I moved to Sweden on a six month secondment...that was nearly two years ago. Life has a funny way of working out.
My name is Shane and this blog is my Swedish story.

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February 7, 2010

Ha ha this will make some of you laugh!
I usually buy my music digitally but as I have my own place I have decided to buy in cd format again. I have somewhere to put them. All my existing cd’s are in a dvd type case. It was easier when I moved to Sweden to [...]

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The loneliness of the long distance runner

February 7, 2010

Its Sunday which is my designated day for my long run. I wasnt feeling in top form because I had eaten ‘badly’ in Linköping and I could feel it.
I was not in the mood for a 10k run but I was soon into it. Was only around minus one or two and the sun was [...]

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This blogger finds love in Linköping

February 6, 2010

And here she is Well I was always taught that looks arent everything
This was me this morning working at a travel fair in Linköping
We arrived yesterday evening and explored the nightlife. It was really interesting for me to be in a small provincial Swedish city rather than a large Capital like [...]

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Off to Linköping

February 5, 2010

Am off to Linköping today with work and back tomorrow night.
Its Swedens fifth biggest city with just under 100,000 people living there.
I do enjoy seeing new towns in this country.
Will let you know what I think of it when I am back.

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Bröderna Lejonhjärtarna

February 5, 2010

Bröderna Lejonhjärtna is a very famous kids story here in Sweden.
Its written of course by Astrid Lindgren.
Last weekend I watched the film adaptation of this, mainly to improve my Swedish.
I was not expecting this to be so dark!
The film starts off with the youngest brother dying of a terminal disease. His old brother then dies [...]

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Mathem – Buying food online

February 4, 2010

When I lived in the UK I used Tesco.com delivery all the time. Some say its lazy, but for me it saved time, definitely saved money as you can see how much everything is as you go along and it also helps save your waistline as you are not tempted by the power of the [...]

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Another step to becoming a Swede..

February 3, 2010

I did two very Swedish things last week..
Firstly I had some filmjölk – desribed as
‘a Swedish mesophilic fermented milk product that is made by fermenting cow’s milk with a variety of bacteria from the species Lactococcus lactis and Leuconostoc mesenteroides.’
Sounds delicious right. The Swedes love it and have it mainly for breakfast. I tried it [...]

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Birgitta Ohlsson..Minister!

February 2, 2010

I was delighted to wake up to the news that Birgitta Ohlsson has been made a Minister in the Swedish Goverment. She will now serve as Swedens EU Minister. There was a vacancy because Cecilia Malmström (swoons!) became a EU Commissioner.

Some of you will remember that I met Birgitta at the Swedish Parliament and volunteered [...]

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Changing Stockholm for Good!

February 1, 2010

This is real democracy in action.
Stockholm Folkpartiet are preparing their programme for Stockholms Stad (City Council but larger if you will) for 2010-2014. Stockholm is currently run by the Moderates and Liberals and will go to the polls this year.
Folkpartiet Liberalerna in Stockholm have published their programme for 2010-14 and are inviting comments from everyone [...]

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The Snowball Project – är du galen Kelvin!

January 31, 2010

Sometimes friends really amaze me.
Take the case of Kelvin. I only know him through our joint love of Swansea City FC. He is an active member of the SEALS (South East and London Swans) which I helped set up some time back. I think the first time I met Mr Cery, I was wearing an [...]

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