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| Unique Visitors: 62 |
| Total Unique Visitors: 1638431 |
| Visitors Out: 5228 |
| Total Visitors Out: 20652 |
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| Tuesday, March 24th, 2009: Recycling (and my strange building) in Malmö |
| 2009-03-24 17:31:18 |
What I think:Since I moved to Sweden, I've felt that recycling is a pretty thorough thing here. I even wrote about how it works in Helsingborg a couple of years ago (here). But it appears that recycling is not quite as thorough in Malmö as it is in Helsingborg.Having just moved into our new place in Malmö, we naturally had a fair amount of rubbish (US/CAN: garbage) to dispose of, so off we went on our first visit to the rubbish room. It's actually in the basement, and along a long-ish corridor. What we discovered was that, while there are the usual bins for paper, cardboard, clear and coloured (US/CAN: colored) glass, hard plastic, and general household waste, there are none for soft plastic or organic waste (left-overs, peels/skins, bones, rude cashiers, landlords, etc.). So all plastic...
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| Tuesday, December 16th, 2008: CSI: Helsingborg to play at Trappa Upp in Höganäs on Friday, December 19th |
| 2008-12-16 09:18:14 |
What I think:We found out last Friday that the good people at the Trappa Upp bar/music venue in the small town of Höganäs enjoyed our show so much that they want us to play again this coming Friday. Short notice, but yay.I went up there a couple of nights ago with our bass player, CSI: Per, to drop off some posters for the owner (at the pizza place; he owns both places). It's not the best resolution here, but this is what the latest poster looks like: I thought that this would be a great opportunity to make use of some of our new crime scene tape, so...
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| Friday, December 12th, 2008: The second snowfall and buying silly things in Helsingborg |
| 2008-12-12 09:55:45 |
What I think:The second snowfall, errm, fell on Helsingborg. You may remember my post about the first one of this season. Some mystery joker, who probably lives in the building opposite ours, "wrote" in the snow.It appears that this may now be a regular occurrence, as I just looked out the window a few minutes ago and saw this:Yes, it's the word SEN upside-down. This is a bit more cryptic than the "STFU OMFG" we saw last time. Sen is Swedish for "late", but it's also commonly used as a shortened version of senare, which means later. (Here's a little Swedish lesson for you: sen, senare, senast mean "late", "later", "latest", respectively. Educational blog, or what!?)While I did indeed wonder why someone would want to write "STFU" and "OMFG" in the snow, I could almost see the point. I to...
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| Monday, December 8th, 2008: Music and mayhem in Helsingborg |
| 2008-12-08 14:13:16 |
What I think:Well, it happened again today. Somebody came up to me, asked if I was Mark Base, and mentioned that she reads this blog. While this most often happens at PL13, this time it was at a bus stop in the south of the city. I had just finished rehearsing with a Christmas Choir (my former workplace has a few people who sing some songs at Christmas and Midsummer, and I agreed to continue playing guitar for them), and I was waiting for a bus to go home.Meeting this girl made me realise that I haven't written anything for a while, so I thought I'd take this opportunity to bring you up to speed with things over here in the south of Sweden. Oh, by the way, "Hello girl from the bus stop!" (I do remember your name, but I'm not sure of how to spell it). Plus I'm not sure if you'd want to see ...
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| Friday, November 21st, 2008: The first snowfall of 2008 - no snowmen in Helsingborg |
| 2008-11-21 11:43:51 |
What I think:Well, it finally happened. It snowed today. Winter is well and truly here in Helsingborg.It was odd though, because it was actually a sunny day when it started snowing. I took a few photos from our balcony to show you the progress over about a relatively short period of time (although I can't exactly say what it's relative to). Here's the first one:See? Sunny!But not for long.You can see the ground really starting to get covered here...And then it turned into a l...
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| Tuesday, October 28th, 2008: Back in time in Helsingborg |
| 2008-10-28 05:05:12 |
What I think,The clocks went back this weekend. Yes, I suddenly decided I didn't like our clocks, so we brought them back to the Clock Shop.But when we got our fancy new ones home, we found that they were all exactly one hour slow. Modern technology, eh?Being the hyper-intelligent, mega-brainy guy that I am, I decided to just live with the erroneous time shown on my clocks, and turn up for my various appointments an hour earlier than agreed, as per my clocks' time. Smart, eh? Being the mega-intelligent, hyper-br...
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| Sunday, October 19th, 2008: Blogging about bloggers in Helsingborg |
| 2008-10-19 10:14:42 |
What I think:The darkness came early this year. And I don't mean that a British glam rock band popped up to Helsingborg and ejaculated prematurely; it's almost pitch-black by 7 p.m. these days, and we haven't even put the clocks back yet. Bummer.I was at PL13 last night (which remains the coolest little bar in Helsingborg), and this British guy came up to me and told me that he had read this blog before moving here a couple of years ago. I always seem to meet people at PL13 who've read my blog. It's obviously where all the grooviest people go in this city.Then I went outside for a smoke, and met an Irish girl who lives in Copenhagen. We were chatting a bit, and I told her about that guy inside, and she told me that she's read my blog as well. Wow.I've come to realise that quite a few peopl...
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| Saturday, September 6th, 2008: Eventful gigs in Helsingborg and Bjuv |
| 2008-09-06 05:03:00 |
What I think:After coming back from holiday (US/CAN: vacation), I had a few gigs lined up, so I was kept busy with rehearsals. I was to play at an IKEA party in Helsingborg with Suckerbucket on the Thursday, September 28th (with a guest appearance for a couple of duets with Twisted Systems - the other IKEA band here in Helsingborg). I also had a couple of gigs with CSI: Helsingborg in the tiny town of Bjuv; one as part of the festival, and one at a restaurant/bar which is located right in the middle of where the festival was taking place.On the Thursday eveningTwisted Systems were first to take to the stage, and they did a great job. They're all good musicians, and are pretty tight.Here's a photo (Left to right: Boy, Boy, Girl, Boy, Girl):I think they're actually the better band, but they ...
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| Monday, August 25th, 2008: Helsingborg to Glasgow to Montreal to London |
| 2008-08-25 02:13:00 |
What I think:I just got back last Thursday night after a two-week trip. The main purpose of the journey was to attend a 26th-year high school reunion in Montreal, but I had been incessantly nagged by a friend to visit her in Glasgow for the past few years so, since I had to fly via London anyway (no direct flights to Montreal from Copenhagen), I thought I'd take the opportunity to make a detour up to Glasgow, as I had never been, and was pretty much passing by, and boy-oh-boy this was a long sentence (*stops for breath*).My girlfriend and I got on the ferry from Helsingborg to Helsingör (that's Elsinore, home of Hamlet's castle, for all you Shakespeare buffs) with our backpacks, went up to the sun deck, sat down and started eating the sandwiches we'd bought. So far so good. Then there wa...
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| Sunday, August 3rd, 2008: Doggy do's and don't's in Helsingborg |
| 2008-08-03 09:19:00 |
What I think:Well, it's been two whole years since I've written about dog poop in Helsingborg. It's time for an update.I was walking to the Charles Dickens pub before a band rehearsal the other day, and saw this amazing thing on the pavement (US/CAN: sidewalk):Glömt nåt? is Swedish for "Forgotten something?" I thought that this was very well done, but I would have preferred to get a photo of a dog pooping on the representation of poop. Now that would have been classy.That's what I think. ...
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