February 15, 2007 (Cytology results stating I need further treatment)

1954: My mother is born and grows up in the house my family and I are now living in. We have for the past couple of years gone out for meals for her birthday. However, this year (2007) we had shrimp, freshly baked baguette, lemon mayonnaise and a nice white wine (great food for a first date) at my parent’s house, which happens to be right next door to ours. I regret to say I forgot to flag this year. When my husband and I bought my Grandparents’ house two years ago it came with a beautiful wooden flagpole, which had been carefully tended by my grandfather. To think of it, I should really start flagging more often. I just have to remember to take the flag down by sunset or at the latest by 9 pm. If you find Swedish flag rules as interesting as I do, click here for more details (in Swedish).

Considering what I just wrote above (“in Swedish”) here’s something for you to comment on below. There is a great tool on the Internet called Babbelfish where you can translate blocks of text or Web pages from English, French, Chinese etc. into various languages and vice versa and you can generally understand the text message. However, Babbelfish does not include the most important language of all, namely Swedish, which I don’t understand. Chinese and English but not Swedish? Does anyone know of a similar tool where you can translate from Swedish (”Svenska”) to English (”Engelska”)? The closest I’ve come is an online Lexikon (Dictionary) by “Språkrådet”. However, as far as I can tell, you can only translate specific words and not blocks of text.

Written on February 28th, 2007