Neil Hopcroft

Nynäshamn is a small town on the end of the Pendletåg from central Stockholm. Meaning literally “New Nose Harbour” it is the landing point for ferries across the Baltic to Poland and Gotland.

Sö 250: ”Gynna reste denna sten efter Saxe, Halvdans son.”“Gynna raised this stone after Saxe, Halvdans son”.

[Read aloud to Adelle] The Cat who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa This is another gentle Japanese cat story, following the story of Rintaro, a high school student who is left bereft by the death of his beloved grandfather, a reclusive owner of a second hand bookshop. Rintaro is moping around in the bookshop one […]

In the nature reserve by Hammersta Slott is the ruin of the old castle.

Outside Hammersta slott are a couple of rune stones, one is a modern memorial stone in the style of the ancient stones.

Hammersta Slott is a manor house that is now converted into a spa and sits in a nature reserve, it was too muddy for me to explore too much around.

Väster haninge (Swedish) is a small town at the centre of its commun, served by the Pendletåg from Stockholm central.

I found a car race track on the ice near Nacka, by the time I got there the weather had warmed a little so I didn’t want to risk taking the car out myself.

[Read while waiting for appointments] All Families are Psychotic by Douglas Coupland Coupland is generally easy reading for me, with rambling sentence structures that flow with the consciousness and ordinary seeming characters getting themselves into extraordinary relationships with each other and the world in general. He holds a mirror up to show the darkness of […]