Showing posts with label Sport. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sport. Show all posts

Friday, December 31, 2010

lessons learned in 2010

1. When one door opens, my nephew is probably behind it

job-doorman3

2. Holding a stick can make you so happy your eyes will cross

cross eyes jeeves

3. i heart toilet seats

i heart toilet seats

4. My cousins heart each other

piet and jaap

5. With good friends, you don't need noseclips

whoneedsnoseclips

6. And good friends don't shrink from being tumble dried

tumble dried friends

7. But they might not all appreciate my friendly bum-patting

mrvanshocked

8. Alcoholism isn't restricted to humans

boozehound

9. Dressing up to go down is fun

superdaan

10. Freediving isn't at all extreme, compared to

wall of death daredevil

11. Peter Boivie is Swedish Rockstar of the year

Peter at computer

12. Loveliness is close to saintliness

georgeandbubblering

13. My true love is Golden

molly the golden

14. Marc is an extremely cool cat

Poseidon, by Georgina

15. Not all sheep are sheepish

not all sheepish

16. A plant will beat a dragonfly in an arm wrestling match

red dragonfly armwresteling green plant

17. The devil's pulpit isn't a good place to do a sermon when you have vertigo

thedevilspulpritwithgeorge

18. At the end of a day, a sunset can warm your heart no matter how big of a cliche it is

sunsetatspeedthroughbridge

waitingfortheferryintherain

sunset and rain over Gullmarsfjorden

In loving memory of Oekie, Johan and Nanky Pooh

nanky pooh on the move

Sunday, August 29, 2010

Nordic Deep, or prejudices on a scale of Sweden

Ok, freediving trip to Sweden, so you kinda expect green above and below the surface

salahalfunder

and about equal amounts of water on both sides

seaandrain

rainfrombelow

and perfect looking blonde people

ninna

perisjimcarrey

but the strange thing is that -though we did have the type of sky you half expect Odin and Thor to appear in, throwing farming equipment at each other-

stripeybitsinswedishsky2

most of the time, the weather was actually lovely and we had skies that were postcard sweet

rainincomingovergulmansfjorden

that's also the place where the competition boat moores

thepier

the other pier, near the camp site, had been roughed up a little by the elements

remnantsofpier

actually, they both had been

rustypier

the little boat worked, though

recorddaywithgordon

and i worked as a safety diver, but completely fucked up as a competition diver

ontheline

(announced dive: 50 no fins. Realized dive: 33, free immersion on the way back. No clue how to equalize. Photo by Maria Hovden)

the line was clean and straight

competitionlinereflections

the competitors and safetydiver not always

P1000723

Maria, Saint of Frisbees was with us

mariaandfrisbee3

sending more than a few into fits of higher frisbewareness

prayertovolleyball2

prayertovolleyball

even the bed got in on the action

thebedisdrowning

but who needs beds?

klaraandchristian

i'm telling you, these Swedes get in some pretty cheeky situations

cheeky

Weine even managed to catch the frisbee between his

weineandfrisbee

Miha juggled

mihajuggling

Peter tried

peterjuggler

Ola became a Japanese sperm (with plans of world domination)

ola

and i slept with Barbie

sleepingwithbarbie

So even though it rained once

rainyday2

or twice

mariaonarainyday

with other forms of splashing as well

tiredofgettingsplashed

and there were about a million and a half of these beautiful but mean fuckers

jellyfish

it was actually sunny most of the time

sunlighthittinggrassonrocks

The people were sunny too -even the non-blondes

elena

mikerockstar

The kids were up to the usual

thekids

And while Sebastian proposed to Fanny with an oximeter, he was looking at me while doing so

sebastianandfanny

Seb, by the way, doesn't quite live in the middle of nowhere -but you can see the road towards it from his house

roadtonowhere

Best parts, though, were the effervescent and horny Peter B

peteronhorn

and of course the chicks

tweetalarm

sparrowbutt2

who knew sparrows had such cute butts?