Monthly Archives: August 2007

Just got the results of the Mont Blanc ultra trail. Neil’s official time was 42h59mn06s. I think he was really sprinting to get over the line before 43hours! He came 1137 out of about 2300 so a big congrats to … Continue reading →

That’s us back from holiday in Chamonix. No time to update quite yet, but I will once I’ve had a proper look through the photos. Lots of really nice ones with big mountains and blue skys, just like this one…

Just a quick post to say there will be no more posts on this blog. (for at least a week). Maria and I are off on holiday to Chamonix in France tomorrow morning for 6 days. (If there are any … Continue reading →

Maria woke me up at the ungodly hour of 10am on Saturday to tell me that I had 15mins to get myself ready to catch the train for a birthday surprise! 45mins later we left the house and caught the … Continue reading →

As it is a Friday, I really should have been at work, but a phonecall yesterday from Carlo changed all that with an invite to join him fishing up at his summer cotttage. He picked me up in Norrtälje, about … Continue reading →

As well known Culture Vultures and patrons of the arts , it will come as no suprise that last night Maria and I went to the suburb of Skarpnäck to listen to a wind instrument quintet from the Sweden Radio … Continue reading →

Three years ago today I made a step that turned out to be a major turn of events in my life, because three years ago today I moved to Sweden! It reminds me of the first day I came to … Continue reading →

Just a quick update on what I did for my birthday. After work, I met Maria downtown and she took me off to the south east of the city and to a restaurant called ThaiBoat which neither of us had … Continue reading →

Whoohoo! 21 again! (for the 8th time)… I got a package the other day with my parents handwriting on it that I suspected to be a birthday present so I thought, “I’ll leave this to Wednesday to open as a … Continue reading →

This weekend Maria and I went to Sigtuna, the oldest town in Sweden, for the wedding of our good friends Celeste and Henrik. The wedding itself was in “Maria’s Church” (Mariakyrka), where a mixture of cultures and people from all … Continue reading →