Hello peoples,
Well, it’s the day before Mid-summer, the longest day of the year, and here in Sweden in the summertime, that makes for very, very long days!!! It gets dark sometime after midnight and the sun rises just after 1am, crazy place, crazy lighting levels!!
The Swedes take Midsummer very seriously indeed, which is not surprising when you think about how dark it is in the wintertime. The normal procedure, as I see it anyway, is, dance around a VERY phallic looking maypole type structure during the daytime, while everyone sings songs about small green frogs, and their unfortunate lack of ears (I kid you not here, non Swedish folk! check out the picture here ) then out comes the snaps and pickled fish (this happens at every Swedish celebration!) and perhaps some meatball and potato and fish pie then more snaps and more pickled fish washed down with a beer. I am not really sure what happens next, but being all grown up and a father of 2 now, I may actually be able to remember to the end of the night so I will let you know.
To the point, or at least the title of this entry.... We have been talking about getting a fish tank for Luka (and Daddy!!) for a year or 2 now, but there have always been a hundred or so more important things to spend our hard earned krona upon, anyway we were round with some friends last week having a coffee and a chat when I commented on how nice the new fish tank was..... "If you want it, its yours.." was the reply, They had been given a fish, and bought it a bigger tank, and then bought it some friends, and even though they had a quick lesson in which fish can live with which, (IE. lots of casualties!!) they were now were sick of cleaning it, so we gave them a new home.
Although I know there is one fish in there that will outgrow the tank in a few months, Malin likes having fish so much she has agreed to get him his own tank and perhaps a girlfriend :-) , Luka is over the moon to have his own fish, and it keeps Oskar the cat amused for hours. Christer och Suzie we salute and thank you!!
Well, I also had my most successful evenings fishing this year the other night, when I caught 8 fish in 2 hours or so, they were all little 'uns but it was fun anyway with the sunset right in front of me, and nothing but an unusually aggressive Swan to disturb my rapture.
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I always feel a little lucky when I am fishing that I now have such beauty only a 10 min. bike ride from my home. I am sure anyone that has lived in Walsall will testify to this.
Luka also caught his second fish the other day, which he loved; he had a little help from Daddy, but did most of the waiting and throwing stones into the water himself. I give him full credit for this one, mainly due to the size of the bugger..
I cannot express how pleased I am that Luka likes fishing with Daddy, I don’t know how old I was when me and Dad started fishing together, but I never felt closer than when we were sharing some lake shore space in the search for a big 'en!!
Anyway, Malin has just returned from giving our neighbor a proper cool 1960's style bob haircut, she was a little unsure so came down for a second opinion. Kirsy, if your reading this.... its cool!!!
So now I throw myself into the serious business of takng it easy for a week or so. I’m not sure if I can send reports from the north of Sweden or not, apparently the fastest internet connections are by carrier pigeon , but we will see, anyways,
Take care, an have a great midsummer folks!!!
PS, I allmost forgot,
(Mainly because she is almost 0% trouble as baby's go, but Im sure this will be repayed later no doubt!!!!) Nova is doing great, she is 2 cm taller than Luka was @ 3 months and 1½Kg lighter. Here is the latest pic of our little Princess.........
Love Lee.
