There is no need for me to write anything today- just go and visit David's blog: http://www.davidnice.blogspot.co.uk/and you will get a much better travelogue and account of a late summer  visit to my mother and husband's Dalarna in Sweden   than I can come up with, complete with detailed culinary trials.. !
 People sometimes bear a slight resemblance to something from the animal kingdom, and I remember playing a fun game called 'what sort of Bathroom are you?' In this game  one has to guess who one is talking about by describing them as say, a bathroom; a plant; a style of music or indeed an animal. Well, if we played this game and my mother's husband Gillis (above) was the person to be so discribed, I would definitely describe him as an elk. A forester by profession; a great hunter and wildlife expert  he must have slowly adopted its looks and characteristics over a whole lifetime...