Happy Midsummer nights eve everybody.

For those of you who don't know how the Swedes celebrate midsummer, here's a short educational video.


Have a great day.

The headlines today...

Here's the headlines that met me today as I was coming back from an interview...UK Jobless Total hits 12- year high. Click the link to read the article in the London Paper (a free paper handed out every evening in london).

Here's a quote:

"As many as 300 jobseekers are chasing every vacancy. Fast-food giant McDonalds says it is swamped by more than 2,200 job applications everyday, with bank workers, graduates and teachers among the applicants"

Nice to know that I might not even be able to get a job at McDonalds. :-) Great when the job market gets to this. In the metro, it stated the same thing but in a study conducted by asking 1000 managers, they found that the managers believed that "If you hadn't found a job within 6 months of being made redundent, you were unlikely to because of the negative stigma of having been out of work so long". Put those two and two together. 2.2 million people out of work and yet no lea-way from managers who have never been in such a situation before. God-forbid those same managers are made redundent and find it difficult to find work for 6 months.

Looking for a home

As of the first of August, Anne and I are moving to another home. Where is yet to be decided but it'll be exciting. We've already started looking and we've got everything from large one room apartments in Chelsea for £600 a month (bills included) to £400 on this side of town sharing a houes with 4 others. We'll see how it works out.

Here's a random example... not even a place we've applied to but you'll get an understanding. :-)

A place in Islington Newington Green - click there to see the place.

So if you know about a place or someone with a room that costs no more than £600 a month in London... which accepts a lovely Swedish couple. Please let me know!


Otherwise if you are not one bit interested in it... maybe you'll be more interested in this hilarious clip that I was told about by a good friend of mine a few weeks ago...

check this out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peLmnkqm6-Y

:-) Happy Camping!

Wembley, Good friends and Sun

Here I am at my office desk... :-) Working away on another application, on my temping job or another project. :-) My friends Anders and Stedde (Fredrik) came to London on a TUESDAY to THURSDAY this past week for the England-Andorra game. As big fans of minnow teams they just couldn't resist this David v. Goliath battle.




And here we are outside Wembley stadium. A state-of-the-art stadium. Really enjoyed it. One day I'll see Sweden lifting the World Cup in this stadium I have a sneaking suspicion :-P Anyway, now you can put a face to my friends names too.




Due to the Tube Strikes which began just as my friends arrived and finished just as they left... it was imperative that we head off to Wembley early. We did so and we left 20 minutes before the game ended as well. It went smoothly enough considering the entire city was at a standstill. The last time Anders was here, we were going to watch a Premier League football game, or a game in the Championship but due to the snow they were all cancelled. As you can see from the pic below, Wembley was not completely full but it was a good showing... around 60,000... double what we get for a Sweden game at Råsunda for a top game:-P

Before the game we'd been drinking...


and after the game, we continued drinking...


So it was quite a heavy night. But nonetheless absolutely fantastic to get to spend some time with my friends. Good laughs all around. Had some spicy chicken... some crazy kebab and a wacky sausage... among other things :-)


In other news... I'm currently working temporarily for an online soccer management game called Hattrick.org. If you like that kind of thing you should check it out. It's the largest and oldest of its kind and very popular around the world.

Almost forgot, the sun has been out these past few days which is really nice as well. Especially considering that Anne's mom is coming to visit this week. Hope the sun stays out as London is far more interesting in the SUN:-)

Lookin forward to a good week with Anne's mom in town...!!!

6th June...

Celebrating the Swedish national day at flat 40...

A Swedish Meatball party... menu...



Home made meatballs...
Home made mashed potato
Home made gravy
Home made Kladdkaka (goo-Cake) :-P

Alls quiet on this front

Having not heard from me for a few weeks, I just wanted to let you all know that I'm still alive. Still fighting and still trucking.... I promise to come with more information soon.