Hi to all of the usual suspects and hi to you, woofgang. I'm DaSwede AKA Kit, I live in Stockholm and I'm a she. And I'm terribly nice, aren't I, Neti? woofy, Neti and I met up with each other this summer when she and mr N were doing their grand Nordic tour, you see. I drop by several times a week and leave a little letter. Here's today's report:
My youngest half-sister and her boyfriend were in town last weekend, not primarily to see me but we did meet for lunch and a walk. Did I tell you there's a 32 year span between my eldest, "whole" sister and my youngest "half one"... This one, she's the cabinet maker and her boyfriend is a joiner so they've been doing their new flat up together for months now.
Anyway, we had lunch at a buffet place where they've got this large, infraheated verandah by the water and we saw a catamaran. You see all sorts of boats here all the time of course as Stockholm is built on islands, but I've never seen a catamaran before. And I hadn't seen my sister's boyfriend before either, ha ha - they live down south. I liked him and I suspect he's the one she'll stay with.
My half-sisters' mother comes from the Philippines but almost all their many relatives live in San Diego nowadays, so I can only imagine what they're all going through right now with California burning.
Look at the time... logging off in half an hour.