Just for the cuteness - this is my great-uncle Lennart at the age of 4, picture taken in the late 1920's.

He is still alive and if I'm lucky, I might be able to visit him this weekend!

I'm still alive... I've kind of missed writing in my blog so here I am again!

The beginning of this semester was quite stressful for me, so I fell out of the habit of posting. Now I'm just about to move to Stockholm, for my internship at the local newspaper Mitt i Stockholm - while also doing schoolwork and travelling for Christmas - so it's not much less going on now. I'd hate to live a boring life, though.

Today I've just been lazy and catching up on sleep, as I might need that for the coming weeks. Although I did do some genealogic research while in bed - enough to find out I have yet another German ancestor. I suppose it really is time for me to learn German - or at least visit Germany for a holiday!

This weekend I visited my aunt in Ö-vik. Then I also photographed some of her old pictures she got from my grandmother. I might even have found one of my great grandfather's brother, who died as a child. No names are written on the back and I can only get clues from other pictures of his parents, taken 30 years later. What do you think?


This would be taken around 1910 if it's them. The older boy would be my great grandfather - or some complete stranger. These people don't look similar to anyone else in the family.


Frans and Helga Andersson - my great great grandparents, photographed by my grandfather in 1940, funny enough in a village named Ulrika.

Here's also some Swedish snow - or rather "rimfrost" - for any of you who might miss it.

University life is already at full speed. At least we're doing something I really enjoy - investigative journalism. Currently, me and Anna are digging out all sorts of fact about a man with power. Me, Moa and Helen are trying to shed some light on a matter which I have personal experience with. It'll be interesting to see what comes out of it all.

I've finished this knitted top tonight. It was meant for summer but I'll wear it when the sun comes out - and next year.

My aunt Noomi gave me her childhood photo album, for me to scan so that she would have a digital copy of it. I wasn't able to install my old scanner after all, but I've copied a few by taking a photo of them... that explains the poor quality.


My grandfather, Sune Hällbro - he died in 1986 at the age of 65, only a few weeks after his retirement. I was four years old then and one of my first memories is from going to his funeral. He had more than one job in his life but one of them was to be some kind of technical support guy at a high school. He was active in church and has written songs for singing praise and such.


My great-grandmother, Elin Berglund who lived between 1890 and 1964. The photo was taken by a Mauritz Edlund in Stockholm, who moved to another studio in 1914 so I'm sure the photo is older than that, at least. He later became a photographer for the royal family.

Elin married Gustav Karlsson who worked for the railways - they lived in Stockholm for a few years in the 1910's but moved later on to Törnevalla outside of Linköping. That's where my grandmother and her five siblings grew up.


My great-grandmother Elin serving coffee to my grandmother, Gullan. My aunt Noomi is in her lap, on the left is my grandfather's grandmother, Helga Andersson and to the right is my grandmother's father, Gustav.

Helga was originally from Eksjö in Småland but she married Frans Andersson who is from Östergötland and they lived in Linköping from what I can recall of my grandmother's stories. Both Helga and Gustav died in the late 1940's and Noomi was born in 1945, so the photo must have been taken around that time.

On the topic of fika - this carrot cake turned out really well.

Cina opened her yarn store today - congratulations! It looks really good & I'm sure I will pass lots of time in there trying to avoid spending too much on yarn.

I've started on a pair of mittens - they're knit in thick, wool yarn and the needles are 8 and 9 mm's in bamboo. I love the sound they make when they click together, it's very relaxing.


Anna, Sus, Ida and Jess came by for a fika at my place in the afternoon. We all concluded that the best thing with being back in Sundsvall is each other's company.

I've been cooking today! Here's the recipes - in Swedish - one is with salmon and pasta and one is with chicken and rice. If you can't see the whole recipe it's probably just that you need to be a member, which luckily doesn't cost anything.

This afternoon I've had a fika with Sus and Ida at Wayne's - they've re-decorated and I like it much better now. Then we had some kind of introduction at Kåren before the welcoming of the new students - which I couldn't wait to leave in order to stop by at the knitting café. During my half hour there I had a nice chat, knit a few rows and had an amazing cappucino.

Now I'm off to make an apple cake!

Everything is starting all over again. My friends are returning to Sundsvall & today I met Sus in the staircase of our building. On Thursday I have a date with Anna & we have a lot of catching up to do - despite our hour-long conversation on the phone this afternoon.

Late summer & early autumn is my favorite time of the year. It gives me a sense of freshness and the feeling that I have the chance to do it all right this time.

It also gives me inspiration to re-decorate my apartment, get a new hairstyle and buy new clothes - or, as of lately, buy the yarn to knit new clothes - all at once. Maybe getting nicer (as in, too expensive) food will get me started on cooking again?

At the grocery store, someone had taken a bite from probably half of the plums in the box and then put them back with the bite mark facing down, so that noone would notice. That's an idea on how to get free food.

I've started on a new sweater. Most of my knitting readers have already seen it, but I can at least proudly announce that I got past the hard part and as of tonight I've done 17 cms on the second sleeve.