Blogging from A to Z in April - The Letter T - Thursday 23rd April 2015

Thursday 23rd April 2015 - The Letter T

T is for 'TIME', which is TID in Swedish. Time is like the wind, you can't hold it or see it, but it's there.

A short post today. 

The word for newspaper in Swedish is tidning, my local newspaper where I live is called Norrköpings Tidningar. And what archaic English word that means 'news' comes to mind? Yes, 'tidings'.

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Best wishes,
Anna

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Blogging from A to Z in April - The Letter S - Wednesday 22nd April 2015

Wednesday 22nd April 2015 - The Letter S

 

S is for SOLROS, which is 'SUNFLOWER' in Swedish, one of Tina Downey's favourite flowers. I want to honour Tina's memory with a sunflower for the letter S. 

 

I took theses pictures before 20th August 2009, when my daughter Elisabet was five years old. I wanted to post them for the memorial post for Tina Downey on 8th September 2014. I thought this one lone sunflower was symbolic of Tina's strong will to live and reach out to others. But I couldn't find it until now after going through several memory cards and about 6000 photos.

The photo quality of the last picture is really bad - it is not even in focus. But it shows the unkempt part of our garden behind the garage, just sand, gravel, two broken bicycles and an abandoned baby carriage. No one planted this sunflower. There must have been seeds that were just dumped there. And only one plant survived.

I wish Tina could have seen these pictures. I wonder what she would have thought? She was a great one for taking photos. She might have liked them.

I wish I could have met Tina in person. We never did. We just chatted through our blogs and the blog hops that we did together. Thank you Tina for inspiring me.


And thank you all for taking the time to visit with me here.


Best wishes,
Anna

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Blogging from A to Z in April - The Letter R - Tuesday 21st April 2015

Tuesday 21st April 2015 - The Letter R

I love the colour red.

R is for  RÖD, RÖTT and RÖDA, which are different forms of the adjective RED.

I promised not to teach Swedish during the A to Z. (Tina Downey did a much better job.) I just thought that I would mention how English grammar differs from Swedish, when it comes to the use of adjectives. In Swedish, adjectives must agree with the gender and number of the noun that they modify. This means that if you have a noun with an indefinite article like 'a' or 'an', (en or ett in Swedish) the adjective must agree with the gender and whether it is a singular or plural noun.

This means that if you want to say something about 'a red dress', it is en röd klänning in Swedish. If you want to talk about 'a red house', it is ett rött hus. If you want make a comment about 'red strawberries', it is röda jordgubbar.

If you want to talk about something specific, you can use the definite article, as you would in English, except that the definite article is both a small word and an ending on the noun: 'the red dress' is den röda klänningen or just röda klänningen. 'The red house' is det röda huset or röda huset. And 'the red strawberries' are de röda jordgubbarna or röda jordgubbarna.

Anyway.

I had made a red bracelet for my daughter, Elisabet, when she was little.  But it does not fit anymore. She has grown so much that I will have to add more red beads. Here is Elisabet holding her tiny beaded bracelet:

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