Tanja @tanjaostman@dingdash.com

Planting flowers that I have bought from a greenhouse.

@Kruselady ok, I can imagine goats eating everything! 😂

@sinbach I'm sorry for missing those links! But thank you for taking the time to provide me with the article! 🙏

I love watching our garden in bloom, after a long winter and unusually cold spring time. This is rhododendron.

@sinbach upsetting but not surprising. The follow-up question is what they do with that information. Do they cooperate with governments that have planned to mandate vaccines? So far it's not mandatory where I live. The more I read stuff like this the more convinced I get that this vaccine thing is not about protecting the citizens - it's about an agenda, a control system. And the more I get convinced that I will refuse it as long as possible. But how do the Nordic citizens get their eyes opened? Most people I know here trust FB 100%, our government and politicians 100%, the health organizations 100%. It might sound strange to an American or Chinese. But it has to do with our society and history. Times have changed, but not the mindset. If I share this on FB there are two scenarios 1. Very few will read it because it's in English or because of the heading. 2. I will be accused of sharing fake news. @sinbach where did you find out about this? An article?

@MaryMamuzich beautiful surroundings!

Finnish spruce.

@bethany @sinbach 😂

@sinbach ... and if you would pronounce 'ch' correctly German you have to make a "throat sound", that we don't have in Swedish or English. Johann Sebastian Bach.

@sinbach I also like pickled herring (it's very Finnishas well) - it's another thing than surströmming even if it's the same fish. But I If you are interested in eating healthy, then I can inform you that it's really healthy! Such a funny story about the Swedish girl Bäck! You are a little bit Swede then, even in your blood. 😀 I studied German 5 years in school but have never spoken it, so I have forgotten most of it, but I knew that Bach equals Bäck. Swedish and German have many very similar words. But the grammar is more complicated than the English grammar.

@sinbach the most stinky fish in the world must be the Swedish surströmming (sour herring)!! Have you heard of it or tasted? I have tasted it once... not in my taste, but I didn't spit it out or throw up. 😂 We were in an apartment and had to open it on the balcony because of the stink.

I'm a little proud that Finland (= Suomi in Finnish on their shirts) won over the US yesterday in their first match in the IIHF World Championship in Latvia yesterday! This is a small country of 5,5 million people and with much, much less money involved in all sports. But on the other hand every Finnish child learns to skate at the age of 7 or younger. In addition many Finnish hockey players who use to compete for our country have already been headhunted to NHL and other leagues in the USA and Canada where they have gotten great training. Who will win the whole competition?

12 min clip. Worth listening. https://youtu.be/iN6KLX1zdJY

Great and funny examples of what makes English difficult! The spelling system is extremely irregular. I've learned a lot of words only by reading English (that you don't learn by watching Hollywood movies), and I have to admit that I don't know if I pronounce them correctly. 😅 English has several times more words than my mother tongue Swedish, and that makes it so fascinating - BUT I agree with the article: Why aren't there specific words for "the day after tomorrow" and "the day before yesterday"? Like "övermorgon" and "förrgår" in Swedish.
https://thelanguagenerds.com/26-reasons-why-the-english-language-is-insane/#more-7923

Lost in translation part 3.

@sinbach 😂