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The Swedish Terminator
by Gert Forsström
A podcast with strange episodes from a strange country - Sweden!Listen and learn how a Terminator lives its life there!
Episodes
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A Swedish school, 111
The school is mine, where I worked for 28 years, getting better every year with more and more knowledge. We had working teams with teachers teaching the same subjects. The pupils had class rooms for their education. Everything was just great. The pupils got good notes. Till the municipality…
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Amongst islets and islands 112
When I studied in the evening school I had no problems to find a work during the summer vacations. Many summers I worked as a caretaker, moved the lawn and cut the hedges, raked the walks and filled the garbage and such things. But one summer I spent with another work. The girl who was my fiancée...
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Visit from Japan (80)
This happened when I studied in Uppsala. I lived in a little flat in a corridor for students. One morning, very early, the doorbell sounded and I went to open the door. Outside stood my friend Fred with a young Japanese. Fred said: This young Japanese went with me from Gävle in my car. Can you...
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Chopping wood (79)
To chop wood and put it in the woodshed, is there anything healthier for a stressed man, with the birds singing among the birches and spruces. I´m inclined to think that there isn´t, at least not for me. We have taken down some spruces on our piece of land. My neighbor has sawn them in pieces…
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An asthmatic solution (113)
An asthmatic solution (113) In Stockholm there is a very popular youth hostel. It´s an old ship called “af Chapman” with masts and everything. It´s situated at Skeppsholmen (the islet of ships) one of the islands that make our fantastic capital, the Northern Venice, Stockholm. We wanted our boy…
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Klampe, an evil teacher (114)
In English/En inglés Klampe, an evil teacher (114) Ingmar Bergman, the famous Swedish director, wrote the manuscript for the movie Hets that deals with the sadistic teacher of latins, called Caligula. One of his pupils is Jan-Erik Widgren who´s going to pass his examination. There is a girl,...
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A walk in Himlinge (75)
There is a place where we like to walk my wife and I. It´s called Himlinge. The landscape is fascinating, with slope hills with lots of big junipers and pines with heavy branches. The summertime the farmer has his cows there and You already know that we don´t like to walk among cows. Therefore we...
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Three encounters with deers (116)
Yesterday we went to our summerhouse, the second time this winter. The cold and the snow have done it rather expensive and laborious too. But this time it was for visiting our neighbours who also are some of our best friends. When we go to the summerhouse we can choose between two roads, the ugly...
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Christmas in Sweden (7)
In Spain they give the christmas presents the 6:th of January, in England on the Christmas day. In Sweden the Christmas Eve is the day for the presents. Its “tomten” who gives the presents. From the beginning tomten was a little figure who guarded the house and the building site (=tomt) and the...
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The magic window (50)
The day after our encounter with the intolerable man we went to one of our favorite places. We use to live in other places, because the youth hostel here is expensive, and the landlord even let you pay for the parking, in other words a skinflint. The hostel consists of barracks and as always when...
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To be retired in a globalized world (73)
Yesterday I watched a program dealing with the “crisis” and its causes. Of course, I already knew a lot. But the program was very clarifying and showed how the greediness for wealth did that the banks gave credits to people without security that they could pay back. The dubious method was as...
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A letter means so much (71)
I began working when I was fifteen. Then it was easy to get a work. The industries in Sweden cried for labour. I took my moped and went to a pulp mill. There I went to the staff-office. I spoke with the boss and he said: “Go to the workshop, speak to Sixten Jonsson, he´ll tell you what to do”.…
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With view on the lake (70)
One night when we were in the weekend cottage my neighbour called me to tell me something we had been waiting for for fourteen years. He said that the community needed money and therefore they wanted to clear the spruces in front of our house and sell them. My heart did a somersault in my chest –...
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Bellman – a Swedish poet in the 18th century (69)
If you want to know some about the Swedish song traditions you must know a little about Bellman. On could call him a national poet/troubadour. This singer/troubadour lived between 1740 and 1795. He accompanied his songs with a lute (a cittern). He always had economic problems. Once he had to…
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On the side of the road – in the snow (68)
My friend in the North has bought a new car, an Audi Quattro. When we visited him the other week he wanted to show us what a good car he had. He invited us for a journey in wintry surroundings. Since we were in the region where I lived in my young days he asked me where I wanted to go. I proposed…
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The “key harp” – a ”Swedish” instrument (67)
In some episodes I´m going to present some Swedish music. This first episode I´ll tell You a little about the key harp and also give You some links to let You listen to the mysterious sound of this instrument. To describe this instrument is very fun for me, because it comes from my home district…
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The Swedish fauna (65)
Once upon a time there was a moose standing at a waterhole drinking water. He felt a little solemn and vigorous, looking at himself in the water surface. Suddenly he said: “Well, one is the king of the forest, splendid as I am”. But the moose hadn´t noticed the bear standing beside him. The bear,...
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Something about genealogy (64)
I work with genealogy about my family. I have a friend who has studied genealogy. I work with him in our library to look for my “roots”. Before we had to send for the documents in the archives, but now it is easier, because many of the documents are on internet. One has to pay a little, not much,...
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Thoughts about the time (63)
As a child you don´t notice that time is passing. I don´t understand why it is so or even if it is so. It´s a long time since I was a child. My son, 25 years old doesn´t have a watch. I guess he can get the time on his mobile. (We have one but we only use it when we travel). In my work as a…
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Swedish religion c (61)
Gustav Wasa had carried through the Protestantism. He died in 1560. He had three sons Erik, Johan and Karl. They had different opinions of how the church should be. Johan was the more Catholic and wanted a “mixture” of Protestantism and Catholicism. His wife, Katarina Jagellonica was from Poland…
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My neighbours cat (59)
We don´t have so many species of felines like in America. We´ve just got two, the lynx and the alley cat, that is the domestic cat. The lynx you don´t see very often, it´s very shy. Sometimes you can see tracks of it, especially when there is snow. We call the lynx the lion of the North. But…
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A day in a peasants life (58)
My friend of whom I told in the episode about Walborg has a lot of land. He has inherited it from his father. But he hasn´t got time to grow it and therefore he has leased out his fields and meadows to a neighbour. That man, Gösta, takes a 10 km walk everyday with his dog in the morning after...
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The Swedish history c (57)
As I mentioned before the end of the 17th century was a period of autocracy. The time between 1700 and 1721 is called The Great Northern War. The king was Karl the XIIth, with the by name The Warrior King. He fought against Denmark, Poland and Russia. He beat the Russians at Narva. Karl had 10…
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Cutting christmas tree (56)
Where we have our summerhouse is a little piece of land that belongs to the lot. There and on the commonage we use to take two Christmas trees, one little one and another bigger. It´s really fantastic to walk with the ax and saw in ones hands in the snow (unfortunately no snow on the picture) and...
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The price of peace (53)
To live in a country that has had peace for almost 200 years is good. We have been neutral during the two World Wars. Some say we were cowards who didn´t participate. Sometimes people from the US say it, but they didn´t go in the wars without being attacked. When I was young everybody who was 18...
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A pig on the road (52)
My wife and I use to go to a Christmas fair at mansion called Taxinge. The last year, in the dusk, when we went home, we saw a little wild boar piglet in the meadow. It was striped and very cute, as if it wore a striped pyjamas. This was the first time we saw such an animal in the nature. We had...
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The pond (51)
A plague is ravaging the summer house area where we have our weekend cottage. Everybody found ponds. My nearest neighbor devoted a couple of vacations to dig up a space for a pond. He´s got fish in it, fish that breed. I´d never do that, that is dig in the ground. But there are other solutions.…
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An intolerable man (49)
As fast as I saw him I understood that I wouldn´t like him. We were in a youth hostel on the west coast and wanted to take it easy in a calm environment. This gentleman was about 35-40 years old and he turned up with his boys on the place where you have your food. The boys played with their…
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Swedish food (48)
Now I´ll tell you a little about Swedish food. Like the cuisine in other countries cooking in Sweden is a mixture of influences from other countries and epoch´s. Also in our country the pizza and the kebab have triumphed. But there are some dishes one can say they are Swedish. The first one is...
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Coincidences (47)
This episode I devote to coincidences. My grandmothers uncle was a bishop. His episcopate was very large. All of northern Sweden was his diocese with the town Härnösand as cathedral city. His name was Lars Landgren with the nickname Långlars (Tall Lars). Before he became a bishop he was vicar in…
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