I’m sure she’s made a name for herself, but I’d never heard of her before. Of course; I don’t own a TV so that might play a part. It doesn’t help that hers is a very generic name, to be confused with plenty of […]

Why break a habit? I’m in.

I’ll have to get back to you once my copy has been delivered…my online vendor isn’t very fast these days, “preorder” or not! I dislike using Spotify so I haven’t heard it at all yet.

I haven’t. I’ve looked at it in a bookshop and didn’t feel compelled to read it. I suspect I wouldn’t have bought The Night Circus either, had I found it in a shop, but I bought it online in a sale, just taking a […]

Yeah…”of limited appeal here” as the tagline says below! But as a consumer guidance to the small contingent who sneer at the derivative, I thought it was best to add that caveat anyway! 😉
(Reading it back, t […]

Read:
Reading is the only thing I’ve had the energy to deal with this month, I’ve even changed my commute to/from work and the time when I get up just so I can have extra time to read on my way to work and […]

His book From the Holy Mountain is one of my favourites, I’ll definitely look for this one. Thanks for the tip – I keep forgetting to find out if he’s published anything since that one!

My dad loves Fernet Branca and can speak poetically about it for at least twenty minutes non stop. Which he’ll almost certainly do at some point during a visit…and the last time I was there he finally convinced […]

This year I’ve made a lot of changes in my diet to try to get rid of my type 2 diabetes; I’m now a vegetarian, I’ve cut out bread, cheese and potatoes from my diet, only eat wholegrain rice and pasta, of course no […]

I remember eating hare in the 70s, can’t remember the taste of it, just that we had to spit out lots of shotgun shots all through dinner. It seemed never ending! We only had it once…

First single: Stevie Wonder – Master Blaster
First album bought on my own, with my own money: Queen – Live Killers (the first one I was bought as a gift must have been a Beatles album, as I was obsessed with […]

I’m guessing you’re talking about Kaviar (Kalles being the most famous brand). I can’t stand it myself, but most Swedes love it. Personally, I prefer actual Caviar, but it’s slightly more expensive…!

Don’t forget the kind that’s made by women – if they’re attractive enough to make the record sleeve useful… 😉

After some quick research, I see that the “smoke pot” chorus is something that fans misheard a background chorus in “I Am The Walrus” to be…it rings a faint bell now – it wouldn’t surprise me to learn that I […]

For musically conservative Afterworders there is no shortage of young people making new music that sounds a lot like the old music you all know and love. Like this gal:

(Native Harrow – “Can’t Go On Like This”, […]

Coming from a land of the ice and snow, it should come as no surprise to anyone that in Sweden we call them “curling parents” – sweeping a smooth path for the kids to glide along on the ice and hopefully hit the bullseye. 😀

17 for me, and none of those would make my list (well, one or two perhaps – 100 is a lot of places to fill in a list! 🙂 )

You must have me confused with my boss, who keeps upgrading to a bigger boat every couple of years!
My brother and his family spend their summers in the Finnish archipelago, where they own a house, and a sail […]

To me this thread is very exotic and baffling. People drive their kids to school? I’ve never seen or heard of this where I live (Stockholm, Sweden). In the city the kids walk (with or without their […]