The Coming Crises and the Ways to War
The latest edition of Sweden’s civil defence brochure ‘In case of crisis or war’ is the inspiration for this week’s blog post
Sweden
Observations of and about day-to-day life in Sweden
The Cuckoo Song
What songs do you remember from school? Swedes – the Swedes of my acquaintance – remember many. They sing them too, on special occasions. Midsummer is one special occasion and at Midsummer this year I was invited to contribute to the sing-along with some English school summer songs. Some? My mind went blank. Offhand, I … More…
Swimming race to disappointment
Translation of 5 pages from Alex Schulmann’s Överlevarna – The Survivors: three brother race one another, swimming too far out in the lake.
Fire in the Bowl or Cinderella and the Flaming Deposit
Fire in the bowl, or Cinderella and the flaming deposit, a supposedly eco-friendly adventure from my recent holiday (though I have my doubts)
Water in town and island life: holiday photos
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
Published Poet – Flying with Icarus
Flying with Icarus. For the second time this year I find myself a published poet. This posts relates the stories behind my four poems published in The Poet
Ringön and a camera for street photography
Ringön held a party on Saturday – Ö-Festen på Ringö. An opportunity to try out my old Canon SX50 HS and see if I can still use it for street photography.
Proof of identity
Identity and its documentation – the story of my search for Swedish citizenship, my passport’s peregrinations and my own recent cross-border journeys without proper identity documents.
Home but away – sculpture and people
In which we contemplate being home but away for a summer holiday and dwell on the Trädgårdsförening park and its surroundings in central Göteborg.
I am still on holiday…
I am still on holiday, and here’s photo evidence: a selfie taken in the sun at Eriksberg in Gothenburg on the Swedish West Coast.