some walk way, way, out.....almost to the other side. And what's this? What do you see boy? Yea!!!!! hot dogs, Korv, hurry hurry....let's......
I love to watch cooking shows on TV. I can get bored with the same old recipes week in and week out. Even the recipes that are seasonal. I always love the cooking shows with the nice looking chef and......
Everywhere I go there's vintage
Here's another glimpse into my Swedish travels in September. Enjoy! ************************************************************************************************************************* Upon leaving the Hansgatan Konditori, I found this lovely little shop just across the road called, Acanthus. Here they mix old with new but honestly....I love the old. When......
A Room with a view for a Damsel in a Tower
Hejsan allihopa! Over the weekend we had a couple of fun things happen. First it was Per's birthday. Grattis På födelsedagen tjena! ( Congratulations on your birthday, friend.) Second, I received this very lovely comment from Lexie who just happens......