Swedish Midsummer

Probably the biggest Swedish midsummer celebration I've been to, and I wasn't even in Sweden. Picnic in Hyde Park with everything one can need for the occasion... Kubb, ringdans, köttbullar, jordgubbstårta, kladdkaka, dillchips and all the other stuff. A little piece of home, away. Just lovely!

 

 

 

 

Alabama shakes.

Excuse me, but they are brilliant..

Swedish midsummer for dummies.

Pox, I hate you.

Today I'm gonna beat my chickenpox, and enter the outside world.  I just washed my hair for the first time in a week. I'm about to put on make up for the first time in a week. I'm also going to do a clothes change, for the first time in a couple of days. I realise now how gross I've been. My face still looks a bit like a pepperoni pizza but at least it's not contagious anymore, and I just don't care. I will go crazy if I stay inside this apartment one more day!


What does chickens have to do with this anyway?

Moonight Cinema

I love outdoors cinemas. A thing that worked better in Australia, obviously, because of the weather. Over here, you can't really know what's gonna happen. But it doesn't make it less magic. I remember when Josh and I had just met, we went to see "Where wild things are" at the moonlight cinema at centennial park in Sydney. It was dark, there was stars out, and there were bats (or flying foxes as they are over there ) flying over our heads. I don't think I would've liked that movie if I saw it anywhere else , but there, it was brilliant.  There definitely is something about watching a movie under the stars wrapped in a blanket with a good picnic... SO, Londoners, here comes your chance this summer: PopUpScreens , lots of good movies coming up , for example Office space, Anchorman,  Taken, Donnie Darko etc ...

Turquoise.

Cefalú - Sicily. What can I say? I'll let the pictures speak for themselves...

Play it again and again and again

The british builder's secret.

This is how lovely our bathroom looks at the moment. The builders came because our water boiler has been acting stupid, and they did this aswell while they were here. And then left it. I had no idea this was what it looked like under there.. and I'm glad I didn't. Did they really think wood and water is a good combination when they built this? Our whole apartment now smells like rotten wood. But that was not the main issue, the whole boiler is Kaaaputt (his words, not mine) and the whole thing needs to be changed. I got a feeling this will take some time. Until then, no hot water, and we have a reason to go to the gym every day...

And the winning shape is..... Triangle!

Brunch buddy

Omelette with ham and sundried tomatoes and ovenbaked cherry tomatoes on the side. It might look like vomit to you, but it taste like heaven in my mouth.

/ The person who never takes photos of food.

Marry me, Ben Howard.

Friday.

Thursday.

Eh.

The animal of the month: Sloth.

I also want to work in a Sloth Orphanage!


(Notice the chilled out guy at 0:35 )

Meanwhile gardens

Morning walk along the canal and Meanwhile Gardens, the place that has a much prettier name that it deserves..

 

Some gigs..

.. are just so epic that I have to save the ticket.

The Bundaberg Experience

"Australia" posted this photos from Bundaberg on Facebook the other day. 

Aww, I know , cute right? Usually I suffer from massive jealousy when these kinds of photos are posted, and I want to go back. But in this case it's completely false advertising. After living there me and Erika knows the truth about Bundy. You might be looking for baby turtles but this is the closest you'll get:

 

 

Gorgeous George.

We've watched a couple of movies lately, one of them was Super.
Rainn Wilson, Ellen Page, Liv Tyler, Kevin Bacon. So much potential, but such a letdown.
Ellen Page is usually brilliant... but she has never been more annoying than this. Such a weird movie. When I saw that the director of Slither (movie about how a town gets taken over by some form of alien slugs/snails that turn people into zombies) had been involved, I knew that was a step in the wrong direction. And there definitly was some scenes I would not want to see ever again. Actually I probably never want to see any scenes from the movie again.

Apart from that..
The Grey. As usual, Liam Neeson is just the coolest man om earth. If it wasn't for him, I probably wouldn't have liked this movie. But it was him, and the movie was alright. It just contained a lot more wolves than I expected. The Descendants. I just love George. I mean who doesn't? I haven't cried like that in a while. Good if you ask me. We need to talk about Kevin. Heavy. Good but heavy. (Apparently the book is recomended) The Sitter. Crappy movie with some funny bits. This was Josh's choice of course. I wanted to leave the cinema straight away. Very uncomfortable, and almost painful to watch. In a meet-the-fockers-kind of way.

Just keep swimming, just keep swimming..

I love being back in the pool!