It worked

If you read the blog entry before this one you might remember that I spoke nostalgically about the good old days when you might even receive a post card in your mailbox while staying in your summer cottage. Well, guess what! A reader took me up on it and I received this card a few days ago. Thank you so much!

Copyright Wildcard Company

The reference to IKEA is especially suitable since I have been there give or take 10 times since arriving here in Sweden this time. It is on my way to go and visit my mother so it is very easy just to slip in and get a kitchen utensil or a storage box or have lunch. 

On one of my latest visits I saw a big family of new Swedes having lunch together. There were children, teenager's, parents, grandparents, in-laws, they took up about three tables. So I thought that it would be a really nice gesture if IKEA changed some of the silly names in their catalogue and used some names that these new Swedes could identify with. So instead of having the book case Billy we could have the book case Rashid. And instead of the sofa Stockholm we could have the sofa Casablanca and so on. I am sure you get my drift. It would also make my task easier. I frequently have to explain/translate names of IKEA products to my friends in Australia. Let me give you some examples, we have the table JOKKMOKK, they don't know what or where this is in Australia. Or the bed TUFFING; where is that or what is it,? Or the parasol LÅNGHOLMEN, named after a prison where the last execution in Sweden took place.

Hubby is leaving in two days and I will be on my own here with my son-in-law until our daughter comes back from Oxford where she is working. Then we will do some sightseeing and hopefully the weather will stay nice. We don't have to do any painting, gardening or other chores since hubby and son-in-law have been working flat out the last two weeks.

Have to go now and plan dinner.  We are taking turns teaching our son-in-law to cook. but I think he would like us to follow recipes more. Both hubby and me cook with what's in the house. This way we discover novel flavors, while at the same time using up left-overs.  All you have to do is call it "nouvelle cuisine".

My mother always thinks that it is the serving
plate that is put in front of her, when in fact it
is just the new fashion of serving your portion
 in a very big individual plate.