Sweden from the Cheap Seats

Life in Sweden, since 2008

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Las leyes de la física son inquebrantables.

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This is legitimately the funniest thing ive ever seen

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It hasn't been all that long since Moderna Museet considered Hilma to be "too obscure" to be part of the collection. Now there's an hour long wait, on a Thursday afternoon, just to get in the door...

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Sunrise at the farm

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Getting ready for Sweden-Netherlands at the Women's Euro 22!

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Glad midsommarafton från balkongen ca. kl 1.00. / Happy midsummer eve from our balcony at about 1am (it never gets completely dark now and the sun will start coming up again soon)

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Citizenship ceremony at Uppsala Castle on National Day 2022

Happy national day from one of Sweden's newest citizens! Here's a gallery of pictures from the little ceremony for new citizens that was held at the castle this morning.

It was a good ceremony – four speeches, none of them too long, three of them memorable, and one in which the speaker almost got a little verklämp.

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Sunrise light through cathedral windows, 23 nov 2021.

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A two-sun-pillar day, both at sunrise and sunset. The sunrise one was the brightest I've ever seen.

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Uppsala, looking like a postcard of itself at sunrise this morning. The speck above the castle is the flag that means the governor is in residence. And few minutes later, the sun was shining through the cathedral windows again. (The enormous crane is gone, hurrah!)

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There was a note outside the grocery store saying that the card reader wasn’t working. We were forced to attempt to trade this small picture of Greta Garbo  (circled) for butter and eggs. Which, like, when you think about it, is a really weird thing to do.

(the card reader was working by the time this basket was taken to the register, so the small piece of paper with the picture of Greta Garbo on it has gone back into the cabinet of curiosities)

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Alla helgons 2021

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This year’s jack o’lanterns from two different combined Halloween/birthday parties, guarding our balcony.

Årets pumpor sitter vakt på balkongen.

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We’ve been in this flat for a little more than a full year now, and I am nowhere near tired of winter sunrises. It’s been cold enough that there have been sun pillars this past week, and you can see one here marching westward (left to right) as the sun approaches the point of popping up over the horizon (well, roofs in this case).

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Happy Halloween! Just because we couldn’t have our usual pumpkin carving party is no reason not to carve a pumpkin. (Please forgive the dodgy grammar of that sentence; there has also been some Pyzi Punch.)

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Not a bad way to attend a lecture on second language learning on a rare sunny afternoon.

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