Neil Hopcroft

Looking back: we would later find many car shows where these kinds of machines were on display There was a time before cars were boxy but safe – here are some pictures of a few I’ve found in my exploration.

Looking back: this was the first of many runestones I found, it became a bit of a treasure hunt for me to find and photograph them. There are a number of Rune Stones around the Stockholm area – one thing that A wants to do while she is here is to find some of them. This one […]

Looking back: The little roads were more prevalent in this area of northern Stockholm than elsewhere in the city. These roads are widely used by cyclists and walkers alike, and, at the right time of year, skiers. If instead of walking toward the Galleria from my office you cross the E4 and railway line you find yourself […]

Looking back: we spent a lot of time in Kista, being where I worked and where we lived for a good chunk of time we were in Sweden. I arrived in Kista a couple of months back, I started a job on Torshamnsgatan in the tech district of Stockholm. Now I have some catching up […]

We walked over the bridge from our flat in Akalla, heading toward Sollentuna Centrum. There’s an industrial/commercial area on the way, we passed a number of car dealerships and tech offices, Sun, Grundig, LG & Microsoft. Beyond these there’s the main junction with the E4, the main road north from Stockholm, we found the border […]

The Last London [Read aloud to Adelle] I got this book because we were reading London Orbital, Sinclairs book about a walk around London in the acoustic footprint of the M25 and didn’t want it to finish. More about that book later. This was a tricky read, with complex sentences that didn’t come out in […]

Stirred to action by unnerving changes to Facebook acceptable speech policy, something I have been meaning to do for a while is to take up blogging again. This is something that happens from time to time, and something which I miss from the old Livejournal days – I don’t kid myself I can generate the […]

Mother and son chased each other around the lake.

We had to visit the curiously named Dr Syntax Head.

It was the first time for Nils to go sailing at his mums sailing club.