"here comes the sun"

In Sweden the autumn is now in full bloom, the trees are turning deep red and orange, the air is clear and the knitting season has finally begun!

...on a good day, if autumn in Sweden would always be like it is today, autumn defenitely would be my favourite season! Today the sky is blue, sun is shining and the air smells newborn, it´s a perfect day to go for a long walk and enjoy life. Unfortunately this is not always the case when it comes to Swedish fall I´m afraid. Most of the time it´s raining, raining and raining, and the wind blows right through you not taking in consideration how much clothes you are wearing.

But not today, today the Swedish autumn is smiling and letting us enjoy it´s best sides, so i do my best to appreciate it! Too often I spend my time complaining about how bad the weather is, or how crap my car is or anything really, that is annoying me. Thing is, I sort of realized that one shall not forget to appreciate, so I have decided to appreciate the wonderful weather today and remeber this beutiful day and keep that memory close so it can keep me warm on rainy days when the world seems to have turned it´s back on me.

Just like I keep in mind that beutiful red rose that Christof had put on my kitchen table when I came home and was so tired that I barely had any energy left, I keep that in mind those days when I think things are too hard and that warm memory will brighten up my mind.

I will start to appreciate life a bit more, so should we all.

over&out

Philosophical Sara

We welcome a new Bombadilian

We are happy and proud to welcome Felix into this world. Felix is the first child of Mousumi and Alex in India. He was born at 9:50 PM on the 27th August.
Welcome Felix, we hope the world will bring you what your name suggests: prosperity and happiness.

"Are we insured?!"

After lunch the sun decided to join us on the first working day of the week, the weather is truly beautiful today! Which quite obviously lead to me and John doing some filming, since we are working with the Bombadilian author school at the moment. The author school which will be made into two parts (to begin with); part one is a short film that is introducing the Bombadilian philophosy and lifestyle in an easy manner and a quick pace. The second part of the author school is a summarize of background, philophosy, publication process and some other bits and pieces of information which will be of great value for all of our Bombadilan authors.

Since we had such lovely weather, as mentioned me and John headed outside to get some nice filming done! The afternoon therefor has more or less been spent sitting on roofs, throwing news papers form roofs, throwing manuscripts from roofs, picking up news papers and manuscripts from the ground. John also showed off his acting skills whilst wearing his winter coat, summer cowboy/crocodile dundee hat and a pair of sun glasses, all he had to do was to throw a news paper in a big, green bin, but John being John, it had to be done with glory and drama! After today I´m starting to suspect that John once dreamt about being an actor, I think the best way to describe it would be in a chavy way: "He was being well dramatic, innit?!" He really was, but in a good way of course. Me on the other hand was as usual the one having to climb the really dangerous roofs!! A tiny crack in on of the roofing sheets and a terrified Sara later, John managed to get some nice shots of me sitting and writing on top of one of the Bombadilian houses. Which also finally leads me to todays title...."Are we insured?" was pretty much the only words that slipped out of my mouth whilst being on the roof. If I had been clumsy enough to fall from the roof it wouldn´t have been to bad tho, I insure you. It´s barely 2 metres to the ground which is covered with nice, thick, green grass, plus my backside is quite safe to land on. And that is the voice of experience talking since I fell of a horse last week...

All in all it has been a very creative and productive Monday, indeed, and the sun is shining!! Can´t get much better than that =D

All for now,
Over&Out
/sara

"Another girl, another planet"

I have a habbit, a habbit of getting stuck to songs. Today that song is "Another girl, another planet" by The only ones. Once have got infected there is not much that can stop me from listen to the same song, over and over again. Somtimes my surrounding minds, but normally not. It usualy depends on how loud i´m playing.... ;)

It´s very interesting how people are effected by music. For example, I could not go through a working day without listening to music, there is always something playing in my office, same thing when I´m at home cooking, chilling out, sitting by the computer or whatever. I guess I wouldn´t have to have music playing, but I prefer to. Whilst going in the car it´s a must though, I litterary would go nuts without the mp3 player in the car. NUTS.

At the Bombadilian offices there is music streaming from two offices, mine and Veronicas. Apart from us it´s quiet except for Pixie barking every time someone is entering the main door... The Bombadil office are very different in what they listen too, for example, Niklas seem to be a mayor Djinghis Khan-fan, John is into Dire Straits and Blur, Mari likes Toto, Marianne dig Dr. Hook. I will have to look up what Veronica listens too, (I would do, but she has left for the day).

Back to the matter in hand; all of us are different in our way of listening, what we listen too, how we listen and why. And with that we can all learn something new from eachother, learn to appreciate other types of music and perhaps new ways of listening too it as well. Varity and an open mind will make your world larger and with that you can contribute to enlarge somone elses mind. Just by introducing them to a band or lending them a book.

It´s all about varity, that´s a fact.

Over&Out
/Your Monday blogger, Sara

We went west!

Today Monday feels a little bit odd, an odd Monday. There are a few things that contribute to My odd Monday, I will list them below.

1. It´s nice weather!!! I can´t believe it but spring is here to stay, and me, the worst pessimist in the world when it comes to Mondays and weather has actually started to believe in nice weather on Mondays again. It feels nice not having to moan about those rainy, cold and dark Mondays anymore. Some how I had talked myself into that role as the moaning-monday-mistress. But no more, no, no, no. From now on I will salut these great Mondays, filled with sunshine and blue skies. Indeed.

2. Second thing on my odd Monday list is the fact that i´m not at the Bombadilian head quarter today. I´m actually in my hometown Trollhättan, sorting todays work out from here. I´m sitting by my kitchen table and I have to admit that my office chair is more comfy than my nans old wooden chairs.... Well, well, at least I have the privelige of sitting in my old Taewondo trousers, wearing the top that I wore on both friday and saturday.... and sunday. And no one is complaining about my bad breath or my dirty top. Lovely. The reason why i´m in Trollhättan today is that i´m off to a meeting with a creative coach that hopefully can help me (and Bombadil) to arrange a small event during the summer. Nothing is set so I´m gonna keep a bit hushush about it until I have some more information... So I guess I will have to jump in the shower sooner or later anyway... =/

3. The third odd Monday thing is that John has both texted and e-mailed me in Swedish today. That is well confusing. I almost start to believe that he is actually learning to speak and understand Swedish. As I said, well confusing on an odd Monday.

Over&Out
Your Monday blogger Sara

Shaking kneecaps and poetry all night long.

Last weekend was a weekend full of poetry, creativity and nervousness.

So at last the 25th of april had appeared and The Poetryfestival in Trollhättan was a fact. We were four Bombadilians reading poetry and we were the ones opening the festival on saturday afternoon. First Bombadilian out was Jennifer Vidovic, an extremly talanted 13 year old who read a few of her poems and a short section from here collection of short stories that is under progress as we speak. She was so brave getting up on stage as the very first poet of the entire festival! When she was up there reading poetry like she hasn´t been doing anything else but reading poetry out loud, I was about to wet myself. I did not believe that I could get so tremendously nervous! Second Bombadilian out was Johanna Hansson who is getting her collection of poetry published at Bombadil Publishing within a near future, which is having a kind of scrap book theme. Cool! Johanna did also work the stage properly and did a great job reading her texts!

Then it was me and My, luckily, I wasn´t on my own. And no I don´t mean me, my and I or something silly like that, "My" is actually a Swedish name. My is an performance artist and have been reading my poetry before, so we figured; why not experiment a bit and do some reading together?! It all turned out very well, and apparently you couldn´t see my shaking kneecaps from the audience, well at least that´s what my mother told me. I haven´t decided whether I trust her or not, not yet. Last Bombadilian on stage was Kristoffer Hedberg (http://www.kristofferhedberg.se/) who is not "just" publishing his poetry at Bombadil Publishing this coming autumn but is probably more known for his music. Just couple of weeks ago he finished the recording of his third solo album. Check his website out!

After Bombadil Publishing All-Stars had done their part the Poetryfestival continued and offered lots of good, worse and brilliant poetry, texts with completely different topics and tone. The Swedish band Detektivbyrån finished off by midnight, and they really did an exceptional live performance!

So all in all the Poetry festival was a success and apparently Bombadil Publishing has already been invited to next years festival in Trollhättan, groovy!

over&out
Your Monday blogger Sara

Obsessed about it.

Today it´s all about obsessions. I think I´ve listened to the same song about 25 times, and it´s just 14.30, now that´s a bit obsessed! Plus it´s Monday, which means that I´m as usual a bit tired from getting up early in order to drive my car for 3 hours to get here. Me+tired is often not a good combination, I tend to get a bit cranky and high maintenance in general, but there is a couple of tricks one can pull to raise my mood a bit.... namely: food!!! I guess it´s all about balance, lack of energy in terms of not sleeping enough will be replaced with energy through FOOD. And coffee of course. So I guess I´m obsessing about food as well. Food and Fleetwood Mac. Not a bad combination at all actually. Silver Springs was the song anyway, by Fleetwood Mac. Tune indeed.




Fleetwood Mac - Rumours - Silver Springs

And I can´t stop thinking about the Poetry festival that Bombadil Publishing is attending on Saturday. I will be reading a few poems myself which is the result of not being able to take the Poetry festival off of my mind. We are 4 authors from Bombadil and on official festival leflets we are refered to as The Bombadil Publishing All Stars, neat! So I guess that´s being a bit obsessive too.

It´s nice weather anyway, on a Monday which I´m very suprised and impressed about, spring is here for real, at last. Welcome, please stay forever. And that´s all I have to say about that.

Over&Out

/Your Monday blogger Sara

I´m late!!

It took me a Monday and a Tuesday morning to remeber to blog, I do apologise. But here I am, your Monday blogger Sara on a Tuesday morning!

Spring has finally decided to show up and Gyttorp is more beutiful than ever, this morning a couple of swans were swimming on the lake, so yes we got our lake back! Sunbeams and melting ice, life is good on Tuesday mornings! Plus I´m getting to know The Mary Onettes, Swedish band which seem to have recorded an album that is made just for me and my Tuesday morning at work, thank you The Mary Onettes! You see, I´m that kind of person that cannot work without listening to music, this might be a bit disturbing for my coworkers, so far no one has complained but I´m waiting for that day to come. For some reason I have a feeling that it will be Niklas that will come to his senses and ask me to turn the music down... Or I might start playing Djingjis Khan, Niklas like Djingjis Khan a lot.

During the weekend John was sorting out our future garden and our patio, plus the deck, it really looks amasing and it´s kind of nice to be able to access the deck again. Before it was covered in the hedge which John cut down in January and a small dog kennel. All this has now been removed and we will be able to have breakfast on the back of our house, facing the lake. wonderful!!

So yeah, Tuesdays are not too bad.

/Sara, your monday blogger, today at a Tuesday morning.

"Just make it cheerful!"

John has been helping me out with my blogpost of today, he named my title "Just make it cheerful". That was also the answer to my question: What shall I blog about today?

Although it might seem like I have run out of creativity, that is not the case, my levels are just a bit low today. I have great plans though, since i´m planning to make a festival, a Bombadil festival! Or an author-night, I haven´t really sorted out all of the tiny details yet. What I would like to achieve is a big get-together where Bombadil-authors will get a chance to shine and read from their books or books-to-be. I would like to have liveband playing and people enjoying themselves! And of course to spread the word of Bombadil, maybe we can reach some new youngsters that would like to publish their thoughts and ideas! This head of mine is not just a hat rack, believe it or not!!

A few things has changed in the Bombadilian way of working lately; we´ve decided that we shall start having old mentors helping new mentors with the mentoring bit of being a mentor. The old mentors that are helping the new mentors that are learning to mentor shall be called Super Mentors. I was just asked to hold an introduction about the mentor-role, since we are getting new mentors =). And then a rather important question sort of popped into my mind, will this introduction make me a Super Mentor? What is expected of a Super Mentor, will I have to wear my knickers on the outside of my jeans? Will I have to get Super sight and save people from burning buildings?!

I hope not. I haven´t got the figure for blue tights and certainly not the courage that might be requested in heroic situations such as the one mentioned above. Plus I can´t stand heat, I don´t do tans, just deep red.

But if it´s required to chat a bit about the feelings of being a mentor, how to develop a manuscript and how to aproach an author, I´ll sign up straight away!

All for now,
Over&Out
/sara

It´s snowing!!

So yes, it´s Monday and the weather is disapointing (suprised?!). It started snowing again, after a week of sunshine. Since all of us have kept our fingers crossed, hoping for some spring to arrive, today´s change of weather kind put at least me off a bit. But hope is the last to leave us someone cleaver once said, and I will not be put down by traditional Monday-weather. Before I would, but no. My hope is still with me!

Tomorrow John is going to Geneva, very exciting! He will be meeting up with some important people that are involved in the big "Turning the tide" project, but as well he will aparently be introduced to some people from UNESCO who started the worldbookday in 1995. Which is VERY exciting since John is the brain behind the 24 hours Worldbook-book that we are attempting to make. It might be a very long Worldbookday at the 23rd of april, but I guess it´s quite cool to be able to put on your resume that you´ve made a book in 24 hours! Quite cool indeed.

Personally I´m a bit nervous, speaking of the Worldbookday. My little baby-project for the Worldbookday is to get libraries and their visitors interactive in their local library. This I think partly can be achived by having people participating in a writing campaign. Basically we are encouraging people through their local library to send us novels, short story´s and poems on the topic "Me&books". Then we´ll publish the national Librarybook of Sweden! I´m not worried about the concept, but about people getting involved, I´m relying on the librarians committment, so yet again, fingers crossed. I like librarians, they are nice so I trust that they will do their best to get Swedish library visitors to contribute!

All for now,
over&out
Sara

Monday, glorious Monday!

Typical Monday today, greyish, soppy weather. The air tastes a bit like dust for some reason and the sun is refusing to come out. As usual I´ve been up a bit to early to drive up to Gyttorp from my hometown Trollhättan. The only thing that is a bit unusual is the fact that my brother came with me this mornong! His name is Erik and has just turned 15, he will spend the week with the Bombadil staff to do his work practice. He has already managed to re-do the layout of the Swedish startpage on the website and got himself a Bombadil hoodie. Not bad, I would say. As his mentor I intend to make him work, a lot. At least one power point presentation and som filming for our shorts. Since we only speak English this is a great opportunity for him to practice speaking English, he is already really brilliant and according to our dear mother, his spelling is better in English than Swedish...Interesting indeed.

On wednesday parts of the Bombadilian team is going to a college in Kinna (south of Sweden) to be interviewed by the students, well exciting!! Gonna be lots of fun to get away from the computer and meet some interested youth.

Another great thing that is happening right now is the preparations of World book day! We will have some different activities during this day and the main thing in Sweden is the "Library-book" as I have chosen to call it. The thought is to get the Swedish libraries more interactive, so we have decided to encourage people to send submissions to Bombadil: poems, novels, short stories etc. The topic is "Me&books" and you will submit through your local library, and then we will Publish the swedish "library-book". The whole event is finishing on the 23rd of April on world book day. So yeah, we've got some great things coming up. During the spring we will be visiting bookshops, poetry festivals etc. so stay tuned!

All for now,
Yours truly
Monday blogger Sara

"Monday, bloody Monday"

So another week has started and Monday has blown us away, well not litterary, but it´s been a very exciting and for once awake Monday, at least for me. Some other bits and pieces of our nowdays large and rather strong compliment has been a bit dozy today tho...

You see, we all (we all are: Marianne, Niklas, John, Veronica, Mari, me and Marianne´s children Josephine and Alex)went to the capital of Sweden, Stockholm yesterday to watch a play. It was a one-man show and to John´s delight a girl was playing not just ONE but TWO violins! (well to be correct, one violin and one viola according to John) As we all know John has quite some knowledge when it comes to violins and how to play. Mari very kindly suggested that John should enter the stage and play us something, for some reason John was not very keen on this. Maybe he was just a bit camera-shy but in a stage-shy way.

Anyway our very nice Sunday trip started off in Gyttorp, two cars leaving the Bombadilian headquarters going to Stockholm, in our car (me, John, Veronica and Josephine). I held a music class, and did my best to teach all members of our car the beauty with Nena singing "99 Luftballons" in german and the story behind the Swedish teenage band Noice. After a while I kind of could tell that none of the participants was really paying attention...And I kept quiet after Josephine asked me if I didn´t have any modern music. Frankly, I shut my mouth and then I turned the volume up.

When we reached Stockholm we all met up with Tommy (a Bombadilian author) and Calle who runs Gandalf Publishing and his wife Eva. We all had dinner together and there after went to the theathre. Delightful indeed. After the play we went to see the city sights since John being English and all, hadn´t been to Stockholm.

This is a picture of all of us standing by the river in central Stockholm looking at the view. All in all it was a very delightful and successful day and night (we did get back at 2 a.m) So I guess it´s not really strange that some of us is a bit dozy today after all.

Yours truly

Mondag blogger-Sara

It's a late Monday today one said to oneself.

It's a lateMonday indeed, it all staing started this morning with me having to return home three times before I managed to remeber to bring everything I kept forgetting. Along with the rather crucial weather situation I was not off to a good start.

I managed to get to the Bombadil office at a sensible time (fika-time) and the day turned out to be quite productive! My book "where's the manual" was completed today for exampel, me and Mari did the final touch and after that I proof read my own book, very interesting experience actually. It's hard killing your babies, luckily I didn't have to go that far, but managed to remove a couple of dots and adding a few capitals every here and there. So yes, this week Bombadil is sending off a new title for printing!

Another exciting thing that took place today was our new coworker, Veronika! She started her first day with painting her office, I fully understand her reasoning since the former colour was a very bemusing greenish sort of tone... Now Veronika's office has a light, shaded purple shade, much nicer indeed. Veronika will be participating in the media centre, which is going to be a place for young people to meet up and learn about media etc, it's very exciting to have Veronika with us since that means that it will start running quite soon =) which we all are looking forward to a lot!

The unofficial update of today is that John somehow has managed to look more tired than me this evening, which is an achivement one might say, certainly is. A qoute from John taken from a conversation me and him had last week will explain this very detailed:
"You might wanna put some make-up on"
We discussed taking a picture of me for the back of my book (soon to be published!) when John very kindly dropped that comment, the picture in the end was decided to be a black&white close-up shot of me with my eyes closed. So yes, an achivment indeed to manage to look more tired than I do, well done John!

Over&Out
Your monday-blogger Sara

Monday blogging on a Tuesday morning....

I give up, I surrender and I confess: I FORGOT. Ok, happy now? I forgot to blog yesterday, Monday is my holy day you see, I blog and I have kitchen duty. Both was more or less forgotten yesterday, I did manage to put on some coffee, but forgot to do the washing up (I did it this morning). For anyone who is not very familiar with the routine of kitchen duties at Bombadil Publishing shall now be enlightend:

"During one´s kitchen-duty-day one shall make sure that breweries such as coffee and tea is available at 10.00 am and at 15.00 pm. One shalla also keep the kitchen neat, clean and tidy"
I´m embaressed to admit that I failed yesterday. One can not succeed every Monday I guess.

After all it was a very productive Monday yesterday, the weather was maybe not at it´s best, but I don´t mind, everyone knows that Mondays has the delegation of being the weekday with crappy weather, that just how the world works. Today is beutiful though, snowy, sunny and freezing. Yeah, we still got winter for sure. I´m waiting for spring, I know it might be a bit early for expecting spring in February if you are located in the midlands of Sweden, but as a wise man or woman once said "Hope is the last to surrender".

As I said, yesterday was a productive Monday, indeed! It involved doing the setting for my book "Where´s the manual", which was great fun, Mari is really awsome and is helping me out a lot=)
I got a new collection of poems which I´ve been going through and the day finished off with me and John runing around the town church of Nora to get the last pictures for my book. Well John was taking lots and lots of artistic photographs whilst I was on the phone. But still, a very productive Monday, indeed.

HTML-coding might be the way forward...(?)

I´m suprised by myself, I´m amased by myself. Stunned by my own capacity.
This is not said in a cocky or rude way, just in an honest one.

I never ever thought that I, Sara Karlsson would be a webmaster, when I first was introduced to role and tried my best to shoulder this burden I was truly pettrified. Me, who never got futher than Facebook when I put a computer on, on a good day I managed to access Majhong and Word. Should I become a webmaster?! Since I quite recently had started working with Bombadil Publishing when Marianne informed me about my tasks I didn´t dare to mention my rather limited skills regarding websites and computers. I seem to remeber that I nodded and replied something like:
"Mhhm, that sounds interesting"

Marianne hopefully didn´t see the fear in my eyes or saw the sweat that came pourring down my forehead. If she did see these signs of insecurity she was kind enough to ignore them, instead she said: "I believe you can do it Sara". At the time I didn´t put that much trust into her words, I was concentrating too hard on not fainting. One can say that I was struck by suprise.

This is why I now dare to say that I´m stunned by my own capacity, before I used to say that I acted as a so called webmaster at Bombadil Publishing (among many other tasks of course). But now about a month later I can proudly introduce myself as webmaster of the Swedish Bombadil website. Because today I´m a webmaster, and I enjoy it. I know how to work all the different functions and I even get to help others at the office (John mainly) with updating the English website even! I set designs, upload pictiures, insert advanced hyperlinks and bookmarks. I AM STUNNED. Funniest part of all this is that I´m really enjoying it. Of course some days I do wanna tear all my hair of because stuff won´t work etc. But most days I have a smile on my face because I managed to for example start a new page on the site och link to our newsletter. I have become such a computer geek. It´s a fact.

One thing that must be mentioned is the tiny, little detail that even made all of this possible:
Andreas the support-guy. I really can´t recall how many phonecalls and hours I have spent with him to finally have reached this stage of development. But I did because of him. Bless his cotton socks, really please do. And I guess Marianne should have some credit for actually believing in me to begin with. And that kind of sum up the Bombadilian spirit I guess; believe and inspire. You might become an author or maybe even a skilled webmaster, in my case both.

Over&out from your proud Monday-blogger Sara

Here we go again!

And yes indeed, another Monday has glorious risen upon us.

Is one bovvered tho?!

The chavy language has entered our lives at Bombadil Publishing, and by the sound of it the subject of matter does not intend to be heading off. Today at fika(coffeebreak in swedish) Marianne was the cause of a minor riot when she claimed that so called chavy expressions should have their own space in one of the most holy books, the dictionnary. This statement more or less blow John´s mind away, and not in a good way folks. I´ve never seen John Parry so intimidated in my entire time as his housemate. Blood was coming out of his nose and steam out of his ears. Almost anyway. It wasn´t quite as bad as I described it, but he did look a bit puzzled. John is the man behind the words "Stop butchering the English language" which was recognized the first time he heard me say "Innit". John also tend to pull really bad puns in order to make fun of the chavy way of speaking. Let me give you a couple of examples:

"What do you call a chav in a box?"
- Innit!

"What do you call a chav in a locked box?"
- Safe innit!!

And yes dear audience, that is that kind of low humour that we at the Bombadil office need to put up with. I have come to an acceptence in regards of John´s humour, but that is only because he never complains about my cooking or the way I drive my car.

"Qoute of the day:
One must learn to accept one´s surrounding and leave the bad jokes behind for the sake of a nice and quiet meal"

Over&Out

Yes, i´m awake!!

Monday-blogger Sara Karlsson at your service, reporting (as always) at the very first day of the week!

Today the sun has been with us all day, which is rather unusual for Mondays. If you remeber last weeks sara-blogg you might recall a bittersweet undertone in regards of the weather...Or just a bitter tone to be frank. But today I have no complaints what so ever. One might say that i´m satisfied. Not bad is it?! Another contribution to my exceptionally good mood is our new co-worker Mari, who started today. A very nice woman who just joined us at Bombadil to help us out with the video-blogging, editing pictures and give us a hand with the setting of books. Brilliant!

The first project we started of with was actually my Challenge Poetry book "Where´s the manual" that will be available in swedish this coming spring. I was choosing the order in which the texts should go and Mari did the same thing, but with pictures. And believe it or not but it turned into a book, at last! At the moment it is mostly odd pages with text cutted and pasted with tejp onto scrap-paper, but most important; it has the layout of the actual book! Tomorrow we are gonna be a bit less old-fashioned and actually use Marianne´s Mac to do they actual layout. So excited!

What a Monday. I even got some staples today, Marianne acknowledged my little hint last week, about getting a stapler but no staples to put inside it. So today when I got to the office a box of staples lay on my desk, nice!=) And my list of office-material is is getting longer and longer:

* Desk

* Laptop

* Desklamp

* Mouse

* Mousemat (with a picture of a moose on it)

* Shelves (having a picture of an 18-year old Marianne standing on the topshelf)

* Pinboard (with pins, thank you John)

AND

* Whiteboard!!! So now I can properly organize my daily tasks.

Wonderful, I love whiteboards, they have some kind of logical, organized and sophisticated touch about them. I´m glad that some object in my office can contribute to those things, since I can´t.

That´s all for today folks.

over&out

/sara

Monday - here we go again

Yet another Monday, is casting it´s superior light upon us,

or shall I say;

Yet another Monday, is throwing some crap- weather in our face?!



I never really understod the deal with Mondays and bad weather, but trust me, if there will be bad weather at some point during the week it´s most likely to happen on Mondays. There must be some kind of fault, a screw that is not properly tightened in the big construction called the universe that will make bad weather appear on Mondays....And only Mondays. Or it might just be my Monday-mood, you know that feeling don´t you? Your brain hasn´t turned itself on after the weekend, so everything just seem to be a bit greyish = Mondaymood.


That´s why it´s lovely to work at Bombadil! Because when I entered my office this morning (I was almost on regular time this Monday btw. Normally I stroll in at 10 o´clock since i´m driving 3h from my hometown to get here)


I found 3 presents as follows:
1. High back leather chair (that´s what it says on the carton)
2. Tiny, tiny bag of sweets =)
3. Stapler


I got really excited about my new office-accessories and started to unpack my new chair, and 1h later I had actually managed to put it together! Meanwhile I was struggling with the 5-step-instruction-sheet my dear colleague John were filming, I must mention that I wasn´t overlyexcited about this. When I shouted "It doesn´t work, where does this bit go?! The manual is too complicated!"
John would be standing on a chair filming me in some kind if artistic view from above with a big grin on his face, replying:
"It´ll be fine" (buy his book;) )
To me that was no help whatsoever. But at last I managed to get my office-chair together and I must say, It was well-worth the trouble. I´m now sat as a KING! Very comfy that is.

So I guess that Mondays isn´t that bad after all. I do have one request for next Monday, would anyone mind getting me some staples for my new stapler?



Yours truly,
Mondayblogger, Sara

Desk rotation

A nice reminder once again from my colleague John that it is Tuesday and my blogging day. I did remember, but it is always nice to be reminded. Only a pity that I had not yet published (or written) my blog so that I could prove that I had thought about it. But never mind, perhaps next week.

Today we had desk rotation. The usual policy is that employees move around the company trying out various tasks, but in our case it is not the employees but the desks that move around. Perhaps that is why John has attached an anchor to his.

I share an office with Niklas, who is particularly fond of his desk (a modern IKEA desk, I may add). I have an old antique desk, which I am also rather fond of, but it is not only impossible to get a matching one, but I also know that it would be difficult to make Niklas part with his desk. So, the answer is me getting one that matches his, and my desk finding a new home. John seems to like it, so he gets it and our accountant Lillemor gets his - if he is able to dislodge the anchor from it. I gather that a lot of you who have watched our vlogs think that we are horsing around all day and that musical desks would be an obvious leisure pursuit for us, but no. This is serious business! :-D

I am off to the stables now for a riding lesson, but hopefully I can put my new desk together tonight so that my office can become a bit more tidy. Those of you that have seen pictures of my desk, probably think it is about time too. I am hoping to report back to you next week about my tidy desk and redecorated office, sorry no, refurnished office.

If any of you wonder about the completely random picture in this blog, then it is me and two of my kids pretending to be an angel. So yes, it is random, but it is also relevant in a somewhat random way.

Happy evening to you all from Marianne

At least we tried to film those old ladies!!

Yet another Monday,

Yes it is Monday, believe it or not. It´s quite amazing how quickly last week turned into a weekend and then turned out to be finished.

So yes, it´s yet another Monday.Today at Bombadil we´ve had a quite ordinary day, well as ordinary it gets when you´re working at Bombadil Publishing. Me & John went into "town" (Nora, 11 000 inhabitants) to post some books that had been ordered, of course it all turned into a shooting-shorts-session and looked like two crazy buffoons that never seen a mailbox before in our life. We almost managed to get two elderly ladies on tape, but they sneaked by in the last minute so we unfortunately missed them!We also decided that Coop Konsum in Nora is our favorite-supermarket! Such lovely member of staff. All our love to Coop Konsum. We are even starting to find our way through that shop. Next week we do have to remember to bring our shopping list.... We now have enough pasta to feed an entire army... Well, well, I guess It might be handy if we would invite the local football-team over for lunch, perhaps?

By the way; I sincerely hope that no poor man or woman have missed our absolutely adorable "Shorts", our videoblog project! Check it out on youtube, just search Bombadil Publishing. That´s the reason why we were filming the mailbox in Nora earlier today, so whoever thought that those footages was for personal use has got it "om bakfoten" as we would say in Swedish. Translates into: "around the back of your foot", which basically means you´ve got it terribly wrong. So make sure not to miss these crazy-shorts, it´s a great opportunity to get to know us at Bombadil a bit better and you get to see our every day-to-day life here at the office!

So yeah, a typical Monday at Bombadil really.

/Your Monday-blogger,Sara