Regrets

Wish I had set up my domain elsewhere. I’ve had nothing but trouble with GoDaddy and Google Apps.

Words…don’t come easy!

If you’ve ever tried to learn a second (or even third) language, you know how easy it is to make mistakes…when a word looks almost identical to your own language. One tends to take it for granted that they mean the same thing and perhaps doesn’t even bother to look them up. «False friends» I [...]

FIKA

We have a word in the Swedish language that doesn’t really have a corresponding word in any other language — «fika». It can be both a verb and a noun and it simply means ‘to have a cup of coffee’.
Originally it was a special kind of slang word amongst travelling ‘merchants’ back in the 1700. [...]

Browser

Not too long ago I wrote a blog here about how I’d switched to Firefox. Not that I had any issues with Internet Explorer but I thought it was fun with the add-ons, skins and stuff like that. After a while it was all as usual…didn’t find it any better or worse than IE.
The [...]

This blog has moved

It’s all the same…just a new address.

The Return of the Bandits

This morning we noticed we’d had visitors overnight…things were moved around out on the porch! When I looked closely I could see their paw prints so I knew that it was raccoons that had been there.
This is earlier than last year…it was the 19th of April 2007…I had the date stamp on the photo…and considering [...]

Mona’s Dare…. and sad news for QC — 2 blogs in 1

These two photos I took in July 2006 when Gerry and I took a rather touristy walk in Quebec City. Last night it looked like this:

THE CANADIAN PRESS/QUEBEC LE SOLEIL/ERICK LABBE
According to the news there are only ruins left…only a few structures standing in the rubble.
Noone was hurt, they don’t know how it started. [...]

The Box

Some people think outside the box….. while yet others think inside the box…

Happiness

Yesterday’s post about depression rendered a great deal of comments and many could evidently relate to that subject. Is it easier to relate to depression than happiness? I certainly hope not!
I don’t mean euphoria…like if you’d won a thousand bucks…I mean the very basic contentment when everything is in place — life isn’t all that [...]

Depression

Below is a copy of a blog I wrote about a year ago in the blog in Yahoo 360°. For one reason or another it came to mind yesterday and I went in there and found it (thanks to tagging). I remembered I got quite a few comments on this post then. Now when I [...]