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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On special request. Photos of the Week #49

I just saw a very old email sticking its head up. I have to admit I check my hotmail address very seldom and tonight I did… One very kind Justus asked if I had any pictures from the Cecilia Bartoli concert in Rome in June. He had a ticked but fell ill, so he couldn’t [...]

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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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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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Hooray for Greenland

Today is the longest day (*sniff*) and it also happens to be the national day of Greenland. And this year they had particular reason to wave the flag: after centuries of foreign reign they are now (almost) independent of Denmark.
Wikipedia writes: “Internationally, on June 21, 2009, Greenland assumed self-determination with the responsibilities of self-government of [...]

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Roman Holiday. Photo of the Week #39

This week I spent in Rome at my best friend’s home. So many good laughs and talks. We even went to a wedding and here we are looking quite happy:

We also got to hear Cecilia Bartoli in concert with Lang Lang and a whole lot of other nice things.
/anna

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Birthday! Photo of the Week #37

This week I celebrated my birthday – I’m freakin’ 30!
I had my ginormous family around for brunch and had a loooot of presents. And nice ones too. Here are some of them posing with my 30-year-old foot.

Next week I will be going to Rome for some more celebrating.
/anna

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Yes! Cecilia Bartoli Receives Léonie Sonning’s Music Prize

The committee of the prestigious Léonie Sonning Music Prize must be reading my mind. The past four years and this year they have chosen musicians who are all on my all time hit list:
2005 – John Eliot Gardiner
2006 – Yo-Yo Ma
2007 – Lars Ulrik Mortensen
2008 – Arvo Pärt
2009 – Daniel Barenboim
And next year who other than [...]

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