Monday, 1 June 2009

Roaming some back roads



With a harsh gearbox you get a sore big toe.

In my head the verse was; "They dont give a damn about any trumpet playing band"

Also learnt a new word today.. serendipity.. haha.. that's cool.

5 comments:

Lily said...

Thanks for commenting on my blog. How did you find me?

Anyway, I'm happy to have found you!
Yes, we also were in the valley of Torneälven and the other places you described.

I have posted some pics here:
http://anders-wohnen.blogspot.com/2009/06/lapland-im-fruhling-lapland-in.html

and here:
http://livinginscandinavia.blogspot.com/2009/06/back-home-again.html

but we also went farther north, through Finland and all the way up to Kirkenes.
Will be posting some more pics soon.

What cream buns are you talking about? you know the ones you made with your daughters...

A friend of mine who has a father-in-law living close to Pello told me, that people in Tornedalen speak a dialect which she thinks must be a mixture of Finnish and Swedish. Is that correct?

dianne said...

Yes serendipity is a good thing.

I must apologise to you dear M, I found a comment you left at my blog which I just found, it was about your three black cats and one being 25years old, that is a grand age for a cat.
I would love to see some photos. ♡

dianne said...

I went back to my post tomight where I posted the small photo of my black cat who is called Bob Cat, so I guess you could say that finding your comment was serendipitous. ♡

The Mess said...

Sarah Sofia... The cream buns are "Semlor" or "Fet-tisdags bulle". I prefer them in warm milk..

That dialect is considered as an own language called "Mäenkieli".

Understandable (in a funny way) for people from Finland not understandable for normal Swedes, I can use some of it.. when I nail my thumb with a hammer... A funny thing is that you can invent your own words borrowed from Swedish when talking, just put an (i) afterwords:-)

The Mess said...

Dianne... There is no word in Swedish that resembles serendipity although everyone stumbles on the phenomenon.

Perhaps it's time for the Swedish-academy to bring it in as a loan-word? We now have a lot of borrowed ones like "mail" as official Swedish words so why not?

There is a member of the academy who lives nearby maybe I pop over and give him an idea..