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Don't ya just LOOOOVVVVEEE swedish lakes in the summer? 

In the heavily forested jungles of Sweden's Dalsland area...at last it rains and the soil,trees,bushes...even the grass,celebrate with heavy sighs of relief. 

schizo mobiles?

I recently read an article which told me that there are more mobile phone subscriptions in Norway than there is population. Is that because they are listening more or talking more,I wonder...hehehehe

I also wonder,since mobile phones have been around in Sweden for over 20 years, what the figure is for Sweden.

Anybody out there know?

 

 

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see also 'brother blog' on spiritual matters:  http://ito.blogspot.com

Beautiful Summer

It just continues on, magnificent variations of tones colours moods and sensings.

Lakeside meanderings. Evening moments with friends sitting out beneath calm cosy skies.

The unending melodies of bird songs seducing our senses with the sublteties of nature.

 

Summer in Sweden is such an enjoyable experiencing :)

 

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see also 'brother blog' on spiritual matters:  http://ito.blogspot.com

and my home in that valley,just 50 yards from one of the largest of the 399 lakes in my kommune 

Summer splendour in the lakeside valley where I live in Dalsland 

World Cup schizophrenia

Sweden 2  England 2

Well that saves me having to excuse myself to the land of my birth or the land where I now live

 

I am not really a football fan, actually I think it's more a business than a sport but even I get 'touched' when it's Sweden versus England. I am just schizo about who I want to win...hehehehehehehe

 

I used the BBC website for my news (I don't have TV). The reportage is absolutely amazing. Thanks

to everyone at 'The Beeb' for the website. It's a remarkable site.

 

 

 

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around every corner surprises await here in Sweden. But I guess this hitch-hiker won't get a lift as she was trying to fool me...she had 3 youngsters hiding in the grass..that's too many for me to risk giving a lift 

High-rise accomodation, family-friendly with 

Long Travel

So where has the blog been? Well, it's a Sweden blog soI've been out doing some research..hehehehe.

 

Our nephew's confirmation was the occasion for a 1260 kmsdrive, mostly through Sweden, to Saltdal in Norway. We

managed the journey - including repair stops and food stops etc. - in 21 hours. We were accompanied by 3 other

english visitors,being some of my family from the UK.

 

WOW. This land is sooooooo boooootiful

 

I have now travelled all the way to the South of Sweden andquite a long way North and continue to be amazed at the

outstanding, tranquil beauty of it all. Lovely small towns,even beautiful big towns, forests and lakes,forests and lakes

..... it just keeps on. You could think that it would be boringafter a while, but not so. Even the differing forest areas

have their own character and personality and my brotherwas in awe of the empty roads with so little traffic. It got so

that we were more likely to see another lake than anothercar,heheheh 

 

The further north we journeyed the less the spring hadarived, so this year I got 3 springs...1 at home here in Dalsland,

1 up in the north and another in Norway around the amazingJunkerdal area.

 

When I lived in the UK it took a Norwegian visitor to acquaintme with a 'war museum' in my local old town - Chester - that I had

never known was there. I wonder if Swedes really have acomprehension of the staggering enormity of the beauty ofthis land ?

 

 

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staggering in it's intensity 

Beauty. Beauty...everywhere 

Guess it's summer :):):):):) 

awake,awake..thou that sleepest. The world awaits your beauty..... 

BritSwedes

Hmmm....is Sweden becoming more english?

"Over 100 Djurgården supporters were arrested before the Allsvenskan match against Gais in Gothenburg on Sunday after rioting on Kungsportsavenyn. Police moved in after the supporters began hurling chairs from a number of outdoor restaurants and bars".

 

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Ah, the incredible wonder of this phenomenon,the astounding creativity of this whole system with which we are surrounded and entertained with feasts of unexpressable beauty 

Check the trees on the previous picture...see any leaves? This is the same lakeside 48hours later. Just 1 day of superb sunshine and the nature explodes with new activity. Spring is sprung :) 

Ducks leaving 'comet trails' on the lake...note the 'barren trees',this is Thursday 4th May.... 

Swedish Klondike?????

Published: 3rd May 2006 11:50 CET

A Canadian company has applied for a concession to mine a 774 hectare site north of Dals Långed, in Dalsland, western Sweden. The application from Mawson Resources is formally for permission to search for gold, but the company says that the area could also contain exploitable amounts of uranium.

www.thelocal.se

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5-year olds voting

"5-year olds in Gothenburg are to be the first in the world to vote in official referendums, to be held at the same time as the general election in September. The aim is to enthuse them for democracy"

www.thelocal.se

Now that's about the most progressive step I've seen in any modern 'democracy'. Amazing when you think that in so many places in this world adults are denied a vote - especially women!!

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Sweden's largest Muslim organisation has deman...

"Sweden's largest Muslim organisation has demanded that Sweden introduce separate laws for Muslims, according to Swedish television"

Hmmm...this kind of law? It was claimed that a trial took place. The 19 year old princess was beheaded in a public execution..not in the santioned execution place,but in a car park! It was 1977 and according to 'Frontline' things haven't changed since then

"Saudi Princess Misha'al

She was a granddaughter of Prince Muhammad bin Abdul Aziz, who was an older brother of the then King of Saudi Arabia, King Khalid bin Abdul Aziz.After attempting to fake her own drowning and being caught trying to escape from Saudi Arabia with her lover, she and her lover were executed on the orders of her grandfather, Prince Muhammad bin Abdul Aziz. There was no trial of the Princess or her lover, nor have any charges ever been brought against her grandfather".

Wikipedia.

 

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Spring is springing

 

Winter's over. Summer is just around the corner. That's as good a cause for celebration in Sweden as any, and the revelry on Valborgsmässoafton - Walpurgis Night - on April 30th gets pretty heated.

Intensely so, actually, as massive bonfires up and down the country honour an 8th-century German abbess, St. Walpurga, or Valborg in Swedish

from the online Swedish newspaper in english: www.thelocal.se

 

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Despite all the snow,ice and cold of winter, fragile beauty is determined to announce the spring's arrival 

A new pollutant has been identified which will...

A new pollutant has been identified which will sit uncomfortably on the usual list of cars, planes and industry: coniferous Nordic forests.

According to environmental experts at Stockholm University, the pines and spruces of northern Europe create masses of small particles which drift up to 1,000 metres into the atmosphere.

 

"The levels in Stockholm city centre are 100-200 micrograms per cubic metre, compared to 4-5 in our forest measurements."

published in www.thelocal.se    (swedish news in English)

 

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anytime now and it will start to reveal open water...and as you can see the snow is quickly going from the land

Sherlock's gnomes

Yeah, well it's now 9 days since the 'email virus' stream started

to flow....and it continues still :)

Using a leading international email service someone keeps trying to

perusade me to open an email enclosure of a file type that is almost

certainly a virus.

I confess to being puzzled that having reported to the email service concerned

a probable 'virus mailer' that they haven't yet shut down his/her email account.

 

I can only guess that they must be tracking/isolating/identifying the person

concerned with attempting to cause damage to other people's pc's and services.

 

What do you think?  

 

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Potential Virus?

During this past week I have been receiving many SUSPECT emails.

Suspect?  Well,take a look -

1.The subject says pdf file, the content is a PIF file

2. The subject says Photo,the content is a BHX file

3. The subject says 'Real Show', the contect is a UUE file

4. The subject says jpg, the content is a PLF file.

 

All of the ACTUAL attachment files are known or possible carriers of virus, particularly the MyWife virus, according to www.filext.com

 

The emails come from a Norwegian email address but appear,unless its forged, according to the data I have been given to originate in the Phillipines.

 

Never, never, NEVER open an email containing attachments (in this case they are all over 100kb) if:

5. it comes from a person you do not know

6. you have not checked the 'file header' (you can do this on most webmail

systems without opening the attachment) to make sure the file type that is

ACTUALLY enclosed poses no risk to your computer.

 

AND be very sure your protection measures (anti-virus,anti-spyware, anti-phishing,etc) are absolutely up to date.

 

Interesting that people have the need to perform such strange actions in the first place, huh?

 

 

 

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Brambling.......Fringilla Montifringilla.....Bergfink ca. 1 year old 

Colourful Guest

First seen 3 weeks ago for a short time, this colourful guest and a companion showed up again today. I understand it's a 'red list' bird in England though in New Zealand, where my nephew and his fiancee live, it is very plentiful

Stefan (http://www.birds.se ) again kindly provided identification for me as this is not always easy for me...I am not an expert 'Bird watcher' and also am a little colour blind. Stefan was also able to tell me that it is a 1 year old bird :)  Many thanks - again - Stefan

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Yellowhammer - Emberiza Citrinella - Gulsparv 

changing,changing,changing...all the time. Nature never allows us to rest unchallenged by new developments. Most of the snow has now gone from the lake surface..transformed. 

Past 200,000

Well, now we went over the 200,000 count

for website hits on the

www.Ragnhild-Monsen.com  website.

 

Thats a first since the website started in 1998

 

 

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Website visits/hits

There seems to be a lot of interest in my wife's art

judging by the activity at her website these past 2

weeks - which coincides with her exhibition in Galleri

Infra, Stockholm.

 

Visits and hits are 200% more than the average for

the previous year - and we are about to have a record

for a month and for a year, with hits about to top

200,000 for the year possibly today but certainly

within the next 24 hours!

 

In case you wish to visit, the url's are:

 

www.ragnhild-monsen.com

or

www.tapestry-art.net

 

 

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Snow Go

After 24 hours of temperatures above freezing all

the snow is starting to melt and to go - as one would

expect.

The frozen lake has a covering of water from the rain

we have had and is 'groaning' at night I presume as

the molecules expand through thawing.

Winters in Sweden  - or the area of our home -

are so interesting.

 

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Stockholm Exhibition

Oh, I think I like this Qumana :)

 

The reason I was not blogging last week

was because my wife (http://www.ragnhild-monsen.com )

was holding a major exhibition of her art work

 - she has been a professional artist for over

 30 years - at Galleri Infra, Infra City,Stockholm

http://www.galleriinfra.com

 

So we had a marvellous stay at the Scandic Infra

City hotel and a hard working week erecting a

very large amount of very large tapestries and

textile art.

 

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utstallning Stockholm-exhibition Stockholm 

Stockholm utstallning - Stockholm exhibition 

Stockhol ustallning - Stockholm exhibition 

Qumana and backups BLOGS

Hmmmm.. I must be getting nerdish :):)

 

This is a trial of an offline Blog editor which has many

very nice features to help us write our blogs...especially

offline.http://www.qumana.com

I also solved another little problem today with my blogging.

Over the 5 years I've been blogging I've had 2 harddisk

crashes...one caused by an (at the time) undetected virus

which finally managed to physically destroy a new 80 gig

HDD.

This gave me something of a headache or two, as a lot

of my blog backups also disappeared. Today I grabbed

a free opensource website copier that also copies BLOGS.

Beautifully :):)

http://www.httrack.com

 

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Did he get Salami on Rye? Huh! I'm green with envy!?!!! 

Was that Salami on Rye? 

Back Home

"Oh, the joy:
to live on this land of lusciousness
where civilisations sounds have surrendered
to the near-neolithic undulations
that are the rhythms of unmetered moments,
bathing the mind with the tranquility of timelessness".

copywright: Geoff Groom

I may not be blogging next week because we will be here....Stockholm :) 

a bit of sunbathing in the snow?