Lees Blog: Shalom my esteemed friends!!

HELLO!!!

Its a quiet Thursday night in sunny Sweden and Ive just been compiling a CD to annoy the guys at work with, most of my work pals are rockers, so my "10 favorite dance tunes" should go down a bomb tomorrow :-)

Its very nice to hear from Friends old and new in the guest book , thanks everyone for replying, and the more feedback I get I suppose the more I will write, Its good to babble.

The last week and a bit have been quite eventful as it happens. Last Saturday I was out with my pal Thomas the rocker, Stockholm's hardest rocking guitar god and we ended up at an album release party for another friend of mines Ska band, Eskalator. All very 1979 and The Specials but in Swedish, a great gig anyway, 10 piece band, horn section, the works....and a great CD also, I'm gonna put a tune or 2 and a link to there site in my main site in the next few days, so check it out if you can. After we were Ska'd out we carried on round the town for a few more, then home when the door staff started questioning our sobriety!

Then in the middle of the week came another weekend, Unlike England which bunches all bank holidays with the weekend these days , Sweden still has them on the days they fall on, which meant we finished work at 3 on Monday and were off Tuesday. I'm not a hundred percent sure if its May day bank holiday, The Swedish for it is Välborg or something, and its to celebrate the coming of the Summer, so there are fun fairs and bonfires around every corner, and the streets are paved with drunk teenagers clutching cheap cider bottles, (apparently its also traditionally the time to get your first alcohol induced stupor). Actually, I was very surprised by the bonfire we took Luka to, considering Sweden is such a safety conscious country there were no barriers, no firemen, no visible safety measures at all acctualy........ Perhaps the Swedes are just bright enough NOT to fall into the fire or get so close they set themselves alight...????

As far as we could tell no one got roasted anyway, although the funfair was a bit sad, 2 rides and a raffle, but it was nice to have a break in the middle of the week, and even though today feels like a Tuesday, its Friday tomorrow!!!!.