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Written by Stephen Baines
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Monday, 02 October 2006 |
We’ve been working hard with bureaucracy over the last week or so.
Number one for me was dealing with cars – we have two major projects on this front, number one was to get my UK car registered in Sweden, number two was to get a Swedish car as a second car. The first one has had us mired in bureaucracy that I thought we’d escaped…
It should have been easy. The website said it was easy. As an EU car, all we needed to do, according to Vägverket, was bring it to Sweden, take it to Bilprovningen, pay 300 SEK, and hey presto! One Swedish registered car.
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Written by Stephen Baines
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Monday, 18 September 2006 |
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It's been a few weeks since I wrote last. The last time I wrote our chicks were just starting to hatch. Well, they are now just under 2 weeks old and growing into big strong girls and boys (we hope!) and developing real characters. The Blommehöns are settling in well, and we are now trying to hatch some of their eggs to further boost the numbers. I guess this egg hatching malarky is going to get quite addictive...  <img src="http://gallery.vollans.co.uk/d/11010-2/PICT3179.JPG" alt="2 week old chicks" />
Now that we've seen where stuff grows, the way the land lies and where the areas are wettest etc, we're changing what we're planning to put where. No big deal, really, but we think it's really important to go with the land rather than against it. We've also been asked about selling half-a-lamb or half-a-pig deals in advance in the spring time - not a bad idea, and one we are seriously considering.
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Written by Stephen Baines
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Thursday, 07 September 2006 |
After Osama Bin Laden tried his best to disrupt our plans, I'm happy to report that we have managed to be reasonably successful at hatching out some chicks.
On Monday night the first of the terrors started to break through.
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Written by Stephen Baines
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Sunday, 03 September 2006 |
We've had a very busy few days!
Yesterday was a very important day for us in Sweden - it saw the arrival of our first "proper" animals to the farm. Nigel had spent a long time trying to find some regional breeds, and finding someone who was prepared to spend time talking to us and help us. Eventually a very nice couple in Orup (about 20 minutes or so away if you don't get lost) who are doing a very similar thing to what we are trying to do, had some Blommehöns spare as he was reducing numbers for the winter. Result, we got 4 hens and a cockerel for free. There are some pics of the new arrivals at http://gallery.vollans.co.uk/v/chickens/Blommehons/
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Written by Stephen Baines
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Wednesday, 23 August 2006 |
After last week Nigel getting his cast of, and us failing in our desperate attempts to catch crayfish (more on that anon hopefully when we've actually caught some or given up and bought a box of frozen ones), yesterday was a really quite important day for us in Sweden. Yesterday we went to our first Swedish for Immigrants lesson.
After a while of trying to find out information, hampered mainly by the fact that all the information on how to get information on the courses, enrol, etc was all in Swedish (chicken and egg springs to mind), we got a call on Monday afternoon to say that the course started Tuesday evening and we could attend. Nigel asked where it is "you can't miss is, everyone knows where it is", yes but where is it? "everyone in Eslöv knows where it is!". With that helpful information, and that it was behind a gymansium, we set off in the expectation of probably having to give up and raid the ICA or System Bolaget insttead.
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