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| This is when you need a better camera. The whole field next door was full of spider webs and when the sun hit them they were all different colors. Unfortunately you can't tell from this photo. |
I had a list of important things to do while here in Sweden. One of them was trying to finally get our French car registered here in Sweden. That would mean we no longer have to take it down to France every two years for a "Contrôle Technique", i.e. a road-worthy check up. So I finally decided to have it registered here and it did mean a quite bit of fiddling and a lot of paperwork, but now it is done and it went through. Now all I have to do is receive the new registration plates, get them put on and the car is Swedish, tick! At least one thing accomplished of the long list that I am working from.
Yesterday I took mom out for lunch. She usually wants to go to a place close to where she grew up but this time we tried something different and not so far to drive. It's called Fiskebäck but it is really part of Gothenburg. It was nice to sit in the sun and eat but it was slightly marred by the huge seagulls that were very naughty and scary. I usually complain about the kookaburras stealing our food at picnics in Australia but at least they are smaller. These birds were like a flying six-month old baby and their beaks were the size of a mobile phone. And they were hungry!
Elder daughter has gone back to Senegal and her husband is visiting friends in France. We had drinks out before they left and also listened to a jazz concert sitting in a Japanese restaurant at Götaplatsen in Gothenburg.
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| Göteborgs Kalaset |
Hubby has gone back to Australia as well, so I am all alone. Unfortunately he was met with the stressful news that we have to leave the house that we are renting and where we had hoped to stay on until hubby retires in a year. So now we have until the end of October to either buy or find another house to rent. Neither of these options are very tempting or easy at the moment.
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| View from the restaurant where hubby and I had lunch before he went back to Australia.
I have to go now and return the Rent-a-Wreck rental car that we have had on stand by in case our own car didn't make it through and then take a taxi back here to the cottage again. Then on Wednesday I am flying down to Grenoble so more news from there.
PS Just one more little incident that happened when I was at the waste station with my rubbish the other day. All of a sudden I heard a shrill shriek coming from behind one of the containers. I went around there to have a look and there was this lady pointing at one of her paper bags and as she was doing that a little mouse jumped out. It turned out she had brought at least four mice in her bags, in her car. She was absolutely horrified to think that they had been in the bags, in her car when she was driving to the waste station. They must have gotten in there in her garage. I must say I sympathised with her, even though I managed to keep from screaming. |
