Bouncing boats

Sara and I have been working on the photography and illustrations for her book of poetry that will be published soon, Steinar's kayak is taking shape (and I'm told bounced as a result of being dropped, sustaining only very minor damage) and the website is looking a little more like a website. I've learned to make gifs!

Icecapades

Dee is over from England for a long weekend and the weather is behaving itself - that is to say, the sun is bright and the snow is deep. We've been crashing about in the forest and managed not to get lost, which was a bit of a minor miracle really. We didn't see any wildlife, but we did happen across moose footprints.



Sweden has a "right to roam" arrangement whereby walkers are allowed to crash about wherever they wish, provided they refrain from peering through the windows of isolated saunas. The downside of this is that there are very few dedicated footpaths. I've been trying to walk around the lake for a long time, but I've always failed because it involves walking along a main road, or a railway line, or wading. We got rather further than usual today by walking across the ice, until we chickened out and legged it back to terra firma. No swimming for us!

Charming centrefolds

We're in the paper! Not on page 3, but the centrefold. You may view the electronic version here.

Blank canvas

We've got whiteboard pens! Two sets each, in fact, because after they failed to arrive, I went into town to buy some. Then some more arrived through the post the next day.



We've also got snow. An awful lot of it, but it's rather nice.

Up on a Friday

I've been putting things up in my office. Some coat hooks...



A whiteboard...



Here's another view of the whiteboard.



If anyone knows how to photograph a completely blank whiteboard, please let me know. It's completely blank because no-one's got any whiteboard pens.

House progress

Apologies, my loyal readership, I have been attending to business other than blogging! Here's what has been happening (mostly in pictures).



Conny the carpenter has finished the walls of Sara's bedroom and will be returning next Monday to fit the door and install a door to the bathroom, which is missing. He has also repaired the lock of what is currently the back door, but will become the front door once the alterations are complete.



These lockers were lying in the old changing room, I was going to throw them away. Sara for some reason took a fancy to them and will be using them as a wardrobe in her bedroom. So long as I never have to see them again, that's fine.



This is the old changing room, which I have spent all weekend converting into the guest bedroom. I've cleared all the junk out, removed the lockers, dismantled the changing cubicles, taken down the ducting that was coursing its way across the ceiling, painted the walls, laid carpet tiles and finally vacuumed 30 years worth of dead bees out of the light fittings. It's looking habitable now.



This is the coat rack and I'm actually quite excited about it. I'm not sure why, perhaps it's just a sign of civilisation. The light will be moved, its position is less than ideal...

That's no falling

Today's observation: Snow has surprisingly high tensile strength!