The street where I work is going thru a major construction when they are opening up the street. They are doing about 20 meter at a time and now they have advanced to be precisely outside of our entrance. Shall be interesting to see if it’s still there when we return from our summer break or not. Deliveries have been a nightmare for a while since there is hardly any room even for pedestrians. No traffic can pass obviously.
A very quiet day at the office with little to do so I cut my day a bit short since my admin-colleague was there too. No need to be two of us. I am on standby from home should he need assistance. Walked thru the city on my way home to look in some stores but I didn’t find anything to buy even though there are a lot of sales everywhere. Bummer.
So tired today – couldn’t sleep last night. Don’t know why since I had a long day with a great ending and I was really tired when I got back home. So, best conditions for a good nights sleep. But no.
Fortunately I had a short day today and could sit down and enjoy a nice lunch before I headed over to my parents and then a walk back home. Picked up the sandwich grill on my way too – hopefully it will bring us as much joy and tasty sandwiches as the last one has.
This photo was taken last night at around 9 PM when we started to head back home after the evening on Skansen. It’s almost daylight even though it’s really late. Love summers in our country.
Best Tuesday! After my long workday my oldest niece came and picked me up and then we took the cable car over to Djurgården. Since she never had been on the funicular / mountain railway we treated ourselves a ride with it up to the top of Skansen.
We strolled around to see what dinner to choose and decided to go for a Swedish flatbread – hers filled with beef and mine filled with chicken with different trimmings. Not bad. Ice cream for afters. Even better!
Then it was time for the “Allsång på Skansen” – great performances, great weather and great crowd. We had a really good time but of course I missed my bus so I ended up walking the last part after I walked my niece home. 16.000 steps later I crashed in bed.
Another week – new challenges. Not much to do at work to begin with – hopefully it will be more as the week goes by.
Been doing some chores around the house this afternoon and also walked over to Stima to buy a new sandwich-grill (our old one broke the other day). They didn’t have any in the store but they could have one delivered on Wednesday. Perfect.
Made chicken teriyaki for dinner and now we’ve crashed in front of another couple of episodes of the Netflix series “Supacell”. It’s quite good (if you like supernatural things). Great with these miniseries – don’t take forever to complete.
Today our team played their first game since the summer break and managed to play an even 0-0. Good that they didn’t let any goals in but bummer that they didn’t make any goals either. But, our track record towards this team is not in our favor so it was good, I guess. Maybe I should have worn my supporter-jersey instead of the game-jersey. Lol.
Since I was busy watching the game hubby “made dinner” and picked up some pizza. Lol. Haven’t had a pizza in ages so that was nice.
My lilies have started to bloom – so pretty. I have three of them with 4-5 flowers in bloom on each. I planted them a few years ago and they keep coming back year after year. Perfect.
Castle of the month of July is – Årsta slott in Österhaninge. We decided to go over there for a quick coffee and take a look around. The castle is nowadays the main building at a golf course so plenty of fields around the property with people playing golf.
The castle was finished built back in 1667 but the property is from the 13th century. The Bremer family owned the castle 1805-1863 and one of their daughters, Fredrika Bremer, was an internationally known writer, reformer, and champion of women’s rights. She introduced the domestic novel into Swedish literature. Her novel “Hertha” caused a lively debate and led to a public opinion forming which made the government in 1858 pass a new law allowing unmarried women of the age of 25 or older to apply to come of age. Married women, however, were not allowed to come of age before the 1921 legislation over 50 years later.
The Årsta castle was her home until she died in 1865.
Finally the repairman found his way to our house and put the internet line back up again! Took him a half of day of work but now it’s back up again. And working – but my youngest says it is way too slow. Hubby will have to check that out tonight.
Had a terrible start today with the commuter train mess – took 45 min instead of 13.. Oh well. Same thing going back home but then it was the bus that was delayed instead. Now, I’m finally back home again – tucked in my corner to catch up on some stuff while watching NETFLIX for the first time in a week. Lol.
Today I saw the royal guards parading thru the city again. They started playing the music right after they passed where I was standing so I didn’t get the footage of that this time. But, I really like this tradition with the royal guards.
Since we still don’t have any internet in our house we decided to go out to dinner and maybe also see a movie tonight. We had dinner at Heron but we didn’t find a movie that we all wanted to see so we skipped that and went home instead. We didn’t want to watch a really long movie that started really late since we have work tomorrow.
A rainy day so I wore my raincoat this morning. And on my way home I was really glad I brought it!
First stop at my niece and then a walk over to my parents before my final walk back home. Soaking wet when I arrived so a complete change of clothes and now I’ve crashed for a bit to relax before I start dinner.
No repairman so far to fix the internet cable.. Bummer. Almost a whole week with no streaming or games – a challenge for this family for sure.
Tuesday and my long day. Not terribly busy but things to do most of the day. Started with a nice cup of coffee – our office is so pretty with all the flower decorations from our afterwork event last week. Nice!
My boys went bowling today – something to do when we don’t have any internet. Lol. They had a great time and I’m so glad they went and do things together. Tomorrow someone is coming over to see how to fix our internet cable – hopefully it won’t be long before we’re online again!
The street where I work is going thru a major construction when they are opening up the street. They are doing about 20 meter at a time and now they have advanced to be precisely outside of our entrance. Shall be interesting to see if it’s still there when we return from our summer break or not. Deliveries have been a nightmare for a while since there is hardly any room even for pedestrians. No traffic can pass obviously.
So tired today – couldn’t sleep last night. Don’t know why since I had a long day with a great ending and I was really tired when I got back home. So, best conditions for a good nights sleep. But no.
Best Tuesday! After my long workday my oldest niece came and picked me up and then we took the cable car over to Djurgården. Since she never had been on the funicular / mountain railway we treated ourselves a ride with it up to the top of Skansen.
Another week – new challenges. Not much to do at work to begin with – hopefully it will be more as the week goes by.
Today our team played their first game since the summer break and managed to play an even 0-0. Good that they didn’t let any goals in but bummer that they didn’t make any goals either. But, our track record towards this team is not in our favor so it was good, I guess. Maybe I should have worn my supporter-jersey instead of the game-jersey. Lol.
Castle of the month of July is – Årsta slott in Österhaninge. We decided to go over there for a quick coffee and take a look around. The castle is nowadays the main building at a golf course so plenty of fields around the property with people playing golf.
Finally the repairman found his way to our house and put the internet line back up again! Took him a half of day of work but now it’s back up again. And working – but my youngest says it is way too slow. Hubby will have to check that out tonight.
A rainy day so I wore my raincoat this morning. And on my way home I was really glad I brought it!
Tuesday and my long day. Not terribly busy but things to do most of the day. Started with a nice cup of coffee – our office is so pretty with all the flower decorations from our afterwork event last week. Nice!