I dedicate this post to my blogging friend Bernadette on Haddon Musings who hosts the blogging event “Senior Salon”. The Senior Salon has been put on halt as Bernadette lost her son very recently. I know that Bernadette shares my love for classical music. The trio I mention here can be heard as a way to handle grief. This music […]
On our way to the ferry that takes us to Sweden from Frederikshavn in Northern Denmark we like to visit a special shop driven by an old woman in her eighties. The “antiques” she sells are put in neat order and arranged so that it’s like visiting a museum from our great grand mother’s time. Her white linen bedclothes […]
My blogging friend Carol is good at using Instagram and Twitter in connection with her blog. Please click on the link to find her original Instagram post via Twitter. In one of her other posts Carol describes how her ex husband was an expert in making their marriage look fine and normal even though she was held in captivity. Following is […]
# 5 of a series on a trip to Sweden in May 2017 #1 The House of Emigrants #2 Two Old Town Centers in Sweden #3 Husqvarna Factory Museum in Sweden #4 The IKEA Museum in Sweden These articles can be read in any order and are small views into what can be seen in Sweden. All the places are […]
A new app called “Vild Mad” is made by a Noma chef helping children to be able to collect things to be used for eating as spices or more integrated in dishes. Adults could learn a lot too. I know a bit and collect wild berries when I can find them or as for this post I would like […]
A few winters ago my roses nearly died. Many did die but my husband took good care of the few surviving ones and now they have recovered. Together with the white jasmine bushes they give me much joy. My “New Dawn” roses “Astrid Lindgren” roses, Jasmine bushes I am also grateful to be able to have a house and […]
This post is #4 in a series on places in Sweden. My husband and I took a car ride in Sweden and drove 2000 km in two weeks in May. #1 The House of Emigrants, #2 Two Old Town Centers in Sweden, #3 Huskvarna Factory Museum in Sweden. We took a long detour in the south of Sweden to see […]
Those who stayed in Smaland Sweden in the difficult times in the late 1800s
helped to invent good quality things for the households which raised the living conditions in Sweden
E.M. in Triathlon in Herning Denmark/ a half “Iron Man” was held in our home town Herning this weekend. My husband and I had the privilege to have been hosts for Robert Bacon a top athlete from Scotland. Robert booked us via the Airbnb app*. *The international firm Airbnb has a homepage you can download as an app on your […]
#2 in a series on a tour in Sweden in May 2017 In Sweden many houses are still wooden and are seen everywhere in the landscape. Houses in different colors often with white framing. The gardens have lawns and a few bushes or trees. In Denmark we have a tradition of hiding our brick houses behind hedges. In the 1960s many […]
