Welcome to our new Spanish mentor Carlos Molina Velasquez

We are very proud to presented to the world our new mentor Dr. Carlos Molina VelasWe are very proud to presented to the world our new mentor Dr. Carlos Molina Velasquez who is working in El Salvador as a mentor. Carlos has a University degree in Philosophy and great experience working together with young writers. He was honoured by obtaining a dedication of the young writer Mario Chavez Jovel in his last book “31 Cuentos Cortos” that we successfully launched a few weeks ago in El Salvador. Carlos is a very dedicated university teacher in “Universidad Catolica Jose Simeon Cañas” in San Salvador. He is happy to work with several young writers, young writers whom are writing Bombadilian books, books with feelings, book that envision our philosophy, which moves forward a new generation of young writer all over the world.
Bombadil Publishing also wants to acknowledge the next Spanish book “Inocencia Marchita” by the young talented writer Lady Jerez from Venezuela, who together with our mentor Maggy Jacinto has worked very hard the past few months. The book is due to be launched late November or early December. Our very dear author, Lady Jerez, radiated so much energy and happiness when she contact us, and she writes with such energy, positivism and optimism that you can’t avoid getting affected by Lady’s karma, a good karma, a fine spirit, which represents exactly the Bombadil Publishing feelings, the feeling of a better world which we together with the authors, the readers, and the mentors create all around the world.
Greeting from Sweden
YOUTH2YOUTH

Inspiration and feelings

Hello in the sunny weather!

-Ohhh noo, that stupid claw thing again, grrr. (Pixie)
-Well your nails need to be trimmed again. (Mari)
- No,no. I will bite it. (Pixie)
-Yes, come here. It´s not dangerous. (Mari)
-Grumble, grumble. Let me go NOW (Pixie)
Then Pixie flounders a bit giving me some hard time cutting her nails. But in the end it did go well with some holding help from John.

When the spring comes the inspiration comes more and more. Well at least it does for me anyway. I always want to do so much and I don´t not what to begin with! I want to go out in the nature just to listen to all the sounds. I want to be with good friends, having some fun. I want to be with my excellent co-workers, they are marvellous. And so on, so on........
In the weekend i saw "Lily of the valley" and the blue "forget-me-not" a marvellous flower. I think it was a bit early!

"forget-me-not" (my first try with digital camera)

Inspiration is also to try to learn how a digital camera works. I was borrowing one of Bombadil's cameras over the weekend trying to take some pictures. Did it go well ? No it didn´t, grrr. I don´t have the same feeling for the digital camera as I have for my own normal system camera. I just can´t figure out how it works perfectly and therefore I don´t have the feeling for the digital thing. But I don´t give up that easy and I will try again and again and again :-)).

Books have been sent for printing and some more are quite close to be sent. It is an inspiration to see the finished printing file be uploaded to the printing company. It is really fine !!!

Until next time.Have a nice and sunny weekend
Mari

Entrepreneurs, managers and technicians

I read an interesting book about the myths of small businesses. It essentially said that there are three parts to a business: entrepreneurs or visionaries, managers and technicians. Apparently most small businesses are run as if they are small and do not cater for growth. Also, very few keep the vision or the ideology once the business starts growing usually because they have too much to do. I did a test on Bombadil, and amazingly enough we have already reached the mature stage and are no longer considered a small or a young company. Seems a funny thing when we are only about two years old, and do not have hundreds of employees.
Anyway, I have been thinking about this for a while, and realise that although we are not very old, we do indeed have a very established ideology and we are also in so many places around the world. So perhaps the test was right. With regards to catering for growth, then we have done nothing but, so yes, perhaps they are right afterall.
The other thing that was interesting was that we are classified as a visionary company and will thus be able to really make an impact by what we do. I did not really think I learnt anything from the book, though there was something of which I should take notice - have a structured handbook which is continually updated. So guess it is time to start writing more pages to the handbook. Seems they are needed ;-D

Pleasure

Hello everyone

I hope you all are having a nice time out in the nature when the sun is shining or just enjoying some time with a good book :-). Maybe you do something fun that really give some new "breathe". Don´t stop taking small breaks it´s important to all of us.

Like me, I have kind of started riding again, well I just did it once last week and will do it again tomorrow. I'm borrowing Marianne's horse Ophelia, she is a nice trotter horse like my old one (31 years now, not riding him any longer). I kind of forgot how nice it was to go out in the nature for a tour. Well I had Josephine (Marianne's daughter) and John's guest Lisa from England with me too, and they did well both of them, thanks for the company. And Lisa I hope you had a nice time in Sweden!

Small moon in the blue sky. (taken by mobile phone)

On the working front we just send one book for printing yesterday and will probably send another one this week, if it goes as I hope and think.

Oh, almost forgott the "Öbetraktelse" manuscript is sent for comments by Calle (Gandalf Publishing) and the author. That is a very nice book with marvellously drawn pictures.

Secrets; are they allowed?
Yes I think so :-)):-)) I'm having secrets? Yes small ones, of course everyone should have that. And then maybe, maybe share it with someone/ones in the future. Having secrets is fun, you kind of having people curious in a kind way of course :-)):-)).

Until next time have a nice week and weekend

Mari

Time Flies

“Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back.”
Harvey MacKay


Read the quotation, look at the picture, and relax, meditate, reflect. Reflect a moment, think about the little things in life that make you smile, the wonderful things that made you who you are, and the caring people around. Think about something nice said to you, a kind word, a loving smile, a sweet gesture. Sometimes life becomes a treadmill and sometimes time flies, days becoming weeks, weeks becoming months, months becoming years.

Before we moved our offices to Gyttorp, I thought I would be working less. I knew we would be expanding and that clever, enthusiastic and passionate people would share the burden with me - it looked as if I would be able to take a breather. But no. Life became increasingly hectic and there was not even a routine to fall back on, as the place was new - and big. Big is good, but when it takes you 1 minute and 28 seconds to go from one end to the other, big can also be a concern. Good for us to get some exercise, but still, not always the best when you have left a paper down the other end of the house. 1 minute 28 seconds there, and 1 minute 28 seconds back. But it has taught us to be organised.

The last few months have been hectic, we expanded to 82 countries, have over 6000 authors, launched the beta version of our social network and opened a whole new universe that we did not even think could exist. Wonderful and stressfull. The normal working week went from 40 hours to 80 hours. Leisure seemed a thing of the past, and every minute of the day seemed accounted for. Then I got double-pneunomia, but still went to work. Not something I recommend, by the way, but off to work I went regardless of coughs and pains. During the third visit to the doctor getting a perscription for a third course of antibiotics, while I was eagerly waiting to leave his surgery and head back to work, the good and wise doctor looked at me and calmly told me that people used to die from pneunomia, so I should perhaps take it easy a bit. I regret to say that I did not really want to listen, though warning bells did ring. Where was the time, where were the wonderful moments just looking a wild flowers, cuddling my children while veg-ing on the sofa, or walking my dog, hand in hand with my husband. Perhaps it was time to slow down just a bit. Time flies, but once spent, you can never get it back. So I have decided not to let time just fly, but to savour and enjoy it while it is being spent.

Take a moment to reflect and meditate on the picture. Say a few nice words to those you love, seize the day, mediate, love, live, laugh, enjoy! I know I will!

"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

Fires and social networks

The even of First of May is a special spring festival in Sweden with fires, and a lot of signing. We spent ours in Örebro where the fires was lit by our very own Niklas along with nine other people with fire shooting longbows, the longbow was not on fire, mind, you the arrows were, and it was the arrows that were on fire. Very beautiful display from the wall of the old medeival castle.

The rest of the weekend was spent organising the last part of the social network and on Monday the Beta version went live. There are still features to be added, and things to change, but if you are interested in adding comments and shaping how we are doing it and what it will look like in the future, please look at www.bombadilpublishing.ning.com. In the not so long future we will be embedding it into our webpage, but first we need to sort any bugs and make relevant changes.

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

Poetry and other stuff

Well since last time I have done a lot of things and I´m in a better mood too.
As you know we have been to Trollhättan and the poetry festival. And it was really a nice occasion in many ways, we also meet Sara's friends and had a nice evening with them. Meeting some of our young authors was nice and they read their poems in an admirable way. They was really nice specially Jennifer who opened the whole festival, she is so young and did it so well, didn´t look nervous at all. And our own Sara who released her poetry book, I´m so proud of her. A bit because her book was the first one I was involved in :-)). She and My did a superb perfomance. Well done Sara and My!

Sara and My in teamwork.

And I actually filmed the whole thing, my second time filming! It is really a new experience to me and I kind of liking it. And as usual John took some nice photographs both odd ones and nice ones. He has a tendency to take pictures of people´s backs :-)).

Me filming the whole thing.

We actually have released two new books, Sara's and Tove's. Tove was not with us at the poetry festival but she will join Sara this weekend to do something in Lysekil.

Oh tomorrow we will have a kind of fire here. Here in Sweden we "May fire". So I have helped John and Steinar to collect some wood for it, it is nice to work with your body sometimes and not just sitting and do things on the computer. Niklas with Steinar and his friends are going to Örebro to set on the big "May fire" at the castle with arrows ??!! How on earth they are able to do that I don´t know. It will be interesting to se it, they shall do the same thing here on "our" fire.

Ohh today we had an marketing meeting. It was nice and I discovered that I´m thinking a bit different then the rest of the Bombadil staff. I´m thinking first in pictures and not in words and headlines. I´m so used to think on pictures first and the words come after a short time or as I said: the words will come fast when I´m upset, sad, angry or irritated on something. But I will try to learn to do in the other way :-)), it will probably take some time.

have a nice evening
Mari

media center soon going live

Today was spent promoting our media centre. We had visitors from the local area who were first presented with the vision, then the plan and finally a quick tour around the centre finishing off with a scrumptious cake. A very successful meeting, I think.

The logo has also been launched. The logo is a reflection of the beautiful nature surrounding us - the anchor symbolising the sea, and the tree, well, the tree symbolises the trees :-D

MiB does not mean men in Black but rather Media Centre in Bergslagen.

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

Freedom

This picture says so much, I really like it.
I would like to sit like that above everyone, looking and thinking what I should do and most importantly I would be free to do what I wanted to!

Free to fly like doves and free to do what you want, no one to interfere in what you are doing! Or thinking what you should do, telling what to do. That is what the life is about! People can destroy and hurt so much by just saying one word in wrong place or in wrong way.
That is also what Bombadil is about. Letting our young authors write in their way with their own thoughts and words.

And freedom is also going on a lake in a kayak. Steinar and John tested the kayak Steiner built, they tested it on Monday and I was filming for the first time in my life :-)):-)), that was fun. And I hope not the first and only time. To see their expressions in their faces when they was out on the water, that was Freedom and really, really nice!! I love that expression. Free to move in another way and you can do it almost everywhere. John was so excited about it so he now says that he shall built a kayak for him self with Steinar's help.

Have a nice time
Mari

Poetry

This weekend we are off to Trollhättan - the cradle of Bombadil Publishing - to attend the poetry festival. That in itself is really nice, but best of all, I think, is that one of "my" authors, who is also our very own Sara, will have her book release there. She has worked very hard on it, and it is the first poetry collection that I have worked with. We named it challenge poetry, because it challenges the mind: it is not just about pretty words, it is about opening a door into the very soul of the writer, challenging the readers as well as the author. There is something very beautiful about being invited into somebody's inner sphere of emotions and feelings and I think I am as excited as Sara about her book release. It will be an exciting day for us both!

Wednesday again

Hello everyone

Well last week was kind of short and this week is too! So we are kind of mixing up the days here :-). I was kind of bored on Friday but the sun was nice. I have been out of work for some time so I really enjoy to work here at Bombadil with all the nice and fun people. That is the reason why I was bored!, I missed them.

The spring flowers are up more and more. I actually now have seen the blue hepatica (blåsippa) and the wood anemone (vitsippa) on the way to the stable. So it´s definitely spring in the air in many ways now :-)). Ohhh, John has taken a nice photo on a leave to a wild strawberry, so they are coming up too! Look at the picture.

On work I´m setting books as usual and doing some more templates. It is actually funny and you learn a lot while doing it. Soon we are sending some books for printing again.

Pixie has got a bit fat so she is not getting any treats if she´s not have done something really good. Like when she behaved very well when I trimmed her claws yesterday (and today). And she also have tried the leash I use on my dogs at the dogshows. Hmm she has to train a bit more with that I think. But she stands still very good on her own, that is not so many dogs doing. She is really great on that.

Bye bye for this time
Mari and Pixie in a corner

Easter holidays and social networks

The last few days have been holiday here in Sweden due to Easter. I actually took it easy and did not work at my desk (only in my head) and took a long over due holiday. Saying that, I was forced to as the cold I had turned into pneumonia and kept me bedridden for a few days. I am better now, though I do not yet have as much energy as I would like. As I keep saying, "I do not do ill!"
I bet a lot of you thought I spent the time driving around the new car rather than working, and I really wish that had been the case. It is a pleasure to drive though, especially with the hood down.


Anyway, my task this week is sorting the parameters for the new social network. It is coming together rather well and I am pleased with the way it is coming together. Please check in on the website later in the week to see my efforts :-D then you will be able to register and be a part from the beginning. The social website will have most features that facebook and other social websites have, but will also have others such as information centres, writing schools and other exciting areas for book lovers and authors. It will be like a beautiful shore of a rolling ocean, full of pebbles - all different, all beautiful and all telling a unique story. Stay tuned!

Roof and friendship

Springtime is definitely here :-))

Blogging time again. Pixie I not around at all, she is with the kids.

What have I done since last time? A lot actually, but the weekend did not go my way at all. Cars was broken down and I did not meet my basenji friends as supposed. But the week started with nice weather, besides today (it´s raining).

Here at Bombadil I have been scanning some really nice pictures for a book, it´s by a Gandalf author. Gandalf is Bombadil's sister company for older authors. And soon the setting of the English book will be finished, John is doing the last check on it.

Yesterday was a sunny and warm day, funny, and also bit strange. Why? Well me and Sara were climbing up on a roof and John was on the ground taking pictures! Hmm wonder why he didn´t climb up :-)). The pictures is about friendship and they are for a book. We probably looked a bit funny climbing and John did take some (hmm) peculiar pictures. But he also took some nice ones when I was not taking notice, well kind of forgetting he was taking pictures :-)). I normally don´t like people taking pictures on me, I want to be behind the camera instead. But this was for a Bombadil book, so it was kind of ok. On the picture Sara and me are relaxing for a moment before climbing or more like sliding down. Well I wanted to jump down but they didn´t let me do that!

After that we was going a bit by the lake taking some nice pictures. Well it was nice weather and we wanted to be outside for some more time. There was a swan in lake and some other birds. Of course we took some flower pictures. Well it is not so many flower up yet but coltsfoot is actually up.

Has anything more happend? Yes Marianne got her new car today, a red sports car and it is a cabriolet one. And she is really happy and excited about that :-)):-)).

Have nice Easter

Mari, happy in spite of the weather today

Intriguing mysteries and scalability

One of the best – and the worst – part of mentoring is that you really start seeing the authors as family members: you want them to do well, not just in their writing but in life in general. Most of the time this is amazing and the benefit is of course a friend for life. Sometimes this backfires as it did this weekend. John and I mentored what we thought were two good friends. I mentored the one that wrote poetry, John the novelist. They were good, entertaining and friendly. Suddenly a drama was to unfold, and a strange and initially plausible mystery started unfolding. We were incredulous but also genuinely worried because your dear friends seemed to be in trouble. John gallant as ever, and I with my bleeding heart dropped everything, sitting up until late at night trying to help. It was all, however, a joke, a practical and rather tasteless joke. Still makes me sad that such talent was wasted on nothing better than trying to impress and gain sympathy, which essentially was already there. It sort of backfired for the young prankster, I guess mainly because the person behind the one-actor drama only realized when it was too late that being a Bombadilian is not just about artistic talent, but about ideology, an open heart and trust. Now that there is no trust, or an open heart for that matter, the door is forever closed to that talent. Come to think of it, perhaps the talent was not as good as I had first thought it to be, because this young man, it seems, was unable to hold a consistent story line.

I am blogging quite late today, though not as late as Sara. The reason is that we went for a partner meeting in Stockholm to discuss scalability. I do not like coming up with exact numbers - I like estimations and trends - but after having heard of their importance for three hours, Niklas and I spent the evening getting them down on paper. As Niklas said, “these meetings are really good because we get an awful lot done – afterwards”. Well that too of course but the main objective of our partners is to structure us. And they are certainly successful. Structured we are getting – and scalable :-D And we are ready to get even bigger. Just look at the old picture of our office building and the domestic train just outside.. perhaps we will need to reinstall the train service so we can quickly get down to the village shop. Wow, wouldn't that just be so much fun!

Trees that grow on books

Yet another week has disappeared under our noses. Melvin Gonzalez, our Spanish expert, has joined us and on Thursday Mari, Sara and I went to see a man about a tree. Or rather a man about lots of trees, it is Bombadil's intention to plant a tree for every title that we publish.



We have decided to start with dwarf beech trees, as not only are they globally endangered, but the Swedish word for beech is the same as the word for book.



This is the island where we will plant the trees.



UNESCO’s world book day is on 23 April. To mark the event, Bombadil wants, nay, needs submissions from all authors between the ages of 12 and 26 - short stories, poetry, letters, essays – and anything else you can think of, to be published within twenty-four hours! Short or long, fact of fiction, poetry or prose, it's all welcome!

This is a not-for-profit book. We will cover our expenses and then donate the profit to charity. So, we will not be paying royalties, sorry, you will just have to make do with the glory of challenging the idea that publishing is slow and unwieldy and that books take years to produce. That and the satisfaction of seeing your name in print and reaching Bombadil’s audience with your writing! People, pick up your pens, tap on your typewriters and compose on your computers and become part of the Bombadil revolution! The deadline is 21st April. Email submissions to worldbookday@bombadilpublishing.com

In other news, the Bombadil dog currently smells like kippers.

A sunny day

Hello everyone

Finally there is a nice sunny and warm day :-)). The spring is here.

Today our new co-worker began here at the Bombadil office. Melvin Gonzalez is his name. He will be mentoring our Spanish speaking authors. Maybe he will teach us some Spanish too :-)).

Niklas is also happy. He got the answer on the water test he took cin the mine. The water is fine, you can actually drink if you want.

Right now I´m doing some book templates. It has a lot to do with placing the stuff in the proper place so everyone will understand it. I will continue with it tomorrow. On Friday I'll not be here, im´m on my way to a meeting.

And we are hopefully soon be working together with a big Swedish company; it´s well known. You will hear more about it later.

Pixie is not around at all today, I think she is a bit tired. She can actually lie down on command, with some help of a treat :-)). At the picture (taken by mobile phone) she is doing that.

Bye bye for this time and have a nice day.

Mari

Welcoming spring, new colleagues, old languages...and red hair

Spring is here (again!!) which makes me really pleased. It was quite a set back getting snow last week and looking out on a winter landscape. But now the birds are singing and the weather is mild and lovely. I guess most of the snow will be gone soon and we will be able to eat lunch outside. Can't wait :-D
On that happy note I would like to welcome our new colleague, Melvin from El Salvador who will be tackling our South American market and our Spanish speaking authors. Melvin has Mayan-Indian roots so he's been trying to teach us a few words. Mayan is, for us, a very exotic language. So far I can (or could because I have already forgotten) say bread and some other random word. I have also learnt a few Nepali words, though that has essentially nothing to do with Mayan or Melvin. I mentor a really talented young author from Nepal who told me so many lovely things about Nepal that I got intrigued and bought a phrase book sporting useless Nepali phrases. I guess saying "bread" is more useful than saying "my room has not been cleaned". Mind you, it probably depends on where you are. Not sure Mayan gets you very far in Nepal, or vice versa. Anyway, the languages are both very old and rather intriguing and I hope that we will one day have books in both of these languages. And many more minority languages too of course.
Personally I would like to learn Zulu, Japanese and Russian. Not for any specific reason at all really, except that they sound so distinct. And if I can hear the difference, then I assume I can also learn them.
And finally, when I got into work this morning, I was joined by three red haired and happy colleagues. Not quite sure what happened, but it must have been nice because they were all very happy. Or could it be that it is spring?