Monthly Archives: November 2012

Snow!

Our first real snow of the year started on Wednesday, was footprintable by the time I emerged from the main house after class at about 5:30p. It’s pretty much been snowing ever since.

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Julmarknad i Tobo

In which Tobo becomes a Christmas market for one Saturday afternoon, yaay! The only indoor venue (or possibly the only one I discovered?) was our main hall, which was full of handcraft sorts of vendors, mostly — jewelers, knitters, weavers, a glassblower,… And then from here, the booth space continued around our grounds, down the […]

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Window shopping in Uppsala

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Sahlström exhibit

Field trip! The exhibit that was assembled in honor of Eric’s 100th birthday is still in place at the Upplandsmuseet, and we’d been looking forward to going to see it together. The spelklass had spent an afternoon session with Sonia a couple weeks earlier to talk about Eric, look at old photos, listen to some […]

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Malmö road show

It seems we are on the tour itinerary of the recruiting team for the Musikhögskolan i Malmö, so we got a little concert last night featuring some students from their world music degree program. There was also quite a lot of talking about the school and its offerings and teachers and why each of them […]

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Hazelius/Hedin at Kulturoasen

Free concert by my favorite band of the Linköping festival! (Well, no formal admission charge, anyway, but they do pass around a tip jar and everyone seems to take it seriously.) Also, fastest response time ever on the new-CD request: last month I posted here that “Björnlert/Pekkari/Hedin … should make a CD together so I […]

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