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This week’s photo is from Madrid. Not that I went but my brother did and as on most of his travels he took his walrus Valle. Here he is contemplating the view from the hotel.

Valle has been to many places and this photo reminds me of how Amelie’s dad’s garden gnome went to all those [...]

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First day of my least favorite month. Ugh. November. And of course today was grey, windy and cold. But I got to eat brunch with a great friend and that’s what one should do. Eat.
 
I have been looking for a good picture… and all I found was this sort of Altdorfer’ish thing from Sweden. But [...]

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At the moment I seem to be spending most of my time at my desk at home and at my desk at work – having a lot to do on the job and with a paper I’m going to give next week. So Puss and I are sort of seeing a lot of each other, [...]

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Aren’t these onions on the dark ground just the perfect illustration for autumn?

I’d use them in a stew of some kind – one that should be simmering all day. Or maybe for a French style onion soup like this one.
/anna

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I passed this little piece of street art the other day. I love things like that. If it weren’t already done I would do a street art blog. But this is all you get.

/anna

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Last night Rio de Janeiro was granted the 2016 Olympic Games at the IOC session here in Copenhagen. And, oh my, has the police been going crazy about all those crowned heads and heads of state visiting – just too many heads to protect I guess. They have been driving around in their big blue [...]

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Studying, eating nuts from my grandmother’s garden, being disturbed only by puss who wants to lie on my books, on my keyboard, on me.

/anna

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In the marketplace of Lund, Sweden you can buy all sorts of wonderful local produce. At the moment the chanterelles and lingonberries would be my primary choice. Look at those masses of lingonberries:

This seems to be one of the essentially Swedish foods. They cook them to marmalade and eat it with meatballs and mashed potatoes [...]

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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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This has more or less been the general mood these last few days – especially if you add some wind:

I saw this door handle in Lübeck, Germany last year, and I find it quite charming. Crossing my fingers for the weekend…I will not accept October weather in September. No, no.
/anna

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