{"id":12928,"date":"2020-06-20T18:14:15","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T17:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=12928"},"modified":"2024-08-01T19:56:35","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T18:56:35","slug":"daily_1984_-_midsummer_with_games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2020\/06\/20\/daily_1984_-_midsummer_with_games\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 1984 &#8211; Midsummer with games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Official Midsummer celebrations with maypoles and music such are not happening this year due to covid-19. We usually have a Midsummer picnic somewhere. And we don&#8217;t need an official celebration for that! <\/p>\n<p>Most Swedes celebrate on Midsummer&#8217;s Eve. I didn&#8217;t have time to plan or prepare anything for yesterday, so we had our picnic today instead, at Hammarskog. Normally there would be a folk band and a maypole and dancing around it, but Hammarskog is a nice picnic spot without all that as well. There&#8217;s a wide open lawn sloping towards a view of a lake, and trees all around.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1984_Midsummer_1.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1984_Midsummer_2.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nWe had a nice and leisurely picnic lunch with <i>sillt\u00e5rta<\/i> and devilled eggs, and a strawberry and elderflower cake.<\/p>\n<p>The cake was almost the same one as last year, because it was so delicious. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dn.se\/mat-dryck\/recept\/fladertarta\/\">Here&#8217;s the recipe, possibly behind a paywall.<\/a>) This year we transformed it into a Swiss roll, though, because Swiss rolls are more fun than cake-shaped cakes, and easier to transport. The marinated strawberry filling went inside the roll, and we spooned the elderflower curd on top of each slice, and then piled strawberries on top.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1984_Midsummer_3.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><br \/>\nAfter lunch hung around for a while and didn&#8217;t quite feel like going home yet. Then we decided to play games. Apparently that&#8217;s a tradition at Midsummer parties, which I wasn&#8217;t aware of. Now I know. <i>Femkamp<\/i>, meaning a contest in five different &#8220;events&#8221;, is the most traditional form. We had no plans and no equipment with us, so we improvised with what we had and tried to find events that can be done more or less equally by all ages, even when wearing a somewhat impractical dress.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nFrisbee throwing with a lunch box lid\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<i>Kast med liten sko<\/i>, i.e. shoe throwing\n<\/li>\n<li>\nPin the tail on the donkey (with a few post-its to mark the donkey on the lawn)\n<\/li>\n<li>\nStrawberry-and-spoon race\n<\/li>\n<li>\nCounting to two minutes (with your eyes closed)\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ingrid won every single one of them. But we all had fun, even though the thistles in the lawn bothered Adrian&#8217;s bare toes. Even my mum, who can be a bit stiff and &#8220;proper&#8221; sometimes, went all in!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1984_Midsummer_5.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nThe lunch box lid made a surprisingly good frisbee. It flew quite well, and even curved the same way a normal frisbee does.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1984_Midsummer_4.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Many of our neighbours apparently partied in their houses instead: there were a lot of noisy parties going on yesterday. People were getting drunk at 6 pm already, and continuing well into the night, some getting rather rowdy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Official Midsummer celebrations with maypoles and music such are not happening this year due to covid-19. We usually have a Midsummer picnic somewhere. And we don&#8217;t need an official celebration for that! Most Swedes celebrate on Midsummer&#8217;s Eve. I didn&#8217;t have time to plan or prepare anything for yesterday, so we had our picnic today [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[633,12,18,775,15,795,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adrian","category-current_affairs","category-dailies","category-eric","category-ingrid_johanna","category-midsummer","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12928"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12937,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12928\/revisions\/12937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}