I got a notice from blog.co.uk telling me that I hadn't posted in 30 days. Wow, 30 days! I knew I hadn't posted recently, but I didn't realise it had been so long. Well, apparently, that's because I haven't had anything Sweden-related to relate.
I did meet my local Swedish-Finnish friend briefly in passing and had a quick samtal på svenska, and we both agreed that we must meet again for coffee, but didn't make a date.
We're not actually actively learning Swedish for school at the moment, so I don't focus my thoughts on Sweden and Swedish as I would if we still were. Perhaps we'll try again another time, but at the moment it's a struggle just to do the 'three R's'.
I do have a poster map of Sweden up on the wall alongside a post-card of Mamma Mu (the singing cow) and a beautifully painted calligraphed Swedish alphabet including the three 'extra letters': å, ä and ö, and these caught Pony-rider's eye a few days ago, so that prompted a little conversation, but no real interest in learning the language.
When I get round to it, I will post some reviews of Sweden-related things that we enjoy.
In the meantime, I thought I would give you a Swedish word to try on for size:
Flodhäst - Hippopotamus (literally, river-horse) Dragon-tamers is just telling me, "that's what Hippopotamus actually means!"
pronounced: flowed-hest
When we lived in Sweden, there was a children's television programme about horses entitled 'Hippo'.
Don't ask me why I chose that word, no reason at all that I can think of. Just a word I like the sound of.
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