on the way back

We have now started driving south again, the furthest north we got was to the town of Andenes on the top of the island of Andöya in north western Norway. This time of the year it never goes dark up there but it wouldnt be the most hospitable place ever in winter. But it did have the best Creme Brulee I've ever had I think. Or at least it shares the no 1 place with one from a very nice french restaurant in Paris. So far the trip has been great but the bed in the caravan is pretty average, we will try to find another mattress to put on top of it to prevent sore backs and aching hips. This is after all our honeymoon and not our first trip after retirement.

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Day 2

We are heading off on day 2 of our honeymoon. 990 to our first planned stop. It is all working well but I think it takes some time to get used to it and create our own routines. I guess by the end of this trip we will be able to just look at each other an nod and we both know what to do :-)

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So many things I want to do

The weather has been great for a few days now which means I need to water a bit in the garden. I really enjoy going for a stroll and checking up on all my plants in the evening while it is still quite light outside and make up plans for the garden (as long as I am covered in either mosquito repellant or clothes!). Unfortunately the list is so long that I dont know where to start. And I should probably involve Stephen as well, he usually has a few good points and ideas, not that he is super interested in the garden but he thinks about it differently (not surrounded by little pink clouds and happy endings) and it would be great to get him a bit interested.

I guess I will just have to take it one step at a time, and make sure every step involves reducing the size of the lawn =) And I want to make sure I think about it long term as well, and not just what seems to be the best thing now. Maybe one day I would like to have a glass house for example. But on the top of the priority list is a proper veggie patch, I just have to find the best spot for it!

Kitchen cleaned

One step closer to departure, I have cleaned up the kitchen while waiting for the laundry to finish. I dont think it has hit me yet that we are going to be away for almost 3 weeks and need to kind of prepare the house for it. I will ask the neighbours to keep an eye on the garden for me and Jonas and mum and dad will come around as well to check up on things.

If we forget to bring things we can always buy it but I really dont want to forget bringing the bins out or leaving wet stuff in the laundry...

I will make sure I bring camera and batteries and memory cards as well =) And I think I will challenge myself not to take 15 photos of the same thing, to save on the editing part afterwards. I dont want to spend 2 months going through 3 weeks worth of holiday snaps.

That was the end of the spin cycle, time to go hang some laundry and then bed!

Evening person

I never thought I was neither morning nor evening person, I am not sure if I am using Swenglish anymore so to clarify what I mean is that I am not waking up easily in the mornings like a morning person nor did I think that I was awake late at night like an evening person would be. But I am getting more and more convinced that I am an evening person. I have started bringing out stuff that is coming with us on the caravan trip and have now filled the little kitchen table with things that could be handy such as cooking utensils, oil, salt and pepper. And I also remembered that I was gonna show some more photos of the caravan so here they are, this are the ones the seller put in the ad.

Tomorrow I am going to get the gas pipes tested to make sure it is safe to run it on gas. It would be very annoying if there was a leakage somewhere and it was unsafe to use it...







And this little cutie I found in another ad today, I am not going to buy it but I would love to buy something like it and upholster it and have it in the library, hopefully it is comfortable enough to snuggle up in and read a book and drink tea while having a fire in the fireplace. But it would have to be the other way around with the back rest on the other side I think, otherwise it wouldnt suit next to the door out to the decking. Or maybe it would, at least by the looks of this picture. The first step is to convince Stephen to buy this, but I guess he is getting a pool table... And he did go and spend an awful lot of money in France so it shouldnt be a problem I think.

Jamming

Tonight both me and Stephen have been jamming, I did gooseberry and vanilla jam and he was jamming along with the live big four concert that they are showing on tv right now.

Otherwise the whole weekend has been around the house and the caravan, we have fixed the indicator and made sure the fridge works. The lawn has been mowed, it looked more like a meadow than a lawn this morning due to a suspected lawn mower break down but Stephen fixed it and now it works again, he cleaned the filter and the spark plug and then it was happy again.

This week Stephen is in Italy and I will have to make sure we are ready for take off on Friday lunch time. I really look forward to go on our honeymoon! I dont really know what to do with flowers and the garden though but I am sure it will work out. I have everything in pots, maybe I can drop them off at mum and dads on the way or something.

Anyway, time to get back to some photos, I promised my new upholsteryfriends that I would share them.

Almost done

I have safely arrived back to Älmhult again with both a chair and a stool freshly upholstered, pictures are getting loaded to Lightroom as I write, will come on the blog when they are done. I still have a ribbon thingy to fasten on the chair and I will do that this weekend. If I leave it longer it will never get done. And I will continue to clean up among my photos, delete all blurry and ugly photos. I HAVE to delete some photos, 193 gig is way way way tooo much. Riddiculous really, when I think about it. Maybe I dont have to have all photos in full resolution either, I am not gonna print them on A1 or use them for a feature wall in the lounge room...

Now back to work, I want to finish the chair!

ta-da!!!

Almost done...

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