Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

Bessemer converter

Theres something wonderful about waking up in a place with a Bessemer converter at the bottom of the garden.

Book review: Notes from an Island by Tove Jansson and Tuulikki Pietilä

[Softback, read aloud to Adelle] Notes from an Island by Tove Jansson and Tuulikki Pietilä This is a short book, part diary, part memoir, about the settling of Tove and Tooti on the island of Klovharun, and their subsequent life there. It starts with the discovery of a desolate island and their choice to move […]

Högbo bruk

We went to Högbo bruk, a former iron working site and one of the seeds of Swedens industrial revolution, now a recreational area.