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22 avril 2013

Sunny Skansen

With Lili out to scout camp, we were left with two jolly Poppy and Otto to entertain in the sunshine...So Skansen sounded like the best idea, where there is always something to do or to see which we have not experienced before. This time, we got to know...

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9 mai 2013

Siggesta Gård

Siggesta Gård is located about 35km east of Stockholm. Essentially a farm, the whole place is also geared for families ready to enjoy an active day out! We decided we would give the obstacle course a go, once we had collected helmets for everyone and...

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20 octobre 2013

Jazzoo

The title of the performance was "Jazzoo", which sounded quite promising already when I booked the tickets for everyone. And today we had a great time discovering this funny played-live zoo, in the form of several short films animated and projected on...

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27 octobre 2013

In the dark ages

A lot of museums are offering special activities for this week's school break, many of them "Halloween" orientated... This was the case at the Historiska Museum, where children could be guided through the "golden rooms" i e the lower rooms where Viking...

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23 juin 2013

Camping weekend

To be perfectly honest, I was not sure it was quite feasible... - three children, a buggy, a tent, sleeping bags and mattresses for five people, food and the bare essentials in terms of clothing and toiletries: this sounded a little bit too much to carry...

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1 novembre 2013

Ossi dei morti

In Sweden All Saints Day is celebrated on the first Saturday in November. Cemeteries are visited, graves are illuminated with candles and the whole process basically signals that we are entering the darker season... As far as I know, no specific culinary...

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2 novembre 2013

Out with the ducks

It was pretty soft underfoot, due to the copious amount of rain we got over the last few nights. But the walk from Överjärva to Ulriksdals slott was pleasant enough, through the woods and not far from the water. When we stopped for our picnic (the weather...

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5 novembre 2013

Red eye, green face

Today Otto had to stay at home, like yesterday, as he had a right eye - pre-school groups do not accept children with such features, as it is a sign of a very catchy inflammation. When Otto expressed the wish to have his face painted, we figured out that...

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6 novembre 2013

Poppy's jungle dress

Last week I was supposedly enjoying a half-term break, but ended up doing some work when I was not running to medical appointments for Pops or looking after Otto (gastric flu again...). This week I am supposed to be back at work but I have mainly been...

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27 novembre 2010

Ice age

Everyone had heard or read somewhere that this coming winter would be even colder than last year's. Well...without quite knowing what to expect, we can already observe that it has started pretty early! This week gone has wrapped us in snow and freezing...

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24 juin 2013

Quick fix

A few weeks ago, our dear friend Josa gave me a frilly skirt that she found in her attic. Since she thought the fabric was pretty, she imagined I could use it in some way with my sewing machine... As the end of year was fairly busy, I forgot a bit about...

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24 novembre 2013

First frost

First real drop in temperatures this weekend - we woke up to a -4 degrees, with signs of frost on the roofs. Otto and Lili checked it all out, in a small river found on Djurgården : yes, the surface was frozen, the ice a couple of millimetres thick. Exciting...

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6 décembre 2013

Approaching Christmas

Difficult to resit the attraction of a traditional Julmarknad when you live in Stockholm... we went to a local one on Saturday, where we quickly froze, somewhat unprepared for the relative cold made worse by a steady wind. On Sunday it was better, we...

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15 décembre 2013

Julkalender

What a wet day today! We went out to get some fresh (damp and cold) air but did not venture very far, only to Sankt Eriksgatan, where Teater Påfågeln is situated and has the great idea of offering super-short daily performances, as so many windows of...

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2 mars 2014

Mummies

Another Sunday marked with grey weather... but this time we did go to the Mediterranean Museum! There were still queues and steady flows of visitors but we arrived shortly after the opening so it was alright. We had actually seen most of the items in...

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29 avril 2014

Fotboll!

Yesterday was Otto's first day at football practice! He has joined NSK, our local club, and about 8 little friends from school signed up in his wake! So there was a lot of enthusiasm on the way to the first training session, all the more so as the weather...

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1 mai 2014

Street art by Otto

Last week Otto and his group went to Södermalm to paint some fences, as you do... Through one of the teachers' contact, in charge of an on-going construction project, the children were able to give a bit of colour and spirit to some fences surrounding...

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2 mai 2014

Tyresta again

Last year nearly at the same time in spring we had paid our first visit to Tyresta Nationella Parken. We enjoyed it then, and there was so much more to see that we were bound to come back! This time, the weather was much cooler, hats and gloves were de...

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18 mai 2014

Heron, sheep and goslings

We did not know it but it was Norway's National Day on Saturday 17th May, celebrated en masse in Skansen! So we met a lot of people proudly wearing traditional Norwegian costumes and rosettes and enjoying the beautiful weather. But a few hundred meters...

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12 septembre 2011

Huddinge, gnocchi and carrots

On Sunday we went to our friend Valentina's house in Huddinge. After our great "making pasta from scratch" experience, we were curious to rise up to a new challenge: make gnocchi from potatoes plocked from the kitchen garden! What fun! Valentina was indeed...

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15 septembre 2014

Visiting friends

As Pete was away with work in Venice, Lili, Pops, Otto and I decided to pay a visit to our friends Oscar, Tor, Disa-Lill and Pete, whose wife, Anna, was also in Venice as she works in the same office... Pete and Anna's house is always such a welcoming...

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6 janvier 2010

Apple saucy

Otto and I share a passion: we both love fruit. But we differ slightly in our motivations: I think "healthy", "tasty" or "refreshing" while Otto rather focuses on "fun" "interesting" and "hilarious"... And as you can infer from the young man's attire,...

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30 janvier 2010

Icy cold

Brr, the temperature has dropped again to -15 this weekend. But the sun was so shiny today that we had to go out, even if it always means a 20mn struggle to get all the little ones dressed in many layers, including extra fleecy collars, hats, socks and...

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9 février 2010

Menagerie

Long winters with lots of snow are great as they allow plenty of sledging, skying or skating time. But there are still a lot of hours spent indoors! Lili had fun making these paper animals over the last few weekends, once back from outside with very rosy...

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29 octobre 2009

Cool box

Yesterday, on my way back from the dentist's, I spotted a series of metal containers in the window of a nearby shop: three sizes and three colours, with only one word painted on each of them - respectively "trucs", "machins", "choses" (ie thingumajigs,...

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