On my last full day in Stockholm, Gustav took me on a boat trip from Gamla Stan (The Old Town) to Nacka Strand (where he lives and works). Prior to that I’d been catching the bus – 443 or 71 or even 404 – back to his place where I was staying during my time [...]
Moving Hell…Day #2
The packing up and moving saga entered its second major day today. While I’ve been getting rid of stuff and making preparations for the last couple of weeks, the serious hard core work has started this weekend. My fabulous friend James O’Brien (now aka “the big butch Aussie bloke”) came back again and helped out. [...]
Moving is hell!
Haven’t had a chance to update my website lately…or do much of anything else. After a decade of living here, I have to move out. I have a decade worth of crap (and more) to sort through, box up and move. It is a nightmare. I’ve been working on it for a couple of weeks [...]
Yoda turns 50!
My best friend forever turns 50 today. What a milestone. He’s defied all the predictions and has achieved half a century on planet earth. Some may say – unkindly – that he has spent many of those years on another planet – but I, of course, would never say such a thing! Grant is having [...]
Silence will be defeated, by a single voice
My best Swedish friend Gustav – who actually reads this website – has translated “En Enda Röst”, the song I mentioned in an earlier post. It was a wonderful surprise to open my email this morning and see the email from him. I’ve played this song over 20 times last night and today. The repeat [...]
The Bird Dance/Chicken Dance
I dedicate this to my Dad who used to torture Yoda with this song on the car cassette player every time we had to pick up/drive him somewhere. It became a running joke, every time Yoda got in the car, Dad would have the song ready for him. Yoda hates this song with a vengeance!
Watching the Melodifestivalen final
If you go to the Social page on this website, you’ll see a stack of photos from last Sunday’s get together to watch the Melodifestivalen 2010 final on the big screen. Shots are lacking captions because I am waiting on the lovely Patrick to get back to me and remind me of all the names [...]
James is in Stockholm
My good friend James has arrived in Stockholm and a 24 hour journey covering Sydney, Bangkok and Helsinki. James isn’t frigid but Stockholm sure is as you can see from the picture here. It’s all ice, ice baby in Sweden. They’re having the longest winter they’ve had in eons. Normally the people and the weather [...]
My Birthday Present: Anything But iPod!
Darling Yoda bought me the perfect birthday present this year. Very happy, Jan! It wasn’t easy because every goddamn shop in the country sells those awful Evil Apple Empire things called iPods. And they don’t offer much else. Yoda had to be pointed to…er, I mean…had to discover for himself, a special online shop that [...]
