Another 9 inches of snow has fallen during the night and there are large heaps of snow everywhere here in Kärrtorp
Please don't get me wrong! I enjoy the frozen wastes and frosty embrace of Mother Nature as much as the next man. It's certainly fun taking Zoe to nursery in a toboggan - much smoother than a buggy.
But there is something about how some of the Viking folk embrace these meteorological extremes that leaves me perplexed.
On Sunday we went to an outdoor (!) children's party! Spending several hours outside in arctic temperatures in most countries would be a severe punishment. Here it's seen as fun and Kai certainly enjoyed himself rolling around in snow drifts like an excited puppy. Zoe, who has far more sense, surveyed the whole spectacle with bemused incomprehension.
A small gaggle of snow-covered children, all roped together, has just stumbled past my door. They look like some kind of Gulag chaingang of frozen dwarves.
They belong to specialist nursery whose USP is that the children spent all day outside every day. They pride themselves on the fact that their kids rarely get common colds, the flu,winter vomiting sickness or all the other childhood ailments.
Then again, the body count from frostbite and the number of children who get gobbled up by wolves is disproportionately high!
Sweden! What an exotic place!
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