Bambi invasion

Well, I've never seen anything like this in all my time in Sweden. At 10am I was drinking my morning coffee and got a glimse of what I thought was a huge dog in my vegetable patch. Except it wasn't a dog, it was a deer! And there were 3 of them!

They don't usually come into residential areas like this unless its a really hard winter and the ground is frozen. Like last winter I saw deer tracks in the road. But they came at night then. We've only had snow for a couple of days and the weather is pretty mild, so it would seem strange that it would be hunger that drove them here in the middle of the day.....

I am hoping for a huge moose next time.

Out and about again!

With the half term break upon us, a scattering of fresh snow and A kitted out with her new skis (thanks Arne!) off we set for an afternoon of cross-country skiing. This kind of skiing is lovely - the stillness of the forest has a great calming effect on me and it's easy to control the speed (i.e. slow!).

I am such a baby about downhill, as I hate falling and have an aversion to ski lifts. But cross-country is pretty non-scary. It was about minus five that afternoon - a strange combination of being all sweaty but yet freezing at the same time - so we took a flask of hot choc with us. The final score I may add was 2 - 2 (-we both fell twice!)