In times like these, when the all news and everyday life is flooded with anxiety and restrictions to limit the progress of the Corona virus, it is easy to become depressed and get the feeling of living in a vacuum. Everything is so overshadowed by the gray blanket that limits what we can, shall or…
It’s beautiful high summer days. The B & B guests have taken the Waxholm boat to Hjälmö island and sends inspiring pictures while I am taking care of the plants and redecorate a bit in the greenhouse. Zack (our youngest son) is chilling with a book and a glass of lemonade with ice in the…
The snow is falling and falling, the temperature shows minus 12, and on the radio you’re constantly warned to take the car out on the roads. By the end of February, the winter seems to have come for real. Is not that oh so typical? I love this weather in December and January, but now…
It’s a bit slower here at B & B now when I’m on crutches. The healing of the muscles after my hip joint surgery needs its time and I spend the days mixing between resting, and handling bookings in the computer. So much practical work can’t be done though, since I can neither lift nor bend, and then those crutches that I…
We’re back at home. As always, it has been great fun and inspiring to be away, but still … how nice it is to come home! To the house, to Vaxholm, to the archipelago and to the B & B. What luck it is to feel like that! That the place where you really love to be…
This week we have been on autumn holidays, my family and I. Since I always work in the B & B in the summer we usually take the chance to go away somewhere together when the schools have their autumn brake instead. This year we headed to Gran Canaria and a lovely apartment we rented right at…
Sometimes unexpected things happen, like that morning in September when Birgit Nilsson-Bergström from Hembakningsrådet (The Swedish home baking association) called to tell me that they made me the 2017 Home baker! I was in the car driving Vigo, our oldest son, to school, and almost ran off the road of pur excitement and surprise. ”Hembakningsrådet” is an organisation that…
I can’t believe how fast this summer went. It feels like yesterday it was June and now it’s already October. Guests have checked in and out and I have baked, baked and baked. Breakfast bread and cinnamon rolls, and breakfast bread again. For the B&B and together with B&B guests and others who have wanted…
It smells of cinnamon buns. Yesterday I had a baking workshop here in the B & B kitchen and this morning when I got up to bake the guests’ breakfast bread the smell was still left. The baking workshops are one of this summer’s news here at the B & B. Yesterday, we ended up with both…
Since a couple of weeks , the whole of Vaxholm is scented by lilacs. It’s very nice if you do not happen to have the urge to be allergic to strong smells. I don’t and I really love how the smell of the lilac really saturates the air late these pre-summer evenings. I want to pick them…
