Bi Lingua

I'm thinking that Lisa Milberg, of the Concretes, doesn't do too many things wrong. So I'm going to follow her example by going bilingual in this blog.

Like this: http://lisamilberg.wordpress.com/

Without all that many photos, perhaps. At least til I get my new Canon. Any day now...*Längt*

Midsummer dreams

It sucks not being in a country that celebrates midsummer. Today, Midsummer Eve,  is the most relaxed day of the year in the Nordics, more so that Christmas when everybody is stressing to get all the shopping stuff done. No, midsummer is all about getting some booze, food and maybe a good book and getting the hell out of the city to the nearest (or farthest, more often) summer cottage and just chilling with your friends. Preferably, by the sea.

It’s about pretty dresses, romance and picking seven different kinds of flowers, putting them under your pillow when you go to sleep and dreaming of the person you’re going to marry. And waking up with bugs in your hair...

And here in UK? Nothing. Nothing at all. The closest thing you get here is Summer solstice when crusty hippies gather by Stonehenge to get high. Not really the same thing is it?

So depressing. If I had my own flat, I would have had a Midsummer party, with schnapps and new potatoes and lots of strawberries. Next year, maybe.

No, next year, I hope to be at my friends house outside of Stockholm, with the little sauna on the end of a bridge, paper lanterns in the apple trees and all that jazz. Sigh....

The perfect room

I cannot describe to you how perfect I find this picture, this room.

Pic from the lovely site http://theselby.com/

Camera dreams

I think I'm going to get me one of these for my own birthday:

It's a Canon EOS 550D. You know, the ones they're advertising at the moment. You know, the really expensive, new model with HD video included. 

I've been arguing with myself for days, no months  - I've been dreaming of getting a proper camera for years. I think it might be time now.  I haven't bought anything, you know, big or substantial for....well, I can't remember last time I did. I think it might be time to spend a little, on me, get a proper new hobby, become an all round journalist, who can both write and take pics, produce whole features by herself. That's the plan anyway - so it's not just a luxururios accessory, I'm actually planning for it to pay itself in the end.

Ok, justification rant over.

20 best under 40

The New Yorker has listed the 20 best authors under 40.

And I am ashamed to say that I have only read one of them, Jonathan Safran Foer. This has to be rectified immediately! I'm going to start with Safran Foers partner, Nicole Krauss, also on the list.

Apparently, the couple lives on the same street in NY as the coolest author couple OVER 40, Paul Auster and Siri Hustvedt. What are the chances?

Mens Sock Street Style Blog

Exactly what I said: 

http://www.socksforsir.com/blog/

I wish I was a man and could wear the same (or rather different versions of the same) siut all the time and only chance to different, colourful socks. 

I love socks.

A week of salmon

It's been a very long and exhausting week. But also a brilliant one, since half of it was spent in Stockholm, revisiting friends, clubbing, eating a LOT of salmon and other fishies, and of course the obligatory Sunday hangover movie and pizza with curry powder and bearnaise sauce I wouldn't dream of ordering in UK, but it's a...if not a classic, at least not a eyebrow raising choice in Stockholm.

We also met my parents over a coffee, they had come over from Finland just to meet me and the boyfriend that they hadn't met yet. Well, now they have and the stamp of approval received. Thank God.

Anyways, we were talking about my desire to start a little collection of Moomin mugs, but they are quite expensive in UK, so you don't just go out and buy a dozin on them. And what does dad magically pull form the bag, if not 2 brand new Moomin mugs! What's the odds?

So now our collection is officially started. Can't wait til we can sit on our kitchen and sip coffee resp. tea out of these puppies.