Meme’s

‘Blog’ is now an accepted and widely understood word in internet parlance. A new one on me is ‘meme’. I get sent them quite a lot and have pretty much ignored them until recently but I will try a few as it may add a bit of colour to the blog.
Memes are sets of interesting [...]

A British touch to a Swedish Party

I was very lucky to get an invite to Fitness Eva’s birthday party on Saturday evening. It was my first real Swedish Birthday Party that i was to attend.
Eva wanted some inspiration for the food so I told her she needed to go to the English butchers in Stockholm and pick up some stuff there. Taylors [...]

Don’t Mention the War!

Some of you may remember that it fascinates how names of famous cartoon characters change in each country. I have posted on Popeye in Swedish before. So thats Karl Alfred aka Popeye and kalle Anke -Donald Duck.
So here is a new one but its not a cartoon. Its our very own Basil Fawlty of Fawlty [...]

Historic week for me and my blog

Firstly yesterday I received my first ever Swedish payslip. I was really worried as I carefully opened it, visions of rockstar style tax percentages hit me hard, would this have all been a mistake….actually it wasnt as bad as I expected plus the streets are clean, the hospitals are in good nick, the education system [...]

You gotta have sole

Had a nice day out at Hammarby yesterday. Met up with Nick the Swede and his mates and went to watch Hammarby play Örebro. Fitness Eva came along as well as she has never been to a game there before.
it was good to catch up with Nick again and he was pleased to see me [...]

The perils of booking holidays online

…this did make me chuckle
Still they will not spend as much money on holiday as they thought they would

You are never too old!

And there I was earlier this week thinking I was too old for heavy metal, look at this guy.  I wonder what the Pope thinks of it all!

Iron Maiden in Stockholm

I was absolutely amazed by the Iron Maiden gig, considering the guys are still rocking in their fifties their energy levels were immense.
I am crap at writing reviews but needless to say the things that stood out for me were a) Bruce Dickinsons’ vocal range is incredible, I can understand why he is called the [...]

See Sweden in seconds and with a nice cup of tea!

Found a cracking website today that has live webcams for all the major cities and places in Sweden.
The nearest one to where I live is the webcam at Slussen
The nearest webcam to where I work is the webcam at Stureplan

Soundcheck

How strange. I am sat in my office in Östermalm which is very near Stockholm Stadion and I can hear Iron Maidens sound check. Rather surreal. I am so looking forward to the gig! Although I am such an old man I have booked a seating ticket.
The days of me headbanging are long gone, still [...]