Dr. Martin Rundkvist is a Swedish archaeologist, journal editor, public speaker, skeptic, atheist, lefty liberal, bookworm, and father of two.
One of these men is an extremely zany comics artist and celebrated wit. The other is a stuffy scholar in an abstruse field.
We've had a three-day holiday thanks to Friday being 1 May -- a red-letter day in Sweden since 1939. Here's the entertainments I've enjoyed.
- Went with wife & kids to the local Walpurgis Night bonfire, met loads of neighbours old and new.
- Played Abalone, Tigris & Euphrates and Qwirkle with Kai and other friends.
- Went to a lovely dinner at the home of my friends Mattias & Lina.
- Took a morning bike ride and walk in the woods to log a geocache that had appeared near my home.
- Went to the Kapten Stofil tenth anniversary event, met comic artists Joakim Lindengren, David Nessle and Camilla Forsman and off-beat culture historian Martin Kristenson. All a great pleasure to meet, and I was particularly pleased to meet Nessle who, apart from creating achingly funny comics, is also one of the Swedish language's wittiest bloggers. I have of course been a Lindengren fan for over 20 years.
- Left the kids with the world's best ex-wife, drove with the world's best wife to Duveholm manor near Katrineholm. Had tea, took a long walk among the anemones and over to the next manor over, Djulöholm, saw an abandoned tree-house, had a fine four-course dinner, slept well, had a good breakfast, took another walk.
- Drove to Eskilstuna prompted by The White Guide, was not terribly impressed by the food at the recommended restaurant.
- Drove to historical author friends Kristina & Bo in rural Vallentuna, had canapés, admired the resplendent birthday girl and their new house.
- Played Go fish with wife & daughter.
Did you do anything fun over the weekend, Dear Reader?
Comments
Well, not really... On Friday I had two large beers at one of the restaurants a the square in the warm spring sun, got a bit slushed so I felt pretty good. Yesterday evening I attended a pretty nice birthday party, music from the 80ies, loads of good food and quite a lot of booze. Today, well, took a trip with the MTB, found myself craashing in to some unpleasant thorny bushes halfway to Själsö. But I didn´t care, the sun kept smiling!
Posted by: Lars L | May 3, 2009 3:50 PM
Oh man, you rode your bike off the road and into a thorn bush?! You OK? Bike still functional?
Posted by: Martin R | May 3, 2009 3:54 PM
No, no big thing, just bumped off a dirt track... but thorns are unpleasent...
Posted by: Lars L | May 4, 2009 8:30 AM