We spent a busy day in Stockholm today, collecting my mother-in-law's car and picking up some last minute things. At sparrow's fart in the morning, we are packing up the car with wine, goodies, dog, birds and of course us, as we are heading south to a little town called Flyinge (just north of Lund) for the weekend to celebrate Thanksgiving with a lovely Swedish/American couple we have got to know. I can't wait! We first have to drop off the two girls at their friend's place in Malmö, so it will be a tiring day.

It's quite a long trip - the equivalent of an Adelaide to Melbourne run, with the added delights of snow, ice, darkness, fog and moose with no road sense to add a certain Russian roulette air to proceedings. But I have every faith in Lars-Göran's driving ability in these conditions.

For those of you who live in America or indeed Americans living anywhere in the world, today is officially Thanksgiving. I wish you all a great day - and don't eat too much turkey. See you back here next week.