More Melodifestivalen 2009, Malmo

Malmo Arena was packed out


Petra Mehde as host


Susanne Alfvengren


Thorleifs - The most HORRENDOUSLY CRINGEWORTHY song of the evening! :-(


Who stole Velvet's dress? ;-)


The contestants get nervous in the Green Room


And the winner is.....Malena Ernman! What a great "popera" tune :-) Shame Sarah Dawn didn't go directly to the final though.

Melodifestivalen 2009, Malmö - Sarah Dawn Finer

A great power ballad. Loved it!

What a magnificent performance! 13 points! ;-)

Just....one....last.....

....tweet before we make our way down to Malmö.

Moody Bunny

I has attitude!

Munching in the meeting

My pancakes and the semlor went down well at this afternoon's meeting too. :-P

Pancake Day at ST-Ericsson

Victoria gets ready to dig into my pancakes :-P

It was a hard Saturday night!

The Snowman looks like I feel this morning! ;-)

My new friend

Cold hands but a warm heart ;-)

Snow Joke

Dans le jardin.

Scandinavian Winter

I love it!

Exciting huh?!

And of course just when i thought it was all going smoothly...the baggage is delayed at Copenhagen. *sigh*

Postcard from England

On my way to the airport now and just realised that the only photo I've taken is of a fridge! So here's one of Rivington this morning in the fog ;-)

New fridge freezer?

What do you think hon? Reckon i can get away with it as hand luggage? ;-)

Helsingborg statues

Someone has obviously been having a little fun in town! Just the thing to brighten us up in the freezing cold! :-)

On our way home

Took the Night Bus back home which now means a 20min trek through town in the snow. Had a fantastic evening though. Can warmly recommend Harrys in Helsingborg! :-D

Anette found her prince in the end!

Hot shots

Down the hatch ladies!

Kaffé Karlsson

Gottegris, as we say in Swedish! :-P

Waiting for drinks

They've just come and cleared the table of old glasses and now it's time for some Irish Coffees (or rather a Kaffee Karlsson - coffee, Cointreau, Baileys and cream) And Gitte, stop messing about! :-P

Beer, wine and chocolates

We girlz is happee!

Tabasco at Harrys

Everyone should have a bottle :-P

Birthdays in June (updated)

After getting a bollocking off Risto for leaving him out of my first birthday list (as I didn't know in my original post from 2007 that we did in fact share the same birthday!) I've now updated the list, and also added a few more people I now know.

June 2nd - Benjamin
June 3rd - Grandma! :-D
June 4th - Ciaran
June 5th - Amir, Christina B
June 6th - Pappa Ramström ;-)
June 12th - Tanja
June 16th - Géraud, Dirk
June 17th - Robin
June 18th - Yours truely, Risto :-P
June 19th - PJ (aka Mr Eurovision), Jonas
June 20th - Christel, Calle
June 22nd - Elke
June 24th - Eva S
June 28th - Yvonne

19 people celebrating their lives in the month of June. Lovely :-))

Chocolate cookies

Espresso House have the most scrumptious "Marshmallow Chunks" and "Chocolate-Blueberry" cookies. Some sad old bint in the photo kindly modelled them for us......ahem! :-O

Christina and Lotta

Vem ser pillemarisk ut nu, Christina?! ;-)

Jon tucks in

Another one who appreciates the mussels in white wine and garlic! ;-D

Moules Frites

Yummy yummy in my tummy! And the beer did just the trick too. :-P

Tjejkväll på Bauhaus

Nu ska Kae målar vardagsrummet :-P

Naughty but nice ;-)

MmmmmMMMM! Please don't think I make a habit of this, but I do like a cream bun once in a while ;-))

Haribo macht Kinder froh...

...und Erwachsene ebenso. Christel has been busy! ;-)

Rough 'n' Tough

Out to get Bernt and Filip on MarioKart...and we did, although it was mostly Bernt who felt the sharp end of Christel's Kart,hehe! :-P

Out in Siberien

Otherwise known as very cold!


Me on the UFO looking very much like an alien


Not quite bikini weather.....


Frozen sea