Sunburned Tramps

Riding to work this morning, I noticed how all of the tramps are looking very tanned..They sit around near the System Bolaget near Hjalmar brantingsplatz..They do like an early start and a nice social discourse..They are so intent when they speak, and they appear to be listening to one another very intently..
We are having a lovely sunny spell here in Gburg , and it is bringing out the best in everyone...

Three Trillion dollars

A conservative estimate of the cost of Iraq war to the U S A.. Without considering rehabilitating wounded veterans and their pensions ..Or the cost of re enforcing military facilities..So many overheads and we all know who is going to pay...!!Absolutely not the multinational cooperate directors who were baying for Saddams blood the loudest.They only exist on golf courses and in five star hotels..Not on any national revenue returns..They are stateless and nontaxable, and yet they insist on calling most of the shots....

Would it not be a moral obligation ,to establish any future governments foreign policy agenda..I mean what they precisely intend to do in our name and with our money...

Anyway,, today I sat outside in the garden and ate lunch with some of my younger Swedish colleaueges..It was very pleasant too...

The Eton Rifles

I strive to keep an open mind about individuals that I have never met..And I honestly do not have any specific dislike for either person. What I find offensive is the blatant fact that two absolute toffs are on the verge of such power..Shoehorned in by Murdoch and his cronies, and then blithely voted in by The Great British Electorate..Who seem eager for a change..

It would make a glorious change if People would make the intellectual effort to understand how precious their own individual opinion is..The elite are not really elite, they have just been conditioned to believe that they are so...

Riding off my tea

Today we have been riding our bikes all over..We followed the riverbank along to the old boat restoration yard. People were painting and rubbing down bits of boat, some of them really old and battered..Then we cycled back and had a coffee at the Maritime museum. Sat on top of an old tramp steamer drinking strong coffee..
After lunch we headed inland to Skatas..It is in the woods where we first camped in October..Lots of flowers out and Swedes running, ski training, power walking..
Wife and I walked around a lake, if it had been a little warmer I might have skinny dipped..
On the way back there was a trendy cafe with some Italians posing in sunglasses..We soon joined in ,I with a double espresso, and new Police 08 aviators..
After our dinner I wheeled down to the harbour and watched the sun set over the Eriksberg shipyard..Oblique sunlight wobbling pastel shades all over the harbour..Smelled nicely Briny..

Celestial entities

'We are all profoundly privileged owners, of a brief spark of consciousness..'Ian Mc Ewan..

Raunchy Rozzers

We have been staying in for the last few nights, babysitter was in Denmark..Last night we watched Swedish Crimewatch..The Rozzers on the computers and phones were all glamorous, nicely made up..Well groomed male coppers as well.. And even the villains were handsome and trendy, they had coordinated they're look for maximum elan as well as effect..

We are moving back to England soon, so I will be on the lookout for typically defining Swedish stuff to Blog..

I intend to be upbeat about my return to England, there will be a lot more new swimming stuff, different places..Starting with a big Cornwall trip in early July...

Steel cutter

Thirty three feet long is big enough to cruise oceans in..Me and my young son were fantasy yacht buying and this is the one we decided on..It is affordable as well as intensely desirable..
We planned our voyage around Britain first, iron out any gremlins..Then Azores, Caribbean, British Virgin Isles..Panama canal, Galapagos, Easter island then New Zealand..
Is a wet old Mayday in Gburg.We walked down river to Clippan and had a coffee in a knackered old boat..Then we took the Vastraffik ferry up to Rosalund..The Yangtze river had two tugs pulling her away and off to see..All spruced up and ready for business..