texting can be expensive

After the entry on this blog satirising the lack of laws preventing texting whilst driving in Sweden 

I must say that it was with joy that I read:

and just in case you think I am a little unhelpful or lacking in understanding of the

huge priority of instant communication to discuss last night's tv prog, someone's sexy legs,

the other items needed from the supermarket, the fact that you're late because you are

so bad at time-management……etc.etc, well take a look at this reconstruction of

a real event (you are advised to be 18+ to view)

The difference between an employee and an employer, a clerk or a manager, a teaboy or an executive,

is fairly simple, or so I was taught.The executive/manager/employer  deals with things

when he/she chooses to do so  – not when others express the need!

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However did we use to manage before some smart person invented carrier pigeons…….

beloved House of Sweden

 

LARGE PICTURE HERE

The Swedish embassy has been named as the best embassy in Washington DC by the readers of the Washington Post newspaper, by virtue of its design and programme of events.

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Nordea profitability

 

FULL QUARTER REPORT HERE

celebrate POTATO DAY today

Yep…it's potato day today.

 

 

Jonas Alströmer planted the first potato in Sweden in 1723

He planted it in Alingsås which now has an international potato academy, "Academia Solanum Tuberosum"

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"In The 18th century, Linnaeus, had counselled against the introduction of the potato into Sweden as food, because of its potential toxicity, later confirmed when the neurotoxicity of solanene in green potatoes was appreciated. Linnaeus's concern proved correct in another way as with the introduction of the potato, the Swedish population exploded. Farms were able to produce many more calories of food per hectare than had previously been the case and so larger families could initially be accommodated on the same farm. But balance between population and food production was not achieved and, during the latter part of the 19th century, one quarter of the Swedish population, one million out of four million emigrated, principally to North America."                          via

The Bathtub Test

During a visit to my doctor  yesterday, I asked him, "How do you determine

whether an older person should  be put in an assisted living home?"

He said, "we fill up a  bathtub, then we offer a teaspoon, a teacup

and a bucket to the person to  empty the bathtub."

"Oh, I understand," I said.  "A normal person would use the bucket because

it is bigger than the spoon or  the teacup."

"No" he said. "A normal  person would pull the plug.... Do you want a bed

near the  window?"

(…thx Colin)

F1 Grand Prix….well, it's not over yet!

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Lewis Hamilton is still in with a chance…still 50 points to play for and now the engines start to fail, as it did with poor Sebastian Vettel.

It seems good driving is also about protecting your car and taking care not to go over the limits.