366 Challenge 31: Boat

I have taken photographs of a numerous amount of boats this summer, just to catch the ultimate boat moment. But looking back, I have not managed to capture what I was looking for in my boat theme, so instead I am choosing this one. The boats are a bit overexposed, but I really enjoyed this setting and I took loads of photos, that I will most probably use for other themes (reflection being one...)

This is Swedish West Coast at its best and very close to my heart. We walk past these boathouses on our way to our local beach.

Blogger Hints and Tips

You might have noticed my new blogrolls in the right hand column? I noticed this new feature by Blogger the other day as I was going to do something with my settings.

I think it's such a great feature, that I want to let you know about this. You just choose "Add new Gadget" as usual in your Elements Page and choose Blog List. You can choose what level of details you want to show. I think the "Last updated" option is great, not only for your blogvisitors, but also for yourself.

You have to do your blog list all over again, but I think it's well worth the effort.

Fototriss - Färger (Trio of photos: Colours)

This week, all participants on the Fototriss challenge are free to choose from earlier themes. My choice for this week is colours. Hope you enjoy it! Please note that I am just as happy to receive comments in Swedish.

To view more Fototriss contributions, please view here.

366 Challenge 178: Pattern

Having had an amazingly nervwrecking August, I can now happily announce that we have somewhere to live from September 1st. I will spare you all the grotty details, but summed up our past month has been along the lines of : Desperately looking for houses, finding house, getting bid accepted on house. No landlord wants to sell it instead and pulls out. Finds new house, have lengthy bidding process with landlord, agrees a rent, pays deposit, landlord pulls out. Removal company put on hold again. Finds a 3rd house, put offer forward, which gets approved. Just as house problem seems solved and we have 1 week left before we leave for our new destination, the cat sitter turns into Evil Eddie and the cat loving writer, who begged us to let him keep the cat a 3weeks from now coldly lets us know that if we don't pick her up within 24h, he will leave her in a home for homeless cats and I am a terrible person even asking him to give us another week (which we already paid him for!), so we can drive down to Holland *from Sweden* to take a ferry to Newcastle and then drive to Edinburgh to pick our cat up. No, apparently I think the world only evolves around me. Desperately managed to find a cat loving lady, who are willing to take our cat on for another 2-3weeks *the whole drive/ferry idea isn't that appealing and since it will be too late for the writer to wait another week*, we manage to find someone to drive our cat to the lovely lady, who seems to be a wonderful woman.

So, in two days time, we have the key to our new house!! In one weeks time, I am hopefully happily unpacking 120removal boxes and a further week from that we will be rejoined with our cat again.

*pewph* as J puts it! We made it!!

The reason for this photo? I just love this photo, since I didn't know where to place it among the themes, I was thinking, it's probably the pattern of the turquoise lobster/crab trap against the backdrop of the boathouse.