Neil Hopcroft

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Archive for August 2025

Öst Långholmen

We took a visit to the other end of Långholmen, the ex-prison island, now city centre sanctuary, with views up to Högalids kyrka and back across the lake toward Riddarholmen.

Statues at Millesgården

We went to Millesgården”, a sculpture garden on Lidingö in the grounds of the house of, and dedicated to, the artist and sculptor Carl Milles. There are three terraces looking back across the water toward Ropsten and beyond to the city, he collected many copies of his works around the world, including his fountain at Nacka Strand.

Book review: We’ll prescribe you a cat

We’ll prescribe you a cat by Syou Ishida [Read aloud to Adelle] It seems there is quite a collection of Japanese cat books, this one is again a fiction, following the story of a mysterious clinic and some the patients that visit it. They each find the clinic through hearsay and approach when they have […]