The Cold Wild, The Warm Fire

Car failed its MoT (Bilprovning) here on a load of T I N Y but difficult things. E.g. the bottom cm snapped off the suspension coil, brakes were 1% out of balance at the rear. Don't have the money right now to pay a garage to fix it (this is the life of a wildlife cameraman...I'm triple emmy nominated whatever that means, yet I can barely afford to eat right now, the industry is vile) so just borrowed some tools from a friendly neighbor and rebuilt the suspension and brakes on the whole car the last two days. Good fucking god I'm tired, now for two hours of lawn mowing...

No point having all this camera kit around if I can't use it to shave the back of my head

Tis the season of the bugs. Oh boy, do you like bugs, coz we got BUGZ

So we're looking after this dude for a friend... He's got a lovely personality, but god damn I'm even more in love with our dogs now. We are not small dog people, he's just in everyone's face/arse the whole time, and can't leave him alone with our two for a second or he humps them or licks their faces so obsessively. Gonna be a long 10 days...

It may well be a grey mid-summer here, but the nectarines have arrived in northern sweden, and they go damn well with the local mountain honey.

Really need to move some of the mirrors up in this house

The big guy won't let me watch my tv programme in peace

Northern Hawk owls, 6 babies at the nest this year!

Finito, for now, prototype #1 is done

Some rainy day workshop/basement tidying projects

0800-rate-my-wood

But, cleaned the whole house, moved some art around, started changing the ski/board nook into bike gear nook

1.) No YOU'RE stressed 2.) Last minute work zoom calls on a Sunday = the big soft light diffuser so I don't look totally fucked when I'm trying to look professional

Bonfire day at last, getting rid of all this springs cleaning up. It's starting to feel a little more like i'm on top of stuff here.

I am raging and now back in bed because I am not dealing with that right now.

// the joys + weirdness of living so far north during summer.