#österlen

[harechristian]

Southern Sweden

[ulfgbohlin]

www.residencemagazine.se/patina.

[pehheach]

[kaldeamaeve]

I know you don't know me, I know I'm a drop in the bucket on here, but I need to share something, anywhere, if it means even one other person can read it. Preface, I live in the heart of Österlen, Skåne, Sweden. Farmland. My closest neighbor is a castle on the other side of a lake that's 15 steps from my driveway. Otherwise, it's kilometers to other people, only fields, forests, creeks, and the lake.

I awoke to screaming outside this evening. Howling. I go outside. I see two young kits near the chicken coop, yapping and yipping at each other. Twoon (cat) and Kiku (pup) follow me out. The foxes spot us, and hop off towards the creek bed. Aside from a damp stillness in the air, and the occasional thump of an apple dropping to the ground, a new howling begins behind us at the front of the house.

I flick my flashlight and look upwards towards my balcony from my driveway. In silently swoops the most massive owl I've ever seen, just observing the three of us. Kiku hops up on her back legs trying to get a better look, but does not bark-- not wanting to scare away this guardian of the night, perched precisely where Kiku herself takes sentry-duty during the daylight. It watches us for minutes. We watch back. Twoon's tail is puffed, yet she meanders with confidence in accompaniment to me and Kiku, in the eyes of this bird of prey.

Every 30 seconds, in the clear, inky-black space behind him, a shooting star rips by. Lighting up the sky like fireworks. You can almost muster the sound it'd make in your mind-- without the vacuum and distance preventing it. Satellites, all scuttling in the background-- rush hour in the cosmos. Frothy milky clusters of stars. Thick enough to be clouds, which really, they are. Just a condensed vapor of millions of stars, with a symposium of bright flash, fizzle, and pops-- a carbonated galaxy.

Crickets. Wheat fields. A calf being soothed by its herd on a hill in the distance. A low, humming glow of fireflies hidden, like gems in the thicket of growth surrounding. The smell of the harvest due any day. The dew on the grass giving life to an army of lazy toads and slugs. The relaxed Tonbo and Hima inside, so undisturbed and at peace with their beds that they feel no need to sit up, let alone join us 3 outside in our investigations.

I've known no such place that feels so ethereal yet so warm. So timeless yet so alive. My home is a wrinkle in time. Unified peace lies within this fence line-- like a sacred seal, unbroken.

I hope if you are ever in my neck of the woods you can experience this place with me.

My familiars in question, Kiku and Twoonie.

And here are Tonbo and Hima, the sleepers.

Sleep well, everyone. There's beauty above us. 🌌

[mansjensenphotography]

September memories 🖤 . . . . . . . . . . . . . #kira #ishootfilm #filmsnotdead #nikonosproject #knäbäckshusen #österlen #skåne #🖤 (på/i Knäbäckshusen) https://www.instagram.com/p/CllGryoMYBZ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[perabl]

Spontanutflykt

Från början hade vi två ärenden till Ystad idag. Det ena ställdes in på grund av sjukdom i morse, men det andra fullföljdes ändå. Leverans av böcker etc. På detta lite handel på Willys, och sedan en liten spontanutflykt till ett gråmulet och blåsigt Österlen och en trevlig fikastund.

[minaasikter]

Quite a snowy drive to #lunch #pizza #chark #straciatella. This place is packed in the summer and it is not so easy to secure a table. Easier this time of year #österlen #skåne (at Örum 119) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpFgmdxs157/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[adampetrinis]

[mshadmanrahman]

T-Bone Steak 🥩 #dimeadozen #lifeabroad #lifeinscandanavia #lifeinsweden #scandanavia #sweden #summerinscandanavia #summerinsweden #summerroadtrip #summer2022 #roadtrip2022 #familytrip2022 #iPhone13 #iPhonephotography #mobilephotography #uppsalatoösterlen #southofsweden #mälarhusenstugby #österlen #mälmo #lund #helsinborg #kalmar #öland #smyggehuk #ystad (at Mezo) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgrTEdJs3S5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[rebeccalouisaferguson]

Rebecca Ferguson on the relationship with Sweden - and Swedish film: "Give me a role" The criticism after the TV4 interview: "I don't want to fuck it up"

LONDON. Rebecca Ferguson, 40, has left Sweden and is taking Hollywood by storm.

But beyond the successes with "Dune", "Silo" and "Mission: impossible", she is careful to nurture the ties to her home country.

"I don't get that many Swedish offers, give me a role", says Rebecca Ferguson to Aftonbladet Nöje.

The Hollywood star is sitting in a suite at the five-star Rosewood Hotel in Holborn in central London. Here, the blockbuster "Dune: Part two" has occupied an entire floor for marketing and interviews ahead of the premiere date, which in Sweden is February 28.

Since a couple of years ago, London is also Rebecca Ferguson's hometown.

"I left Sweden, after covid I really moved", says the actress.

She grew up in Stockholm with a British mother and a Swedish father, went to Adolf Fredrik's music classes and broke through as a 15-year-old with the TV4 soap "Nya tider" where she had the lead role as Anna Gripenhielm. This in turn gave her a role in the American-Swedish drama series "Ocean Ave".

After she moved to Österlen in 2007 to be in the BBC's Wallander film "Sidetracked", she chose to stay in Simrishamn in Scania. There she met the filmmaker Richard Hobert, who gave her one of the main roles in the feature film "En enkel till Antibes", where she played opposite Sven-Bertil Taube, among other things. Then the international career really took off.

Wanted to start a colony Rebecca Ferguson played the main role of Elisabet Woodville in the BBC series "The white queen", for which she was Emmy nominated, Jenny Lind in the musical "The greatest showman" (2017) and the British spy Ilsa Faust in several "Mission: impossible" films. But when she wasn't working with Tom Cruise, Hugh Jackman or Michael Fassbender, she tried to build a life on the plains of East Scania. Until a few years ago.

"I built a large farm in Knäbäckshusen and tried to create some kind of colony there, with a key box, so that people could come and go, she says. "But then I had a long conversation with my son where I really said "what am I doing?"

Until 2015, she was together with Ludwig Hallberg, with whom she has a 16-year-old son, Isac. But according to Rebecca Ferguson, the ex-boyfriend was not completely on board with the plans for an open-door farm.

"Ludde" said that "we are fine, we don't need a colony, we live here", and I felt that I needed to find a root somewhere. I needed to let go of Simrishamn and root in London.

Assistant and schedule Today, Rebecca Ferguson lives in Richmond in West London with her husband Rory, who she married in December 2018. Together they have a daughter Saga, who turns 6 this spring, and Rebecca Ferguson describes the puzzle of recordings, marketing and family life as a well-oiled machine.

"It works great. I have such a luxury. It's like running a business in that it's scheduling and I have people to help", she says.

Although life as a movie star is often changeable, Rebecca Ferguson makes sure that the children have structure in their lives.

"I have an assistant, but it's more of a family friend who helps with our daughter and makes sure to fly over my son. I am also extremely close to my son's father, we are very communicative and talk all the time. We are like a big family and it's like a puzzle, but it works."

Criticism after interview The relationship with the home country suffered a thorn in connection with an interview with Efter fem on TV4 in April last year, where she did not want to speak Swedish and questioned reporter Nanna Martorell's English skills.

A storm of criticism followed and Rebecca Ferguson was noticed, among other things, by the Instagram account "Dyngbaggegalan", which celebrates uncomfortable moments from Swedish television.

Rebecca Ferguson has said that she was saddened when she heard about the criticism after the interview and said that she did not recognize herself. Almost a year after the interview, which was supposed to be about the film "Mission: impossible: dead reckoning", she brings up the incident herself - when Swedish "Dune" colleague Stellan Skarsgård, 72, comes forward.

"Stellan, I love him. That Swedish root is so important. That's why I was so sad about the interview that took place between me and Nanna. It became such a big deal", she says.

"I was misinformed, I had no idea who I was going to meet, only that I had an angry journalist who was pissed off. They asked if they should cut her out but I said "no, take her in, why is she so damn angry?" So I went in with the gas at the bottom - and met the world's most beautiful woman."

Is there something still gnawing at you?

"The reason I bring it up is that the Swedish relationship, for example to Stellan, when I speak Swedish, feels so important. It is enough for someone to speak Swedish and I feel a sense of calm."

"Was extremely rude" Rebecca Ferguson is worried that the interview has given the Swedes a wrong image of her as an expatriate Hollywood diva.

"The only thing I needed to know was that Nanna is okay, because I was extremely rude to her. I called her, we had the world's conversation and now she gets any interview she wants," she says.

"But I don't want that role in Sweden. Sweden is the archipelago, semlor, Värmdö and my dad, Vasastan and Rörstrandsgatan – I don't want to fuck it up."

In addition to "Dune: Part two", this year Rebecca Ferguson is also currently in theaters with "Mission: impossible - dead reckoning part two". At the same time, she is recording the second season of the TV series "Silo".

Opens for Swedish film But despite a burgeoning Hollywood career, she keeps the door open to making Swedish films.

"It is not important in that way that I have to do culture in Sweden, but give me a script that is great, give me a role. I don't get that many offers so that would be great," she says.

In an interview with the British newspaper The Guardian in October 2019, the star said that "I don't get recognized and that suits me". According to Rebecca Ferguson, very little has changed on that front in the last five years - despite the fact that her CV has been significantly replenished.

""It's pretty cool when you're at a premiere, like with "Dune", and it's like a rock concert: thousands of people screaming when Timothée and Austin - and also me - come in. It has created such a large following, she says.

"Mission" was probably also a bit like that, with Tom. It's on a whole other level. I can imagine that many people in this film need security personnel when they are out and about. But I can only go where I want and do what I want."

Doesn't want to be seen as a diva Rebecca Ferguson estimates that four to five people a day come to her.

"They take a picture, you give them a small hug or a high-five, and move on," she says.

"There is probably a part of me that wishes I also needed to be snuck out of a restaurant from the back way, because there are so many people out there who just love me. It is the ego. But the sane part of me thanks God that I can go wherever I want with my children, my husband and my friends."

The same applies when she comes home to Sweden - which she is happy about.

"Sweden is somehow my soul. I wouldn't like to come to Sweden and it would have been the world's damned "hoppla". That's why I think I brought up this interview with Nanna again, that it hurts me that so many people saw a side of me that I'm not, which is a diva."

Rebecca Ferguson on… …to miss large parts of the "Dune" sequel's extensive PR tour:

"I'm filming "Silo" season two so I've only had to jump in now, it was no from my production company Apple because they needed to finish. Considering the strike (in Hollywood), we were behind in the filming. And I have had such FOMO. It's been a hell of a job, and at the same time quite nice, because I get anxiety on all these red carpets, I think it's quite tough."

…combining promotion of “Dune” in Paris with “Silo” recording in the UK:

"I worked during the day, flew into Paris, did interviews, changed, premiere, did the red carpet, then everyone else came, then we took one or two pictures, then I had to jump into the car, take off the corset and everything, jump into gym clothes, get on the train, take the 21 train back to London, drive to the hotel by the studio and then I was there filming all day."

…"Dune" colleague Stellan Skarsgård, whose son Gustaf Skarsgård she also worked with, in the film "We" (2013):

"He has 150 children and his family is so damn cool. God I can see it in him. And I miss Gustaf, I haven't seen him for a long time. They are such a big family and so close."

…”Dune” director Denis Villeneuve:

"He is the best director I have ever worked with. I know that in Sweden we hate the word "normal", but he is adequate, normal and so damn stable. He is calm and it rubs off on others. He doesn't have an ego, he's shy, he's direct, has a plan, he's incredibly prepared, and you don't push him. And it's awesome."

…the collaboration with Villeneuve:

"I'm mischievous, I'm cocky, I talk before I think. When I'm sensitive, I talk. And he likes it. So he and I work great together."

…the Swedish traditions she misses in Great Britain:

"I want to start holding cancer plaques, wearing a hat and the whole choir. Midsummer must be in Sweden. I have to start booking to go over, if you could rent a small house in the archipelago and take friends there and spend midsummer. At Christmas we celebrate twice and mix Swedish and British traditions."

Translated from swedish for @rebeccalouisaferguson

[ulfgbohlin]

www.residencemagazine.se/patina.

[pehheach]

[andiatas]

H.M. The King's speech to the people of Sweden

Kära svenskar!

Det är i dag på dagen 50 år sedan jag blev Sveriges kung.

Under ett halvt sekel har jag haft glädjen och förmånen att vara vårt lands statschef.

Låt mig börja med att blicka tillbaka i tiden och tillsammans med er minnas hur det var, i samband med mitt trontillträde.

Det var 1973 och jag var bara 27 år gammal. Jag riktade då mina ord till min företrädare, konung Gustaf VI Adolf, min älskade farfar, som just avlidit 90 år gammal.

Han föddes i slutet av 1800-talet, som prins av Sverige och Norge. Invånarna i vårt land levde vid den tiden under mycket knappa omständigheter och många valde att emigrera. När farfar lämnade jordelivet den 15 september 1973 var han däremot kung i ett Sverige präglat av välstånd och demokrati.

Gustaf VI Adolf var en, i alla läger, djupt respekterad monark. För mig var han också en förebild, inte minst då min far gick bort under mitt första levnadsår.

Att efterträda farfar var en stor – och inte alltid så enkel uppgift. Men jag är mycket tacksam för det stöd jag fått från min kära familj som lojalt har stått vid min sida genom åren.

Drottningen, våra barn med familjer och mina systrar har alla alltid funnits där.

Särskilt viktigt är också det förtroende jag fått – och får – från er, Sveriges folk. Ert stöd har varit ovärderligt för mig.

För detta vill jag i dag framföra mitt djupa och varma tack.

Kära svenskar!

Alla vi som bor och verkar i Sverige är lyckligt lottade. Vi är satta att ta hand om denna vackra del av jorden. Ett land rikt på levande miljöer, kultur och framstående verksamheter. Ett land att känna stolthet över.

Från bördiga Österlen till storslagna Lapporten i norr.

Från forskningsfartyg i Bohusläns skärgård till Gotlands fornminnen.

Från världsarvet i Falu koppargruva till framtidssatsningar i norra Norrland.

Det är en stor förmån att få ha upplevt så mycket, och mött så många människor, i vårt avlånga land.

Under detta jubileumsår, då vi uppmärksammar 500-årsminnet av valet av Gustav Vasa till Sveriges kung samt mitt 50-årsjubileum, har Drottningen och jag återigen besökt Sveriges 21 län.

Även om det finns olikheter, har vi slagits av att det som verkligen förenar, är den starka känslan av sammanhållning: av stolthet över historien och optimismen inför framtiden.

Kära svenskar!

Den resa som vi gemensamt har gjort under de senaste 50 åren är imponerande. Dagens Sverige är i dag en internationellt erkänd forskningsnation. Den tekniska och medicinska utvecklingen har bidragit till ökat välstånd.

Samtidigt har medvetenheten ökat om att vi måste hushålla med jordens resurser. Att ha fått följa denna utveckling tillsammans med er, Sveriges folk, har varit och är ett privilegium.

När jag i dag summerar mina 50 år på Sveriges tron så vill jag samtidigt blicka framåt.

Det är min förhoppning att nu, och under kommande år, få fortsätta att tjäna vårt Sverige. I både med- och motgång. I goda tider, såväl som i tider med stora utmaningar.

Ett Sverige med fast förankring i sin historia, och med en stadig blick mot en ljus och lycklig framtid.

För Sverige – i tiden.

Tack!

Speech held by H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf at the Royal Palace in Stockholm on Sep. 15, 2023.

[debussyandbooks]

9 people i want to know better 💫

darling @luthiest tagged me soooo

last song: gabriel pierné - la danseuse espagnole (amazing piece thank you pierné)

last show: as in the very last thing i watched or the show i followed before the one im currently following?? 😢 if the former karl fredrik på österlen (sort of a feelgood meditative reality thing about a florist's job/ life), if the latter kara para aşk (turkish drama/ romance)

currently watching: sefirin kızı (another turkish drama/ romance)

currently reading: sayings and anecdotes of diogenes the cynic (so light philosophy)

i tag @ruby-learns @room13943 @ghostinzero @alioshakaramazov @beautymaleficent @isbluecool @lettersfromthelighthouse @gushuwa @cressyreads if they wanna do this hihi (and im sorry if youve already done it and i just havent seen it) 🍋