Upped and left!: Blinded by the light

That's how it feels here in Scandinavia in the days just before and after midsummer. I forget how light it gets. It's virtually daylight when you go to bed and if you happen to have to get up to go to the loo in the early morning the sun is up and it is broad daylight. I feel like I haven't slept for weeks. I catch little naps in the car when we have to go somewhere. I shouldn't complain though, because right now we are having nice sunny days (very chilly evenings and nights, though.)

Hubby is on a working holiday. I had always wanted to raise the sink since it was about 10 cm lower than everything else, and it was killing my back. I foolishly thought it was just a matter of changing the sink, and that would be it. But no, instead we now have a whole lower part of an IKEA kitchen with all new elements, and some new plumbing. Next year we might have the top.

I am delighted but it is a bit hard cooking for five with no workspace but it can be done, mainly outside. The five people I am talking about are my mother, my nephew who is on holiday, our daughter who lives in Africa normally and of course the two us. As of Monday our youngest daughter will be here too, from Chile.

Other than that, nothing new, other than that we had our 36th wedding anniversary. We went to Mollösunds Värdshus and had a very nice seafood dinner, all locally fished. There was just a little "B moll" as the French say and it was the problem with ordering dessert.

We had ordered à la carte and as far as I could tell so had most of the people there. When it came time to order dessert, we wanted creme brulé, but it was only included in the set menu. We asked if we could have it anyway and of course pay the full price. The waitress then launched into a lengthy explanation of why we couldn't have it.

She took an example with buying things at IKEA. If there was a table with four chairs, we couldn't just buy one chair!? Ok, we thought, but the similarity stopped there. No one, as far as we could tell had ordered the menu, with creme brulé as the dessert, we had all ordered à la carte. So what were they going to do with all these left-over servings of creme brulé?

We ended up having no dessert, since there was nothing else that took our fancy, and I heard from another table that they felt the same way. So I think what happened was that they missed out on selling at least four desserts at full price. (And I hope they end up with a bunch of creme brulé, out of date, in a few days that they can't serve up.)