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…
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…
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…
Friday and pinch day, in the most beautiful time I know. When the fruit trees and bird cherry are blooming and the lilies are just striking out. Today, there is a day in the garden. This spring, when it was snowing as late as now in May, everything has really said ”poff”. Not that I mind…
Every now and then I happen to take care of journalists coming to Vaxholm. Now this week there was such an opportunity. A journalist and photographer from the French newspaper Le Monde wanted to make a report from the archipelago of Stockholm to tell their readers what to experience here. Together with the Stockholm Archipelago…
There’s a lot going on here at B & B right now. As always, when it’s spring, there’s a lot that shall be done. Outdoor furniture should be painted, seeds put and new ideas implemented. Such a news is that from summer we will not only offer accommodation and breakfast. We will also expand with…
Tomorrow is Shrove Tuesday, the last day before Lent, which according to the Christian tradition shall precede Easter. A sign of spring as good as any. Not that I fast – luckily enough one can choose which traditions to follow, and fasting isn’t quite my cup of tea – but isn’t it wonderful to know…
Right now I kind of wish this was a fragrant blog, then I would be able to convey the aroma of coffee and freshly baked rolls that is currently spreading throughout the house. As many of you know, I bake almost all breakfast bread to the B&B-guests. I write almost, because sometimes I get a little lazy…
In just one week is Valentine’s Day. I’m not really a big of all those fabricated days – Cinnamon Bun Day, international popcorn-day, bracelet clock day and whatever they are called. It has been inflation in them. Soon, almost every date in the calendar has own “day” if not two. But on the other hand,…
