Neil Hopcroft

Not far from Broby Bro are the Jarlabanke Runestones, marking the causeway crossing the marsh.

Hiding in the corner of the gravefield are another three rune stones, as well as those by the roadside.

Turning right before Helenelund station there is a piece of wasteland between the railway and the E4 road. Through this wasteground there is a path, so I was curious about where it went. It doesn’t go anywhere, just getting narrower and less inviting until the sun set and it was time to go home.

Not far from the roadside runestones there is a gravefield.

This first looks a lot like other rocks in the ground in this area, but I stopped to take a closer look because of the little information board by it – even standing next to it it wasn’t obvious it was actually a carved stone. These last two are U139 & U140 (though I don’t know which […]

Just outside Södertalje is a Scania truck factory. There is a massive rail interchange associated with it, though I’m not sure they still use rail as a major transport for their finished vehicles.

In the small town of Järna I found another rune stone, by the church. I didn’t know, when I was there, that Järna is the home of Anthroposophy in Sweden.

We got two of these phones to go with our shiny new digital voice service from BT. I’m not yet convinced about that service and we will likely change to another provider soon, and the state of the software testing on these handsets reinforces that opinion. I exported my contact list from my Android mobile […]

[Audiobook] The Broken Rung – When the career ladder breaks for women and how they can succeed in spite of it by Kweilin Ellingrud, Lareina Yee and Maria del mar Martinez. I was trying to find a business book written by a woman – there seems to be a huge collection of books about how […]