Thursday, December 31, 2009
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Curling ...
Aberdeen, Scotland, Saturday 12/12/09!
Långt tidigare har denna vecka föregåtts av träningar, tävlingar, förberedelser, tävlingar och åter träningar! Vem har egentligen brytt sig? Curling av alla sporter...
Media har definitivt inte uppmärksammat detta på det sätt sporten förtjänar. Dock ler de flesta igenkännande när man nämner lag Anette Norberg eller lag Peja Lindholm i VM och OS-sammanhang. Förebilder för många tjejer och killar! Vi tackar för detta! Sedan ett tag tillbaka finns det flera lag, bl.a. dessa unga killar som precis tog EM-GULD mot Schweiz! Jag säger bara WOW! Vilka prestationer hela vägen! Och - får ni inte OS-biljetter till Vancouver ska jag äta upp min gamla...
Naturligtvis speciellt grattis till dig, Vikke! Självklart också till Niklas, Fredrik, Sören, Sebastian & resten av gänget! You did IT!
www.curla.net
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Wake up ...
Earlier today I went out to get the morning paper. I should have watched my step...
It took me half an hour to get my right shoe cleaned up! Damn you dog owners, who doesn´t know Swedish law! On the other hand, I could have watched my step...
Speaking of dog shit, here´s Shubidua...
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Stevie Nicks and Spandau Ballet ...
Today, the record is worn out. But I´ve still got the memories...
Also in 1989, I travelled together with a very good friend between London and Jersey. On the same flight there where some familiar faces...
-Isn´t that Tony Hadley sitting over there, she asked.
-Who?
-You know, THE one in Spandau Ballet...?
-Ok, so what...?
On arrival it showed that the band were to preform at Fort Regent in St. Helier, later that night.
But - before that, they tried to nick MY hirecar! Mixed booking... They apologized and everyone was happy! Why the mix-up, I still don´t know. Fun memories though...
In this video they seem to be about twenty years older.
Maybe I´m right about that...
Time for your perfect party or business meeting ...?
Apéritif
Calvados des Capucins Fine, 2 cl, with
Louis Bouillot Crémant de Bourgogne Brut
Coquilles St Jacque Florentine
Sancerre Les Baronnes, Henri Bourgeois
Potage Agnes Morrell, Parmesan Cruton, Aged 30 yr Sherry
Sancerre Les Baronnes, Henri Bourgeois
Poached Monkfish Filet with a Herb Crust,
Medley of Julienned Root Friut, Sweet Cream Polenta
Sancerre Les Belles Vignes 2008, Rosé
Roasted Breast of Guinea Hen, Black Truffle Risotto,
Carrot-Celery Root-Saffron Mousse, Cranberry-Pistachio Chutney
Peregeuex Sauce
Saintsbury Garnet Pinot Noir, 2008, California
Toqueville, A Dark Chocolate Mousse, Spiced Shortbread,
Caramelized Apples, Calvados Syrup
Duc d'Arthour, Pommeau de Normandie
Coffee & Liqeur
Make your own menu with Jeff!
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Let it be ...
May I present: The Russian Navy!
Oh, my god...
Friday, November 06, 2009
Skepp o'boj ...
Det lär vara en ganska stor, avancerad och solcellsdriven krabat som siktades utanför Trelleborg och ursprungslandet är ännu inte helt känt. Svenska Kustbevakningen ryckte naturligtvis genast ut för att mota bort inkräktaren. Då denna uppträdde förvirrat och dessutom begärde asyl i Vellinge kommun, valde KBV den i vart fall tillfälliga placeringen.
Vid påträffandet bar bojen inga handlingar, därav vissa problem med identifieringen. Enligt Mikael Kjellander vid Sjöfartsverket är det ganska vanligt att en boj sliter sig från hemlandet.
Varför denna valde just Sverige är fortfarande oklart, likaså anledningen till att den slet sig.
Enligt Kjellander har Sjöfartsverket och KBV ett samarbete med de olika Östersjöländerna och hoppas därmed på att något land hör av sig om flykten.
Ärendet kommer under tiden att handläggas i samarbete med Migrationsverket.
O'boj...
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
Word of the day ...
I´m pretending to be very busy..."
(Thanks Josefine, it made my day...)
By the way, it´s nice to be back! It´s been a while.
And - many thanks to a very good friend and his incredible Mac... ;o)
Sunday, October 18, 2009
No computer for now ...
I should have learned by now...
Can´t receive or send mail. Nothing...
Thank god for very nice neighbours. At least I could write this.
Hopefully, I will be back soon...
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Saturday, October 10, 2009
A very special dog ...
Somehow, I feel kind of related to this particular dog and it´s relatives...
I wonder why... ;o)
Wednesday, October 07, 2009
Jeffrey Scott Brown ...
"My culinary talents today are a direct accumulation of all my experiences throughout my life. One of the most profound was shopping on the Rue Mouffetard in Paris. I first heard of it while living in Colombia, reading Hemingways 'A Movable Feast'. He lived on the Place de la Contrescarpe, and would often stroll down the Rue Mouffetard for espresso or shopping."
"If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast."
Ernest Hemingway, 1920
För mera information se nedan eller ring 0708-320498 så berättar vi mera...
Sunday, October 04, 2009
Changes ...
Yesterday, the weather changed dramatically. It comes with the season, I suppose. As usually...
Both pictures are taken at the same spot, approximately at the same time of early evening.
Speaking of changes, here´s Ozzy and his daughter Kelly. I very much like their voices and the lyrichs. I´m sure you´ve heard it before.
Hope we´re all open for the changes to come...
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Friday, September 04, 2009
Tuesday, September 01, 2009
UFO ...
(Source or saucer...: SkD)
Monday, August 31, 2009
Peter Gabriel ...
Wanted alive ...
At 3 PM, the same man was spotted at Gustav Adolfs Torg in Malmö, apprx. 25 km´s away from home. Eating a cheeseburger from McDonald´s!
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 ...
IT TAKES TWO TO SPEAK THE TRUTH.
ONE TO SPEAK AND ONE TO HEAR...
And this one...
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Melodikrysset ...
Nyligen, en lördag, löste kära mor (83) och jag Melodikrysset som vanligt, med gemensamma ansträngningar. Precis som vi gjort varje lördag mellan tio och elva. Under ett antal år! Denna timma är sedan länge helig. Ingenting får störa... Jag kunde inte komma på hela texten till denna melodi. Ord på två bokstäver... Skulle det vara NU, DU, SÅ eller DÅ? Ja, då återstår det att "fuska på Google". Och vad hittar då en "gammal" flygare som jag? Jo, en ung ABBA-Agnetha som flyger (?) en 35:a...
Svaret då? Naturligtvis NU!
Friday, August 07, 2009
TLB in the air today ...
But - I couldn´t miss this "event"...
Monday, August 03, 2009
Horse or snail ...
I don´t think this little fellow were paying very much attention either...
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Louis Blériot 1872-1936 ...
This is what happened a 100 years ago.
After years of honing his piloting skills, Blériot decided to go after the coveted thousand-pound prize offered by the London Daily Mail for a successful crossing of the English Channel.
Blériot had two rivals for the prize, both of whom failed to reach the goal. The first was Hubert Latham, a French national of English extraction. He was favored by both the United Kingdom and France to win. He had arrived first and attempted to fly across on 19 July of that year, but six miles (10 km) from the shore at Dover he developed engine trouble and was forced to make a sea landing. The other pilot, Charles de Lambert, was a Russian aristocrat with French ancestry, and one of Wilbur Wright´s students. However, Lambert was injured in a major crash during a test flight, forcing him to quit the competition. On July 25, 1909, the three rivals each arrived on the shores of Calais, France. Blériot had a badly burned foot, caused when a gasoline line broke on his #VIII machine during one of his trial runs, although he did not withdraw. The #VIII was Blériot's largest and most successful design up to the #XI. After his crash in the #VIII which left him with the burnt foot, the #XI was the only other aircraft he had available to make the Channel flight.
Before the trip, the French government allowed a destroyer to escort and observe his plane during the trip to Dover. Blériot used the Blériot XI, which was a structurally strong but simple and maneuverable monoplane of his design powered by a 3-cylinder Anzani radial engine with 25 horsepower and a 2-bladed fixed-pitch wooden propeller. The flight started a little after 4:30 AM on the same day, July 25, 1909, when dawn broke. He reported, in a telegram to the Washington Post, that he throttled his engine to 1,200 revolutions per minute, almost the top speed of the engine, to clear telegraph wires at the edge of the cliff near the runway field. Then he lowered the engine speed to give the XI an average airspeed of approximately 40 miles per hour (64 kilometers per hour) and an altitude of about 250 feet (76 m). Soon after, inclement weather began to form, with the Channel becoming rougher. Blériot lost sight of landmarks, and rapidly outpaced the destroyer escort. He stated: “for more than 10 minutes I was alone, isolated, lost in the midst of the immense sea, and I did not see anything on the horizon or a single ship”.
The landing was in turbulent weather, and Blériot encountered numerous problems: rain was cooling the engine, putting it in danger of being shut down, and strong wind was blowing him off course. As Blériot reduced his airspeed for the landing, the gusts of wind nearly caused his plane to crash from an altitude of 20 meters (67 feet) when he cut off the engine. The landing severely damaged his landing gear, along with the propeller, although the rest of the airplane was fine and the landing was deemed successful.
He flew 22 statute miles (36.6 km) from Les Barraques (near Calais) to Dover. The trip took 37 minutes. Blériot gained immediate fame for this flight.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Bl%C3%A9riot
Yesterday it happened again...
Stora nyheter ...
"ZLATAN LANDAR I BARCELONA IKVÄLL"
Nu precis kom en ny rubrik:
"ZLATAN FRAMME I BARCELONA"
In Hungary ...
Nothing is over before the last race. So - Jenson and Rubens - as you already know, it will be tight in the end of season...
And - Felipe, get well really soon!
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Swedish Coast Guard ...
Inspite the noise of the waves, I heard another sound in the sky. Swedish Coast Guard flew in on very low altitude with one of their, since a while operational, new Dash 8-Q300.
It made me remember the day of October 26th 2006. My wife and I were outside in the garden. Suddenly we heard a strange, sort of bang. We soon learned that one SCG aircraft, a Casa C-212, had crashed in the channel. It later showed that four men were killed.This happened almost three years ago, but there are those who will never forget...
Monday, July 20, 2009
Heroes ...
Today, sixtyfive years ago, Claus von Stauffenberg and associates also tried. But they didn´t aim for the moon. Who knows - if they also would have been succesful - would we live in another kind of world today?
Anyway - they all tried. Let us all at least do the same...
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Jersey Channel Islands ...
It arrived with British Mail this morning. And I´m very proud...
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
24 HOURS IN MOSCOW / Part I...
-Lasse, as you know we have 78 clients travelling to China two days after tomorrow.
-Yes...?
-Change of plans. We are using another airline, so they need to stay overnight in Moscow.
-Ok...?
-So - I need you to go to Moscow tomorrow morning and arrange accomodation.
-Well, I can do that. Only, there´s a small problem. I´ve got no visa...
-I don´t care, try to get it on arrival. This is important, just do it!
-Right...
Immediately I contacted Novotel, that I already knew had opened a brand new hotel just a few minutes walk from the airport and made an appointment with their sales manager. I booked my ticket to Moscow (and avoided Aeroflot). The morning after I flew with SAS to Helsinki and onwards with Finnair. Easy enough. Bearing in mind that this was just a few years since the perestrojka and the fall of the iron curtain, I was a little bit excited...
Arriving at Sheremetyevo 2 I hoped that my Swedish passport could get me through passport control. The young man in the booth, with his AK-47 standing beside him, just smiled and said in russian-english:
-Sorry, we are not there yet. No visa, you stay in transit.
-But...!?
-As you can see, there are others waiting, so go back and contact transfer desk!
Transfer desk was crowded with people. By their looks, most of them were on their way to Pakistan, India, Thailand or Afghanistan. As I wore my uniform, I went straight to the counter. There I met Anna. I explained my problems, no visa, nowhere to stay, 78 clients and so on.
-Follow me, she said. We went for a coffee and she told me that I could get a provisional visa the day after. The "office" was supposed to open at 9 AM. I asked her if she knew a place where I could stay the night, without having to sleep in a hard plastic chair. "No problem for you, sir. You obviously have dollar". She told me to make contact with "the barman...". He knows, she said and smiled.
I had nothing else to do that day but finding somewhere to eat and sleep. So I went to the bar, as Anna suggested. There I met Colin, "the barman" and from Ireland. He told me that the only place I could stay at, while in transit, was "Cockroach Village", a hotel for people like me. Without a visa. After the second large whisky, I agreed to just do that. The time of that day was now apprx. 6 PM. After having spent a few hours walking around in the terminal I was very hungry. There were no restaurants open. Only the Irish bar. I went for a sandwich and lager, but Colin had gone "home". At that time I was sure he´d taken the first available flight back to Dublin...
Later on, the terminal became rather empty. I was waiting to be called out for my transport to "Cockroach Village". Sitting in a very hard plastic chair, nearly falling asleep at around 11.30 PM, two large russian women in yellow dresses suddenly appears at a range of 50 meters. They were looking at me and shouted:
-You!
-Me...?
-Yes, you!
They took me downstairs out on the tarmac where a coach for about 50 persons was waiting, along with two remaining IL-62´s. I was alone with the two women and a driver. Three persons were taking me to "Cockroach Village"!
To be continued...
Monday, July 13, 2009
Carla Bruni...
Not bad for a president´s wife...
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Bruce Willis and Die Hard...
To my surprise, in Die Hard II, one of American Trans Air´s Lockheed 1011´s turned up at the end of the film. Our company used them for chartered flights from Copenhagen to Los Angeles, a year after the film was released. I still wonder why, I know it wasn´t without cost. ATA Airlines went bankrupt in 2008, as far as I know...
And - again back in 1987, dear Bruce did this together with The Temptations...Thursday, July 09, 2009
By bus...
Maybe I could have helped the lady by making my way through these people and offer my arm and seat. But - if I would have left my seat it most certainly would have been occupied by one of the children of our future... So - CATCH 22...
Saturday, July 04, 2009
Never mind 4th of July in the USA...
Who used to be (!?) a very dear friend of mine, once asked me to bring home a scary movie. I couldn´t find one... But I did find this classic! She wasn´t very happy at the time. I always try to be nice, so today she´s celebrating her 42nd birthday! HAPPY BIRTHDAY dear, and enjoy! ;-)
I believe I can fly...
This is to celebrate a very nice flight my friend and I did exactly one year ago. Well, not exactly, it took place July 7th 2008.
Thursday, July 02, 2009
Skiathos vs Höllviken...
The picture below shows our daughter and son in law. During the past years Daniel has been called (depending on actual haircut...) Zlatan Ibrahimovic and as late as yesterday I called him Andy Garcia. He doesn´t like that. I wonder why... (Sorry, Danny Boy ;-)