Hmmm late blog

Not Wednesday but Thursday.

Well I'm late to blog this week, I know I should have done it yesterday (Thursday) but I totaly forgot it, hmmmrrffff. The truth I don't have clue what to write. But I put in a picture, as usual :-) and talk a bit round that.



Well this is my two much loved dogs. They are of the dog race Basenji, one of the oldest races in the world. It is an African dog race from the Congo area, central Congo. I could talk a lot of the history but that will defenitely be to much :-). So if someone is intrested to know more just google "basenji" and you get a lot if info :-).
The tricolored one is my 12 year old "Luppe" his real name is Lucky Swede's Mr Lupus. The red one is my little sweet bitch "Sunny" her full name is Triad's Summer Dream, I actually got to choose that name :-). Well she is hmmm not that funny right now because she has just started her "season" thing!
They both love the sun and as soon as it is a sunny spot outside or inside they are there. Like in the picture it was one of the first sunny and warm days this summer. So this turning to autumn and winter we all three have the same thoughts about, brrrr. We want sun, warm and nice weather.

I will end with two quatations that fits so good to my dogs. First the one that fits "Luppes" spirit in his youger days. Then one that fit "Sunny" when she was a puppy (she is 8 years now).

"Only the tame birds have a longing
The wild flies"
~Elmer Diktonius

"A single sunbeam is enough to
drive away many shadows"
~Franciscus av Assissi

Hmm maybe my translation from Swedish to English in these two is not that correct but I hope you understand it anyway, hmm maybe I already have put it out once but sometimes the memory is a bit short :-).

bye bye for this time
Mari + my dogs

Words + dogs

Hello everyone.

Words are sometimes nice and sometimes bad, in wrong time and place it can hurt or take a lot of your mind. But words can also help you go in the right direction.

Like me taking to much work on me (privately) and not getting the help I have asked for. I'm having really hard to say no or stop or asking for help. But with my excellent co-workers help I'm on my way in the right direction :-)) Thanks. John just saw that the other day and push me in the right direction, to say stop. Thanks John it really meant a lot to me. In the future I will try more and more to say stop or no!

Today I have had two dogs with me to the office. My sister is ill so I'm helping her. Our honorary office dog Ubbe (co-owned by me), and his housemate Molly has been with me. And it did go well with office dog Pixie, well if they try to take her bone she will tell them to go away ;-)). Sara really liked little Molly and at lunch she put Molly in Johns bed and started to cuddle a bit, then Ubbe jumped up there to. Hmm John doesn't want dogs in his bed. But it was kind of funny to see it. And honestly I think he did not mind at all :-)):-)). Ubbe and John has some kind of connection, I don´t know what but something it is. And it is nice to see that.

Bombadil dog Sunny, John and Ubbe, Sara with Ubbe and Molly in Johns bed.

Take care all of you out there and say nice words to each other.

Mari + the dogs

Time after time

Recently, the time zones have been playing up. Sweden is traditionally one hour ahead of the UK, however due to a rent in the space/time continuum, Sweden is temporarily three days behind. Therefore I am not writing my Friday blog entry on Friday, you are just reading it on Monday.

Honest...

It's a very beautiful day in Sweden today. We had around half a metre of snow on Sunday with the result that I fell out of my house and into a large snowdrift this morning. I'm now in the office, but I am on to my third pair of socks of the day.

Our expansion plans are, well, going to plan, which is exciting. If things carry on as they are at the moment, we will have a presence across the globe before too long. In the mean time, Marianne experimented with dog charming...



Then the dog decided that it wasn't charming and got its own back on Marianne.



The flute that she's playing has an interesting history. Niklas was in a musical instrument shop when he happened to stand on it, hence it came into his ownership. It was completely squashed at one end, but he worked on it with a pair of pliers until it played naturals as well as flats.

We're currently working on the Bombadil website, generally updating the interface and adding an FAQ section. If you think it's lacking something, let us know.

In other news, the Bombadil dog currently smells like three-day-old kippers.

Posted by John

Full coffee room and starry nights

Today I am starting my blog rather late as I have been in and out of the office all day, not really staying long enough to blog. Amazing how blogging just one day a week seems to be difficult. This time, though, my colleague John did not remind me. Cheers John! (hmmmm that is rather worrying...by posting this really funny picture of John, he might somehow retaliate... I just hope that he will be kinder than me!).


On a different note, I am rather proud of myself for not needing a reminder....perhaps John has just given up trying to remind me? I better not ask, so I can remain basking in my own glory.

Mari, a lovely local lady, called in to see if we needed somebody to work with layout and graphic design. She joined us in the coffee room though she preferred tea, so perhaps we have to rename it the leisure room. Tea/ coffee room sounds too much like trying to please all and nobody, and the rest room is just not appropriate, though I am sure Pixie would like the idea! Anyway, I sometimes like tea the best too, despite trying desperately to adapt to the Swedish way of drinking an obscene amount of coffee. Mind you they drink not to keep awake, but to keep up the social traditions. Back to Mari, she is really nice and has two dogs and a horse :-D How nice is that! Certainly gets my vote. Anyway, we were so impressed by her spirit and the fact that it was the Bombadil Shorts that convinced her to seek us out (seems that some people actually appreciate our sense of humour) that we are going to see if we can find a way for her to join our group. She is what is needed for our covers to become the best in the business. So if all works out the way we hope, we will soon have one more chair filled in our coffee room (not to mention one more office). Very exciting indeed and we hope Mari will enjoy our company as much as I am sure we will enjoy hers.

It is dark outside my window, which is natural as it is late and in the middle of winter. But the view is till stunning: velvety black sky sprinkled with diamonds. That is one thing I am extremely pleased about living here: the nights are so clear, the stars are so bright and there is precious little light pollution. The prettiest time during the winter, however, is sunrise and sunset. Absolutely marvelous! Here are some pictures over which you may contemplate, meditate, enjoy, marvel or relax. Or a mixture of all. Some pictures are taken by me, some by John and one by my father-in-law. But all pictures are of the sun setting or rising on, by or over our lake, just a few steps from where I am sitting now.

Dog blogging...

Yawn. Woof. So its my day to blog again. I'm very tired as I've spent all week dealing with a large pile of lamb bones left over from Sunday lunch. I've decided to give the biggest, juiciest one to Niklas. I've put it under a big pile of socks in his wardrobe for him. I hope he likes it.

I borrowed Marianne's credit card when she wasn't looking and ordered some doggy perfume online. It's called "Fromage de Chausette" and I think it smells great. It must be great because everyone keeps remarking on it. I need to smell good now I'm a TV star - I know I'm the only reason why anyone is watching the Bombadil videos.


I'm going back to sleep now.

Posted by Pixie the Bombadil Dog

Books, horses, moose and pink skates

Today is my turn to blog for Bombadil - I do Tuesdays. My colleague John called to remind me while I was out trying to find skates for my daughter Josephine. "Tuesdays are yours, you know, don't you?" I did know of course, and had been trying to concentrate on what to write about while queuing up to pay, but it still sounded a bit like a school master reprimanding the renegade student. So I hurried back, and here I am busy trying to write a blog, remembering nothing of what I was thinking about in the queue earlier.

I have not just been busy with buying skates, I have also worked a fair bit mainly with our accountant Lillemor who is taking over the tedious task of getting our paperwork into shape. And then of course, the good news. We got the new video camera today. It is minuscule and fits in John's pocket. He is the man-with-the-cam, and Sara, I, Niklas, Lillemor and whoever comes over our threshold will feature in our vlogs. I learnt that word the other day. Here I had been pronouncing video-blog, sounding out each letter as if I had invented something new and special...but no, somebody had been there before me and actually invented a suitable name. It think that is the worst thing. It is a cool name, and does what it says on the package, so I don't even want to change it.

Well back to my previous line of thought. The camera. It all started today and when I came back from trying to find the aforementioned skates, there was already a trial vlog waiting for me to look at. It was rather hilarious even without sound. Where is the sound? Hidden in a box. Why? To prevent the sound of Wow music videos from billowing all over the office. And no, I am not really a fan, but my ten year old son is, and he thinks my super cool Mac is more super and more cool when playing Wow music videos. So no sound at the moment, though I think I better connect it up so I can check what I am saying before the shorts are aired...hmmm talking about airing laundry; there is no dirty laundry whatsoever and shorts, for those who did not get the pun, is short for short features and since there are will be more than one, it becomes the Bombadil Shorts with an s to denote that it is plural. So not shorts as in short trousers, but shorts as in short features. Not my joke, promise. Well those that know me well, know that it could not be my joke, because mine are usually rather plain, if a joke can be called plain. No-frill jokes.



Anyway, the first trial short ended on a frame with a laughing moose. I like moose and have a particularly cute fluffy one that is sound activated. Very cute, and laughs more and better than the giggling and chuckling babies on Youtube. So stay tuned, he might well be featured in a short (note the "a" in front of short...I only dress up the dog, the moose is spared).

I am not going to write anything about books - you all know that Bombadil publishes books. We are the original and first youth-to-youth publisher....Hmm.. seems I did get in something about books after all, but then I guess it would have been impossible not to write anything about books, because wherever I look there are books, either our own or those of others. Books are nice. Very nice. So are horses. Wonder why I wrote that. I don't ride particularly well, but I do have a horse. A beautiful and very patient horse called Ophelia. I am sure you can guess from the above picture exactly why I think she is patient. I was definitely not going to talk about horses, but when looking for a picture to upload I saw a nice one with her as Santa... And yes, you are right, it is not just the dog I dress up. I dress up the horse too... Back to the title. I wrote horses in the title just to give myself something to write about in case I forgot what I had decided to write about while queuing to buy those soon-to-be- famous pink skates. No, they are not really pink, just what a designer would call white with a hint of pink. :-D And I did forget what I was going to write about, and thus kept the reference to horses in the title.


So now that I have blogged about nothing at all I will bid you all goodbye for now, and hope you enjoy my colleagues' blogs until I am back on Tuesday next week. Hopefully with something more exciting to discuss than pink skates, horses with Santa Claus hats, and laughing moose. Perhaps I will talk about Pixie in her Bombadil t-shirt... no better not get me started on that one.

/Marianne