May 21

Today it’s time to say goodbye to India and fly home!

Tony below the bougainvilleas right before our last breakfast at Lutyens guesthouse, the temperature is around 40 degrees Celsius at 9 o’clock in the morning.

The lizard slayer from the other day, here very focused on the parakeets.

The other day, the couple from Germany/Austria mentioned a missing sock. The dogs of course, they had their way with it, then left it on the lawn.

Our view from the room, time to fetch the luggage.

The cab was small, had no suspension left and was loaded with us two + 100kg luggage. Tony suspected that the clutch was gone as well. We made it to the airport in good time nevertheless, and the most important car-feature worked well, the AC!

Gandhi said फिर मिलेंगे (see you later).

Tony pays the Sikh and thanks him for the journey.

Are these elephants really cast in bronze? In Sweden, they would cost a fortune to produce!

So far smooth sailing through Indira Gandhi Airport.

At the check-in, we wonder a bit about not bringing a coconut in the luggage?! Is it likely to explode?

It’s a bit confusing with the flight information in hindi.

Joanna has a light lunch: idlis with the three sauces tomatoe, coconut and mint. This meal seemed to be the only dairy- and soy-free alternative at the airport.

This might be the warmest day we will ever encounter. Hope so anyway!

Sunshine and clouds during Asian afternoon visavi European evening.

The stewardesses are very nicely dressed at Air India, and the flight is prolongued with two hours as we have to fly south of Pakistan due to the recent tensions.

Sunset in Copenhagen at 9 in the evening Scandinavian time. In India, it is 00.30 am and we are very sleepy. We arrive home at 3 in the morning Indian time – it is 11.30 pm in Sweden.

The next day: Yes, this is a Thursday, late may, Sweden. 7,5 degrees Celsius. And our newly bought Indian carpet is out for airing.

And then, Ned, the first (ok, second…) glass of red in a month, as discussed. 🙂

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May 20

First a missing picture from yesterday evening:

Reinhold und Gudrun from Austria/Germany and Rosey from UK. We had such nice dinner talks! It turned out that Reinhold is a light scientist and Gudrun has her own scrap yard – talk about common interests!

Tony went for a walk at 7 am – before the heat hit. There were lots of people doing yoga in the parc at this time. An eagle sat watching.

After breakfast, we called our eager rikshaw-driver who had promised to get a car with AC and take us around on our last day in Delhi. We began with visiting Humayun’s tomb. It was already hot at 10 am.

Some more eagles saw when we took the mobile out to photograph them and hurried away.

We walked in the shade as soon as we could find it. Joanna is here in front of an old Banyan tree. They are considered sacred.

There it is – the elegant building of Humayun’s tomb! One of the guards insisted on taking a photograph. This is probably a good way for him to earn some extra money.

To the right is another tomb: that of Isa Khan.

Then we headed for Humayun’s large tomb, sweat running down our foreheads.

… and a marble tomb in the middle. There were only a few tourists along with ourselves at this early hour.

Then we went to a tomb that lay somewhat behind Humayun’s that was called the Barber’s. It had two smaller tombs and apparently no tourists as a lot of doves seemed to live in here, we opened it ourselves and there was obviously no cleaning as in the others.

Now sweat was also running down our necks on our backs, it was time to go inside the museum, underground.

We had bought tickets, that we had to show three times before entering the space of the first room, to which we were commanded by a female guard. To our surprise, there was an exhibition about mosaics from Rome. After this, we were allowed to enter the main hall, where it stunk of gasoline. The smell was poignant through-out the whole exhibition space and must have come from the traffic outside/above.

Enhance the images to read the texts below:

We guess this is for prayers, each string representing a prayer.

This is an old engraved piece with text, lit by a rectangular lamp.

Some old coins and an antiquity of pottery terracotta fragment.

These guys represent a day each in the week: Sunday is wearing yellow – day for kingdom matters and rewarding the nobles, Monday is for wearing white – day for musical entertainment and meeting old companions & friends, Tuesday is for wearing red, day for kingdom’s affairs and for holding court of justice, Wednesday is for wearing blue – day for musical entertainment and meeting friends, Thursday is for wearing violet – day for meeting with literary and religious persons, Friday is for wearing green – day for general assmebly and Saturday is for wearing black – again meeting with literary and religious persons.

Terracotta toy.

After the museum, we bought a big bottle of water as we had already finished our two other ones. Then our driver Rakish took us to a place called Art India, which was a large store with nice AC environment and we were the only costumers. Outside, there was a statue of Ganesha.

A statue of Ganesha is welcoming us outside.

The store had a big loom where you could see how the carpets were made. The salesman is showing Tony the certificate of authenticity, and also that the carpet is only woven by adults. No children labour here, according to him.

Without buying a carpet, we then forced our way into the crafts’ section, where there were small boxes made out of camel bone.

There were strange bindles on some of the small figures of the gods. When I asked the other salesperson, he said it was because the faces were handpainted and should not be worn of as they clean the figurines. After the profane shopping, we went to a temple were Rakish showed us around and told us about the Hindu religion. We had to leave our shoes and mobiles at the entry. There were several halls and in one, there was a man reading out prayers. It turns out they are doing this the whole day through, changing person every two hours.

Rakish then took us to a shop for spices and teas close-by. We were immediately offered a cup of masala tea. Tony bought half the store as I and Rakish were watching. They seemed to have everything and the packages of 100 g were far too small for our household.

There was also a small shrine in this shop of Lakshmi and Ganesha. Rakish told us that Lakshmi is for good fortune and Ganesha is for good luck.

Back at the tailors’ shop, Joanna’s handsewn pants and tops were ready for pick-up. This is the lady that helped out with the female clothes. Male clothes had male sales-persons, which managed to convince Tony to order more than the double amount of clothes, including a tailored suit and an over-coat.

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May 19

Today, Monday, was to be just as hot as the previous days. 42 deg (feels like 46 due to the humidity). The goal was a visit to a tailor and then some art galleries in Defence Colony recommended by Nidhi.

Our view at breakfast: The paroquets or parrots was on their best today. No flying away as soon as someone touched a camera.

Today we present the jack fruit tree, with some very impressive fruits.

At the tailors, besides some nice garments, they would really like to sell us a rug (and we really like this one). We’ll see tomorrow…

ATM, time for: find-the-Swedish-word-contest.

We had some hard time to find our first gallery, the lady didn’t know, but was very kind. Soon after though, we stumbled on to the first one: Method Art Gallery, where the gallerist had just started to pack down his latest exhibition which was a group show. Luckily for us, most of the works were still up.

This was the nice entry to the gallery which was in the basement of the building. Out walking a few minutes in the heat, and then in to the next gallery: Vaderha Art Gallery which showed a photo exhibition by photographer Vicky Roy, who photographs the less fortunate kids on the streets. There was a lot of photos of skateboarding kids as this was a social project he had followed.

Sweat was running down our foreheads and backs in the heat as we finally found the Shrine Art Gallery, which was some blocks away. There was a really nice woman showing us around and telling us about every artwork.

Anoli Perera

After some fruitless hunting for a taxi, we decided to make camp for the night behind Joanna…

…but right then came the Uber and we got home to Lutyens in time for pool duty.

Trying to keep the index finger safe and dry.

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May 18:

It was a morning of blogging and planning, and a stroll in the garden.

It’s not hard to find candidates for the daily flower in the garden, the morning walks tends to be shorter than around Spacehouse though.

Some more of the garden at Lutyens.

Even here, in central Delhi, they can grow a big portion of the veggies needed for the meals.

Joanna on her morning admin duty, shade and fan are essential.

The household cats have different goals here. It got to be a meal eventually. A so called “dödla”.
Otus (our cat) would enjoy this garden for sure!

And the dog is world champion at it! We have learned the hard way that this sign is no joke…

Tony figures that this device/vice must be meant to put the dog’s tail in, and thus be safer when slippers, phones, sunglasses etc. are put by the side during for example pool duty.

Then we went to the National Crafts Museum mainly because it was lunch time and Joanna had heard they had a great café. In the café, there was a wall that looked like it was perforated but instead there were small mirrors placed in a nice decorative way.

The metal pillars were also nicely decorated.

The lunch was delicious and Tony got some messages about his chair that is soon about to be finished.

Some squirrels were running around outside.

Then it was time for the exhibitions. The first door we passed was decorated with various Hindu gods and goddesses. We got headphones to learn a bit more about the arts and crafts works.

There will be a long line of arts and crafts sculptures and textiles here. You can enlarge the photos to see the information about them. These are wooden images of Kathakali figures of the 17th century.

Theatre artists and dancers are wearing masks that are often light weight as the characters have to move fast on stage.

A large wooden sculpture that depicts a mythological story of the serpent Kalia overcome by Krishna.

A male and female figure from Dhokra depicting warriors coming home with their catch.

This is Banjara embroidery made with cowrie shells.

A turban from Rajasthan in brocade, silk and pearls from the 20th century.

This one would have its place above the main entrance at Råå.

This fabric was made with peacock feathers.

Here is a close-uo of a fabric depicting Jesus and events from his life.

There was a band playing Indian music when we got outside again.

A woman was dancing in front of children and women. It seemed to be a children’s show.

At Lutyens bungalow again, it was time for the tantkini (auntiekini) and three swims.

Time to get in the cab for Ned and Emily. Going to the airport. The cab is here. Dog only needed a 5 second window to get one of Ned’s shoes and thinks it is time for playing.

As usual, dog is very agile and evades all attempts at catching it…

…but Emily got some snacks which did the trick. And off they went. See you later!

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May 17

We are now in Delhi at Lutyens bungalow guesthouse and it is already above 30 degrees Celsius at 8 am in the morning. It turned out that both the Campbells and the Petersson/Thedes where recommended this same place, in the biggest city on earth, from different autonomous people (thanks Nidhi!).
Crazy coincidence!

We are checking out the pool area for the afternoon.

The greenery and flowers along with the heat reminds Joanna of Tanzania where she lived as a child with her family.

After breakfast, we are off to find a pharmacy for Tony. On the first crossroad, there was some kind of monument with the three monkeys holding their ears, their eyes and their mouth. Tony says there are now four monkeys.

When we arrived at Khan market, it was closed. A very eager autorikshaw-driver took us to an open pharmacy near-by.

Here we blended in perfectly (not!) with the locals.

… with Lakshmi and Ganesha, the Hindu god with the elephant head. Lakshmi is the goddess of wealth, good fortune, happiness, youth, and beauty. She is the wife of Vishnu, the god that sustains the universe.

Then our excellent rikshaw-driver and guide for the morning took us to a fantastic textile shop where they also made hand-made tailored clothes. Tony got really excited and ordered a pair of shorts and two shirts while Joanna ordered one blouse out of the material above.

Then the great sales-man dressed Tony up in an Indian costume with a caftane and a vest which fitted him perfectly. Those trousers and the caftane were immediately bought too.

After a nice lunch, also at the suggestion of the rikshaw-driver, we went to a tailor that Emily and Ned was at ordering their clothes. He proudly told us that everything in the shop – except for the fabric – was recycled, including the handles to the door.

There was a wooden carved painting above a lot of fabrics…

The tailor also had a shrine above the electrical outlets.

Then we had a heated walk to the nearest post office…

… where they had six big fans in the ceiling. Still it was so hot that it felt like 45 degrees Celsius.

On the way with the cab with AC, we saw a lot of wall paintings of which this was one of the least elaborate ones.

Afternoon and Emily relaxes for a moment, Ned reports for…

After pool duty, finger wrapped in a plastic bag, Tony got a chance to re-dress the wounded index finger with the newly acquired pharmacy-stuff. It seemed to have closed up nicely thanks to the stitches!

After all the hard work in the pool, off again for a short excursion and some coffee with old friends from the past 3 weeks. Notice the synchronized posing!

Nice tree with both white and pink flowers of Bouganvilleas. Reminds of the combined Rose/Hawthorne in our garden at home.

In the late afternoon, we met up with Nidhi and Abhishek at a really nice café across the Nature Morte Gallery in Chhattapur. It was really nice to meet up again, and it felt like a week ago already although it had only been a day since we last saw each other.

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May 16

Today was the day we left Spacehouse, except for Hannelie who would get a lift with Priti on the 18th.

This is the last morning stroll in the Himalayas, after breakfast we depart towards Delhi. Tony and Nidhi are trying to find the rest of the company who went away a little earlier. Dog was of little help in the tracking part.

Eventually we found them, engaged in shooting pictures for the web site.

…Priti did her part, modeling, with great skill!

Magnolias are on the way, figs as well.

Nidhi says goodbye to her beloved kafal tree – Myrica Esculenta.

Ghanshyam and Ranjeed has taken control of the chair

Dog says goodbye as we pass the gate of the Spacehouse for the last time this visit. Hopefully we will pass again in the future!

Downhill towards the road and the awaiting vehicles that will take us down the mountain to the rail station in Kathgodam/Haldwani. About a 3 hr rollercoaster in front of us!

We rolled into Kathgodam in good condition and refueled at the same restaurant as three weeks earlier.

The temperature was significantly higher in Kathgodam, even the dogs took what shelter they could during midday…

We were settled on the train which had a pleasant AC-temperature and started the 6 hr ride to Delhi, ETA 21:00. Abhishek is ordering food on the train, where they have a whole wagon dedicated to the cooking of this food. This is why it is called IRCTC according to Emily: India Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation.

Dinner time!
Emily and Ned had taken the train before, and advised on a nice feature. You could order dinner from restaurants in towns where the train stopped, and it would be brought on the train. We tried this, and it worked perfectly!

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May 15

Today is our last working day and Joanna has been crocheting these organic forms in the finer fishing line and crochet-hook the past days. They are about the sizes of oranges.

At Priti’s, this still life will remain on the table in our bedroom: the small sculptures are in the shapes of an egg, a cocoon and a minimal flying saucer.

Today’s bird looks like a crow. Anyway, keeping the mosquitos at bay this the last working day before departure to Delhi.

In the afternoon, Hannelie was preparing for her work next week in Johannesburg by the computer, in the midst of all her drawings of the langurs made out in nature of the subjects on pages of old books.

Emily was squeezing lemons for her lemon cake for the evening’s pizza party.

The “hawk-eyed” among y’all might notice the bandage on Tonys’ left index, more on that later. Anyway, the chair is now officially deemed impossible to complete before departure and Tony is joined this last full workday by the local carpenter Ranjeet who is very skilled in carpentry and will complete the chair.

Tony and Ghanshyam talk about the last amendments, as Ghanshyam is speaking English and can tell Ranjeet who has gone home for the day.

In the evening, we had an open fire, awaiting the pizzas that were about to get loaded into the oven, and sat outside in the warm evening. The doctors Robert and Peilin were visiting, as well as doctors Sushil and his family a bit later.

The razor-edge-chisel vs left index resulted in a need for stitching and by pure luck and a little co-planning by Joanna and Priti, the amazing doctors had brought all the necessities for this small operation. Clearly an act of some higher being to coincide these two events at the same day.

Sensitive viewers are advised to skip this video…

Some time just right after the stitching, we began Open Studios with Ned showing us his work. Here he talks about the brightly painted houses in the surroundings which have been translated into colourful circles in this painting.

Emily tells us about her quilts and shows us the big mango here.

This photo is taken by Abhishek from the balcony of us all chilling out after having pizzas and desserts.

After dinner, we went to experience the rest of the art works. Here we are watching Nidhi’s paintings which have been painted partly in silver leafs that will slowly oxidize and turn into blue over time and gold leafs that will stay golden.

Nidhi usually visits places and stays for a while to get to know and paint the different local plants.

Here is a larger painting of the Kafal tree, also partly in silver and gold and that actually folds into a book. The berries which we have had many times as mini-desserts.

Here we are in the library watching Hannelie’s monkeys, while we also got to know a bit more about her participatory environmental large-scale works.

Sushil and his wife Sima together with their daughter are having a closer look. And tomorrow, most of us are leaving for Delhi!

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May 14

Some trees on the morning walk, with some modifications the first one could be used for just sitting and reading a book. Reminds of one of the apple trees at home.

Lots of slate at a building site in the woods, the question “Why don’t we have a snooker table at home?” comes to mind.

It is really hot and sunny today, 30 degrees in the shade, so we are all finding nice shady places to sit in. Here Priti and Ned are writing Ned’s name in Hindi.

Nidhi is checking out her latest dying project on silk.

Joanna has begun crocheting small organic forms of the fishing line that is left, which is the one of 0.45 mm.

The chair has gotten 4 legs today! And Bella is hanging out with us in the shady woodshop.

The armrest resawn down the middle to form the left and right side. The aim was to get some kind of mirrored grain pattern, but the saw kerf was a bit too wide + plaining –> not really the expected effect, but nice pattern nevertheless.

In the evening light, Abishek is again coming to photograph us in the woodshop.

Then we met up at the balcony to have a beer and a chat before dinner. Here is the mango blouse that Emily made for Hannelie to mend a hole in the front. It’s looking really good!

We watched the sunset from the balcony, Tony planning our last working day tomorrow.

After dinner, Priti had a surprise in mind. This jar had made up its mind though. The somewhat shaky handling of the camera is simply due to the fact that the handler almost blew an artery 30 seconds before, trying to open it. A minute later, another, more obedient, jar was found. And we tried out a delicious Himalayan-raspberry-liqueur. Yummy!

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May 13

Today, Tuesday, was a warm and sunny working day and the area for sun bathing was exemplarily empty.

We got another peek at the distant high peaks in the morning.

Bella the dog accompanied Joanna whereever she would find shade outside to crochet.

After lunch, we installed Joanna’s small cloud in our bedroom.

The small cloud is made with approximately 687 metres of crocheted fishing line, width 1 mm.

Something lathe-ish was needed to round the legs at the tenon. 3 G-clamps and a power drill came to rescue the day.

Here the 4th leg is being resawed. Tomorrow is sticks, crest and armrest-day.

At sunset, Priti and Abhishek arrived and we sat outside chatting before dinner.

It was a warm and summery evening and we got to see the nice light design on the outside of Spacehouse.

Thank you, Deep, for the delicious food, the wonderful chikki that goes so well with the mint tea, and for taking this picture!

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May 12

Today, we had a full working day.

Joanna photographed two objects in the shapes of cocoon and egg before the cocoon was dismantled.

For Tony, today was leg day. During this part of the process, drilling the holes for the legs, there was a loud voice in Tony’s head, screaming “DO NOT FAIL HERE”.
It turned out pretty good, though.

Some plane and rasp work later, there was a leg. From a scrap piece from the seat material.

The mission to find enough straight-grained pieces of red cedar to get the 4 legs.

But only three was found. The first one may have to be included. We shall see…

Ned and Joanna helped Nidhi to make pakoras, so we know how to do them at home! Here we used aubergine and chick pea flour, and freshly picked mint from the garden for the chutney.

Here Nidhi is frying the pakoras in mustard oil.

For four o’clock tea, we had pakoras and paneers with a nice homemade chutney of tomatoes and garlic.

A small heart on the wall where we just had pakoras.

After the pakoras, we again went down to the workspace.

Tony is plaining the second leg, while the cat Loulou is watching.

Not afraid of sharp objects, perfect assistant, Tony is trying to teach the cat to take care of all of the mosquitos that likes to terrorise any human who dares enter the woodshop.

Holes in the balcony roof lets the inhabitants look att the sky and the stars from the bed.

Joanna by the main entrance to Spacehouse.

It was such a nice weather the whole day, warm and breezy. We had a beautiful sunset too.

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May 11

Today, it has been raining a lot.

Tony scrutinised the glue line. 5 pankoras of 5 possible. Then some light scrubbing.

As the staff was off as it is Sunday, it was Tony’s pancakes for lunch!

In the afternoon, we were invited to Pradeep and Shubah where Emily was to hold a quilting lesson for local women. We passed this building on the way, which seemed to be a school according to the painting on the wall.

At Pradeep’s and Shubah’s, Emily started out by showing the ladies the two quilts she has done while at Spacehouse. Here is the tulip…

She then showed the women how she makes the stitching for the quilts.

Most of the ladies have been crocheting before, as many of them make socks, toys and other stuff for the Aarohi Nature Shop, but never quilting. Except Gita, who was quilting already when we arrived.

Here Emily is praising the nice stitches made by Jankie who was selling products at the shop when we were there earlier last week.

Pradeep invited us in to see his and Shubah’s home. Note the small Ganesha relief figure on the wall.

This house is called Dak bungalow and was built in 1905 by the British. Pradeep and Shubah bought it when it was completely dilapidated and renovated it all. They are now renting it out to people who want to visit the region.

Here is a window part that has been nicely renovated after people had been stripping it from its windows before Pradeep and Shubah came here.

Then we had some black and chai tea by the beautiful flowers. In the background, there is a big horse chestnut tree under which the British used to have gatherings.

Rema is having one of the Bun aloo patties that Shubah and Pradeep made for us. It was a kind of vegan burger with a potato patty and some tomato salsa salad that was delicious!

Above Shubahs head is a nice painting of Ganesha.

Pradeep is sometimes making embroideries, he told us. And showed us some coasters he made during the past five years.

Homewards again to Spacehouse with Sanjay the taxi driver, Kishan was waiting for us with umbrellas at the bottom om the climbing path uphill! After huffing and puffing some more (Joanna), we saw that Tony’s seat was beginning to assume its final shape.

Hannelie suddenly shouted out and came running past the workshop studio where Tony makes his chair. She had finally spotted the snowy mountains in the distance.

We were all quite excited as we could finally distinguish them from afar. Tony got the big objective out while Hannelie came back from the house with some sundowners.

Although the mobile camera doesn’t make it any justice, we were all quite happy to have spotted the snowy mountains.

Yeah, the big objective came a little closer, but the handler clearly need some lessons in
evening-mountain-photography. Hopefully the clear weather stays on until tomorrow, then those 7-8k peaks, about 80-100k to the east of us will be fully captured.

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May 10

We have learnt that the bird with the coiffure is called “bulbul” aka Bulbyler (Pycnonotidae). Here the bulbul is having a meal while chirping in a bush right beside the porch.

Today, Joanna continued with her netting in the pomegranate tree while Tony went to the village Mona to get some beer together with Ned and Emily.

Ok, so the “getting beer” comment above was of course just a small, small, added benefit as we happened to pass close to the booze-shop on our walk. Here a strange dead tree that had burnt but for its top 50cm.

This holy cow had a look down on the road as we passed. We were granted passage. Tiny temple outside the (cow’s?) house.

Off the main road again, we might have figured out that this “impossible” pedestrian crossing is in fact not that, but rather a warning about the crossroad ahead?

Emily and Ned performing acrobatics at the outdoor gym.

Today’s flower is big and yellow, just before entering town (Mona). A nice man explained that it was called Night Queen, and that it actually both unfolds and glows in the dark.

Suddenly Emily found herself behind bars, but Ned knew what to do!

Mule or donkey, not sure, but either way, it seemed utterly unbothered by the massive load of gravel on its back.

Bicycle garage in town. Serious-looking fellow makes sure they are safe.

Back to Spacehouse, here Hannelie in her studio – the Spacehouse library – where she puts up all the monkey drawings she makes outside from life in the mornings while the rest of us are sleeping.

Today was also the day when we had a scheduled zoom meeting with the architect of Spacehouse Inger Thede. She told us a lot about the planning of the house, the adaptation of the building to the surroundings and the local building processes.

It turns out that the largest glasses for the kitchen window to the north were planned according to what a pack mule could carry uphill! They are opening up for the view of the largest mountain, that we still haven’t seen through the haze since we arrived two weeks ago.

The whole afternoon, Tony was busy with his chair.

The floating tenons are glued in one of the pieces, now marking up where to chisel out mortises on the other one.

Chopping with a hammer quickly became unbearable, hence a rapidly produced mallet from two scrap pieces of pine and red cedar. It worked like a dream.

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May 9

Ned had found some thick window panes down in the wood workshop.

Ned is scrubbing the glass panes free from dirt.

We made some cyanotypes in the sun with the glass panes. Here is one of Joanna’s trash braids, with trash collected from the steep hill-climb. First the watercolour papers are covered in light-sensitive emulsion, then the papers are put outside with things on them, after which the emulsion starts to change in the sunlight.

… et voilà, the patterns emerges with blue background as you rinse the papers in water to stop the transformation on it.

Here is one of Ned’s fern cyanotype – and one of the local spiders kept watch and made sure the paper was fully submerged.

Another of the Spacehouse inhabitants took post on one of Tony’s G-clamps to assist in the glue-up of the two seat pieces.

Yeah, still some ridges to take care of to get a nice glue joint.

Planing the face of the second seat piece. The curved iron converts the no.4 smother to a scrub plane and takes care of 90% of the material to be removed in just minutes.

The three available G-clamps can be quite versatile.

The plan is to use two of the G-clamps to glue the two seat pieces. There is a 0,1 mm gap in the middle of the glue line, so the theory is that one clamp on each side in the middle should do it. We shall see tomorrow…

To be on the safer side and since the local white glue is untested, two floating tenons will be incorporated. Plan A was routing (to the right, fail), plan B chiseling the mortise, both 6 and 12mm on the test piece. 6mm it is!

There was an excellent sunset as we were having cocktails on the veranda. The sun became a lively bright orange dot against the grey cloud.

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May 8

Lovely morning again, warm and sunny, the forecast promised rain after lunch though, so again an early walk.

Today’s flower is Digitalis or fingerborgsblomma in Swedish.

Some words of wisdom suddenly appeared. Good advise!

We found a present in the woods. It took some willpower to master the curiosity, but no, we didn’t open it!

Joanna havig a breather before re-entering the Spacehouse premises.

Actually looking down on the clouds above the valley.

Some coffee + figuring out grain-direction-preferences regarding the seat part.

It turns out that the shed where the board-to-be-seat spent its night allowed some of yesterday’s heavy Himalayan rain to trickle in just above the board’s location. No worries though, it only took 15 minutes in the morning sun to dry and vanish.

No canine company at the wood shed today meant that the cat had free reign and wanted to participate in everything.

Nidhi is busy at the computer this morning.

Emily has already sewed the whole tulip.

Sometimes a painter Ne(e)d to muster all available body strength into the strokes. Ned finally got the right conditions to try out that northern view.

After lunch, we went for a trip to the bee keepers house, Nidhi, Ned, Hannelie and Joanna. Joanna was grateful to be in the front seat on the serpentine roads. We were driven by Sanjay, who is an excellent driver.

It was quite rainy so some of the roads had water holes that Sanjay drove carefully through..

We first went to the neighbours’ house by mistake.

As the rain got heavier, we huddled in a space on the first floor where they kept a lot of potatoes and tomatoes.

A dog kept barking on the second floor, until a nice lady came out and talked Hindi to Nidhi.

Another woman came out barefoot in the rain and showed us that they, too, had bees in the walls of the house next door to theirs. The flower relief is actually such a hole for the bees.

After a five minutes walk, we arrived at the right house and were offered some chai tea by the bee keeping woman.

Here we sit on the porch, waiting for the rain to stop.

On the back of their house, they had three holes in the wall where bees flew in and out.

They also had an extra house for rent, also with a lovely view.

We then headed back with Sanjay, who has batman on the back of his car. He showed us some nice shops where we could buy local crafts and textiles.

Nidhi bought some maggies (noodles) for tea. Here she is perfecly matched with the gate to the store.

Joanna got to buy spices, tea and beans in the local stores.

For dinner, there was served some nice dal – lentille soup with rice and chicken.

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May 7

It’s nice and sunny this morning. Today’s morning walk is pre-breakfast and it is reassuring to begin with confirming that the work space is ready and waiting for yet another work day.

Below two videos of part of the local monkey gang going about their daily business.

After breakfast, it is time for Tony to find the right pieces in the wood pile, pieces that suits the templates for the various parts of the chair. Joanna is sourcing sticks of bamboo for her creations and one of the dogs is helping out by securing the perimeter regarding cats.

Some promising pieces was selected and Tony started to chisel away.

Benji the dog is keeping Hannelie company while she is making the fire to cook some more ink.

It starts to rain just when Hannelie is lighting the fire. In the pot, the oak leaves are being cooked.

Ned is deeply concentrated while his paintings are resting.

Emliy is busy making quilt number 2 – the tulip.

Today we will test if the sauna in Himalaya is up to par. 5 more minutes, the it’s time to enter.

Tony explained the importance of keeping the fluid balance in the body in check whilst in the sauna. Hence we took precautions!

Ned had the important duty of watering the heating unit in the sauna. This was carried out to perfection. The sauna in the Spacehouse get full marks! 5 out of 5!

Hannelie is having one of the delicious peanut cracky snacks after dinner while Ned is helping himself to several more.

Nidhi is wearing a bindi – a small red spot on the forehead – tonight, looking good!

There is some kind of bird that starts making this sound at 20:30 sharp every evening, when it is dark, and keeps going until about 4 in the morning. Tirelessly… There is a glimpse of it as it flies away when Tony gets too close.

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May 6

It’s Tuesday and time for a casual stroll in the woods, post-breakfast today.

The glades in the woods are absolutely buzzing with bees, fake-bees, butterflies and of course, mosquitos.

Those two we recognise. Feels just like home…

And look at that, wild strawberries! (Smultron)

Wild apples perhaps? Maybe we’ll plant one at home for fun.

Ok, it’s getting denser… “Hey, isn’t this kind of vegetation the favorite kind for leopards?”
– Yeah, time to backtrack!

At that moment, it sounded like something big approached, but it was our old friend, the neighbours’ dog, Benji.

And then he led the way (press play).

Those huge carvings in the pine trees are quite common, our theory is that the locals harvest resin.

Didn’t someone mention the other day that a Braai could be on the table…

Before her second breakfast that usually happens at noon, Joanna was kept company by Benji while making her egg of crocheted fishing line.

Tony is quite satisfied with the completion of these! Winding sticks, square, 45deg shooting board, 90deg shooting board. More scrap teak, wonderful wood to work with!

Simple jig for making tetragonal (4) –> octagonal (8) –> hexadekagonal (16).
From there, some quick sanding or scraping and the dowel/stick is round!

A new dog from the same neighbour kept us company a bit later – Bella. Apparently, Benji told them all to keep an eye on those Scandinavians as they seem helpless outside the fence.

Here Bella is making sure the very small cat is not posing a threat to the Scandis, while the cat is watching her back. Can you see it in the grass?

Ghanshyam – the main project leader for everything happening at Spacehouse – is always there to assist us and is here heading home for the day. Thank you, Ghanshyam, we are very grateful!

It’s good to have varying views when making the egg. In between, there were also some trash braids being made.

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May 5

After breakfast, Tony stayed at Spacehouse working on his mini-workbench.

The vice is now “perfected”, some scrap pieces of wood + two G-clamps. It holds the pieces surprisingly well. Jigs can now be manufactured for making the various pieces of a chair.

Joanna went for a walk with Hannelie to the nearest shop some 300 metres to the left once you reach the road downhill.

It’s called Aarohi Nature Shop and they sell soaps, juices, spices, handknitted socks and toys that are all made in the region by locals.

By coincidence, we met a couple who turned out to be working friends and each had a residency at the Aarohi house just beside the shop. Chinmen and Adete told us they were working for the organisation Aarohi that had actually initiated The Nature Shop and educated local people to make the nice ecological merchandise for sale. The organisation had been running for 30 years in different parts of the country.

We passed a beautiful roof on our way back.

We passed a few more houses before ascending to Spacehouse again.

In the afternoon, Joanna found yet another great spot to be sitting while crocheting, on a comfy chair on the porch near the pomegranate tree.

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May 4

Sunday morning started with a semi-early, pre-breakfast walk in the vicinity.

*Myrica esculenta* – Kaphal – Himalayan Bayberry.
A delicious little berry that grows in abundance in the woods in these parts.

*Rubus Elipticus* – Hinsalu – Yellow Himalayan Raspberry.
This one does as well, everywhere.

*Callerebia nirmala* – Common Argus.
There are lots of butterflies here as well. And finally here was one that waited for me to get ready.

Breakfast was served at 10 today Sunday and consisted of egg curry with rise – yummie!

After the feeding, time to work! This is a smaller porch just outside of our bedroom that has a nice shade before noon.

Contraption brought from Sweden to assist in this very specialised working process with a 1 kg spool of fishing line of 1 mm.

This is the smaller stuff – crocheted fishing line of 0.45 mm.

Joanna’s first art work was installed in the pomegranate tree and has the working title “Triangular thoughts for a Tree”.

It started raining again at noon so Joanna was working inside the whole afternoon, finding a spot in the hallway.

As it is Sunday, we make our own food and here are Nidhis delicious pakoras.
Ned will be making these next Sunday too, supervised by Nidhi. Tony will try to be around and learn the secrets behind those small marvels.

Nidhi and Tony was then making dinner, as the two chickens had finally arrived. Meat for the first time in more than a week!

Waiting for the chicken to be done, the rain stopped, the sun was setting and layers of mountains in the fog presented a different sense of distance

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May 3

After a couple of days talking about hiking to the nearest town to get some stuff (beer) it suddenly was Saturday, and time to execute for Tony, Ned and Hannelie, about 3km was the estimated distance… The rest of us stayed in Spacehouse and worked.

The stretch into town began with following a trail up on the fringe.

After a while we descended and joined the main road. Ned calculated the amount of payload he could muster in the bag on the way home.

Pine trees can evidently grow on pure rock.

Time to get of the main road, 2km to go.

The Indian thistles look much more serious than their Scandi-cousins.

About when we expected to reach town, this outdoor gym appeared. We decided to hang around for a while.

In town, Tony got to focused on the shopping and totally forgot about taking pictures. Hannelie got the brilliant idea that we should take a cab back. It was hot and the walk downhill with empty bags took about 1:30h and we could hear the thunder getting closer.

This is the view to the north of our studio space where we were working during the afternoon.

Joanna contemplating how to integrate her art piece with the pomegranate tree.

In the evening, it started raining and nature seemed happy.

Tony got stuck in the wood shop for a while.

Even here, the only beer available in the shop today, Danish… Well, made in India but tasted just like the ones at home! Drinks were served on the veranda, the party has started!

It cleared a bit and we could se some extra mountains in the distance.

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May 2

This morning, Tony was up at 6 o’clock and had a moment of bonding with Benji on the porch.

Ned was curious about the Hindi-way of writing his name. Nidhi had a masterclass in “Ned-writing”.

After lunch it is all about labour. Emily is quilting on her big mango.

It became apparent that ink supply was running low. The shortage was acute.

Hannelie and Nidhi are up to the task of cooking ink from oak leaves, scrap iron, vinegar and water.

interesting little fireplace on the lawn.

Tony is contemplating getting blog updated.

Friday is cake & pizza day. Earlier in the week, Emily mentioned the possibility of her making a mulberry cake. We all kept reminding her during the following days.

Hence Mulberry cake a’la’ Spacehouse-Special-Dairyfree-Multinut. Baked in a portable wood-fired pizza oven. It was delicious!

Lomit and Deep taking over after cake-baking and they created some of the best pizzas we have ever had!

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May 1

Today it was much cooler weather and we had to change to jeans while working outside.

A small bird flew straight into the large kitchen window and sat for a long time recovering on the porch. Let’s hope the cat didn’t get to it!

Developing in the works, halfway up the mountain.
Tony’s time today (up the hill) 07:20, still improving.

A new kind of monkey suddenly appears, Langur.

Nidhi with the neighbours’ dog called Benji, just like our son’s cousin!

Hannelie documenting her gathered material.

The trick is to be able to secure a piece in such ways that you can work on all three dimensions.

The sun sets around seven, just when our dinner is being served by Lomit who makes absolutely delicious food for us: dahl, aloo, burritos, pasta with tomato sauce and rosted potatoes, are just some of the meals we have had so far this week.

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April 30

On the Wednesday, our studio space / wood workshop was ready for us(e)! Here Tony has just moved in with his stuff and is trying out the “extension cord” borrowed from the wooden supply guy.

The workspace doubles as coriander drying space.

Here are 3 of 4 of our artist colleagues: Ned from Boston/London, Nidhi from Delhi and Hannelie from Johannesburg. We all went for a walk down the steep hill together today.

Some of us went the shorter way down – 3/4 of the path and up again where we had to puff.

Others went the whole way to the closest village to go shopping for some drinks (Hannelie by foot) and a saw (Tony by scooter driver).

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April 29

The next morning, Tony had decided that he will walk down and then time the way up the very steep path to the house every day for exercise purposes.
27th: 09:20
28th: 08:12
29th: 07:35

Joanna started yesterday with tagging along a fourth of the way and today a third for practice.

On the way down, there are some beautiful flowers that are grown on the property.

Mini succulents planted in a large tree stump.

Suddenly, we came off a bend and took a couple of monkeys by surprise. One of them climbed casually up the nearest tree and went back to eating. They seem not to be shy or afraid of people at all.

After having huffed and puffed all of the way up (Tony) / one fourth of the way up (Joanna), we had a rest and Tony got his book of 1,7 kilos. “The Anarchist’s Designbook” it’s all about furniture making, with hand tools and also Tony’s bible for this part of the journey. This book was about to cost us 2100 rupies in the check-in desk to the domestic flight some days earlier, as the main luggage was overweight with 2 kilos. But when Tony took it out and put it in his hand luggage, miraculously all extra charges disappeared.

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April 28

On Monday – our first working day – we started out with a walk in the woods with our colleague Nidhi, who showed us plants and berries. There was a light scent of a fire somewhere in the vincinity.

Huge pine trees with giant cones and pine needles filling the ground.

Rubus Ellipticus – Yellow Himalayan Raspberry – grow everywhere here, in the wild, and tastes just like our own Swedish “hallon” – yummy!

We then visited the wood supply with the supply master who helped Joanna sand the first pieces of small wooden cube. Tony went drewling when he saw all the giant pile of exotic wood varieties.

After yet another meal, it was time to start hands-on. As the wood workshop was not yet finished, our working space of the first day became the large marble table out front with the fantastic view and a nice shade. It was probably about 25-28 degrees Celsius in the shade.

With no patience to spare, Tony started setting up a small temporary wood shop in a shady corner of the garden. Doubling as monkey guard as this was their main entry point into the garden –> veggies!

Tony realised that he should have sacrificed even more clothes and instead brought a couple of clamps, but we shall make it work.

Very big butterfly flew by where Joanna was crocheting fishingline.

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April 27

After this first night in the Spacehouse, we (Tony) woke up early and finally got to see the house, surroundings and a sample of local wildlife.
Spacehouse Himalayas is designed by Joannas mother Inger – Swedish architect.

Here’s the gate to the property.

Our bedroom is here, on the ground floor to the right.

Behind the large windows is the kitchen/dinner place.

Our colleagues have rooms on the second floor with the balcony outside where you can see the stars through the holes in the ceiling.

As we had an afternoon siesta, some of the local wildlife decided to welcome us too!

It turned out though, that their main purpose was grabbing veggies from the garden and the gardener was soon trying to chase them off by barking loudly.

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April 26th

The time for changing airports from international to domestic became an adventure without strolling and shopping opportunities. Joanna didn’t even have the time to get a proper lunch! But we managed to catch the plane eastward to Pantnagar, where we were met by Mukesh who’s an excellent driver and took us the 80 km to our final destination which we thought would take 2,5 hours. The ride was really like entering a movie with very varying scenery. After 30 minutes, we passed Lalkuan (in the video).

The road was still straight and stayed like that for another 45 minutes. We tried to figure out when to honk at other vehicles and it seemed to be a lot of different reasons. We drove road 109 until Bhimtal where Mr Monkey greeted us by the big lake to the right of the road. Then it became really winding and we started the climb towards just below 2000 metres.

Instead of the assumed one hour to go, it turned out to be two remaining hours of intense serpentine roads to take us the last 20 km linear distance. Well planned, Joanna had grabbed two of those on the domestic flight which managed to be kept unused despite all. But we are saving them for the return trip!

Almost at our end station, we saw a fire that Tony thinks was wild and Joanna thinks was controlled.

Finally out of the car, it became darker and darker and still remained a 300 metres’ steep walk up to Spacehouse to take us the last 100 height metres. This final effort presented a huge challenge, even though we got swift help with the big bags, Kishan and his friend took one each, on their heads and ran effortlessly up the mountain. Tony and Joanna, with our handluggage (10 kg each) huffed and puffed our way up. It took about 20 minutes. Finally up at the destination it was already Saturday evening and we were warmly welcomed by our co-inhabitants Ned, Emily and Nidhi and a really nice indian meal cooked by Lomit. We also immediately broke our promise to not eat salad or drink water from the tap. Once here it felt totally safe!

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April 25th 2025

Here we go! Råå – Copenhagen – Delhi – Pantnagar – Village Satoli – Spacehouse Himalayas

We have been invited by Priti Rao to spend three weeks of art residency in her lovely Indian mountain home – Spacehouse Himalayas. After months of preparations with vaccines and several visa applications, Tony decided to pack only tools and almost no clothes, as we would have about 5 hours on Delhi airport to shop clothes and rest.

Though during our flight from Copenhagen, Pakistan closed their air space for all Indian air lines, so the journey suddenly became 3 hours longer.

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Catalogue “Reflections of Moments”

My new art catalogue “Reflections of Moments” was released in October 2023 at our studio association HKP – Helsingborgs konstproduktion in Helsingborg. It consists of art works from the past 25 years in 72 pages.

The design is made by Andreas Nordström and photographers are Maja Kristin Nylander, Cecilia Sering and Anna Bokström, among others. The catalogue is printed by Mixi Print in Olofström and bound by Förlagshuset Nordens Grafiska in Malmö, Sweden. There is a reflective surface inside the front and back cover which are glued by hand.

Please send an email if you would like to buy one! The cost is 200 SKR and the postage cost is 72 SKR.

Speaker at Östra Göinge Light Symposium, February 5th

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Self Portrait with Frame

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Blistering Number One

Blistering Number One – sound piece by Blister Sister Leif Holmstrand within the project Recollections.

Blister Sisters våren 2015 – planering

Klänningsmakande i Helles ateljé: Norra Grängesbergsgatan 4

Inbokade dagar – kl 10-16

Blisterfredag den 6 februari

Blisterfredag flyttad till onsdagen (OBS!) den 11 februari

Blisterfredag den 20 februari (sportlov för skolor)

Blisterfredag den 27 februari

+ Blistervecka måndag den 2 mars – fredag den 6 mars

Preliminär performance-planering

Torsdagen den 28 maj 2015 på Inter Arts Center – Chokladfabriken i Malmö

Perioden tisdagen den 17 november – måndagen den 30 november WIP:konsthall – Årsta i Stockholm

Övrigt

Svar från Galleri Syster i Luleå avvaktas – vykort skickat i slutet av januari

Joanna följer upp kontakt med Torbjörn Steiner m.fl. inblandade i Konstepidemien för ev performance i Göteborg

Recollections: Blister Sisters

BLISTER SISTERS is a collaborational art project between designer Helle Robertson, artist/writer/musician Leif Holmstrand and Joanna Thede. During 2014 we will investigate the material of emptied blister medicine packages and turn them into lamps, clothes, jewelry, images, sound pieces and performance art.

Blister Sisters is a part of the series Recollections which is supported by The Swedish Arts Grant’s Committee.

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3rd Workshop – June 17th @ Leif’s apartment in Malmö, Sweden

Present: Leif Holmstrand, Helle Robertsson, Ia Neümuller, and Joanna Thede

The third workshop of Blister Sister’s resulted in a lot of planning, coffee drinking and sewing. The art video “Recollection Collection” is made by Leif Holmstrand.

Photos from workshop 3:

Photo: Helle Robertson

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#2:

“IN AND OUT OF ORDER

aka

WHERE DID ALL THE SYRINGES END UP?”

2nd Workshop – June @ Leif’s studio in Malmö, Sweden

Present: Leif Holmstrand, Helle Robertsson, Ia Neümuller, and Joanna Thede

Images from workshop 2 below:

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#1:

“THE BLISS OF SPREADING HORMONES ALL OVER LEIF’S STUDIO

aka

WHAT THE DEPP DOES TO OUR NETHER PARTS”

1st Workshop – May 22nd @ Leif’s studio in Malmö, Sweden

Present: Leif Holmstrand, Helle Robertsson, Ia Neümuller, and Joanna Thede

Sound piece “Blistering number one” by Leif Holmstrand:

https://soundcloud.com/leif-holmstrand/blistering-number-one-by-blister-sisters

Images from workshop 1 below:

SKOLANS DAG – RÅÅ SÖDRA SKOLA

LÖRDAGEN DEN 17 MAJ 2014 kl 13-17

Välkommen till infosidan för Skolans dag 2014! – Tillsammans gör vi denna dag minnesvärd och rolig för eleverna på Råå Södra skola.

En film om Skolans dag 2014 håller på att spelas in och kommer delvis att visas under lördagen den 17 maj. Den säljs under dagen och levereras efteråt när den är helt klar. Hör av er till Thomas Merlöv när ni bygger lådbilar / bakar kakor / med mera, för att vara med i förberedelsestadiet i filmen! Han nås på tm@raatec.com eller på mobil 070 – 929 90 99.

Här nedan följer sammanställningar över aktiviteter och vad vi redan fått in i form av donationer och sponsring. Alla bidrar på sitt sätt.

Klassaktiviteter

Ansvarig klass	Aktivitet	Sponsring ordnad	Kommentar
F-klass	Burkpyramid	Nej – behövs vinster?	Burkar samlas av klassfamiljerna. Behövs vinster?
	Fiskedamm	Japp!	Tyg ordnas av Emma Åsard – . Vinst var gång – gärna godis?
1:or	Femkamp	Nej – behövs vinster?	Biljetter till femkamp säljs. Ola, ordförande i skolföreningen har innebandymål och dummymålvakt. 1 låda gelégrodor från ICA Maxi!
2:an	Spikbräda	Ja	Sponsring ordnas via Siw Elke-van-Herden – 5:an. *
	Café	På gång	Se nedan**
3:an	Gräddbullstävling	Ja	324 gräddbullar ordnade genom Marcus Bällgren. 1:a vinst för barn 1 st värde 2 spel från Laserdome.
	Kaklotteriet	Ja	Samtliga familjer på skolan bakar 2 kakor var till lotteriet.
4:an	Kokning korv med bröd	På gång	Korv o bröd Lindells chark+Korvbröd Bagarn – 5 flaskor ketchup/senap ICA
	Ubåtsjakten	Ja	Tobbe är med
5:an	Lådbilsrally	Ja	Pokaler + 3 fribiljetter från Råå minigolf
	Våfflor	Ja	Sponsring ordnas av Karin Ahlberg. 5 burkar sylt+1000 kombibestick ICA

* 2:an – Caféet	Karin och Bo Ekh, Tindras morföräldrar		4 pkt kaffe, muffins 25 + 2 pkt servetter
2:an – Caféet			2 pkt kaffe
2:an – Caféet	Ulrika …		En flaska saft och bullar
2:an – Caféet	Finax		200 kanelbullar
2:an – Caféet	ICA Maxi		20 pkt kaffe
2:an – Caféet			2 storpack tepåsar
2:an – Caféet			Saft 20 liter outspädd
2:an – Caféet			Socker
2:an – Caféet			Mjölk, 10 liter mellanmjölk
2:an – Caféet			1000 servetter
2:an – Caféet	Hemlig donation		200 bullar
2:an – Caféet	Diana …		50 st hembakta kanelbullar
** 2:an – Spikbräda	5:an – Ulf		Plank, spik, hammare till spikbrädan m.m.
Våfflor – Karin Ahlgren	Orkla Foods Sverige AB		35 paket våffelmix


Övriga aktiviteter

Ansvarig	Aktivitet		Kommentar
3:an	Dansuppvisning		Ann Wilson ordnar – äldre elever från Råå Södra deltar.
Joanna i samarbete med lärare	Konstutställning		Elevernas verk är till försäljning.
Thomas Merlöv	Filmning under dagen – “Skolans dag 2014”		CD-skivor säljs i förskott och levereras efter Skolans dag.
Magnus Olsson	Uppträdande instrumentmixgrupp		Musikframträdande – 5 elever ur 1:an.
	Filmvisning?		Elevernas egna iPadfilmer visas. Högastens utrustning kan lånas.


Lotterier

Ansvarig	Aktivitet		Kommentar
Joanna, Marie, Lena, Nina +	Finlotteri, barn		Vinster – se nedan donationer.
Magnus	Finlotteri, vuxna		Vinster – se nedan donationer.
3:an	Kaklotteri		Samtliga familjer bakar 2 kakor var till lotteriet.

5:an – Nina Pålsson	3000 lotter från Ocay



Vinstdonationer

Ansvarig	Donerat av		Vad? + Kommentar
F-klass – Angelica Fagerhov	Hovet, frisörsalong på Råå		2 presentkort barnklippning, ljus, smycke och halsband.
F-klass – Alma Wolf	Salong på Råå		Presentkort på massage, fotvård, färgning av frans/bryn, ev yoga
F-klass – Jessika …	Kronans Apotek		5 st 500 ml handdesinfektion samt 5 st 100 ml handdesinfektion
F-klass	Sommarköket		Glassvinster till lådbilsrallyt
F-klass – Hasse Kristoffersson	Stonebeach		Chokladfondue-set, handduk, vattenkaraff
F-klass –	Bostik		Hästskospel x 2
F-klass	Cedergren och co Plantskola		16 petuniaplantor, 6 blomhängplantor, 3 rosenplantor
F-klass	Gaggs		Hårsnoddar, partyballonger od
F-klass	Whilborgs		4 ficklampor
F-klass	Flaggfabriken Kronan		Flagga till lådbilsrallyt
F-klass – Marie	Grön Kontorsmiljö		1 låda med äpplen

1:an – Catrin Freij	AB KE Petterssons Htrg/ Görarps blomcenter		Krukblommor 4-6 lådor med 8-12 i var – hämtas fredagen den 16 maj.
1:an – Lena Montell	Bareko Sport		6 st teknikbollar Puma, 2 fotbollar Puma och 2 vattenflaskor
1:an – Lena Montell			2 Yatzi-spel
1:an – Anna Berg	Annas Fysio		Träningsboll 65 cm, 2 hopprep och 2 rockringar.
1:an – Jenny Frick	hairs.se		2 lotterivinster á 2 hårfrisörprodukter
1:an – Karin Persson			150 jojoar, 16 ritblock, 50 nyckelring m ficklampa, 3 jubileumsbok,
1:an – Karin Persson			3 Hbg-böcker, 1 Helsingborgslexikon.


2:an	Rörlige Sven		Kärscher batteridriven fönsterputs
2:an	delogic		LED-lampa Hidealite
2:an – Nina Henrikson	Leklust		2 pärlset, 1 playmobilset, 1 barbiedocka, 1 rörelsedetektor.
2:an – Joanna Thede	Nypon Förlag		10 st barn- och ungdomsböcker
2:an – Johan From	Johan From		5 st biocheckar SF
2:an – Thomas Merlöv	Södra Århult / Scanpeat		60 säckar exklusiv blomjord
2:an – Karin Ekh			Klistermärken, nyckelring, porslinsglasstrut, barnpennställ.
2:an	ICA Maxi		10 påskägg med godis

3:an – Karolin Nial	Laserdome		1 st värde 2 spel, 3 st à 100:-, 25 st “2 för 1”
3:an & 5:an – Magda Wallander	AB Poly-Produkter		3 barnflytvästar och 2 vuxenflytvästar
3:an – Jeanette Nåvall	Jonelin Fotograf		2 presentkort fotografering à 500 kronor
3:an – Jeanette Nåvall	Länsförsäkringar		1 ryggsäck, 2 vuxen cykelhjälmar, brandfilt, 2 biobiljetter, 3 armpuffar,
			& 1 paraply
4:an – Karin Salmson	Olika förlag, Råå		20 barn- och ungdomsböcker, 20 vuxenböcker
Morgan Stigborn	Skolans dag-banderoller		Skyltar, banderoller
Hobbe Andersson	Semcon		20 bollar Lyspyl

Stina Delin	JiJ Plast		13×3 ornamenterade barnplastgalgar

5:an – Siw Elke-van-Heerden	Yves Rocher		2 presentkorgar + 1 påse med hudvårdsprodukter
5:an – Kinn Danielsson	Hegas AB, Helsingborg		20 x 5 barn- och ungdomsböcker, 5 prisbelönta barnböcker till novellpriser
5:an – Ola Johansson			LED-armatur
5:an – Nina Pålsson	OCAY		Plåster
5:an – Kristina Hansson			Oljelampa Stelton, mugg Sagaform, 5 plånböcker, 2 kokböcker.

2:an Jeanette Jonasson genom	Ann-Sofies		1 påse hudvårdsprodukter
Råå Köpmannaförening	Annelies hårspa		1 påse hårvårdsprodukter
	Rååblomman		2 Kult ljusbrickor i porslin
	Vacker på Råå		1 värdecheck 100 kr
	Råå Pizzeria		1 presentkort 2 pizzor med dryck
	Tösabiten på Råå		Vinst till finlotteriet –
	Carl Perssons		9 presentkort på fika
	Lilla Sjöboden		1 ljuslykta
	Vår Vråå		1 påse hårvårdsprodukter
	Fjärilen och Grodan		Krabbfiskespö
	Elite Hotel Mollberg		1 presentkort

2:an – Erika Green	Coop		27 såpbubbleflaskor
			300 papptallrikar till våfflor
			15 flaskor flytande margarin
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Recollections: a day or a life

Installation with light potential, 2012

Size: 30 x 30 x 1,5 cm

”Recollections: a day or a life. (To Per 2009)” is an object made of emptied blister packages, joint by sewing by hand and with a machine where possible. The ends of the threads fasten the piece in a black frame, placed to reveale day light and everyday life through the empty holes of the packings.

The material in this piece is from Imovane 5 mg, a sleeping pill which is frequently prescribed by doctors as a help to go to sleep and also strongly addictive. A normal dose would be 1⁄2-1 pill, but the growing tolerance to Imovane can make someone who falls into addiction be able to take all the pills in this piece without falling asleep. After detoxification, this dose becomes lethal to the same person.

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