Late November. Photo of the Week #61

Today November showed itself from the bleakest, wettest, and darkest side but yesterday was a beautiful and sunny day that ended in the most Turneresque dusk with a Cheshire cat moon above and all the quietude you could dream of. I saw it with my mum and aunt from the grounds around the small manor [...]

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Must!

Apples all around – at our Swedish house (in an area where they even have apple festivals), at home and by my uncle’s. So what to do with all those apples, besides pies, jellies and eating them raw? Must of course. Apple juice that is. So here is how it’s done:
After having located the nearest [...]

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Apples. Photo of the Week #52

It seems that the Danes are returning to tasty varieties of apples instead of just those shiny and huge ones that last forever. Until recently Granny Smith seemed to be the only apple around but now you can get Discovery, Ingrid Marie, Gråsten (Gravenstein), Cox Orange, Filippa and others. I think it’s wonderful to find [...]

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Harvest. Photo of the Week #46

During the part of my summer vacation I spent in the Danish countryside I went on a fantastic picnic with my family. After sandwiches and cider we went for a walk along the fields where they were already harvesting.

It was a beautiful sight and I ache to escape the city again and go back to [...]

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Deer. Photo of the Week #45

Even though my family summer house is in an area with a lot of  small houses there is some wild life and it seems more and more as the years go by. This summer we were often visited by a couple of these guys. A male and a female.

This evening one of them almost jumped [...]

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Shiny. Photo of the Week #44

When at a party, even a garden party, one can rely on my sister dressing up for the occasion. And wow, look at these spangled pants and the effect they made in the sunshine.

/anna

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Speech. Photo of the Week #43

In Denmark there’s a strong tradition for making speeches at birthdays, weddings, baptisms, and the like.
Here’s my mother at it. The occasion was my aunt’s 50 years birthday last week. And the guy holding the parasol in the scorching heat is my brother-in-law – the perfect son-in-law, eh?

/anna

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Yet another!

One sister finished high school (I told about that here) and then the other finished her training as a nursery assistant. And lo and behold she got a cap too!

This is her teacher putting it on her just after her last exam.
Tomorrow we’ll celebrate it with the whole family in the summer house in Sweden. [...]

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Midsummer. Photo of the Week #42

As already reported my sister finished high school this week and she had her last exam on the 23rd of June. In Denmark we celebrate midsummer on that day – St John’s day or Sankt Hans. All over the country people light bonfires where a witch is burned at the stake. These last say 400 [...]

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The utter joy of wearing a cap

My sister just took her A-levels and along with that comes a host of both ceremony and champagne. I remember it as one of the happiest summers when I finished high school 11 years ago. And it looks like it’ll be the same for her – just look at these photos taken today when the [...]

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