We had a day of thaw yesterday, but the ground still very cold - which turned it dangerously icy again. I had intended to try a short walk...

This afternoon I have been unpacking a delivery of groceries. My supermarket started their online ordering & home delivery service abo...

It has become a tradition for my town to celebrate its birthday (29th June)* with free cake in the main square. Never mind the weather! (Ab...

Every now and then I cook chickpeas (garbanzo beans)  to use in salads. On Friday I tried for the first time to roast some for snacks. The...

On Saturday, the town celebrated its annual Harvest Festival. Including free apple pie served in the theatre lobby (above). Downstairs the...

I still have some more photos from our Friday outing unblogged; but to bring you up to date, since then we’ve had three consecutive lazy su...

My salad and strawberry diet (mentioned in the previous post) seems to be going rather well. Superstitiously I don’t want to say too much ...

For Lisa’s Macro Monday and Mary’s Mosaic Monday Sometimes I’ve made green tomato marmalade myself from tomatoes grown on my balcony. N...

Well. I guess it worked as well as any other method I’ve tried… I’ll have to work on the last part, though (making nice little cubes…)! ...

My brother is here for a few days on his holiday. To be more exact he’s staying at our inherited house outside town, where we still have “th...

Chocolate cake with mint chocolate icing… I baked it for Christmas/New Year +  saved part of it for my brother’s birthday last week (with wh...

13 December we celebrate St Lucia/St Lucy’s day in Sweden. (The link will take you to a blog post of mine from last year.) One of my stay...

For Straight Out of the Camera Sunday … Please join me for a Swedish fika = our common word for a coffee or tea break, usually also includ...

My favourite July breakfast! ABC Wednesday

Yesterday a friend and I had lunch at a restaurant in an upper secondary school which has an education program for that kind of business....

Not a good Skywatch Friday today. Not even a really good day for Weekend Reflections. At least not if you want them all peaceful and sunny… ...