Update On the "Hunting Season" Post

To avoid any misunderstanding, a Swedish version will follow.
I apparently gravely insulted a small (as far as I know) group of hunters in the village by my earlier post regarding the hunting season. The party of hunters in question drew parallels between my website and child pornograpy and I was told to go to a warm place. I was shocked by their reaction and insulted by their comparison between my website and websites containing child pornography.
I love this village and I love the people living here which makes their reaction even more shocking to me.
I feel it is necessary to post an update to clarify my views and intentions here on this website.

I am not against hunting and I understand the necessity for hunting, but I don't understand the enjoyment of hunting, I never will. We all have our different interests.
The intention of my website is to inspire me to photograph and if I can update family and friends with the latest pictures of my family or show my village in a good light, all the better, but basically I write and take photographs of whatever interests me. This website will never contain any form of pornography.

This is not an apology for my earlier post. Perhaps I would have considered removing the post if their views were handled in a more appropriate manner, all this happened in front of my family when we went to congratulate the hunting party on a successful hunt.
I sincerely believe their manner was not representative of the residents of Kyrkås. The people I know and have met here have always been kind and considerate.

SVENSKA:

Tydligen blev en liten (så vitt jag vet) grupp jägare i byn djupt förolämpade av mitt tidigare inlägg om jaktsäsongen. Gruppen ifråga drog paraleller mellan min websida och barnpornografi och jag blev ombedd att sticka till en varm plats. Jag blev chockad av deras reaktion och förolämpad av deras jämförelse mellan min websida och websidor som innehåller barnpornografi.
Jag älskar den här byn och jag älskar människorna som bor här vilket gjorde att deras reaktion chockade mig extra mycket.
Jag känner att det är nödvändigt med ett inlägg som förklarar mina synpunkter och intentioner här på denna websida.

Jag är inte emot jakt och jag förstår varför det är nödvändigt att jaga, men jag förstår inte glädjen i det, det kommer jag aldrig göra. Vi har alla olika intressen.
Avsikten med den här websidan är att inspirera mig att ta bilder och om jag kan uppdatera min släkt och vänner med de senaste bilderna på min familj eller visa min by i bra ljus så är det en bonus, men generellt tar jag bilder på vad som helst som lockar mitt intresse. Den här sidan kommer dock aldrig att innehålla någon form av pornografi.

Syftet med det här inlägget är inte att be om ursäkt. Kanske kunde jag ha tagit bort inlägget ifråga om deras synpynkter lagts fram på ett bättre sätt, allt detta skedde inför min familj när vi gått fram till dem för att gratulera dem på en lyckad jakt. Jag tror verkligen inte att deras sätt var representativt för de som bor i Kyrkås. Alla som jag träffat och känner här har alltid varit vänliga och omtänksamma.

More Clothes

Winter is making itself known slowly but surely. Most of the leaves have fallen and our winter tyres are on. Taking the kids out is a real project when trying to get everyone dressed. There is lots of discussing about what to wear and not to wear and winter clothes have way of hiding away just when they are needed. Rhiannon likes to show off how much she dislikes wearing gloves by shaking her hands until the gloves go flying in different directions.


Rhiannon bundled up in her pram, the gloves having left the building once again.

@ Home With the Kids

I'm on paternity leave until the end of December.
Must be nice to be home and not have to work people say...Yeah right!
The days are divided up between cooking, changing nappies, cleaning, playing, washing, etc, etc... But in the end it's all time I don't want to miss.

Henrik and Rhiannon in her toybox

Hunting Season

I can't make up my mind about hunting. I understand the need to hunt, I can't complain about the poor animals either since I'm not a vegetarian. What I can't understand is why people enjoy it so much? How does killing animals become fun? I could do it out of necessity, but never for enjoyment.
On Saturday we watched as a female moose was airlifted from a bog by helicopter. I couldn't help feeling sorry for her watching her dangling from her neck up in the air.



The makeshift butchery in a barn where she'll be chopped up and divided into little bits.

Holiday

With only one week of paid leave left this year (Lorienne is still on maternity leave) we decided to spend it wisely and travelled down to Laholm to visit my brother and his family. We haven't seen them in 5 years!
Anyway, we packed my newly aquired Land Rover Defender 130 and drove down the 1000km in a two day trip, spending the night in Sala with Henrik and Rhiannon's two other cousins Tyr and Liv. We arrived in Laholm late afternoon the next day.
Although we had a lovely stay I truly believe Henrik had the best holiday out of all of us. He really spent every possible second trying to keep up with his older cousins and slept late in the mornings which otherwise never happens.
Here is an assortment of photos from our trip.


The Landy is great, you can even attach your baby to the back of it.


Henrik enjoying a run past the wheat fields


Rhiannon getting to know her cousin Max


Ivo and "Tuppe"


Max the archer


My brother and his family


At the beach


At home in the apple tree


Brothers at sunset


We pulled off the road and found a lake with a sandy beach on our way home. The water was luke warm. We decided to camp there and couldn't have found a more suitable place. Since it wasn't official it was also free.
I could do this more often, but I'd like a roof top tent.

Little Archer

How did I get Henrik to spend more time outside? I bought him a bow and some arrows and now it's difficult to get him to go inside!
He definitely has a knack for it.

Landscape

Dramatic sky over Bringåsen on one of our weekend walks. Did we bring the raingear?