Category: Other bits

This is how well I have weeded the flowerbeds. Stick some flags in them and call it done.

In March I took the train through Denmark to Berlin and back.  I also left my job, and started a new one in April.                                             

                

   I was six when the Berlin wall fell. I am not sure my memory of it is real – being allowed from bed to watch it on TV with my parents, or if it is something that happened on another occasion.  But I do remember that for almost all of my elementary school years,… Continue reading The wall

Random thought I had: in Norwegian you typically say, I take the train. (Jeg tar toget.)  But you can also, albeit very informally, say: Jeg toger. It directly translates to: I am training. However, where it in Norwegian it is understandable what you’re doing, it completely changes meaning in English and has nothing to do… Continue reading Linguistics

Victoria had her second child, a boy, at Karolinska hospital in Stockholm at 8.28 PM today March 2. According to Prince Daniel at the press conference, it happened very quickly. They did not know in advance that it would be a boy. Princess Estelle hasn’t been told that she is a big sister yet, as… Continue reading A baby boy for Victoria and Daniel

Wasn’t it just Christmas? Where did February go?    I ate pancakes for dinner. Not just on pancake day. Let’s not count how often I had it, after I found the perfect recipe for one…   And there was cream-filled buns in the work cafeteria.     The poor little bush in my yard was blown down… Continue reading Pictures of February