Today is our third wedding anniversary and we celebrated it with a nice romantic dinner at Freja Restaurant overlooking the guest harbour, with a perfect view of our boat and the few foreign guest boats mooring for the night. The best bit was that Lambi stayed home, so she wasn't demanding to share in our dinner.



Lars-Göran chose a scrumptious plank fish, which is a mixture of seafood in a creamy bernaise sauce, served on an oak plank with delicious mashed potatoes ("pommes duchess" I believe they are called). I chose to have the swordfish and tiger prawn kebabs served with a coconut, lime and chilli sauce. A light Trentham Estate Sauvignon Blanc provided the perfect accompaniment to our dinner. Freja is a restaurant built in a classic old steamboat permanently moored by Frejasholme. It was the place where we held our wedding reception three years ago, so it is a sentimental once a year tradition for us.

I know I often joke that Lars-Göran is lucky to have me as a wife, but the truth is that it's me who is the lucky one and I feel very fortunate to have found my best friend and soul mate and be able to spend every day with him.

Yeah, I know, I know... "Oh, get a room you two"

Spring continues to burst forth around us and blaze with colour and fresh, fragrant smells. Today there was some light afternoon rain and I went outside and drew in deep breaths of my favourite smell of rain on the ground when it hasn't rained for some time. It reminded me so much of summer showers in Adelaide, especially after a big dust storm. Those first few drops are incredible.

Lars-Göran has been busy fixing the myriad of problems on the boat that sprang up once she was in the water. He was trying to get it all fixed so we could go out this weekend, but there are so many little niggly things that it may not be possible. I told him today that there was no need to put himself under pressure and that we'll take off when he is confident that she was ready. It puzzles us that things can mysteriously develop faults over winter when they haven't been used! He felt like he needed some of these pills.

I was really excited to see these products on sale in my little town. We got a leaflet in the usual Monday morning junk mail pile and I spotted them as I flipped through.

This ABC range is well known in Australia and I used to buy their pure tea tree oil for using on mozzie bites and stings. I went down to centrum yesterday and bought some of the oil and some of the body care range and it is beautiful and soothing to use. I love the really clean, fresh feel of it on my skin so I think I'll be a regular buyer of it. The air here inside the apartments is surprisingly dry and I find that I need as much moisturiser and to drink as much water as I did in hot, dry Adelaide. I think the central heating is what dries out the air so much.

Tomorrow looks like another day of running around in Stockholm picking up bits and pieces (hopefully for the last time!), including replacements for several vital pieces of boat equipment that my dear husband put "in a safe place" for winter - so safe it seems, that not even he can find them!