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Malmö

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Published: February 8, 2025 06:44

Day 0 = Mon 16 Dec Our train took us back past Kastrup Airport, and then both under and over the Öresund tunnel/bridge (mostly bridge, but it starts with a tunnel on the Denmark side). We saw lots of wind turbines in the sea, collecting that lovely free…

Copenhagen

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Published: February 8, 2025 06:16

[Still catching up on the journal from our basement apartment in Örebro] Day 0 = Thu 12 Dec After we’d found our accommodation, I was sent off to get supplies.  There was a Danish supermarket near our place called “Netto”, and so I headed there for the…

Flights (Brisbane to Copenhagen via Doha)

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Published: February 8, 2025 06:12

OK, I’m doing a bit of catching up now on this blog, so hopefully it’ll turn into tight stream-of-consciousness rather than the bloat-by-bloat I churn out when I have too much time. [Update:  Nope, sorry it’s still kinda waffly.] First leg – Brisbane to…

Preparation

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Published: February 8, 2025 06:02

Preparation We haven’t been OS since 2008, and haven’t been on a plane since 2018 [apart from Emma taking a few domestic work trips because apparently that’s still a thing in the modern world of east teleconferencing].  In fact, I worked out that, apart…

Going Besök II – The Återvändaning

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Published: February 8, 2025 05:49

♫ Ya live sixteen years, and whaddaya get? ♫Answer:  You get to go back to Sweden! So, to get you up to speed since the last trip, we’ve got married, had a couple of kids, and planned a return trip to Sweden.  Unfortunately, that trip was planned for Xmas…

Link: Facebook restricts sharing or viewing Australian and international news content

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Published: February 17, 2021 22:12

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-18/facebook-to-restrict-sharing-or-viewing-news-in-australia/13166208 Possible workaround for sharing content on Facebook without them claiming ownership.

Santa Lucia

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Published: September 30, 2018 23:27

Santa Lucia by James L When my father was happy he sang “Santa Lucia”, a song about a beautiful Italian island.  This happened only sporadically because he was an unhappy man – quick to anger – a simmering, brooding, unpredictable presence in our family. …

Another Day in Paradise

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Published: January 7, 2018 04:54

by Michael Lazzarini, age 17 “I wish they wouldn’t do it in the street!” Steven exclaimed, as he scraped the human excrement off his dirty, blackened foot with a stick. “Why doesn’t someone dig a new latrine?” he mumbled to no-one in particular as he…

Romantic introductions

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Published: December 21, 2015 04:13

Ain’t no intro like a Romantic-era concerto intro. I love a good musical intro.  It sets the scene and primes you to interpret the song/piece that’s to come.  A really good intro will literally make you put down your metaphorical beer and allegorically…

Test

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Published: December 19, 2015 08:00

Hello World! Just mucking about and frobbing[1] the dials. As Captain Blackadder once said: Wibble. I think there’s something in that for all of us don’t you?   [1] A term from Steven Pinker meaning large adjustments, as opposed to the smaller and finer…