What is up with this weather? Of course yesterday we took the heavy bedspread off and put on the light summer sheets (goodbye for now flannelette). Summer colours, summer weight. But wait – the temperature fell to 10 degrees last night. I woke up around 2 p.m. freezing and spread a quilt over myself. Hub, in all of his Swedish hotness, only had one sheet over his body and slept soundly. How I long for the dry heat of Dubai, where there’s scarcely a breath of wind and no one but crazy Westerners walks outside for any length of time. It took a few days to dawn on me that, unlike most other cities we’ve visited over the years, there were not dogs. At…

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