Have had a bit of a change to our usual routine now! Robert is back from Croatia since 1 week. The last weeks there were a bit of a wild west atmosphere - subcontractors requesting their pay from the shipyard with Kalashnikovs in the car boot, fights and police investigations. It seems the Croatians are still a bit influenced by the recent war and more easily ready to draw a gun to resolve issues... The project team was removed from the island for the last week for safety reasons! But Robert got back safe and sound.
We also had our Swedish grandma here last weekend. She came while Beatrice was still down with a bad tummy bug that has been going around. The only ones in the family to be spared were Grandma Heli and me, everyone else got it - kids, Robert, my parents. Then last week the boy's kindergarten had 2 cases of scarlet fever so we have kept them out of there, don't want to take the risk before the holiday! Will have to check the situation on that tomorrow and decide what to do for this week. They are too bored staying at home of course.
Luckily last week the movie "Girl with the dragon tattoo" was still on and we managed to go and see it. Don't know if they have shown it in Singapore or UK, Swedish movie by Norwegian director. I liked most of it but they had changed some details compared with the book. Partly understandable but there was one particular scene that I found annoying - when Martin Vanger drives away after his horrors were discovered, in the book he just drives into the oncoming truck and Lisbet turns around - in the film his car makes a few turns and Lisbet stands next to the car while he begs her to help him and she just walk away after the car blows up. I fought this scene made Lisbet appear ruthless and mean which she isn't in the same way in the book. Now the second part is showing, looking forward to go and see it.
Spring is still not coming - we have days with lovely sunshine and +3 temp but the next night it might snow again. More of the same forcast for the starting week. If it goes on like that it will take until July for all the snow to melt. Of course it has given us a chance to do more ice-skating and outdoor snow fun.