Wednesday, 21 September 2011

Samos and some of the beautiful people I met there




Gej and Dessie




Pretty view from hotel Andromeda's toilet!!

Sven and Gunilla - The Sweetest!

Listening to; John Legend - Get Lifted

Tuesday, 20 September 2011

Where's my DoDo? ...and the Zebra puzzle..

DoDo
And now for some puzzle..
  1. There are five houses.
  2. The Englishman lives in the red house.
  3. The Spaniard owns the dog.
  4. Coffee is drunk in the green house.
  5. The Ukrainian drinks tea.
  6. The green house is immediately to the right of the ivory house.
  7. The Old Gold smoker owns snails.
  8. Kools are smoked in the yellow house.
  9. Milk is drunk in the middle house.
  10. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
  11. The man who smokes Chesterfields lives in the house next to the man with the fox.
  12. Kools are smoked in the house next to the house where the horse is kept.
  13. The Lucky Strike smoker drinks orange juice.
  14. The Japanese smokes Parliaments.
  15. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
Now, who drinks water? Who owns the zebra? In the interest of clarity, it must be added that each of the five houses is painted a different color, and their inhabitants are of different national extractions, own different pets, drink different beverages and smoke different brands of American cigarets [sic]. One other thing: in statement 6, right means your right.
Life International, December 17, 1962

And in Swedish:

  1. Det finns fem hus.
  2. Engelsmannen bor i det röda huset.
  3. Spanjoren äger hunden.
  4. I det gröna huset dricks kaffe.
  5. Ukrainaren dricker te.
  6. Det gröna huset ligger omedelbart till höger om det elfenbensvita huset.
  7. Den som röker Old Gold äger sniglar.
  8. I det gula huset röker man Kool.
  9. I det mellersta huset dricker man mjölk.
  10. Norrmannen bor i det första huset.
  11. Mannen som röker Chesterfield bor intill mannen som har räven.
  12. Kool röks bredvid huset där man håller häst.
  13. Lucky Strike-rökaren dricker apelsinjuice.
  14. Japanen röker Parliament.
  15. Norrmannen bor intill det blå huset.
Frågorna: Vem dricker vatten? Vem äger zebran?
För tydlighetens skull behövs några tillägg av förutsättningar som inte finns i originalproblemet:
  • De fem husen ligger i en rad, har var sin färg och bebos av människor från fem olika länder.
  • Husets invånare röker var sitt cigarrettmärke och föredrar var sin dryck.
  • Uttrycket "första" i påstående 10 betyder längst till vänster från betraktaren sett.
  • Uttrycket "höger" i påstående 6 betyder till höger från betraktaren sett.
  • Inget hus innehåller mer än en art av husdjur.
they have been looking for the DoDo for a longlong time (London Transport Museum - fabulous place!)

 Listening to; Lost for words - Pink Floyd

Monday, 19 September 2011

A Room With A View

Went to Samos, had a room, had a view.


Andromeda Hotel, Samos Town, Samos, Greece





Listening to; Stephen Fry reading "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" by J.K. Rowling

Tuesday, 6 September 2011

Shakespeare had a garden

Stratford-upon-Avon 31st may 2011










Listening to; Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

Saturday, 3 September 2011

It was the third of september, that day i'll always remember..

My Dad would have turned 80 today!


Dad with his mother in the 30's

Dad and me


Water under the bridge - I miss him

listening to, even though not the obvious choice; Mulatu Astatke - Ethiopiques 4

Friday, 2 September 2011

Fablernas Värld - The Goings-on in the Scary Wood

Swedish childrens television in the 70's, dearohdear, beats "Lost in the Pancake" (jeah, I know...) any time

Thursday, 1 September 2011

Hello September, you're a bit early, but come in..

Sometimes life comes early and you find yourself running in front of everything all the time, longing to fit in - knowing you don't really want to.

Would you have it any other way?

Listening to (xtremly loud in headphones manicly over and over again and playing air-drums); Florence & the Machine - What the Water gave me


Wednesday, 31 August 2011

The Birds Fall Down

We are all bowmen in this place.
The pattern of the birds against the sky
Our arrows overprint, and then they die.
But it is also common to our race
That when the birds fall down we weep.
Reason's a thing we dimly see in sleep.
(CONWAY POWER:Guide to a Disturbed Planet)

Tuesday, 30 August 2011

the Summer that never was

Flickorna Lundgen Cafe', Skäret, Skåne

Mr. Goatman, Flickorna Lundgren Cafe', Skäret, Skåne

Horses sleeping, Flickorna Lundgren Cafe', Skäret, Skåne

Flickorna Lundgren Cafe', Skäret, Skåne

Sofiero Castle, Laröd, Skåne

Sofiero Castle, Laröd, Skåne
Mothr, Sofiero Castle, Laröd, Skåne
Listening to; Adele - 21