Apologies for infrequent updates (as if anyone cares…sniff…) - I haven’t been up to much other than working away on my project recently and I don’t want to talk about that too much close to the end.
Anyway,
After my minor altercation with numerous beers and the best part of a bottle of wine at the weekend my body has now decided to let me know what it feels like to be really ill rather than just hung-over. Waking up with a terrible stomach ache has left me slow off the mark with my work today but I am starting to feel a bit better now so I’m gradually getting on with it.
The Swedish winter is in full flow here now with snow falling more or less every day. The snow plows are out in force at night ensuring that everything keeps running but rumor has it that some Stockholm districts have already used all their “snow plow budget” for the year resulting in some (even more) nasty road conditions in places.
The view from our room window a few days ago. Actually, the snow doesn’t look that much in the photo. Just take my word for it, there is a lot of it about.
Another observation I have made this winter is that the gods of Sweden are obviously concerned with the possibility of over crowding if the native population is left untended. Death is around every corner here at the moment. If it is not the death from below, in the form of icy roads and pavements, that will get you it is the death from above, in the form of huge icicles hanging from gutters and solid lumps of icy snow balanced precariously on roof tops, that will finish you off. As a case in point:
You DO NOT want to be under that when the sun is shining and it is a bit windy…
Luckily though my naturally graceful nature allows me to dance around these death threats with the precision and poise of an albatross trying to land on a church spire…
