My mother made it here safely this afternoon around 16:00, I took her home, fed her fresh-baked blueberry/raspberry/almond filled bread, juustuo, and (after a short break to digest the first bit) spaghetti, then took her to nyckleharpa night, where we got to listen to beautiful Swedish folk music, and finally sent her to bed at 22:00 our time, so, ( Read more... )

The holidays have more or less ended, but here in Sweden they wind down slowly. Tuesday (6 Jan) was a holiday, and I worked from home on Monday, so that was two days at home after returning from the New Year's adventures. Then I went to the office on Wednesday, and while there got the department head's signature on the form I needed for my eye ( Read more... )

Life has been delightfully pleasant--full but not hectic, with a bit of emphasis on music lately. I am now the person responsible for taking the photocopies of new sheet music for choir and typing the music into NoteworthyComposer to make midi files so that we can all listen to our parts and practice at home. I was really delighted when I found ( Read more... )

I have mentioned some of us in our choir (Student Choir Aurora) get together now and then to do instrumental stuff +/- singing. Last spring we recorded some of our songs, and one of the guys has put the results for two of them onto his web page.

The first is the song Ridom, which long time readers might recall from my series of "learn Swedish ( Read more... )

Friday during the day we had a delivery of stones:


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Yesterday we hosted another music night for folk in our choir. This time there were five us, and over the course of the evening between us we played two guitars, one each violin, nyckleharpa, cello, hammer dulcimer and harmonica, and we all sang. It was ever so much fun! I am getting much better at playing with other people, though I still can't ( Read more... )