Small pleasures #8

September arrived with a summery sun and a few delicious warm days to give some extra blush to the apples that are still ripening on the trees. A few sweet...

Fossil find!

A gentle layer of fluffy clouds covered the sky the entire day. It might look like autumn, but it was surprisingly warm, something we noticed after dressing way too warm...

Taste of Sweden: Västerbotten cheese pie with chantherelles

The autumn feeling is slowly taking over from summer here up north, and that means time for the edible gold of the woods: chanterelles! I do remember seeing them now and...

Best and worst Scandinavian series

You might call me a Nordic-series-fan. I'm often drooling over the magnificent landscapes, and enjoying some strong or unusual characters and storylines. Once, the Nordic way of both filming and...

Reading & watching in July/August

De grote vertraging, (2021), Alicja Gescinska, Daan Heerma Van Voss, Christ Keulemans, Thijs Lijster, Floor Milikowski, Marja Pruis, Haroon Sheikh, Paul Verhaeghe. Verhaeghe P. (2020), Houd afstand raak me...

Fenne’s wishlist

-Pikesley, R: Landscape Painting. -The Art of Still Life: A Contemporary Guide to Classical Techniques, Composition, and Painting in Oil -The Elements of Landscape Oil Painting: Techniques for Rendering Sky, Terrain, Trees,...

Watching/reading in June

Warm and sunny weather and endless summer days, perfect for getting lost in the world of books and reading undisturbed in a hammock. But we also keep a few movies...

Ecomuseum Bergslagen: Finngården Skifsen

On an extremely lucky mosquito-free evening, a tiny village/project where they aim to build a Finn farm the way it could have looked in the 1750s. The location, which is...

Small pleasures #7: carving a wooden Dala horse

When the bright spring sun turns golden and the wonderful light lures us outside, we gather in the garden and make a nice warm fire to sit by. It's quiet...

The search for a letter turned into giant spring cleaning

A few weeks ago, I got an unexpected request about a letter from Brenda Spencer who I wrote when working on the book "I don't like Mondays". Very sure that...