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City of Lights, libraries and bridges – back to Sundsvall

12 January, 202218 November, 2021

Paying a visit back to Sundsvall – for 10 years in the 1980s and 1990s the northern Swedish city where Mrs SC and I lived and worked.

12 January, 202210 November, 2021

After all these years there’s a legacy of posts at TheSupercargo stretching back for 10+ years; here are some November adjacent ones.

29 September, 2021

The chirupping of a cricket in Gothenburg’s Antique Halls is a puzzle, as I try out the writing-friendly qualities of the Latteria

22 September, 2021

Shanks’s Pony is an old idiom for feet and walking. I’ve been having problems with my feet – they don’t like carrying me any more.

5 October, 202115 September, 2021

We live our life making choices, but sometimes our choices take us over a tipping point and we have to live with the consequences.

8 September, 2021

Doggerland is the made-up name for a place that really existed and for which there is archaeological evidence. Aeyland is complete fiction.

12 January, 202225 August, 2021

After all these years of writing for TheSupercargo, there’s a reservoir of posts stretching back for more than a decade. Here are some.

28 July, 2021

Fire in the bowl, or Cinderella and the flaming deposit, a supposedly eco-friendly adventure from my recent holiday (though I have my doubts)

12 January, 202221 July, 2021

Water in town and holiday life on a Baltic island: a photo essay. Mrs SC and I took our first post-Covid holiday last week. Here’s an account

30 June, 202130 June, 2021

Midsummer in Sweden is a celebration of nature and the outdoors. Here are some nature photos from the seaside this Midsummer.

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