Stone parcel
A stone parcel near the Tumlehed anchorage. The melted snow exposes dry grass and this stone, neatly tied. What can it be?
Is Norway losing pride in the Nobel Peace Prize?
An exercise in following a news story to its source using tools on the Internet and Google. Why is Norway being coy about the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize?
Decorative drop capitals
About drop capitals in web-page design and presenting the set of drop caps now to be used on TheSupercargo’s homepage
The Morning After
Short lexicographical and etymological poem exploring various forms of a word sometimes used to describe how one feels after a night of drinking.
Raoul Wallenberg monument in winter
Raoul Wallenberg monument in the churchyard of Hagakyrkan. During the WW2 Raoul Wallenberg rescued thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust.
Robert d’Boy
Beware of Robert the Boy! Piece of comic nonsense verse composed around the word hobbledehoy.
Blue bird and blue glass beaker touched by the sun
A blue bird and blue glass beaker touched by the sun in the pantry window of my brother- and sister-in-law’s home in Munkedal.
When is a Novelist … ?
Review of Granta number 113 discussing the definition of novelist contra short-story writer and the difficulties of anthologising novelists.
Zelda the Zealot
Comic poem in rhyming couplets illustrated by photographs of a cat climbing a tree, playing in snow or curled asleep.