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Posts archive for: June, 2007
  • On birds... the flying kind.

    What do I think about birds?  It's hard to express without feeling bad for the sake of the bird lovers, and also a bit self-ridiculing. Eh... Ok - simple examples to make you understand about me and the birds.

    When I was 3, my grand parents had hens and a male hen (oh yes, must be careful not to offend you with four letter words ). They were White Leghorns - big massive birds to a 3 year old. When I fed them once the bid daddy-hen got p-o'd and used his spurs on my legs until blood sprung...

    When I was 15 I had a scooter. Once home from school to an empty house with a pretty girl, I took off my helmet outside and within 0.4 seconds a seagull dropped something in my head, and it wasn't an egg. It slowly trickled down my forehead and effectively stopped me from loosing my virginity (that time...).

    In my late teens I was attacked by a gigantic parrot that almost had my arm snipped off...

    Later in life every bird I've ever had close to me has shrugged, glared violently at me and said something reminding of "kraaaaaaaaaah" as if it wanted my life to end.

    These days birch thrushes wake me up with ther kekk-kekk-kekk at 2.30 every morning.

    This might tell you how I feel about birds in general. Then again... I like magpies, crows and pray birds...  Other birds (except wild life birds ofc  (not to offend anyone: http://www.birdsofbritain.co.uk/ )) are best fried.

  • On badgers

    There's lots to be said on the subject of badgers... Bottom line: they are big, heavy and when you hit them with your car it gets expensive...

    Badgers are also black, white, grey and every shade of shitty brown you can think of. Nasty filthy little buggers. Sometimes they find a nice house, your house maybe, and decide to live under it. In bad cases they breed there and if it's really bad... they may get the idea to die there as well.

    A dead mouse in the wall stinks for a week. A dead badger is 10.000 times heavier than a dead mouse. Figure the rest out yourself. If you're smart you try to get the badger out of the house before it passes on... Good luck!

    In the wild they are nice enough tho!

    http://www.badgers.org.uk/

  • Midsummer Day party...

    ...with 60 relative relatives was a success! Every one was in some way related to my wife which meant I could get full for free, drunk for free and hung over for free... Yayy!

    Here's the place before the party...

    Party place

    Had loads of G, G, G & T's - yes - triple strength G&T's, binges of red wine with smoked wild boar, deer and bbq'd pork. Theremight also have been salads and coffee, can't recall . Must have been scotch as well... Remember a long discussion about single malts and the rifle caliber .303 Enfield... Weird...

    Wife led me to hostel. Didn't sleep to well. Had dreams about my magpie - worrying ones - I'll tell you another time...

    Anyway... Woke up 10 times in cold sweats - dreams or booze is the question... Crawled out of bed at 9 - showered, shaved but still felt my head crowded with cave men trying to thwack a mammouth into a pulp - and missing... Breakfast was no hit...

    Got home, got to sleep, got sober, got well fed - still worried. Fk distance, fk lack of communication.

    Tomorrow's another day - visists and a canal boat ride - seems calm and healthy.

  • Midsummer...

    We had a typical swedish midsummer... rain, herring, strawberries and drenk... Midsummer in Sweden
    This parking lot pic is what's left of Midsummer when company's gone,girl is gone, drenk is gone... Damn I feel lonely tonight (already actly... it's not very late yet heh...). Don't even feel like partying any longer...

    Midsummer in Sweden II
    Same bloody rain and parking lot...

    In short... my magpie is occupied tonight... couldn't party with me... that's a bore... The crow has to make do with telly while the fun is taking place somewhere else.... I'll tell you all about the circumstances later... Don't feel like it right now... just felt like expressing a feeling heh... Damn damn damn... Lonely, damnit!

  • Mornin...

    7 hours in a car yesterday... Jesus... Is it me getting old? I get tired driving for that long... And today I'm all rattling wind pipes and stuffed snout...

    Anyway... got here in good spirit and in good time for supper... nice bbq.

    It rained, hard, but we sat under roof, so no worries there except for the freakin big miggies-soundless, sneaky things, out to get your blood ... no... not really a phobia but... hate . As the night proceeded, the weather got "worse" and after midnight there was a tremendous thunder storm rolling in from the sea... damn hehe... I like the sea and I like thunder storms! Lightning bolts shining bright as day light... massive tunder... impressive!

    Today there's mainly preps for the bbq this afternoon... it's still raining by the way... and hope for a new thunderstorm tonight!

  • Cooking...

    ...is strange. You put things togheter that have their different separate tastes... and you end up with something completely different... Its fun too ! And gratifying when you succeed!

    I'm here waiting for tea to get ready. Things are simmering away in the kitchen and I'm starving (as a crow) and it smells.. mmmhmm. A chinese dish, very simple and very adapted to european grocery stores.

    - a pound of pork - shred it - brown it in butter
    - 2 green peppers - cut in small chunks - add to meat
    - 5 big mushies - slice'em - add to meat
    - add 5 - 6 cl of mushroom soy sauce + 10 cl of tap water +
      ground pepper + 2 pinches of sugar
    - let simmer 20 mins
    - serve with boiled rice or noodles
    - if you like cauliflower... split it up into pieces and stir fry /
      fry the pieces

    Mmmm... hungry....

  • Going away for a week...

    Yes... vacation time with the mrs. Well... could be worse, couldn't it. First my parents, still alive and kicking (otherwise it would be problematic visiting them, duh). After that dinner with the in-laws - traditional swedish midsummer food I suppose: marinated herring, potatoes, sour cream and chives for starters then bbq and for pudding nice strawberries with double cream.

    The day after a bigger midsummer party hopefully with a hell of a lot more drink - I need to get wasted...

    Then laying around somewhere at some beach... there'll be accounts made ofc.. or driving around the countryside, visiting ppl we know for coffee...

    I don't mind a week away from the house... But it does restrict my access to my puter and everything associated with it. *sigh*

    Anyway... better get wifie a cup of coffee... and myself a second one. Cya later.

  • Caerwynn Crow...

    It's a rather obliging name I've got... I know... It's a bit odd for a normally insane 41 year old male, wild as the wind in some aspects of life, and in others - timid as a squirrel with too much nuts on its hands. Can't help the oddity though! I am who I am.

    I have too many work associates, loads of acquaintances, a few friends, two close friends - both female - and one very very special friend - that's my Magpie! So... I must be the Crow. And this is my story.

    Oh yes... the sailor isn't me. I was navy once, so I suppose it's close enough for now !

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