HOT HOT H.E.A.T

Today was our grandchild's birthday. She's not really our grandchild but has adopted us :-) We went to her afternoon-party by the pool and it was a beautiful day with sunshine and rather warm temperature. I had bought her a giftcard to H&M and a pendant with the Gotland rose and also a pair of earrings with small hearts on them. She was very happy for the gifts. We had coffee with lots of cockies which Tanya and Tracy had baked themselves. Inger had made the cake which was topped with strawberries and an eatable photo of E.M.D! Well, I don't know what all the fuss is about them but apparantly little girls love them. After that all kids went into the pool. We could have too but I didn't have my swimsuit with me, bad choice, so I couldn't. Then Angelica came with her babygirl Kendra and she went into the pool for the first time in her life. She loved it, Kendra that is not Angelica :-) (although it looked like Angelica also loved it) We had Hilma alone at home an...

What a night, what a day! It started out real bad with grey skies and rainshowers. We arrived at Skansen about 3PM and we went to restaurant Solliden to have lunch, the Swedish smorgasbord :-). Together with us were Kenny's parents Carina and Matz we ate good and listened to the soundchecks by, among the other artists, H.E.A.T. After meeting with Mandy, Sofie, Johanna, Minna and Johanna's fiancé Jonas (yes, same name but different person) Kristian (H.E.A.T's biggest fan) and his girlfriend Rebecka we sat down and waited for us to go in. There was a special entrance for us VIP's. When we came in we had designated places and in our bench we were 5 so rather crowded (they are only meant for 4) but there had been some misunderstanding so that's why but it all went well. The show started and since it's Pride week here After Dark started (they are a very wellknown dragshow). After the first number there was the first singalong song which was lead by the After Dark mem...

Tomorrow it's time! Time for what you might ask? Well, for 20 years now Hasse and I have been talking about going to Skansen and be a part of the audience at Allsång (Singalong) which we love. Now finally it's time. H.E.A.T performs live at Allsång which is broadcasted by Swedish Television chanel 1 www.svt.se/play I'm very excited and I so hope that the weather will be decent at least. I have to pray tonight for good weather but with this summer we have had you can never tell. Anyway Hasse and I have booked table at Solliden restaurant and will eat there at 3PM and by doing that we can also watch the final rehearsal which is said to be very good. We are of course many from the H.E.A.T family there and it's always nice to meet. I will take some photos and share with you afterwards. I hope you're all having a great time wherever you are :-)

Today me, Hasse and Hilma went down to Årsta havsbad where Sofie has her summer house. It was really nice and situated on top of a hill with great views. Jona, Mandy, Johanna, Minna, Eva and of course Sofie greated us when we arrived. They had made a delicious pastasallat and to that walnutbread. You who know me knows that I love walnuts, :-). After lunch we had coffee with "lovemums" I had made and brought. Huge success. Minna is so cute and as always with a baby around everything concentrates to the child. She's such a lovely and happy baby. She laughs a lot and "talks" all the time. She was very interested in Hilma and turned so she could see her. Time really flew like it does when you're having a good time and much too soon Jona said we had to go home because he had rehearsal at 6. So first we drove Mandy home. Then we fetched Eric, one of the guitarists and took them to their rehearsal place. Crash was already there which you could here when we arrived...

We had just a wonderful trip to Dalarna. The weather was the best and that was something we couldn't be sure of after the heavily raining that had been going on the last week in Dalarna. We arrived to Tällbergsgården at 1PM and we got this wonderful suite overlooking Lake Siljan and with a huge terrace which was our own. We also had a jaccuzzi in the room as well as rainshower. It was decorated absolutely fabolous and to our taste. The only thing was that it was so hot when we came back from Dalhalla at 1AM that we had to have the terracedoor opened for a while to cool it down. Rhapsody in Rock was great. I thought this year that Robert Wells had a slightly worse group of artists because there weren't these huge wellknown ones but boy was I wrong. The comic was so funny and really to the point. The orchestra was outstanding and the sound perfect. You could really hear the music and the different instruments as well as the singer. I have, after been to several festivals and conc...

Well, we are safely back from the festival. We were really lucky weatherwise because the two first days it had rained and rained and rained but when we came it was sunshine and warm. It was only me and Mandy that came and we drove down to the parkingarea to park the car but when I saw how it looked I said I wouldn't park there if they paid me. It was a mud field and I bet we would have had difficulties driving the car from it. So I turned and parked by the store in the village. It was just 100 meters from the venue and FREE. On the field it cost 150 SEK!! Jonas had been so kind and put me on the guestlist which mean I didn't have to pay (595 SEK for one day) and I am so happy for that. He also gave me access to the Monster area but we couldn't get VIP-passes (only the girlfriends) but we were all happy. When I talk about we I mean all the other parents and also an aunt and cousins. A big happy family we are - the H.E.A.T family and the extended H.E.A.T family. We had a lot ...

Yes we are soon off to Scamperstream to watch H.E.A.T among other bands. But it's only me and Mandy this time since Hasse has decided to stay in Gävle with Staffan. He really needs his rest after the terrible ordeal on Monday and Tuesday. He's feeling much better now though which makes me so happy. I will have some photos from the festival when I come back (hopefully) so I'll talk to you then. Take care and have a wonderful weekend :-)

We are back after a wonderful, peaceful, active, interesting, historic, gourmet holiday onboard Vision of the Seas. The best cruise ever. We boarded her in Frihamnen, Stockholm by noon Thursday in a weather that held 30C and sunshine. We went directly to Windjammer café for lunch since we couldn't get in our cabin until 1PM. We had a wonderful lunch and then down to our cabin which was a junior suite. What a suite! Huge balcony almost like a terrace, big room with doublebed and separate space with sofas, chair and table and of course TV with a lot of channels including film channel with the latest movies. Not that we had time to watch them :-). Also a huge bathroom since we had a cabin for disabled thus having this bathroom with space for a wheelchair. Afterwards we went to pooldeck and I had a swim in the nice warm pool and then sunbath. It felt more like Caribbean than Sweden. We set sail at 5PM and started our journey to Tallin. At dinner, which we had at 6PM every night, we had...