But isn’t that Fredrik Reinfeldt?
Fredrik Reinfeldt, Sweden’s Prime Minister, has a look-alike in England who appears in a screenshot of British Tory leader David Cameron out polling.
An early morning in early spring
Early morning, early spring: A gallery of early spring photos I took recently in and around my home in Gothenburg. The beech trees are leafing!
Learning to swim
In the baths today, swimming my 40 lengths, I was trying to remember learning to swim, but the memory’s lost somewhere in the chlorine haze.
Ransom note
An Englished version of the ransom note related to the Eyjafjallajökull eruption currently circulating on Scandinavian social media sites.
Six degrees of propinquity: The genesis
Six degrees of propinquity: a variation on the Artwiculate wordgame that I came up with, shared and saw played by others. This is how it came about,
A Little Spring Song – Karin Boye
My translation of Karin Boye’s A Little Spring Song (En liten vårvisa) to accompany a photo of the poet’s statue outside Gothenburg central library.
The V-sign
The V-sign: “everyone” knows it’s a universal symbol for Victory. Or for Peace. Or for the number 2. But everyone” is wrong.
Rollercoaster
A rollercoaster of a day for TheSupercargo. Swimming, NTLive’s broadcast of Alan Bennet’s The Habit of Art, a major computer failure, and resolution.
High wind in Gothenburg
A high wind puts paid to spring cleaning, but I have photos from an earlier year. And I’m playing a Twitter-based word game called Artwiculate.
Wultan warrior – some fragments of Anglo-Saxon verse
As Wultan watched/The wizen wizard wove his words,/Warp and weft, wending, winding./His wizen wisdom’s yet worth wealth,/Thought Wultan.