Exactly 12.5 years ago I participated in the wedding of our friends Lene Düwel Andersen and Jens Andersen in Roskilde. As tradition has it in Denmark, when you have reached half way to the Silver wedding (25 years), you celebrate the Copper wedding anniversary (12.5
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
Rushed by reports of a deteriorated health of my uncle in Amsterdam, my mother and I went to the Netherlands to visit him. However, when we arrived at his care home, he was in a quite good condition and in no way near death. Hence,
What a fantastic conference! Probably one of the most interesting I've ever attended. The European Mineralogical Conference 2024 was held at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland in the third week of August. I went there as a convener and presenter on the carbonate session but
Our Easter holiday was spent in Denmark including a day trip to Lund to visit my brother Paul and his family. I brought Erik on a visit to the Karen Blixen museum at 'Rungstedlund' (https://blixen.dk), his first visit there but one of many for me.
Less than a year after my godfather Carl Stockmann passed away, my godmother Mieke sadly joined him. Her health hasn't been the best in the past year but nevertheless, it's always difficult to prepare for the situation when people pass away. It seems to happen
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
We finally had the chance to place Carl-Edvard's urn in the Sturkell family burial site at 'skogskyrkogården' in Katrineholm and thereby take a last farewell to Erik's father. There were just a few of us present this time. Besides us, family members from the Sturkell
Two weeks in August were spent in Iceland and started with a fieldwork campaign around the volcano Askja in the central highlands. My tall nephew Adrian Heldrup had volunteered to be our field assistant, which he was the perfect candidate for as it is an
Erik and I had a week of vacation in Denmark, where we went around doing a bit of tourism and visiting places we had wished to see for a long time. On the first day, we went with my mother to Tivoli in Copenhagen. Each