november evening

november evening, originally uploaded by John Barleycorn.

Looking at this years last november evening from my balcony. Pretty nice...

a forest

snow tree, originally uploaded by John Barleycorn.

It’s always the same
I’m running towards nothing
Again and again and again and again

The Cure - A Forest (Seventeen Seconds, 1980)

the yule tree 2005

the yule tree 2005, originally uploaded by John Barleycorn.

Here it is - the Fiskis Yule Tree 2005!

the sledge premiere

the sledge premiere, originally uploaded by John Barleycorn.

Today was the official sledge premiere this season. Soon I will fly by these little hooligans in Draken Backen (Dragon Hill) and show them who's the boss.

happy birthday!

malte, originally uploaded by John Barleycorn.

Happy Birthday Malte! You're 1 year old now - excellent work my favourite little duderino!

first snow

first snow, originally uploaded by John Barleycorn.

Tonight the first snow fell over Fiskayet...

the dynamic duo

the dynamic duo, originally uploaded by John Barleycorn.

Murre the Cat and his father Moses. Moses is a well known local wild cat. Or as it looks, former wild cat.

krazy maus

maus, originally uploaded by John Barleycorn.

This little bastard ran around in my bed, bit my toes and my hair. He seemed to think he owned my room but I introduced him to Murre the Cat who showed this little rodent who's the boss. Murre 1 - Mouse 0.

deer

deer, originally uploaded by John Barleycorn.

A couple of deers came by for food.

the farm

the farm, originally uploaded by John Barleycorn.

Winter has come to the farm. It was really cold and the ground was covered by frost.

a wolf in Fiskis

a wolf in Fiskis, originally uploaded by John Barleycorn.

Yesterday a young wolf visited Fiskis. How cool is that?! But unfortunately we need to protect the wolves in Sweden from stupid, superstitious and guncrazy hillbillies. These hillbillies wants to kill every wolf, bear and lynx they can find in our huge empty forests. They claim it's because they want to protect their livestock. But that's just bullshit. If they wanted to protect their livestock they could just as well use livestock guardian dogs as the ones above. They can protect livestock against attacks from all the big predatory animals we have in Sweden. The problem is that the Swedish hillbillies shows no interest at all in these dogs. They want to kill wolves and their hunting association is very influential. The government should stop paying all these hillbillies for killed livestock as long as they refuse to use dogs for protection.
Sweden has an area of 449,964 km² and 9 million citizens, most of them living in cities. In that huge empty space called Sweden there are approximately 100 wolves. In the Carpathian Mountains there live approximately 4000 wolves. 2800 of them in Romania (22 million citizens living on 238,391 km²), 450 in Slovakia (5 million citizens living on 49,035 km²) and 250 in Poland (39 million citizens living on 312,685 km²). There are approximately 200 wolves in Estonia (1,5 million citizens living on 45,226 km²) and 2000 wolves in Spain (43 million citizens living on 504,782 km²). So the big question is - why isn't it possible to have 100 wolves living in Sweden? We should be able to have at least 500 wolves in Sweden maybe a 1000 without problems. It's sad when a wolf is safer and more welcome in Stockholm than out in the countryside.

pledge allegiance to the flag

fiskayet, originally uploaded by John Barleycorn.

This is my suggestion for a new official Fisksätra flag. The colors turned out a bit weird - but that can easily be changed... I hope...

white trash

white trash, originally uploaded by John Barleycorn.

The original Fiskayet white trash dude walking around at home wearing the ultimate ghetto fashion statement - the sweatsuit... Now I only have to buy a big f**kin' gun, a huge crazy pitbull and start pimpin' to realize my ghetto dream. And no... it's not a racist symbol on my hairy chest. I don't believe in that crap. I've seen the dangers of marrying your cousins here in Fiskayet.

fiskis autumn

fiskis autumn, originally uploaded by John Barleycorn.

More classic Fiskis autumn. Leaves everywhere!

the globe

the globe, originally uploaded by John Barleycorn.

This is the view from the water tower. You can see the Globe Arena at the horizon and Fiskis just down below.

end of halloween

end of halloween, originally uploaded by John Barleycorn.

This is where Halloween goes when it dies.

grafitti forest

grafitti forest, originally uploaded by John Barleycorn.

A nice piece of grafitti, don't you think? You'll find this place in the forest near by the water tower.

water tower

water tower, originally uploaded by John Barleycorn.

This is the Fiskis water tower.

fågelhöjden

fågelhöjden, originally uploaded by John Barleycorn.

This is Fågelhöjden - Bird Heights - the wealthy area of Fiskis. Here you'll find the Fiskis bourgeoisie. Hi diddeli do neighbourinos!

suicide bridge

the bridge, originally uploaded by John Barleycorn.

The legendary Suicide Bridge. I have heard some ghastly stories about this bridge. People throwing themselves down from it with snares around their necks. Heads lying on the ground below. This is one of the best ghost watching spots in Fiskis - you'll find loads of depressed ghosts walking around here. Especially on Halloween. Buuhuu!

autumn sun

autumn sun, originally uploaded by John Barleycorn.

The autumn sun shines through the trees.

viva phuket!

phuket, originally uploaded by John Barleycorn.

If the darkness and the cold autumn rain haven't made you depressed yet - then try my brothers and my sisters blogs. Newly updated and full of beautiful sunsets, oceans, palm trees, cold thai beer, sunshine and tropical beaches... Please, please, please take me away to Thailand... someone...

angry mike

angry, originally uploaded by John Barleycorn.

Me doin' my world famous Mikael Persbrandt impersonation. Grrrrrr.... I'm angry and I can't act!

send in the clones

clones, originally uploaded by John Barleycorn.

Isn't it rich, isn't it queer
Losing my timing this late in my career
But where are the clones - send in the clones
Well maybe next year

Stephen Sondheim