Sunday, July 11, 2010

The weather

We have had several weeks in Sweden with hot summer days almost no rain. All my friends are complaining and at +28 one day, the all stoped functioning. I remembered that I do belong to a whingeing tribe with Serotonin deficiency and night sight from 9 months of darkness each year. Part of my own complaining personality comes from this femonenon.
As my friends on the farm, where I ride Farao, work hard and suffer under the sun, I am quite enjoying the heat myself as I also try to do some work around the place. Still my job is nowhere near the effort of even apart time job, so my days here are almost like holiday. The beauty of it is that when I get back home, it won´t be long until springtime in Langwarin.
I also hear as much complaining about the lack of rain as back home in Australia. And this is in a country with more water than almost any other place in the world.
I keep quiet because all my friends got tired long ago of all my stories about Australia. The Scandinavians have absolutely no idea of the fear of drought and fire that is almost a part of the genetic code of the Australians.
Here, the grass and plants stay green almost through the entire summer so the landscape is extremely beautiful. The best views are to be found in the north and in the archipelago of Stockholm.

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