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Crappy weather today and yesterday. (The photo is taken by the lovely *ffefryn (toveb).) After a busy and stressful week, I managed to stay in my PJ:s until 3.30 pm, when I needed to get dressed to get some groceries at the store - my fridge was empty. So I forced myself out in this crappy weather.. It has been an emotional week. On Wednesday my co-worker S got the news she didn't get the work she applied for - we all thought she has a shoe in. Our friend A got the job instead. So we felt sad for S and happy for A.. A weird situation. And on Friday Mrs B retired after 30 year as an archivist. It was, though, a happy farewell - but a bit sad after all. (And she didn't get her present from me, the monster of hell shawl... she will get it later.) But I think Mrs B enjoyed her send off, 55 of her closest colleagues showed up with flowers, presents to her. The boss held a beautiful speech to her and some of us shed a tear.
Still amazing weather here. I took a walk on my lunch break and came home with these photos:
down by the water
birds on ice
oscars church
the museum of national antiquities
the national heritage board
How does your surroundings around your office looks like?
Travelling fever, that is. This is the year when I turn 40. And I will not celebrate this birthday at home. So I have started to browse the web for some travel ideas.
Today I started to look for some tickets. And at the moment it's not expensive. I can get a ticket Stockholm-Washington-Stockholm from 4500 SEK / 528 $ /£ 367 . And to New York I can find tickets from 4200 SEK / 492 $/ £ 343. To Edinburgh/Glasgow from 2300 SEK / 270 $ / £ 188. London from 800 SEK / 94 $ / £ 65. Dublin 1600 SEK / 187 $/£ 130. So where do I go? Or should I go to Berlin? Prag? Rome? Barcelona? Milano? Or should I stay in Sweden? A week in Göteborg? In Visby?
Where do you want to spend you next Birthday?
knitting art in stockholm by stickkontakt
At the moment though, I stay put in a cold Stockholm. We had a fantastic day with a blue and sunny sky - while rest of western Europe had to tackle a snow blizzard.
The first book list of the year!
* The Holy Blood and the Holy Grailby Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh & Henry Lincoln. This is the book Dan Brown read and got inspired to write Da Vinci Code.
In this book, the authors put forward a hypothesis the Jesus married Mary Magdalene, had one or more children, and that those children or their descendants emigrated to what is now southern France. Once there, they intermarried with the noble families that would eventually become the Merovingian dynasty, whose special claim to the throne of France is championed today by a secret society called the Priory of Sion. There has been a lot of talks about this book, and a couple of years ago it was reveled that Priory of Sion was a hoax. It is a good story nevertheless. * The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band by Mötley Crüe& Neil Strauss. O'boy- How did these guys even survived to tell their story? I was never a fan of the Crüe, but I heard their songs and read about them in the papers. And a rock n' roll biography is always fun to read. * Låt det aldrig ta slut by Åke Edwardson. 4th book about inspector Erik Winter. It's a hot summer in Göteborg and in a course of a couple of weeks, 2 women is found dead in a park. Has these two killings anything to do with a unsolved case 5 years ago? * Skrivet i eld - Written in Bone by Simon Beckett. Is the second book about forensic anthropologist David Hunter. (I haven't read the first one yet.) On his way back from an ongoing investigation into a serial killer in Scotland, David Hunter is asked to examine a fire-death on the remote Hebridean island of Runa. It appears to be a textbook case of the phenomenon known as spontaneous human combustion. But Hunter is certain there is a more rational explanation for what has happened. And although the police seem ready to dismiss this as a bizarre accidental death, he finds himself drawn more towards Brody's gut feeling: whatever caused this, it was no accident. But even as Hunter comes face to face with the knowledge that there is a murderer on the island, the full force of an Atlantic storm descends. Cut off from the mainland, he begins to realize that the burned corpse is only one of Runa's secrets. And as the storm rages, the killing begins in earnest... * Dalziels död - The Death of Dalziel by Reginald Hill. A new book about inspectors Dalziel and Pascoe. Can it be true? Has the Fat Man really sung? Caught in a huge Semtex explosion, it seems the only thing preventing Superintendent Andy Dalziel from stepping through Death's door is his size -- and sheer bloody-mindedness. While Andy lies in a coma, an injured DCI Pascoe works to uncover what he feels sure is a conspiracy, despite the security services believing the blast was an accident in which the terrorists blew themselves up. Who, then, are the mysterious Knights Templar, bringing the war in Iraq back home with their gruesome acts of vengeance? And, most importantly, will Dalziel ever wake up to hear the truth..? * Snö och aska - A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon. A Breath of Snow and Ashes is the sixth volume of the best-selling Outlander series of Claire Randall Fraser and her Highlander husband Jamie, the story is an integral step in a bestselling and surprisingly rich tale spanning the time from the Scottish Rising of 1745, to the American Revolution.
I'm here, I just have been busy with everything. Lots to do at work, my social calander has been full. But finally, I have a day to do nothing exept knitting.
ACE arrived Thursday morning and left yesterday evening. 3 days filled with fun stuff. ACE visit was work related thing time, in fact she did some archive studies at "my" archive. But we had some fun evenings with good food and wine - Mamas and Tapas on Thursday and Café Milano on Friday. And an early coffee break at Café Rival on Saturday morning - before browsing Maria´s yarn store. ACE found a lucious hank of a blood red wool from Färgkraft - and didn't buy a thing.
Vanillia pannacotta with raspberries and biscotti @ Café Milano.
I have taken another break with the "monster from hell". I basically hate it. But I WILL finish it (someday)! I have cast on for a new hat, a new Billie Bob and thinking of casting on for a scarf later today.
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