Found out today that a man was found murdered in the next building two days ago. Not only that; he had been lying there for nearly two weeks. Kinda creepy. It’s weird also how the neighbours have received no information whatsoever. Somebody living right above the victim only found out when enquiring about the gate being locked in the afternoon. Personally, I heard about it on the news.
Swedes can read about it here, and the rest of you can just ‘enjoy’ the included picture of my neighbourhood. By the way, a man in Gothenburg has apparently turned himself in for the murder, so that’s good at least.
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Finally some good news from across the pond. Well done, Dems!
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From newspaper Svenska Dagbladet, October 30 (loosely translated):
The Stockholm area will have to wait for the snow another few weeks. Some snow might fall tonight, but most likely it will be gone by tomorrow morning, according to the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute … it is still way too warm for the snow to stay on the ground.
Oh, really? This is what I saw when I got out of bed this morning:
Whenever the first snow of the season falls over Stockholm, everything comes to a grinding halt. This time was no exception. All trains going in and out of the central station were cancelled last night. Same thing with a number of bus lines. Surely the subway could run normally? Nope, not even that. Every single year it’s the same thing, and this in a city where winter is by far the longest season and ought to have the highest priority in terms of traffic arrangements and such. But no. When the first snow arrives in Stockholm, everybody’s caught by surprise. Chaos every time. Luckily, I didn’t have to go anywhere myself.
I probably would have been able to get a better picture if I hadn’t slept till 11, when the fresh coat had already been ruined by footsteps and - by the look of it - ski tracks. Now this is the part that bugs me: who the hell is such a winter freak that they actually go and dig up their old skis as soon as they see there’s a little bit of snow outside? I guess this is another one of those Swedish things, similar to how everybody always brings out their grills on the first moderately warm day in the spring. There’s a whole lot of this kind of obsessive compulsive behaviour among Swedes in general, and it deeply fascinates me. I share some of it myself, I’m sure, but it’s obviously much more fun to look at the things I can’t understand or relate to (such as the aforementioned obsession with barbecues). This is a topic I’m likely to get back to in the future, as I’m fascinated by these kinds of cultural traits/oddities.
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Ok, so the summer hiatus turned out to be a little longer than I intended. I’ve been postponing my return because I wanted to make sure that once I started blogging again, it wouldn’t be another half-assed effort with random posts every few weeks or so. Truth be told, I can be rather lazy, and procrastination is an art I know very well. My perfectionist nature often gets in the way of my creativity, and this is one of the things I was hoping to remedy with this blog in the first place.
Anyway, in honour of the new season, I’ve given the site a bit of an overhaul. Hope you like the new look. Aside from a few minor modifications, it’s all Beccary’s work. It’s a bit on the dark side, sure, but since I’ll be living in more or less constant darkness over the next few months, I think it’s only fitting. As you might know, we don’t get a lot of sunlight up here in the Subarctic this time of year.
As for what’s been going on while I’ve been away, we’ll get there eventually. I’ll be posting more soon as things come to me.
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