****20 YEARS AGO (2001)****

1) How old were you?

17.

2) Who were you dating?

I had just met my first boyfriend Matthew at the Silver Rocket night at Upstairs at The Garage in Highbury.

3) Where did you work?

I worked weekends at Selfridges at Nicole Farhi selling very expensive clothes.

4) Where did you live?At home with my parents in ( Read more... )

When I look back and think of February I think of super cold snowy days, daylight returning and a feeling of hopefulness in the air. We definitely had the most consistent snow for 6 weeks then we have had in all the years I have lived here. And it is so obvious but it really makes all the difference. I even got to walk on the lake I swim in every ( Read more... )

How’d you meet:
On a bitterly cold day at a Vietnamese cooking class in the deep suburbs of Stockholm. We have never actually made the food we learned to make that day but have eaten Vietnamese together since then.

First Date: He asked me out and booked us into a steakhouse. It was in a really uninspiring part of town and my expectations were ( Read more... )

After years of mild grey winters we have had heaps of snow during the second half of January and frigid beautiful cold days! It looks like we are going to get a top up of snow this afternoon too. It has been so lovely looking out windows to see powder sugared trees and I love walking through crunchy soft snow. January and February are always the ( Read more... )

And then the gloomiest December for as long as I can remember! It was getting dangerously close to us not having any sun at all for the month but we had a bit of a Christmas miracle and did manage to see it again. Thank goodness for all the decorations and it felt like more people than usual decorated this year. We took our tree down on Wednesday ( Read more... )

01. What did you do in 2020 that you'd never done before?

Gone the longest period of not seeing my brother, joined a union, attended a wedding via Zoom, learned how to bake, started to wear slippers inside and wondered why I had not started sooner and well you know survived a pandemic (so far)....

02. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, ( Read more... )

This was by far the brightest November I have experienced since moving to Sweden. We had a good handful of days of blue skies and sunshine. And now that the first advent has passed the city is alive with Christmas decorations and candles and stars in the windows. Will this be the year htough we finally get a snowy winter? I really do hope so! We ( Read more... )

As we continue to trudge through this atrocious year it has been really wonderful to have a beautiful autumn. The foliage has been so bright and varied. That is pretty much all my camera roll has photos of since I last wrote. I would say they will be around for another week or so. Hopefully we don't have a repeat of last November. So far it looks ( Read more... )

We ended up having another blast of balmy heat towards the end of August which was really nice. On the 18th which fell on a Tuesday both of us were off. It had been ages since we had  a weekday off together so we took full advantage of it. I had stumbled upon a cafe on Djurgården during one of my many deep dives on Google Maps that I wanted to try ( Read more... )

3 things you’ve done today:
1. Shaved my legs
2. Paid my monthly union membership fee
3. Laid down the carpet my parents gave us

3 things you’ve purchased recently:

1. Disposable dish brush
2. Clothes for my Mum from her favourite store
3. Groceries

3 things you’ve eaten today:
1. Vegemite toast
2. Apple cinnamon tea that I got from christinafairy a few years ago ( Read more... )