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Toil and trouble

In hon­our of Jols’s birth­day, I’d like to record for pos­ter­ity one of my favourite images of her. It was an image I never wit­nessed, yet for some rea­son I still feel it indeli­bly imprinted on my brain. Jols and I both went to the Uni­ver­sity of Wales, Aberys­t­wyth – indeed, we took a cou­ple of the same courses –

Varför svenska?

About a year ago, a man named Andrew said to me, ‘You just like to be dif­fer­ent, don’t you?’ He said it because I’d men­tioned that I was about to go on a bread­mak­ing course, to learn how to make sour­dough bread. I hate all other forms of cook­ing, by the way, because I’m rub­bish at it. I just wanted to at