Playing with photos

Here is a photo from yesterday morning. I'm waiting for the boat by London eye. It was raining and generally miserably which made a rather grey photo. I thought I better make it a bit more funky and had a play in Photogene on my way home. I'm liking photogene more and more!

Time to see if my new blogging app will work.


-- Post From My iPhone

Commuting got a lot more fun

So I've been playing some more with my iPhone and downloaded some apps. Found this fun camera app (quadcamera) that takes four or more photos in a short sequence and stitch them together. Not sure what to use it for, but it is fun. Next I downloaded photogene which is a photo editing app. You can play with the levels, crop, add borders etc. So far I'm pleased with it.

The above photo is the result of my demonstration for Hubby (doesn't he look nice?) during our train journey home yesterday. Commuting all of a sudden became a lot more fun!

Next I need to find a better blogging tool. It's painful not being able to copy text or undo. I've already have had to write this entry three times since I've accidentally deleted the picture. Oooops!

I'm very happy to see I have a new reader from Sweden, Tinkerbell! Thank you very much for your comment. Hope to see you soon again!

Great granddads house

And here is a photo of the house Dad's granddad built. My Dad lived
here in the groundfloor flat between 1948 and 1956.

Winter in Sweden

Back home again after spending a week in Holmsund with my Dad. Luckily the snow arrived about three days before me, so I'm happy I've got the chance to see proper snow this year!

The temperature was -16 C when I arrived to Umeå. Nice and cold! When I left it was only 0 C. The snow was slowly turning into slush... :-(

Dad showed me around Holmsund which is his birth place. I've now seen all the houses he ever lived in, including the one my great Granddad built (the building goes in the family). We also got the opportunities to meet some of Dad's cousins. It was good to see Maine and Hans again. We used to spend our summers together in Sövall, Grebbestad, Bohuslän. I think I was about 15 last time I saw them.

On Wednesday Dad and I went for a walk along the coast outside Holmsund. The wind was ice-cold and it probably took 30 min before I could feel my cheeks again.

Anyway, when walking along the waterfront we discovered the most amazing ice formations on the water. The ice along this particular stretch was a bit broken up since the ice breakers and pilot ships use this stretch to reach the harbour. But just along the shoreline the ice had been folded, just like if it was a sheet of fabric. Neither Dad nor I have ever seen anything like that before. Of course I had to borrow Dad's camera and take lots of photographs.

Comedy cooking with friends

Back home again after a fab time in Japan we thought we share our experiences with our friends. So on Saturday we invited Rob & Is for a Japanese dinner. The plan was to cook okonomiyaki and drink our specially imported sake. Okonomiyaki was one of the many Japanese
dishes we tried in Japan and is best described as a pancake with cabbage, meat or fish.

After some googling I came up with two recipes. We decided to go for Hiroshima-style which means that noodles are added to the mix. After spending some time working out what needed to be done I called the gang into the kitchen and started the delegation.

Ian became in charge of frying noodles (and yes some of them did catch fire...), Is was sorting out the gyoza and Rob and I were frying two cabbage pancakes with thinly sliced pork on top.





Here starts the comedy: once the pancakes had fried on one side for awhile we had to flip it over! In true team spirit two of us equipped with a total of three spatulas managed to flip both of them over without incident. Stage one completed! Next we transferred the pancake and pork (which at this stage is at the bottom) on top of the fried noodles. First one was a bit tricky and needed a little bit of rescuing. By the second, we had got the hang of it.

Third step involved a fried egg which the noodles and pancake were placed on top of. So far so good!

Now all we needed to do was to flip the whole thing over onto a plate. Ian was a hero and flipped them both without either dropping them on the floor or burning his fingers.









By just adding some Worcester sauce and mayo our two okonomiyakis were ready to be served! And delicious they were!






Good work team! The sake was well deserved after these difficult maneuvers...!








Sunday we closed the kitchen and went to Putney to see Jelte and Linda's new flat and have a pub lunch. Which due to Jelte's brilliant planning ended up to be dinner instead. The table hadn't been booked until 18:00... Oooops!