Lees Blog: Long hot Summer dayz!!!

Hello folks,

For the last 2 weeks in Stockholm has had a heatwave, the air has been thick with the smell of new mown grass and medow flowers. The heat pierces through to your core, like you were on some mediterainian island, there are scantily clad girls wondering the throughfares distracting you from your buisness, and when you finaly finish your days work and settle down with a cold beer, it has been like angels dancing on the tongue.

I have been to, and lived in a few nice nice places around the world, but there is not much to compare with Stockholm in the hight of summer. we have been averaging around 78° F , (or 26° C if you prefer) in the shade on my balcony these weeks, and its been wonderful!! Still there is rain due tomorrow so perhaps it will be back to normal...

Big congratulations due to Stina and Enar (Lukas god parents) who welcomed there daughter , (as yet still undecided on the name ) on Thursday 29th of May. She is a little darling with more hair than any baby has a right to have!!!

Other fun stuff this week was the Swedish national day on Friday, which gave us a bank holiday and saw me show my support by wearing my English football top, the irony of this on the dawn of Euro2008 was not lost on the Swedes, who taunted me mercilessly when I popped into my local for a quick one at lunch time.

The evening was also very enjoyable , with us playing host to our friend Krilla, his son Jimmy and our dear friend Anders, (who we don't see anywhere near enough these days) . Malin cooked some really good food and although Krilla and Jimmy made a reasonably early exit, the rest of us were sitting up and chatting shite on the balcony till the early hours. Always a great way to spend a night, and Luka really took a shine to Anders, this is a photo of them both on the way down to the train the next morning.....

This is especially funny because Anders professes not to be a "kiddy kind of guy", this however, didn't bother Luka!!

The Final fun of the weekend has been a couple of hours in the park tonight, when Luka flew a kite for the first time, and was briefly the most popular guy in the park!! Not many of the other kids there had even seen a kite before so it was really good fun, I have some video clips but haven't figured out how to stick them in my blog yet, but I will put them on a page on my main site when I get chance. What I did get however was a photo from the playpark which sums up what Nova thought of it all........