I went to the office for the first time in three months.

I was looking forward to cycling to town but it rained all morning and I really don’t like cycling in the rain so I took the train. Regretted it. All these people everywhere. I can only describe the train as “crowded”. Not as crowded as it would have been a year ago but still.

On the plus side, I met a few of my colleagues face to face, which was really lovely. We had a great workshop (about recruitment and technical interviews) and plenty of the kind of idea-bouncing and discussions that just don’t happen online.

On my way home, I passed a pavilion in Spånga where some representatives for the city were gathering information about how the locals here use all the parks and other green spaces that we have. I realized that our family rarely uses the green spaces in Spånga. We’ve outgrown them. If we want greenery, we want something larger than the little patches that Spånga has to offer, and we’ll go to Starboparken or Nälsta at the very least.

It was interesting to see just how detailed the city’s inventory of green spaces is. The map used nearly ten different kinds of green colour to mark the different kinds of green spaces. “Nature park” is distinct from “nature in the city”, and a “city block park” is different from “park square”. Some of their terms I can’t even find English equivalents for.