Tomorrow Tage and his mum is setting off for a road trip down to grandma and grandpa on the lovely island of Öland. John has to stay and work for another week before he can join us.
This is a blog about Tage who lives in a cabin in the middle of nowhere in Sweden together with his mother, father and cat Fluff-Lasse. If you’re not one of Tage’s grandparents, one of his many aunts or a friend from the playground, you’ll probably find this blog a tad dull but for our friends and family who live in foreign lands this is for you to keep up with young Tage and his adventures.
torsdag 5 juli 2012
Summer holidays!
Summer's gotten off to a flying start and we spend our days doing all those holiday things one's supposed to do; swimming, eating ice cream, picnics, cycling trips, going to the Toy museum to see a magician's show and hanging with some odd stone penguins.... Fab!
lördag 30 juni 2012
Last day at nursery
Yesterday
was the last day at Tage’s nursery Igelkotten (the Hedgehog). We are very sad
that they are closing but instead of being gloomy about it we can take the
opportunity to enjoy some excellent photos taken at nursery during his
first year.
Tage has
made many new friends during his first year at nursery but no one is quite like
Malin. And Tage knows how to treat a lady.
Fancy
dinner
Fun in the
playground
A spin on
the bike (….and still being cool enough to show your mates some respect).
Now we look
forward to a lovely summer holiday with lots of fun in the sun!
torsdag 28 juni 2012
New Arrivals
Our new
ducks have arrived making the bottom of the garden a much livelier place. We
picked up Börje and his three ladies a couple of weeks ago and they have
settled in just fine.
We are
spending a lot of our time at the moment staring at these funny creatures
whilst they waddle around in their pen, jump around in the water or just hang
by the poolside.
Tage is
quite excited and makes sure he waves through the window and say ‘Bye wawa’
every night before he goes to bed. Even the
cat is finding the ducks intriguing but probably for an entirely different
reason.
.
As if this
was not enough we have also seen the arrival of something that we (Tage’s
parents) are very excited about and hope will revolutionise our lives: a robot
lawn mower. I could put a picture on here of the new mower but to be fair, who really wants to see a picture of one?
As you see these
are exciting times!
tisdag 29 maj 2012
Tage at work
Spring is a
busy time in the garden. Thankfully Tage is a very helpful boy and gives his
parents a hand and with the help of his brand new watering can and his own wheelbarrow we have managed to get potatoes, flowers and seeds in the ground.
We have
also been working hard on John’s quest for British TV. Tage’s granddad came up from the south of
Sweden with his chain saw and together we managed to fell two massive (and I mean
20m high massive!) trees that stood in the way of BBC. It was a lot of work
getting rid of all the branches so we hope it’s going to be worth it!
And of
course, sometimes it’s nice to just hang in the garden and not do any work at
all.
måndag 14 maj 2012
Tage’s birthday, the sequel
Having
family in two countries can have its advantages, especially when it means two birthday
parties. On Saturday we celebrated Tage in Swedish style (which to be fair is
pretty much the same as the English). With his grandparents visiting from
southern Sweden, cousins Ella and Alfred (with parents) as well as friend Malin
from nursery Tage had another day of presents, balloons and way to much sugar.
Tage is now very good at blowing out candles after much practice
Now we're definitely leaving it for another year before we celebrate another Tage-birthday!
onsdag 9 maj 2012
Planes, trains and automobiles.
Back home
after our trip to the UK all we can do is to conclude that we had a jolly time.
First stop
was Hackney where we finally got to see Auntie Carol’s lovely flat and Tage got
the chance to draw a nice abstract painting onto Carol’s new beanbag which had
only arrived 5 minutes earlier!
Whilst Tage’s
dad went to Bristol for a stag do, me and the young man opted for a nice
country break in the lovely Gloucestershire countryside and at Casa Andrea.
Here we enjoyed the views (and cold winds), posters of tractors in a local pub,
had a go at the swings in the garden and generally just had some fabulous country
fun.
Next stop
was Cornwall. Ah lovely sunny Cornwall…well not quite, it pretty much rained
the whole trip but we did manage to have a lovely sunny day in St Ives where we
even got to hang on the beach.
Between the
showers there were still plenty of fun to be had such as investigating the new
World Heritage Site Heartlands with Uncle Tony and granny.
As Tage’s
birthday was only a matter of days away (actually yesterday!) granny put on a
grand birthday party with plenty of food and presents! As Auntie Marie was much
more on the ball with the camera at this event I will use some of the lovely
pictures she took. Thanks Marie!
We made a
last quick stop in London again on the way back but we must have had so much
fun that I didn’t have time to take any pictures. Anyway, thanks all you lovely
friends and family for making our trip so great! And for those of you we didn’t
manage to catch up with this time I’m sure we see you soon.
onsdag 7 mars 2012
Words a-plenty
It’s been a little while. That’s the way it goes sometimes. We’ve been busy with colds, colds and colds. At nursery the viruses spread like wild fire. Apart from that life carries on at a gentle pace. Tage is growing and seem to be too big for all his clothes. Emergency purchases of new winter shoes, tops and trousers will hopefully keep us going for a while.
The biggest change, however, is on the language front. Tage has always had a lot to say and now we’re slowly starting to understand what that is. The favourite word is Tractor or 'Tactor' as it’s pronounced in Tage language. There is always a good time to talk about tractors: at dinner time, during little jollies out (when all vehicles are ‘tactors’) or first thing in the morning as it is not unusual that it’s the first word we are greeted by when entering his room in the morning.
There is also Wow! John, who arrived home from a work trip to Gothenburg, was very pleased that the reaction from Tage over the present he brought back was: Wow! Unfortunately the fact that a heavily soiled nappy the following morning received the same wow-treatment put a slight damper on the excitement over the present however.
Another word, which is actually not so much of a word but rather a song, is banana. Have a look.
So here we are, happy in our little world talking about tractors, the wow factor and bananas. Not bad really!
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