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Yes, it's the last day of July and it's high summer. Yesterday we had quite a lot of rain and it was the first time it rained here at home since I can't remember. It was really needed. The grass haven't been green in a long time. It's yellow because it's so dry. The leaves of the trees especially the birches are getting all yellow because of the drought and this is not usual in Sweden. I started working again on Monday after 3 weeks holiday. It was hard getting up at 4.45AM again but I managed. So I worked Monday-Tuesday. Today I'm off work because I will be working tomorrow. It's August 1 and I have to do invoicing. Today I'm off to the hairdresser. My hair tends to grow more in the summer. Maybe it's the same for you? After that I have to go to the bank to pay my Mom's last bills. It's kind of hard because here in Sweden most banks don't have money (!!) So you have to find that special bank that is like a bank is supposed ...

  Fans and friends, Marie-Louise, Peter, Ingvor and me Thursday me and my very good friend Ingvor started from her house for Helsingborg. Her car was completely full since we also had her wheel chair with us. We drove to Nyköping where we had our first stop for lunch. Then we continued to lake Vättern and we had of course to have some coffe there with this gorgeous view. The coffee wasn't that good and they hardly had anything to go with it but they did have the view ;-) We then continued to the cute little town of Gränna which is the home of sugar candy poles or as we say polkagrisar. Of course we had to stop there and buy some. It's a tradition although the canes are very sweet and very bad for your teeth so it's really just a tradition and nothing we really eat (at least not I) Then we drove alongside one of Sweden's most wonderful motorways that is alongside lake Vättern all the way down to Huskvarna. After Jönköping we continued into Småland and th...

  Me and Jonas by the beach Today it was time for me and Jonas and have our mother-son day. It started out as a very cloudy day but as the day went along the sun came out and we had atemperature of 29C. Lucky for us I headed to a beautiful place called Marholmen just outside of Norrtälje www.marholmen.se We strolled down to the beach, they have in fact 2 beaches, one designated for children and the other for grown-ups. I went into the sea but I didn't bath, just went in with my feet. It wasn't very warm but still nice and cool.  Jonas at the beach   The beaches, photo taken from Villa Berg We also walked around the area and up to the most beautiful house, Villa Berg, which you can for instance rent for conferences. After that we went back to "grosshandlarvillan" for lunch which we are outside in the beautiful weather while looking out over the sea.   Having lunch in wonderful weather We just sat there enjoying the food and our company an...

  The fasade of the hotel a former mill (qvarn or kvarn means mill) and landmark Back home again after a wonderful weekend at "our" hotel. This time we stayed Friday-Sunday and this was (as I might have mentioned) my prize from the cooking competition at work. Part of our room We arrived on Friday at 2PM and didn't get our favorite room but the exact same room one floor below. We were this time greated with wine and chocolate in our room complimentary from the hotel. It's such a nice gesture which we totally appreciate. Thank you Elite :-) Here is the outside restaurant and in the window you see Hasse in our room Later in the afternoon Emil and Viktoria arrived and we had dinner together. And what a dinner it was. So good!! We were completely full after that and just went up to the room to relax before they headed home. Great evening and we fell asleep listening to the sound from the waves hitting the shore. What a way to sleep and to wake up to. ...

  My friends Rubina, Annika and me Yesterday I had lunch with three good friends. All of them friends from the Rheumatic association. We met at Ingvor's place, a wonderful house, in beautiful summer weather. I came earlier so that we two could plan our road trip next week to Helsingborg. After a while came Annika who is the chair woman in our association in Stockholm. Me, Annika and Ingvor is part of our working committe in the association in Stockholm. We are 4 in the committee but one couldn't come because she's on holiday. It was so nice to sit down and talk, laugh and just relax together. After a while our friend Rubina joined us. She had been cooking the meal which was Indian (or maybe Pakistan) dishes. I don't know the name of things but I think one was called Dahl (or something like that). Good but very spicy. I had made Västerbotten pie and a big salat with feta cheese, avocado, salat, tomatoes, cucumber and more... And to that I had made a vinagraitt...

 Me outside the pension with the view down to the bay Today me and Danniel had a day on our own which was very nice. It was a beautiful day and we first drove down to Södertälje and visited this wonderful old pension built in 1860 and situated so beautiful by a seabay.   A part of the livingroom   View from the livingroom to the bedrooms The other side of the livingroom at the pension   When you got in it was like taking a step back to the 19th century and I loved it! It was fully modern though and all rooms had en-suite.  One of the rooms, every room has its own look .   The conference room  The dining room   View from the parking lot The view from the dining room After visiting the pension we continued on that road until it ended and there was this beautiful little inn also by the bay. On the opposite side from the inn there was this wonderful little seaside beach.   Danniel waiting for food a...