The Darkness Of Sweden

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

Anti-food additives & pestiside awareness
Uggghhh!!!!After writing a long blog piece yesterday about the anti-food additives wave finally reaching Sweden I walked into the supermarket and saw DN's headlines -Green Tea Found to have high levels of insecticide.I drink a cou

Is it Swine Flu?
Asks a 7 year old as we walk in to school to have a "development talk" with Makaila's teacher today.She has been off school for two days and spent the day in bed yesterday sweating it out. 30 hours of fever seems to have broken the worst of the virus and she was much, much better today, just a mild cough and a few sniffles.Weird how we have lost our ability to have a cold, much less a normal flu without everyone wondering.Oh, and if you're wondering about this "parent teacher interview" as it was called in my day and part of the world I can inform you that everyone is happy. When asked by her teacher she said she loves everything, she's pretty good at dra

Tax day in Sweden - where is the festival of yesteryear?
I used to chuckle over the long lines of people handing in their tax declarations at the last moment - the streets would thick with traffic, people driving by the mighty taxation building Skatteskrapan, the only skyskraper on Söder and handing their declaration to staff standing on the street.

Our Halloween celebrations
Not being from a Halloween celebrating country and not living in a Halloween celebrating country, the celebration of Halloween is new to me but it is a tradition we have made our own. And I love any celebration of the seasons, and any excuse to brighten up the darkness, so it fits into life quite nicely.The kids have been excited for days, weeks. The concept of running around knocking on doors and being given candy is about as thrilling as they can imagine. It was like Christmas eve here yesterday, the waiting and waiting went on longer than they thought possible.It's the third year in a row we have celebrated with a dinner with friends and it has become a combined Thanksgiving-

A Golden Stockholm
We live in a golden world at the moment. If I stand in the middle of our apartment I see golden leaves everywhere I look.Out our bedroom window.Off the balcony.