november 2019 part II

In the second half of November (here's the first half) i spent a weekend in London. I was SO hoping to have a good trip after the weird and difficult autumn (well, year) I had, and I really didn't. Nothing to do with the event - Blues Baby Blues - I went to and everything to do with, again, Liam's depression (even though he wasn't even there with me). Good god it's hard to have a partner with depression.




Anyway ... I arrived on Thursday, hoping to be able to do some good touristing. It's harder when sad, though.


At least I got myself to the V&A, mainly to see their photography exhibution which was brilliant.


I mean, just look at this!



Blues Baby Blues was just sad. This is where Liam and I really met, you know. In this staircase, more or less! And I missed him - I missed the Liam I got to know before anxiety took over. The real one.


Back home again I did what I do best to feel better: I went for walks.





And I had the BEST company.




Last weekend of November, Christmas finally started (because first of Advent!). Everything is brighter at Christmas.




Liam and I went to Liseberg (we go there quite a lot since we live 5 mins away) to see the lights, pet reindeer made of lights, and pick out new Christmas baubles. And celebrate that we survived November.

november 2019 part I

Let's move on to November! I woke up on the first day of the month at my brother's place in Stockholm. Had yummy breakfast and read Dagens Nyheter like some real stockholmare.


Lisa and Henrik's apartment is beautiful. I need a gin tray like this.


Had lunch with said brother


went to Fotografiska where everyone had their phones up even more than usual, because when you looked at the photos through your phone they started moving! Like in Harry Potter!


and then I went dancing for the rest of the weekend and didn't take any more photos.


Weekend walks with Johan & Gabriel are my favourite. This is the beginning of the walk, so Gabriel is slightly apprehensive. :)


But curious! :)



We have a great system going: I bring hot chocolate and Johan brings whatever he's most recently baked. Delicious bullar and cookies, in this case.



Everytime I hang out with Gabriel I'm amazed at how much I can relate to everything he says and does? We like all the same things! And he gets grumpy for the most reasonable of reasons. And we're fascinated by the same things. He likes letters, for example, big signs with big letters on them, even though he doesn't know yet that they're supposed to mean something. When he walked up to touch this sign, Johan exclaimed "oh wow ... you really are connected souls!".


The day after was a Sunday, and we had decided to have a Sunday with my gang in Utby. Essentially we just wanted a day to hang out and be lazy together. We started with brunch!


And then we took a walk in the woods






and when we came back inside, we had ridiculous amounts of fika - all leftovers from Lisa's birthday party the night before and watched a film. Perfect Sunday, I want to spend all of them like this.

october 2019

Hi friends - I'm back! Let's jump back in time and look at some photos I took in October 2019, after I'd stopped blogging. It feels like ages since I stopped! But I started missing it almost immediately. We shall see if I'm back or if I'm just dipping my toes in.

What was I up to in October? Mainly walking, it seems like:







Rehearsed with the Sky is Crying, of course.



Hung out with this lovely human.


This is the view from our living room window, the building next to ours is a construction site. It's fine actually, it's not noisy and I've got used to the lights to the point that I think it's beuatiful now.


Spent quite some time at uni - have I told you that I'm taking musicology courses now? I'm planning on getting a masters in musicology and then get myself a PhD, so I can nerd out about blues and jazz and dance and stereotypes and power structures for ever. Shouldn't be impossible, I don't think.



Went to Stockholm with said band for a gig and took exactly two photos - these two enjoying their coffee at Max on our way there. :)




More walking!




It was my birthday and I had planned a big party (like I always do) but I cancelled it a few days before; our lives were too messy with Liam's depression (more on that later) at that point, so I was NOT feeling it. Had fika at my parents' instead. That felt a lot more manageable.


Liam baked tasty bread.


On my way to work.


Yep, six years later I still enjoy working on an island in the archipelago one day per week.




Quiz night at Notting Hill (always) with my gang, Mårrans vänner a.k.a. Nätta män och runda kvinnor. We placed second! Very nice.