We had a really nice weather yesterday, sunshine, little wind and rather warm, especially in the sunshine. I couldn’t enjoy it especially much though. I did think it smelled a bit strange when I made some pancakes on Sunday and it might have been one of the eggs that had started to turn bad. I woke up at 4 am and hurried down to the bathroom because I thought I was about to throw up. I never did but the rest of the day wasn’t the funniest I’ve ever had 🙂 🙂 🙂
I didn’t eat all day but I did drink a lot of rose-hip soup. That also made it possible for me to drive to the garage today because there were no risk what so ever that I would have to find a toilet during the time I was in Falköping 🙂 I asked them if they knew if they would start with my car early or late in the day because if they would start late I better take the bus home and go there the first thing tomorrow morning, so we decided it was better for me to go home and come tomorrow morning.
The garage is at the top of a mountain called Ålleberg and the bus/ train station is at the bottom of it so it was an easy walk 🙂 I was waiting for the bus in the cold wind and suddenly it arrived at a time it shouldn’t. Turns out it was the bus I thought I’ve missed that arrived rather late 🙂 Good for me but not for the bus driver. I jumped off the bus at the lake and there are still some cranes there and after that I had the 45 minute long walk home. Most parts of the walk was wind free thankfully so it was actually quite nice even though I really wasn’t that full of energy after yesterday 🙂 🙂 🙂
I was supposed to call the garage just before 5pm to check if they were ready with my car but they beat me to it. Turns out that the car is leaking oil so some kind of seal has to be changed. I’ve looked on the net and it’s actually something very cheap??!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 Well I guess they’ll need to pour in new oil as well but the seal itself is very cheap 🙂 So now we’ve decided that I’ll get my car after their lunch hour, at 1pm. I’ll drive to work after that, it takes around 45 minutes so I won’t be there for long before my working day is over 🙂 🙂 🙂
I’m so lucky to have that understanding employers! To be honest, living at the outskirts of the world as I do is tricky when the car needs to go to the garage, I actually would have to have two cars to make it work smoothly but with our prices on everything that would be more or less impossible. The last time I filled up my car with petrol it costed something around $10,78 US gallon. Personally I think there are lot of other things I rather use my money on 🙂
Have a great day!
The Cottage by the crane lake. 
Hi Christer,
I love the photo walks around Falköping. Did you go back and buy that patio set? I would have for that price. I liked the little chest of drawers with the weird brass thing on top and I know I have seen that chair in waiting rooms and small restaurants all over.
The hand lettered signs didn’t help me at all. From your description it sounds like a place that does reupholstering of furniture. Most of us call that stuff stuffing. But it might be officially called batting. I’m not sure. Batting might be a different kind of stuffing. 🙂
I filled up the gas tank on Saturday at USD 4.49 a gallon. The last time I got gas was way back in March about a week before the gas prices started the rapid climb. I still had half a tank from that. You can tell I don’t drive around much anymore. 🙂
Have a great day.
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Hi Caryn!
More photos on the way 🙂
No I didn’t because things got a bit more complicated than anticipated but I’ll see what open hours they have and perhaps drive by there tomorrow. They quite often have nice things at that place, at least on display because I’ve never been inside to see what more things they have.
No those signs just do the opposite for me 🙂 🙂 🙂 Yes thank You! I couldn’t even figure out the swedish name for it 🙂 🙂 🙂
I can’t wait for my retirement, at least five years left but most likely seven. It all depends on a proposal they have in the parlament here. People who have aching bodies and sort of can prove it (like my rheumatism or worn out bodies just because we’ve worked in the industry) could be able to retire already at the age of 63 without losing any money by doing so. We also have a sort of insurance via our union that will help us to semi retire (just work half time) also without losing any money, so I do hope five more years and after that I too will drive very little 🙂 I can’t even remember when our petrol prices was as low as Yours are now 🙂 🙂 🙂
Have a great day!
Christer.
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