Neil Hopcroft

We took another walk around the back streets of Gamla Stan.

Warning: this book contains sadness, a lot of sadness. It is treated gently but that does not stop it being sad. There is also a lot of joy, with many memories of childhood friends and rekindling of relationships. [Read aloud to Adelle] – The Travelling Cat Chronicles This is a gentle story about a young […]

After leaving Uppsala I found some more rune stones. I believe these are U962, U963, U964 and U965, based on finding them outside Vaksala church, but cannot find any information on their inscriptions or translations (can anyone read runes?). Updated: This site suggests some translations.

Walking around Uppsala I found a square full of rune stones. [image missing] U937 – “Tjägn och Gunnar reste stenarna till minne av Väder, sin broder.”

I drove to Uppsala to have a brief look around before I had to return the car. It struck me as a place I would like to return to for a better look around at some point.

In the square behind the Galleria in Kista galleria lies a Stone Woman.

I followed a different route across the parkland to Rinkeby

After Jakobsberg I took the train to Sundbyberg and walked up the hill to Näckrosen.

Neverwhere [Paperback, read to self] I chose this book as my companion for my adventures at the hospital last September – it has been slow progress because it has accompanied me to medical appointments of various sorts since then, for which the waiting times have left little reading time. Of this, I am grateful. I […]

I caught the first bus to leave Kista one day, it took me to Jakobsberg. Something of an odd place, being grey and concrete much like Kista but someone seems to have stolen all of the art.