tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59991754376181242792024-03-13T21:25:44.272+01:00MainaFRÅN KATALONIEN "WITH LOVE"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger218125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999175437618124279.post-3414874641145902732015-05-17T19:01:00.000+02:002015-06-10T22:06:17.484+02:00The war arrived at Torredembarra today!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Commemorating that the war arrived at Torredembarra in 1713 and a lot of people who fought with the Catalan army were killed. It was a civil war in which the invaders supported the army of the Bourbon pretender to the Spanish throne while </b><b>the Catalan army defended the Austrian pretender.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">The </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">War of the Spanish Succession</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> (1701–1714) was a major European conflict of the early 18th century, triggered by the death in 1700 of the last </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Habsburg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-decoration: none;" title="House of Habsburg">Habsburg</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> King of Spain, the infirm and childless </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_II_of_Spain" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-decoration: none;" title="Charles II of Spain">Charles II</a></span></h3>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">At the end of this loooong war there</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> remained the struggle in Catalonia. At no stage in the war there had been a unanimous or even majority support for Archduke Charles of Austria (Charles III) in Catalonia, but the existence of a rebel group inside the province, together with a superior Allied military and naval presence in Barcelona, forced many towns to decide – often reluctantly – for the Archduke's cause.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Nevertheless, those who wished to continue fighting could point to the fact that the Kingdoms of Aragon and Valencia, as well as those in Castile, were subject to a regime that had forced them to change their laws and historic constitutions, and at no stage since the Bourbon victory at Almansa (Valencia) and the subsequent abolition of the </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">fueros</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> in Aragon and Valencia in 1707, had Philip V shown any intention of respecting Catalonia's laws.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> In consequence, Barcelona decided to resist, but there would be no Allied help. After the peace agreements between the major powers neither Austria nor Great Britain could return to a war footing.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> To compound the issue, Tory diplomatic efforts with Philip V to secure Catalan liberties were half-hearted, and Bolingbroke made no protest when, in early July 1714 – after a year of </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerilla_warfare" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-decoration: none;" title="Guerilla warfare">guerilla warfare</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> in the region – Berwick returned to Catalonia to formally besiege Barcelona.</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>All that took place in our town yesterday and today!! The old town was filled with markettents and selling bread and cheese and handycraft while the soldiers were shoting around all the corners!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>I took part as a "lacemaker". A typical Catalan lady!!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Just by our table a lot of soldiers took refuge!!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b> Finally the war was over and the troups came marching to lay down flowers at "La Torre" which is the trademark of our town. The tower is the first building remaning from the period 1050. The fighting took place in front of the old castle which now holds the townhall.</b></span></div>
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<b>It is nice to get new friends... Ligia I have known for about a year and she is a lovely person. Born in Venezuela, singer and author and with a 70 year long interesting life.</b></div>
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<b>She and her husband Joan invited us to Ligias birthdayparty in the restaurant La Quilla in the harbour of Torredmebarra. (Unfortunatly Frank could not come, as he was with Marc in the Spanish championship in golf for children up to 16 years, and Marc had classified for the final!)</b></div>
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<b>Anyway we were 26 who joined and had a delicious meal and a lot of fun.</b></div>
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<b>Ligia was singing with her friends Vicente Monera (guitar and composer) and Enric Pujol</b></div>
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<b>Ligia has written a book of guardian angels so I painted one for her as a small birthdaypresent.</b></div>
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<b>It was a loooong lunch. 5 hours of eating, laughing and singing!</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Good Friday I had the honour to be one of the 3 Marias following the cross in the Procession.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Frank's family has been responsible for a hundred years of this part of the ritual with the cross. A huge cross with Jesus crucified which weighs around 50 kgs and there are 3 men taking turns to carry it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The whole town seemed to be watching and for me it was very special to see friends smiling at me while passing. A magic evening!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">On Easter Saturday we had friends for "Calçots". The very special grilled onions with Romesco sauce. It is a whole ritual too. "Calçotada" is a party going on from January till April, when it is season for these very special kind of onions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It seems that the only thing one does for Easter is eating...but we have been working in the garden and walking up in the hills surronded by flowers and the air is perfumed. It reminded of a poem I wrote many years ago when I was in the island of Crete with the family. It is in Swedish of course and a little tricky to translate:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then comes Easter Sunday and Monday and they are both great family gatherings when one eats paella and a special cake called "Mona". The name <i>mona</i> comes from Arabic <i>"munna</i>" that means provision for the mouth, a present that Arabs gave to their ladies. La mona is a dessert of great tradition in the whole Mediterranean. In the Balearic Islands, big part of Valencia comunity and in Catalunya it is only eaten for Easter.</span></div>
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On Easter Monday the Godfather or Godmother is supposed to give a mona to their Godchildren!! Frank remembers very well that his mother sent him to his Godparents to collect the mona! </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So naturally we had to go to have a Paella on Easter Monday. We went to our favorite restaurant for fish in Tarragona called Bonachi with our friends Kurt and Åsa. What a fantastic day! The restaurant was of course overful of families with grandfathers and grandmothers and aunts and uncles and babies and children running around.. in other words, a typical Mediterranian lunch!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ramon Bonachi, the owner of the restaurant is also a poet and a photographer and they have the restaurant since generations. His brother, who is the cook, is also a painter! What a family!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Well, well, well, now we do not have to eat anything for a whole week...I think....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Leaving Bonachi, we took a walk by the sea with its nice little beach "L'Arrabassada". There, as a final to this lovely day, we found Mimosa blooming and Tamarix (in other languages Tamarindo, Tamarind, Tamarit) with fantastic pink cascades of flowers.</span></div>
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<b>I really enjoy making lace. It is like velvet for the soul. You just concentrate in what you are doing and a fantastic pattern grows under your fingers. And all the worries in the world just vanish. Here in Torredembarra we have a very good workshop called "Fil i Boixet" under the leadership of Maria Rosa Pastor. She is incredible...knows what everyone is doing and saying: "No that is not right" or "Now you shall take the second bobbing over the third". Absolutely amazing that she can have all in the head! And what beautiful works they do!! Now for Easter decorating eggs for example!</b></div>
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This is my latest work. It will lay under glas on a tray. Hoped to be ready<br />for Ester..but it will be before summer anyway!</h4>
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<b>Now there are several young girls beginning, which is very nice. Otherwise this old handywork would vanish. But I see that they think it is fun and there are even some boys and men making lace now. Here it is a great tradition.</b></div>
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<b>After working we had dancing with orchestra. Of course the tradional Catalan dance: "Sardanes" It reminds me of Greek dances, moving in a ring holding your hands high. It looks easy..but I can assure you that it is NOT.</b></div>
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<b>And then finally we had a very nice Paella and drank wine out of "Porron" the way you pour the wine in the mouth with great skill. Frank does it in perfection..but I prefer a glass.</b></div>
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<b>Well that was a nice day as usual in the true Catalan Spirit!!</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Det var en perfekt dag för att avnjuta de grillade lökarna doppade i den ljuvliga romescosåsen. SWEA hade ordnat en hejdundrande lökfest i Torredembarra på den hemtrevliga restaurangen Can Gla. Vi var 27 vuxna, 5 barn, en baby och två hundar som strömmade till platsen för att först gå en promenad i omgivningen. Under tiden började förberedelserna för att grilla lökarna över öppen låga. De skall bli riktigt sotsvarta utanpå och när man drar bort höljet kommer den mjälla ljusgröna löken fram från innandömmet. På gården framför Can Gla grillades det för fullt medan vi gick ut på vår promenad.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fåglarna sjöng och vi vandrade genom olivlundar och passerade mandelträd som just blommat ut, och såg många blommor och okända växter. Det finns gott om vandringsleder och cykelleder runt byn och mycket roligt att titta på. Romerska ruiner gick vi förbi. Trakten är historisk och har många lämningar efter romarna för 2000 år sedan. Tarragona var ju Romerska huvudstaden på den Iberiska halvön och de sägs att, näst efter Rom själv, finns det flest romerska ruiner på en och samma plats. vi stannade också framför de vackra, ständigt gröna Johannesbrödsträden, Garrofers på katalanska, Algarrobos på spanska, som även de har en historia att förtälja.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Det heter Johannesbröd eftersom enligt legenden Johannes Döparen livnärde sig på dess frukter under sitt uppehåll i öknen. Och ordet carat kommer från fröna i frukten.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nu var vi rätt mätta redan men det här var ju bara en liten förrätt. Så vi tågade in i restaurangen och där serveras huvudrätten: olika typer av grillat kött och korv och vita bönor. Samt grillad bröd som man smörjer in med tomat, olivolja och salt! Mera vin och vatten. Restaurangen var full av katalanska familjer och vi skrämde dem ordentligt genom att stämma upp "Helan går" så att det rungade i de gamla väggarna! Vilda vikingar som vi är!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oj, oj, oj!! Hur skulle vi kunna orka efterrätten?..Men det gjorde vi!! En Crema Catalana med knäckigt täcke. Till det serverades naturligtvis CAVA!! WOW, vilken fest!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ja...då var det slut ...kanske man kunde tänka...men icke, nu kom kaffe och "chupito"..dvs något lite starkt för att smälta maten. Jag valde Limoncello!!'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mycket nöjda och belåtna rullade vi alla ut från den mysiga Can Gla och var väldigt överens om att SWEA Barcelona är en fantastisk trevlig klubb att vara med i!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">TACK FÖR EN HÄRLIG CALÇOTADA!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>To see the men carry Him and put Him down at the altar became so very real, that I cannot even explain it. It really moved me!!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b> So Antonieta and I went out in the countryside. There we found a farmer who said that we could take as much as we wanted!!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Then came the big day and yesterday it was so special to see all the people with "our" branches being blessed in the square in front of the small church!!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>T</b></span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">he priest here in the fishermans village Baix-a-Mar is from Italy and has only been here 6 months. Padre Giaccomo and Patrik became great friends when Patrik was here for Xmas!!</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Well, that was a very nice Palm Sunday. The sun was glittering in the sea and one culd feel the expectation of Easter coming!!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>My friends Antonieta, Maria Dolors and Lena and me went to Tarragona on Friday for a concert in the beautiful cathedral. It was the "Friday of Our lady Mary of Sorrows" exactly one week before Good Friday. A procession with Maria mourning her son Jesus is carried around the town at the beat of drums and followed by many persons.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The cathedral was absolutely full and the played sacred music with a choire and the very old organ wich is newly renovated.</b></span><br />
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<b>WOW! What a party!</b></div>
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<b>Every year we celbrate Saint Patricks Day with our Countrygroup. Everybody dressed with something green.</b></div>
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<b>First we all have dinner together and this year we were in the cultural house "El Casal" and the association had prepared everything. </b></div>
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<b>Many persons ask what Saint Patrick has to do with Country and Line dance. Well, linedance is a Celtic dance and Irish and Scottish took their dances and traditions to America, so that is what we are dancing!! And Saint Patrick is their Patron!! And we take all the chanses for a PARTY!! </b></div>
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<b>There were a lot of "tapas" and wine and sweets and coffee and.... oh boy!!</b></div>
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<b>We are a big group that meets every tuesday and saturday and of course take part of the village festivities too. </b></div>
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<b>Then after all the eating of course the dance began. And I can tell you that one really burns a lot of calories!! And we have a lot of fun!!</b></div>
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It is Christmas again..and Patrik is here again...It is fantastic how a person can bring so much joy!! Yesterday we went to the fishermen village "Baix-a-Mar" in Torredembarra. My cousin Antonieta makes the "pessebre" every year in the small church by the beach. She asked us if we wanted to come and help. And of course we did. This year they have a new priest: Mossèn Giacomo or Padre Giacomo as Patrik wanted to call him. Of course Patrik and Padre Giacomo immediately got along very well, speaking Italian.<br />
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They began to prepare everything... BUT disaster...they had no straw for the crib!! What to do? Well, we have very good friends who have the riding school here in Torredembarra and the boy who is the owner, Robert, is a great friend of Patrik so...away we went to get some straw. Robert very nicely said: I will ask one of the boys to prepare some for you.<br />
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Well, away we went again...back to the church where Antonieta and Padre Gaicomo waited for us. And what a nice crib it was going to be. Antonieta cut the straw in small pieces<br />
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And then everything was put in its place and nobody has ever seen a more beautiful nativity scene with the crib for Jesus child!! Ready for Christmas morning!!<br />
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NOW wasn´t that a very nice Christmas story?? And after all a miracle also occured... all of a sudden it began to snow in the small church of Baix-a-Mar in Torredembarra over the crib, Patrik, and Padre Giacomo!!<br />
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Här mormor Lucy med min mamma Doris.
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Lucy föddes 1882 i London, Surbiton. Det
var en lycklig dag i doktor Abbot Browns hus. Hon växte upp till en
verklig skönhet med sitt kopparröda hår och gröna gnistande ögon.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>En
dag när Lucy var 16 år kom en svensk pojke från Norrköping
resande för att göra affärer med ett engelskt rederi. Han hette
Hjalmar Kjellgren och var en Don Juan av Guds nåde. Kolsvart hår,
olivbrun hy och blå gnistrande ögon. Jo, han var faktiskt från
Norrköping, men min mamma påstår att det fanns vallonblod i
släkten.</b></span></div>
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händer när en rödhårig skönhet möter en Don Juan från
Norrköping? Vild förälskelse. Det hjälpte mycket att Lucy hade
det gott ställt och var begåvad med en stor hemgift. De gifte sig
och Hjalmar gjorde i rask takt slut på alla pengar, köpte
tävlingshästar, bilar och båtar.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Lucys
mamma grät och pappan röt. Ingenting hjälpte och till slut
flyttade hela familjen till Sverige. Under tiden hade min mamma fötts
1901 och moster 1909. De tog sista båten från England till Göteborg
år 1914 precis vid krigsutbrottet. Båten efter dem sköts i sank.</b></span></div>
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äktenskap sköts också i sank och flickorna vantrivdes i den
svenska skolan. Hjalmar tvingade dem att gå i sina engelska
skoluniformer och halmhattar och de led alla mobbningskval i världen.
När alla pengar var slut och mormor hade blivit tråkig hittade han
andra kvinnor och skilsmässan var ett faktum.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Mormor
sörjde hela livet tills hon dog vid 91 års ålder. Vi hittade många
dikter hon skrivit och bundit ihop med röda silkesband. En dikt har
fastnat i mitt minne:</b></span></div>
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”<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Han
sträckte ut handen</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>hon
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>och
dag blev natt”</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Mormor
fick försörja sig med allt möjligt. Hon sydde fantastiska hattar,
målade porslin, gjorde tändsticksaskar och undervisade i engelska.
En av hennes privatelever hette Raul Wallenberg</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Symaskinen
hon sydde hattar på kom naturligtvis från England och var en tung
apparat från 1880-talets slut med handvev. Så gick maskinen sönder
på 1970-talet och mormor stegade iväg till en symaskinsaffär i
Stockholm. ”Oj, det här är en museigrej” sa biträdet ”den
går inte att laga”. Min mormor som inte hade så stor aktning för
svenskar knyckte på huvudet och sa ”Dessa utlänningar förstår
ju ingenting!” med sin härliga engelska brytning. ”I England,
där förstår de sig på sådana här saker.” Sagt och gjort, hon
tog med sig symaskinen på båten över till England. Flyga tänkte
hon sannerligen inte försöka sig på.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>När
hon kom till symaskinsaffären i London, vad fick hon se där? Huset
fanns inte längre. Hon gick in i en elaffär som låg i det nya
huset. ”Var finns symaskinsaffären” frågade hon indignerat.
”Jag har kommit hela vägen från Sverige för att laga den här
maskinen. Jag bodde här med min familj Abbot Brown i många år och
min mor Elizabeth Edwards hade ett hus precis här bredvid” ”Oh,
huset blev bombat under kriget och det var länge sedan den affären
upphörde. Men kanske jag kan hjälpa damen” sade
affärsföreståndaren. ”Kom tillbaka om en vecka, så skall jag se
vad jag kan göra”.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Efter
en vecka kom mormor tillbaka och där stod symaskinen. Lagad! Mannen
hade gått till en verkstad som tillverkat den trasiga delen. ”Det
är ett sant nöje att kunna hjälpa er. Jag vet att er far Doktor
Abbot Brown räddade livet på min farfar så det här bjuder jag
på!” Mormor åkte i triumf tillbaka till Sverige och berättade
för alla att ”I England, där kan man laga symaskiner och vilken
service!! De har mycket att lära här!” Och man måste ju faktiskt
hålla med om det. </b></span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Allt
detta tänkte jag på när jag gick upp i ”mitt svenska tornrum”
här hemma i Torredembarra. Där står mormors symaskin i en trälåda
med liten nyckel. Jag öppnade försiktigt dörren med nyckeln och
där...stod den..maskinen som varit med om så mycket.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Undrar
vem som kommer att hitta den och fantisera om var den kommer ifrån?
Om maskinen kunde prata så skulle upphittaren få höra den här
historien du just läst!</b></span></div>
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The other day I went to a "xatonada" with the local women's organisation here: "Grup Dones, Torredembarra". Xató is typical from the "Penedès" area. They have even contests of whom makes the best xató!! Very serious matter...It can be quite a war between villages!! This was the best <u>I have ever had</u> I must say and the tortillas were very good.<br />
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We were around 40 women who gathered in an old restaurant "Cal Pastoret" to enjoy this very special Catalan dish. It consists of Escarolsallad dressed with Romesco-sauce, Bacallà (salted cod), red peppers. black and green olives and different kind of tortillas with spinach, artichokes, onions, white beans and mushroms.<br />
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Årsmötet med middag inleddes med nya ordförande Anna Krossling</div>
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som öppnade genom att slå an takten!</div>
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Sedan följde middagen på Restaurang Pomarada.</div>
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Maten var utsökt: Bl.a Bacallà med karamelliserad tomat & lök</div>
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Nina Yunkers Maina och Yvonne såg glada ut som vanligt!</div>
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Såklart blev det en liten rolig historia också...</div>
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Maten var god och stämningen hög. Vi hade också ett</div>
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mycket intressant föredrag av Marianne Ström som</div>
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berättade om Le Marais-kvarteret i Paris</div>
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Marianne visade bilder och vi fick en inblick i denna fascinerande</div>
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stadsdel.</div>
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Marianne är Swea i SWEA Paris såklart!!</div>
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<b>Tack allihop för en mycket trevlig tillställning!</b></div>
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Now it was a looong time since I wrote anything! Today is the day I begin again with a lovely day at a<br />
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We had a Paella at her house (and what a paella cooked by Pilar!). Our gang is a bunch of very nice people and I am very happy to be part of it!! Here you see Judy and I:<br />
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We were 26 people, husbands, wifes and children also making part of the fiesta. First of all it was<br />
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Everybody helped to bring wood to the fire, to prepare tables and drink vermouth to keep the wind<br />
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It was a seafood paella and first all the shrimps, calamares and vegetables and then all the rest of ingredients followed to be fried. Then the rice was poured in:. 3 kilos! followed by the stock: 9 liters!<br />
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READY! Looking delicious! Everybody in the house and to the table:<br />
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Here Rosalia (a relative of Frank) and her husband Salvador enjoy the food and company.<br />
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Then came coffee with "avec", and a looooot of cakes and goodies. Wow! I think I had whipped cream coming out of the ears. Mmmmm - I AM a cookymonster... Satisfied and happy the dance could begin out in the garden. Frank prefers to look at the people dancing..:<br />
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Pere and Belén also enjoy watching us dance...very amused it seems!<br />
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It IS really great fun to dance Line Dance. Have you tried sometimes? My friend Angels is a real prof!!!<br />
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Well, so after a lovely, funny, nice day with Frank and good friends, we said goodbye and went home.<br />
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Thanks all friends who had bought, prepared and cooked everything. And thank you Tony and Belén for your arrangement of the whole thing and THANK YOU JUDY FOR HAVING US ALL WILD LINE DANCERS IN YOUR HOUSE!!<br />
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Oh, what a lunch! Our Line dance club celebrated the 4 years anniversary at Hotel Gran Claustre in our neigbouring village Altafulla. 31 persons and the most delicius lunch.<br />
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It began with Cavadrink by the pool..some would have liked it to be IN the pool!! <br />
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After having enjoyed the food the dance began. Here Belén in action.<br />
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What a style…2 generations..son Bernie and his father Jordi.<br />
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Our monitors and Tonis sister.<br />
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Dancing for 4 hours afer a 3 courses lunch…Well, well this is what keep<br />
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THANK YOU Belén and Toni and all fantastic friends!! What a nice day we had!<br />
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This morning we had breakfast at Rosa Maria´s and her son Jordi´s home. It was in the name of the political party CIU. And what a breakfast!!<br />
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Breakfast here is not exactly like in Sweden.. We were served all kinds of sausages, cheese, ham, freshly grilled lambchops, grilled vegetables, etc. etc. Everything was washed down with wine in "porrons" (glasbottle with pipe that you can drink directly from in the air) or water, cocacola, and other refreshments. Here you can see Frank in action. He likes his wine for breakfast...<br />
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The Mayor of Torredembarra Daniel Masagué and Rosa Maria's son Jordi (sitting) at the shade of the almondtrees.<br />
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<br />That was a nice and funny breakfast!! Finaly Pere Font came and tried to eat everything very fast and make up for what he missed, since we arrived. They made fun of him saying that he had to grow..(he is about 1.95 tall!!) Oh, what a beautiful morning....Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999175437618124279.post-70301014693652542182012-07-19T19:12:00.001+02:002012-07-19T19:41:51.058+02:00Wedding of Mari Carmen and Lluis<br />
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I went to the wedding of Mari Carmen. A very nice girl who works at my hairdressers. Here she is with the groom and hairdresserfriends from the salong. From left to right: Patricia, Nuria (owner), Yolanda and Montse.<br />
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Here Mari Carmen arrives to the townhall<br />
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What a beautiful bride!!<br />
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Her husband to be, waited for her outside and they went in together..<br />
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Changing of rings… The acting Mayor was a lady.<br />
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Reading of the vows.<br />
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And the KISS!!<br />
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Then then the rain of rice..<br />
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Friends and..<br />
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ladies who wanted to see the bride!<br />
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The nice old square in front of the townhall from 1700.<br />
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A fantastic day to remember and I felt lucky to have been a small part of it!<br />
Long live the bride and groom!! VIVAN LOS NOVIOS!!!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999175437618124279.post-46403078272799412752012-05-06T19:46:00.000+02:002012-05-06T19:46:36.782+02:00"Jamonada" Linedance Picnic!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Today we had a very nice picnic in the hills over Torredembarra in a nearby village named Altafulla. Here<em> </em>I am with our Linedance-leader Tony. Together with his wife Belén, he is the organizer of the group "Country la Torre", as locals refer to Torredembarra. Everybody brought a lot of good things. I brought my usual pizza, baked to "Julio Iglesias concert" yesterday. Why is it called "Jamonada"? <br />
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Because we had a big Serrano ham (jamon) to cut from at will. Alfonso was the chef and his wife Pili is seeing that everything is done well! Then we began to EAT...and eat and eat ...a lot of very good things and as one of the desserts we had Tiramisu made by Maria Carmen who looked this happy<br />
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And then applecake and brownycake and... (I hope that Amanda, my Weight Watchers counsellor, does NOT read this!!). Frank was also present and he had to lean against a tree after lunch to lecture Rosalia and Salvador about who knows what ,,,<br />
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The nice day finished with cardgames and a lot of fun and laughter. Spain has very special cards.<br />
The traditional 48-card Spanish <i>baraja</i> is an ancient deck that existed in Spain since between the 14th-16th century. The suits closely resemble those of Italian cards and Latin suited Tarot decks. In fact, the Baraja, like the tarot, are used for both game playing and <span style="color: #0645ad;"><span style="color: black;">telling the future</span>.</span> The Baraja has been widely considered to be part of the occult in many Latin-American countries, yet they continue to be used widely for card games and gambling, especially in Spain. They look like this<br />
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We had our picnic on the top of the hill where there is a "Hermitage" chapel named Sant Antoni.<br />
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Sant Antoni hermitage was built in the year of 1717 thanks to a donation from its first hermit, Baltasar Rabassa with the help from fishermen of the village. It is really an hermitage of the sea and fishermen say that several times they have been helped in need. </div>
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Altafulla is a medieval town and one does not know exactly its foundation. Anyway the castle of Altafulla was mentioned in documents from 1059. Every night I look at that beautiful castle which is seen from our house!<br />
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It looked quiet nice when we passed it in the daytime too, going back home...<br />
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A really fine day! Looking down on Torredembarra coming back, I thought of how lucky I am to live here with all these new friends and new family!! <br />
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As a nice tradition here on Easter Monday all families go out<br />
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into the countryside and have a picnic with paella and dance <br />
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”Sardanes”, the Catalan folklore dance.<br />
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The ”Mona” is a cake decorated with feathers and eggs and it <br />
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can also contain figures in chocolate.<br />
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“Munna” is an Arabic word that means "provision of the mouth,"<br />
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that the Moors gave as a gift to their master. Here it is a tradition<br />
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that the Godmother and the Godfather give a Mona to their<br />
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Godchildren on Easter Sunday. And if you don´t eat a Mona,<br />
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it seems that there is no Easter!!<br />
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Here in Torredembarrra we went up in the hills to Montornès, near a small village called<br />
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La Pobla de Montornès. There is a church on the top called l´ermita de Santa Maria de<br />
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Montornès. <br />
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We went there with 3 cars loaded with food and drinks and chairs<br />
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and 10 happy people. Frank and I, our cousin Antonieta, Anette<br />
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and Birgitta, Lena and family Maude and Arne and Kurt and Åsa.<br />
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So 8 Swedes and 2 Catalans. We were not the only ones with this<br />
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idea. Lots and lots of people kept coming with grandmothers, children,<br />
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oncles and teenagers, all carrying bags with food, wine, Coca Cola<br />
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and, of course, the most important of all: the Mona cake!!<br />
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The weather was lovely and warm and we gathered just under the church<br />
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and waited for the Mass to finish. The door of the church stood open and<br />
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the congregation was singing loud and clear and the song was mixed<br />
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with birds singing outside and children playing. <br />
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The Mass was over and the orchestra began to play and immediatly several<br />
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persons began to dance the typical Catalan dance ”Sardana”. <br />
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dances. One forms a ring and dance with the arms in the air holding<br />
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Our cousin Antonieta and Frank were dancing and eventually I dared<br />
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to go up and try. I need some training! Here you can see Frank in action:<br />
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A little man was dressed with the typical "barretina" in the head and had a branch of thyme in his mouth. He danced ALL dances!<br />
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Then it was time for food. We all sat down and had the most<br />
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delicious lunch consisting of Potatoe omelette ”Tortilla”, serrano ham,<br />
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escalivada, artichoke pie (Torta Pasqualina), pizza, and other nice<br />
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nice wine.<br />
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My contribution was pizza and an Italian pie "Torta Pasqualina", which is filled with artichokes, <br />
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ricotta, eggs and parmesan cheese and looks like this:<br />
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At this stage we were quite satisfied as you can understand, but now came<br />
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THE MONA and other cakes, chocolate and a sweet wine called <br />
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Moscatell and, finally, coffee.<br />
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What a day!! The sun was by now burning and some of us layed<br />
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It was time to go home and a happy caravan of cars left down the<br />
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hill. I and Åsa decided to WALK home, to try to get rid of some<br />
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of the food. It was a very lovely walk through olive plantations and<br />
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fields full of flowers. The air was perfumed with thyme and rosemary<br />
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and birds were singing.<br />
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Sometimes life is really wonderful!! Eating outside in the nature<br />
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in company of loved ones and good friends!! <br />
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">An Easter to remember!</h2>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999175437618124279.post-56584627351195144212012-02-23T00:52:00.000+01:002012-02-23T00:52:00.108+01:00We have been to the funeral of a "Sardine"!!! Kommer just hem från en Sardins begravning!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-U0S4kT_AcII/T0V0OTf8RFI/AAAAAAAABtI/84exElHgZlY/s1600/4+%C3%A4nkor+p%C3%A5+sardinens+begravning+P2220107.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="249" lda="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-U0S4kT_AcII/T0V0OTf8RFI/AAAAAAAABtI/84exElHgZlY/s320/4+%C3%A4nkor+p%C3%A5+sardinens+begravning+P2220107.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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<strong>Lena, Kristina; Anna and I were supposed to be crying...following the Sardine burial.</strong><br />
En sardin dras fram på gatorna i en vagn! <strong>The Sardine is draged along the streets and a huge gang of people are following, crying and sobbing!</strong><br />
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Ja, det är faktiskt sant. Det VAR en begravning för en sardin. Varje år på askonsdagen firar man denna märkliga fest. Karnevalsvagnar dras genom gatorna och efteråt följer hundratals svarta änkor. Allt för att symbolisera att karnevalen är slut. <strong>Everything to symbolize that Carneval is over.</strong><br />
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De gråter och skriker ut sin sorg över sardinens död och bekänner förbjudna synder inför den falske prästen. <strong>They cry and scream and confess their sins to the fake priest!</strong><br />
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Utmed kortegevägen, som är kantad av en massa folk gråter änkorna och får hysteriska sammanbrott som gör att folk vrider sig av skratt. Helt tokigt med andra ord.!! Man kan själv hoppa in i kortegen och gråta och vifta med stora näsdukar...<br />
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Varför gör man detta? <strong>Why do you do this?</strong><br />
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Det finns många teorier. En är att det är av symboliskt värde och visar slutet på karnevalen och man begraver alla synder som begåtts under festligheterna och på så sätt börjar från noll när fastan inleds.<br />
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En annan är att man begravde ett revben av gris. (som man kallade sardin p.g.a. formen) för att symbolisera förbudet att äta kött under fastan som börjar vid karnevalens slut.<br />
<strong>There are many teories. One is that one burried a rib of porc (that one called sardine due to the shape of it. It symbolized the end of carneval and the beginning of quaresima when one is not allowed to eat meat.</strong><br />
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Under Francos tid var karnevalen förbjuden, men nu tar man igen det med råge!<br />
<strong>During Francos time the carneval was forbidden, but now the party goes on!!</strong><br />
En annan teori kommer från början av 1800-talet då några studenter i Madrid hade en sardin på sin karnevalsvagn för att symbolisera avhållsamhet och fasta. För de ändamålet hade de beställt en mängd sardiner från norra Spanien. När de anlände hade de ruttnat på vägen. Då bestämde de sig för att ”begrava sardinerna” för att skämta.<br />
<strong>Another teori comes from the beginning of the 19th century, when some students in Madrid had a Sardine on their carneval carriage to symbolize fast and refraining from to eat. Therefor they had ordered a lot of sardines from the north of Spain. When they arrived they were rotten and they decided to "bury" them as a joke</strong>.<br />
”Entierro de la sardina” finns med på en tavla av Goya från 1818. <strong>A painting by Goya of the funeral of the Sardine.</strong><br />
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Hur som helst tar alla det med stor humor och en massa skratt. Det var en ljum kväll i Torredembarra när sardinen skulle begravas, och en mängd människor ställde upp i begravningsföljet. Lena, Kristina, Anna och jag deltog med hög gråt och klagan!!Efteråt bjöds det på grillade sardiner och pa amb tomàquet , stora skivor lantbröd ingnidna med vitlök, tomat och olivolja, nedsköljt av ett kallt vitt vin från en ”porron”.<br />
<strong>After the funeral there were grilled sardines offered with bread and tomato and wine in porron! Here I am swalloing a sardine!</strong><br />
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Nu kan vi börja förbereda os på nästa högtid: PÅSKEN!!<br />
<strong>NOW WE CAN BEGIN TO PREPARE FOR NEXT</strong> <br />
<strong>FESTIVITY: EASTER!!</strong>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999175437618124279.post-30103134170915908542012-01-01T17:03:00.000+01:002012-01-01T17:03:20.770+01:00HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012!!! What will become of us??<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GnrwFzlYi94/TwB-ZEv2w2I/AAAAAAAABr4/PhlY3GXny2Y/s1600/kosmos.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" rea="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GnrwFzlYi94/TwB-ZEv2w2I/AAAAAAAABr4/PhlY3GXny2Y/s1600/kosmos.bmp" /></a></div><br />
I don’t know about you, but looking up into the sky on a clear night is enough to give me existential chills.<br />
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You’re not just looking up into a curtain of black. You’re looking into the eye of the universe. Stare for a while and you start to realize — on a deep, gut level — that the moon is a giant rock circling us in space. The sun is a violent, fusion-fueled ball of plasma and gas millions of miles away that destroyed the atmospheres of all of the inner planets (including Mars, which is farther away from it than we are) and would do the same to ours if we weren’t lucky enough to have a magnetic field that diverts the solar wind.<br />
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The cute little pinpricks of light you see out there are other giant, explosive, incredibly pissed-off balls of gas floating in an infinite void, most of which are far more impressive than our puny sun. And that smear of milky white through the sky? That’s the center of our own galaxy — a gigantic pinwheel circling a supermassive black hole like floating detritus around the vortex of a flushing toilet.<br />
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There’s a lot of crazy shit going on out there.<br />
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And in fact, the Earth could bite the dust at any time.<br />
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Comets. Asteroids. Apparently, there’s even a star nearby that may eventually go all black hole on us. When it does, it’ll shoot a jet of X-Men style radiation out of its poles, perpendicular to its accretion disc, directly at us. (The good news is that we’d never see it coming. We’d just suddenly be reduced to our constituent atoms.)<br />
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Even avoiding all of that, though, just buys us time. The Earth is not permanent. The sun is not permanent. The oldest stars alive today are not permanent. It will all end.<br />
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And in the middle of this story (because we’re the ones telling it), is us.<br />
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Here on our little blue planet. Here at this exact, tiny, special blink in time. Here, but only “here” in the way a beetle might be “there” on the sidewalk of Times Square during rush hour. Sure, the beetle can survive, but only for as long as it’s not in the wrong place at the wrong time.<br />
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Nobody’s out to get that beetle… but nobody’s watching where they’re stepping, either.<br />
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The city was there long before the beetle, and it’ll be there long after the beetle’s inevitable demise.<br />
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The city, always neutral, honestly doesn’t care one way or the other whether the beetle lives, dies, suffers, or thrives.<br />
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And you were worried that trying something new might make you look dumb or that your business might not make any money.<br />
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What is wrong with you?<br />
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The universe doesn’t care about you.<br />
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It can’t. It’s too big, with too much going on.<br />
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Maybe there’s a grand conductor, and maybe there’s not. I do happen to believe in God, or the Spirit of Life, or the Force for all I know, but regardless of belief or disbelief, one thing I know for certain is that no matter WHAT or WHO is out there, he or it doesn’t “care” if you define “care” in terms of life and death. Nobody is special. Nobody gets a pass.<br />
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Everything dies. Everything. You were born with a terminal disease, just like everything else that has ever existed. You, your lamp, the sun, and the Bee Gees all have that in common.<br />
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This, like the universe’s apathy, is neither good nor bad. It is simply a fact.<br />
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But this fact — the immutable, inevitable, impossibly obvious fact we will die as surely as we were born — is something we all deny for most of our lives. You’d think we’re never going to die, the way we cower and second-guess and fret over each little action. We act like what we do today will forever alter the flow of creation, of time, of space. Every move is vital. Each little event could upset the delicate balance. Everything is of paramount importance.<br />
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We can’t do things differently, because the system, however imperfect, works and is extremely delicate. We might upset it by thinking outside the box.<br />
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We have to weigh every decision, because a butterfly flapping its wings in Nova Scotia could cause a hurricane in Guam. Or, as Homer Simpson taught us, if you kill a mosquito in dinosaur times, Ned Flanders might become the unquestioned lord and master of the universe.<br />
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We can’t do something that might make us look ridiculous, because first impressions last forever.<br />
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We can’t try and fail, because then we’ll be ruined forever.<br />
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Think a scar (or a tattoo, for that matter) is permanent? It’s not. Your body was literally formed from stardust and will eventually return there. <br />
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The duration of a scar doesn’t even register on the big time line. In fact, I heard that God watches jewelry commercials and LOL’s when they say that diamonds are forever. It’s all a big joke up there. There’s a drinking game in Heaven, where angels do a shot every time humans invest “for the long term.”<br />
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What are you so terribly worried about?<br />
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You are here now. Eventually, you will be gone. You have but a nanosecond on the universal clock to do whatever it is you’re going to do. When that time is gone, it’s gone. Forever.<br />
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That means that although what you do doesn’t matter to the universe, it should matter one big deal to YOU.<br />
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In fact, it should matter to you more than it currently does. If you knew how small you are and how short a time you have to do what you can, you wouldn’t waste time watching five hours of TV a day. You wouldn’t waste time doing a job you hate. You wouldn’t waste the little time you have dealing with stupid people, feeling sorry for yourself, or being timid about the things you’d really like to do.<br />
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When I was 35 it dawned on me that it was not at all long before I’d be forty. And forty is REALLY OLD in the mind of a GIRL with the mentality and sense of humor of a teenager. I mean, you can make an argument for 30 being young despite the fact that the MTV crowd says different, but forty-something is what your grandmother was.<br />
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When I had this epiphany, a succession of uncomfortable and incredibly obvious realizations followed.<br />
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If I could turn 40, I could turn 50.<br />
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If I could turn 50, I could turn 60, 70, 80,90.<br />
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Once, I was a kid and everyone else was old. The tables will turn. NOW I AM the lady that kids look at and see as old. Me. ME!! ONLY IN MY 70th!! Me, who was once out cruising on Friday nights, staying up until dawn. Me, who thought I was indestructible, who thought I was forever. Turns out I was wrong. Turns out I was just one in 6.8 billion, and very much subject to the same laws of time and space as everyone else.<br />
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One day, if I’m very lucky, I’ll be a shriveled 100-year old lady with a cane. An old lady with a kid’s mind, wondering how on earth this could have happened.<br />
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Think about this. Now. I have!! HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012!!!<br />
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"Wait!!!" I exclaimed. "I must take a photo with my mobile, oterwise nobody will belive this".<br />
I have got a PROPHET in my family..................Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999175437618124279.post-58511191934177698332011-12-26T00:45:00.000+01:002011-12-26T00:45:26.815+01:00Christmas day in our home!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-l3hcvJuUjdU/TveuxOKsUxI/AAAAAAAABpc/xItUrrj_GYI/s1600/Xmas+in+our+house.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" rea="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-l3hcvJuUjdU/TveuxOKsUxI/AAAAAAAABpc/xItUrrj_GYI/s320/Xmas+in+our+house.jpg" width="221" /></a></div>A nice, quiet and calm Xmas day in our home in Torredembarra. The fire has just gone out and the house is warm and cosy. Frank is reading, Patrik is drawing and making works of art... The Xmas tree is blinking and in the middle hangs one of the angels I made in lace...<br />
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The grandchildren have been here to admire the Nativity Scene <br />
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This morning opening the doors to our terrace I got a nice Xmas present: Our red roses are beginning to bloom!. These ones have the most wonderful deep colour and a real oldfashioned roseperfume.<br />
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Afterwards he was singing all way home...<br />
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Lkväll kommer Franks barn och barnbarn hit på middag och plötsligt fick jag för mig att göra kola!<br />
Jag har sparat ett flera år gammalt urklipp från Svenska Dagbladet med julgodisrecept, där bland annat denna franska chokladkola finns med. Urklippet sitter inklistrat i min julreceptbok, men jag delar såklart gärna med mig av receptet. Gooooooood Jul!<br />
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Hacka chokladen. Koka upp socker, grädde och honung under omrörning i en tjockbottnad kastrull. Tillsätt chokladen och rör tills allt har blandats. Koka tills massan håller för kulprovet eller är 122°C. Häll ut kolan på en bakplåtspappersklädd plåt. Låt kallna i kylen och skär sedan i bitar. Vira in kolorna i cellofan.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0