Friday 5 December 2008

Snow and water beds

Three or four inches of snow fell today, which is really very beautiful, however it is not cold enough to allow the lake to freeze, which happened a few weeks ago. The movers have unloaded all of Marianne and Niklas's worldly possessions and consequently I have sat on a sofa for the first time since I have been in Sweden. We had celebratory pizza and champagne this evening whilst discussing the future of the great dream that is Bombadil Publisihing.

Niklas and I spent a few hours setting up the water bed - the hose connectors had a tendency to break apart; a problem that I solved by raiding a bin full of old air hose components in one of the workshops on site here. Having fixed the first hole in the mattress, Niklas then proceeded to put his finger through the vinyl in a completely different place, meaning that the whole thing had to be emptied prior to being thrown away and a new mattress acquired. Emptying is still taking place as we speak, via a painfully slow siphon process. Perhaps tomorrow we will experiment with pumps...

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