Our oldest dog, Deli (Honey Melon Fay Fidelia) has now reached the excellent Scotch whisky age of 12 years :-). We are so grateful for her company at this golden age. She is a very good companion and a role model for our younger dog,
Hope you have all had a good start on a new year! We have been to Dalarna in Central Sweden and enjoyed the frost and snow - and sled dogs! Our friends Bo and Susan from kennel Ulvedalen still have four Siberian Huskies and although
Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! The title of this post could just as well have been a Misty Merry Christmas. Can't remember when we had so much rain and misty conditions in December. The photo above is taken in
The Nordic Volcanological Center (NordVulk) in Iceland can celebrate its 50th anniversary this year. Yet, at the same time year 2024 marks the end of NordVulk as we have known it these past 50 years. The funding from the Nordic Council has come to an
Time flies and we have already reached the 2 years birthday of our youngster Jörfi, our Dutch-bred Smooth Collie from the Mabinogion kennel. She has had her hurdles with too much stomach acid and been hospitalised twice in the past year, but it feels like
Our Smooth Collie oldie, Deli has reached the age of 11 and was therefore properly celebrated today with dog friends, both humans and dogs. It had been snowing again the past night and our neighbourhood looked lovely covered in snow. We went around photographing this
Despite obstacles like sickness, bad weather, and our car going to the garage for repair on Dec. 27, we managed to make our way up to Särna in Dalarna over New Year. I'm happy we made the effort. As always, it was great to be
Wishing all of you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from us here in Gothenburg in Sweden. We had two weeks of perfect winter conditions before Christmas. This is when the snowy photos were taken. All of the neighbourhood's kids and
Text by Erik Sturkell By December 2023, I reached the number 100 of peer-reviewed articles that I'm either first author or co-author on. My first research article was published in 1990 in the Soviet journal Okeanologija AN SSSR and published in Russian. It reported the scientific
Text and photos by Erik Sturkell On the 9th of September my old friend Sigge got married. This time it took place in the community house (Folkets Hus) in Rönninge. This house is conveniently close to the railway station just across the road. Sigge had invited us,