Day 61

Work was okay today – spaghetti Bolognese for lunch.  We had little chocolate eggs to eat all day thanks to Volvo IT and had some ice cream for Fika in the afternoon (since we weren’t going to be here on Friday).

Did you know in Sweden they have ‘Easter Witches’?  I didn’t either.  As the story goes, the witches are said to fly off to ‘Blåkulla’ on Maundy Thursday and return again on the Saturday.  According to Wikipedia, Blåkulla was a legendary meadow where the Devil held his Earthly court during a witches' Sabbat and could only be reached by a magical flight.

Swedish Easter 'Witches'

As you can imagine, there are plenty of jokes made (by men) about wives/girlfriends being witches.  They go something like “Don’t forget to take your broomstick with you to Blåkulla tonight honey”… you get the idea.  Kids get into the spirit by dressing up in witch outfits and going trick or treating, just like the American’s do at Halloween.  I didn’t actually see any, but this is what I’ve been told.

I went to a music quiz night at Inferno (one of the local bars) after dinner.  It was hosted by Johan and Karl.  They played a song and teams had to answer a few questions relating to it (eg. who wrote it, what movie was it from, what year did John Lennon die).  I was in a team with Anna (one of the receptionists from work), Agnes (one of the waitresses from Två Sex Ett), and a German girl called Chrissy who’d recently moved to Sweden with her boyfriend.

We didn’t do too well, but had a great time anyway.  It was good to have another non-Swedish speaker to compare notes with!

Most of us headed out to Tages after Inferno closed.  I swear I’m getting too old for nightclubs.  Finally made it home by about 3am and was in bed before 4am.