rain, rain, rain and food

Hello you all

Well today it has been a rainy day here in Gyttorp (Nora), hmmm not so funny at all. As you now know I prefer sun and warmth so today was not "my" day. Unfortunately this weather comes with the autumn. You(I) can´t be out as much as you(I) want, well you can if you have good raining clothes. Hmm my rain trousers are leaking :-(, actually I need some new raining clothes. Today I didn´t bike to work, I did go by car (not me driving) that was okej. But I like to bike even when it´s raining, well no to much. I can the road so well, so I bike that way by routine and can think about whatever comes in my mind. And sometimes I totally forget where I´m actually is going so it has happen that I have bike a bit to far from the road I should turn at :-)):-)). It´s nice that actually be able to so totally "let go" of what you are doing and actually think or just let out and clean your mind.


Rain, rain, rain.........

Foooood. Today I and the rest of Bombadil crew did some food together, well Sara and I did the most of it :-)). It was on Monday I think that I got that idea to make food to us all, sometimes I do get some bright ideas :-)). It was fun and it is always better and nicer taste on the food when you actually has done it and can eat it straight away. Normally I have food with me and warm it upp in the microwave, and it do lost some taste when you do like that not all food but a lot. What had I decided to make then? Well I had something in mind and actually did it. It is a kind of fish "pot". It contains at least two different kind of fish, apple, paprika, long leak, cream and some other stuff. To that we had rice and a nice salad with cucumber, salad, radishes and some herbs from my small greenhouse. The rest in the sallad was from the store.
It's nice to do things like this together once in a while, maybe we will do this some more times. we will see.

I will end with these words. They are meant for an animal (dog) but I think it actually can be for a human being too.

"Don´t walk in front of me because I may not follow.
Don´t walk behind me because I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend".
~Albert Camus

bye bye
Mari

And now a word from our resident scientist...

/Prerecorded message follows:/

Hi! I'm Niklas Järvstråt, mad scientist (see http://www.moon-mine.com/) and quality manager at Bombadil. I must start by saying that John's very first blog entry was most inappropriate! We are NOT a "gang", as that brings to mind a horde of ruffians wandering the streets in disorderly fashion, committing vandalism and destruction as they go. In contrast, we are a highly organised "crew" working together to provide support to young authors all over the world in their quest to make their voice heard and publish their manuscripts as high quality books. Quality is the key word here. ;) Quality and structure. Ah well, I cannot talk too much about that, so as not to get me going I'll stop here and shift subject.

Some more about me, I am Swedish, I lived a year in Norway but still think the Norwegians talk in a funny though fully understandable (mostly) Swedish dialect, called Norwegian. I am married to the boss, Marianne. Well, I'm her boss too at times, as she does a fair bit of marketing for my moon-mine project. She usually does way more than I ask for, and has got several papers interested in writing about the moonbase in Pershyttan. She even once had a team from Discovery headed to a set of small mines in Sweden for a film about how James Bond had influenced the world, which made me think of Moonraker. Unfortunately, James Bond himself was not part of that team - otherwise the terrorists would not have managed to keep the film team from bringing the camera equipment out of England. The film-team was just setting off on their world tour when, due to the London terrorist attacks, security was drastically increased at Heathrow airport and taking camera equipment on the plane became quite out of the question. So, the film missed the window of opportunity at the launch of that new Bond film and their mine documentary was cancelled. Well, guess I will be forced to make up for that in future video blogs at Bombadil.

Oh, and today I am travelling to University West to discuss research with the PhD students I am supervising. I work for University West on Fridays, supervising research students, which is why I blog on Thursdays. Yes, it is Thursday today, but tomorrow I need to be at Chalmers to discuss Design for Extreme Environments with students from Chalmers and Lund following that project course. So, this week, Friday occurs on Thursday, and my blogging cannot be performed live. Thus, this is a prerecorded message, brought to you by some of the other members of the Bombadil crew, or Bombadillos, as we prefer to call ourselves.

/Niklas