Neil Hopcroft

American muscle On Sunday I went to Street Car Fest at Sollentuna Massan exhibition centre – I kept expecting to meet Vin Diesel living his life a quarter mile at a time. There was a lot of bass and a lot of people who thought their cars were really good. And to be fair some of them […]

Some pictures from around our flat in Akalla. The roads here are said to be infested with “farmers farming concrete cows”, because many roadworks are barricaded off with blocks of concrete that look like cows, this is a variant on the same theme. I tried, but failed, to explain Milton Keynes….as an aside, “A Swedish Organization […]

A colleague of mine shared a video with me, and it got me thinking. The video was an interview with Terry Davis, talking about his views on computer programming and his operating system, Temple OS. It is a recording of an interview live streamed from a McDonalds, which includes five minutes of camera phone setup […]

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Animal garden – this island is home of Skansen, among other things. A place reserved for cultural highlights of the city. We were there to visit the aquarium, but took a walk along the waterfront back to Kungstradgården T-bana. Find the aquarium was a bit of an adventure, most other things on the island are well […]

[Hardcover, read aloud to Adelle and Nils] Skandar and the Chaos Trials This is the third book in the Skandar series, a series we have been enjoying so far. They are set in a fantasy world where unicorns are found to be real and have magical powers when teamed up with a rider. They are […]

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