The neighbours’ house is looking house-shaped already, 10 days after the first pieces were delivered.

Nystagmus quite likes the tall grass. He makes little nests in it where he sleeps.

Ingrid did some mowing the other day to earn more money. Adrian also wants more cash, so he tried to do the same. But it was hard work. The grass is high, and most of our garden slopes.

I finished the brioche scarf, with plenty of yarn left over.

I had guesstimated that two hanks of yarn would be enough for a scarf, but the store staff said it would only make a small one. So I doubled my purchase and got four hanks. Two was more than enough for a normal-sized scarf, I have no idea what kind of monster scarves they were picturing. So now I have two whole untouched hanks. I guess I’ll make another scarf, then. Can’t make an identical one, though (because that would be too boring) so the second one will get a zigzagging line. But now the first one will look plain in comparison so I’ll have to think of some sort of embellishment for it.

The yarn itself is lovely to work with. Butter-soft merino wool, after the fuzzy alpaca and sock yarn I’ve using recently. It felt weird in my hands at first, too smooth, almost greasy, but now I love touching it.

Some photos of yesterday’s train.



The volunteer staff keep it in perfect shape, with the outside polished to a mirror finish.

Our off-and-on-traditional midsummer outing with the Lennakatten museum railway to Marielund.

The weather was hot and the inside of the train like an oven, despite the open windows. The carriage filled up later, but wasn’t as crowded as it’s sometimes been in the past. I think they may have added more carriages to the train.

The train ride took longer than scheduled for some reason, so by the time we arrived and had unpacked the picnic, we attacked the food like a horde of locusts. I barely managed to get a photo of the cake.

Cats. Naturally graceful and elegant.

I made such a beautiful salad for dinner that I just have to show it off.

30°C is maybe not objectively hot in most parts of the world, but for us it’s hot enough that nobody wants any hot meals for dinner, so it’s been salad for dinner several days in a row now. Today’s salad is roast fresh potatoes, lentils, sugar snaps, nectarines and strawberries.

My energy levels have been low for months. Blogging was one of the few things that I still managed to keep up until recently, but once I fell behind, it got harder and harder to motivate myself to catch up.

I’m going to start working my way back up the hill again. It may take a while. But this blog is not abandoned.

Office day. Sunshine, lunch with colleagues. Flags waving.

The Ukrainian flag and the Swedish ones go nicely together.

It’s hard to imagine that just a few countries away there is a war going on, in the middle of modern, civilized Europe.