Valborg is celebrated in Sweden in different ways, always depending on the part of the country. Lighting large bonfires is a popular celebration in eastern parts of Sweden like in Svealand or Uppland, where people gather material for their bonfires for months ahead. Lighting bonfires is an ancient custom related to keeping away evil spirits, [...]

The Mayflower

On Tuesday the 16th of April, the selling of the Mayflower began.
The Swedish Mayflower is something you will see on many a jacket around May Day. School children go from door to door selling them, but not very many know why the Mayflower came to be.

“Wanna buy Mayflowers?!?”
This year the Mayflower celebrates 100 years. [...]

I found an interesting article that I would like to share with you all… Not going to post anything of my own today, because who knows what might happen then?!?

How Friday the 13th Works

Let’s look at this objectively for a second:

In order to organize time, human beings created calendars.
As part of [...]

Easter is when little girls in Sweden start going through their Mommies old skirts and shawls, desperately looking for something to wear…
Why, you wonder.
Well – this is sort of like Halloween for them, Easter is when they dress up as Easter witches (no pointy hats, these witches look more like little old ladies with scarfs [...]

Before we got color-TV here in Sweden, back in 1962 they had a news segment where a well known reporter said that they had installed new equipment in the TV-house. This new equipment made it possible for you to use an old black-and-white TV set and still be able to view [...]