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The Swedish Terminator

Gert Forsström

A podcast with strange episodes from a strange country - Sweden! Listen and learn how a Terminator lives its life there!

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2:38

My neighbours cat (59)

The Swedish Terminator ·

2009/11/25

We don´t have so many species of felines like in America. We´ve just got two, the lynx and the alley cat, that is the domestic cat. The lynx you don´t see very often, it´s very shy. Sometimes you can see tracks of it, especially when there is snow. We call the lynx the lion of the North. But there are people who´ve seen lynxes. I remember an Englishman who was in our school to speak English with the kids. We talked for a while, and he told us that the first day he was in Sweden, he saw a

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0:49

A day in a peasants life (58)

The Swedish Terminator ·

2009/11/25

My friend of whom I told in the episode about Walborg has a lot of land. He has inherited it from his father. But he hasn´t got time to grow it and therefore he has leased out his fields and meadows to a neighbour. That man, Gösta, takes a 10 km walk everyday with his dog in the morning after having worked with the cows. He has had farming till he got over 80 years. That´s unusual for a Swedish peasant. I´ve made a PPT-presentation with him. That one is on my own Swedish site. Here is a

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4:16

The Swedish history c (57)

The Swedish Terminator ·

2009/11/25

As I mentioned before the end of the 17th century was a period of autocracy. The time between 1700 and 1721 is called The Great Northern War. The king was Karl the XIIth, with the by name The Warrior King. He fought against Denmark, Poland and Russia. He beat the Russians at Narva. Karl had 10 000 and the Russians were 30 000. But Russia had a tsar, Peter the Great, who was modernizing his country and his army. In the battle at Poltava Karl was defeated. He went to Turkey to look for help

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1:20

Cutting christmas tree (56)

The Swedish Terminator ·

2009/11/24

Where we have our summerhouse is a little piece of land that belongs to the lot. There and on the commonage we use to take two Christmas trees, one little one and another bigger. It´s really fantastic to walk with the ax and saw in ones hands in the snow (unfortunately no snow on the picture) and watch for a spruce with breath steaming in the fresh air. That´s Nordic. And to take it on your own lot. The first one is an Advent tree for the summer house and the other one is for our house in

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3:20

The price of peace (53)

The Swedish Terminator ·

2009/11/24

To live in a country that has had peace for almost 200 years is good. We have been neutral during the two World Wars. Some say we were cowards who didn´t participate. Sometimes people from the US say it, but they didn´t go in the wars without being attacked. When I was young everybody who was 18 (young men) had to enroll. And most of them must do their military service – me too. I served in the anti-aircraft defense, about 90 km from home. I didn´t think much about Sweden´s position between

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1:57

A pig on the road (52)

The Swedish Terminator ·

2009/11/22

My wife and I use to go to a Christmas fair at mansion called Taxinge. The last year, in the dusk, when we went home, we saw a little wild boar piglet in the meadow. It was striped and very cute, as if it wore a striped pyjamas. This was the first time we saw such an animal in the nature. We had seen the tracks of them in the wood where we use to pick mushrooms but we haven´t seen them alive. This year, when we went home from the same market, we saw an animal the second time, but much

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1:49

The pond (51)

The Swedish Terminator ·

2009/11/22

A plague is ravaging the summer house area where we have our weekend cottage. Everybody found ponds. My nearest neighbor devoted a couple of vacations to dig up a space for a pond. He´s got fish in it, fish that breed. I´d never do that, that is dig in the ground. But there are other solutions. On one side of the house there were a place with soil and grass on the rock. I thought there should be space enough for a pond under it. But it was hard work to get away all the soil and grass from

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2:34

An intolerable man (49)

The Swedish Terminator ·

2009/11/22

As fast as I saw him I understood that I wouldn´t like him. We were in a youth hostel on the west coast and wanted to take it easy in a calm environment. This gentleman was about 35-40 years old and he turned up with his boys on the place where you have your food. The boys played with their mobiles while the father whistled. I didn´t understand why until his wife put out her head and cried: “I´m not a dog! I´ll come down when I´m ready”! This occurred several times and the couple seemed

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2:37

Swedish food (48)

The Swedish Terminator ·

2009/11/22

Now I´ll tell you a little about Swedish food. Like the cuisine in other countries cooking in Sweden is a mixture of influences from other countries and epoch´s. Also in our country the pizza and the kebab have triumphed. But there are some dishes one can say they are Swedish. The first one is Janssons frestelse (Janssons temptation). The ingredients are potatoes (8-10), onion (2), one tinned sprat, cream (2 -2,5 dl) pepper and some salt. Take an ovenproof casserole. Grease it and heat

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2:26

Coincidences (47)

The Swedish Terminator ·

2009/11/22

This episode I devote to coincidences. My grandmothers uncle was a bishop. His episcopate was very large. All of northern Sweden was his diocese with the town Härnösand as cathedral city. His name was Lars Landgren with the nickname Långlars (Tall Lars). Before he became a bishop he was vicar in an area where there was neither law nor order. The name of the place is Delsbo and there is a saying that is as follows: “The dottle in Delsbo he disappeared he.” To this part of the country came

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