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Turkey and all the trimmings.

We´ve got one!

Morning walk 25th December.

Swedish Christmas food at home.

The tree is in the house, one of the better ones we have had through the years. Its going to be dressed later today (tradition is the day before xmas eve in Sweden) we usually don't put out too many other decorations than around the tree, but have plenty of lights and candles.

........... this morning with a playful Happy,

 

The last two days the 19th and 20th december only TWO unique visitors have visited my blog (persons from different pc's) thats my mum & me! I only set this blog up for a laugh as I had been joking about "John´s blog " for quite a while with family members. Ok I haven't really advertised my blog so thats one reason why no ones looking, the other reason could be that the blog is rubbish and even my CLOSET family has deserted me! The most unique visitors I have had in a day is 13, up until this week its been around 5 most days, but since the 16th december its been 2 or 3. So the time has come for new adventures ..............

Breakfast, 19th August 2013

Due to terirble viewing figures this blog will soon be coming to an end. Thank you for looking. Last update will be on Christmas day.

........... in a row up in Umeå, going home early Friday morning and then not working for 17 days, so that ok.

Have read three books whilst not working plus all the magazines I bought back from England. Books I have read are ........

30 november 1874 – 24 january 1965

Bladon Church, not far from Blenheim Palace, not a single tourist apart from us.

 

............. Oxford , August 2013.

......   in Umeå anyway.

New College, Oxford. August 2013

Good news at the vets after tests Happy´s lump (egg size) seems to be a fatty lump (lipomas - benign form), will probably take it away after xmas, these lumps are common in labradors

 

me have a fatty lump?     

 

Östersund and the county of Jämtland was and still is the main news story from yesterday to today in Sweden. Storm Ivar hit town, all bridges were closed, parts of town were sealed off (1st time since I have been here) and trees were falling down everywhere, power was cut (still 19,000 households are without power) as I'm stuck in Umeå I missed all this, our house survived but a few items have been thrown around our varanda and garden. Being around the mountain region we are used to wind and storms in Östersund but this was out of the ordinary.

..... seafood restaurants!

 

I read about it in a newspaper in 2012 that rated it one of the top five seafood restaurants in the world!

http://www.hivebeachcafe.co.uk/index.php/reviews-awards/what-the-papers-say/

On our road trip in August we were lucky to get to the Hive Beach Cafe en route to Weymouth, well good and we were lucky with the weather.

Saint Lucia's Day is the church feast day dedicated to Lucia of Syracuse, also known as Saint Lucy, and is observed on 13 December. St. Lucia’s Day is celebrated most commonly in Italy and in Scandinavia. In traditional celebrations, Saint Lucy comes as a young woman with lights and sweets. It is one of the very few saint days observed in Scandinavia. In some forms, a procession is headed by one girl wearing a crown of candles (or lights), while others in the procession hold only a single candle each.

Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal (25 July 1829 – 11 February 1862) was an English artists' model, poet and artist who was painted and drawn extensively by artists of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, including William Holman Hunt, Walter Deverell, John Everett Millais (including Millais' 1852 painting Ophelia) and most of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's early paintings of women.

 

She is off to the vet on Wednesday morning as she has another lump on her chest (size of an egg) she had one about this time last year, it turned out being a fatty lump (lipomas - benign form) hope its the same and nothing more serious and they can take it away easily.

Reminded about Oxford yesterday evening whilst watching "Lewis" we had two vey good days in Oxford in August, here are a selection of our photographs

As I am up in Umeå and have the day off I have to find something to pass my time (can't be at the gym all day) so I have been watching sports all day.

As Alexanders girlfriend is in New York thought I would share some of our photo's of our visit two years ago.

I hadn´t thought about it for a long long time but I suddenly realised that the 5th of December (yesterday)  had some significance and then remembered what it was.

August 2013 , Devon, Dorset and Hampshire.

................ on Monday I met three different herds of reindeers on the road !!.

Dorset, England.  August 2013

... got to the Tate Britain for a couple of hours on our last day in London. Went to see the pre-raphaelite pictures BUT all but four were on a tour of the world (Tokyo) so then looked around the Turner collection and British art through the ages.