Swedish Mondays @ Espresso rescue

We often get requests for a book/dvd exchange forum and now it is here. One of our members has started up Swedish Mondays @ Espresso rescue.
While serving nice ecological, Fair Trade Coffee Johanna will also have her car parked outside the little red Coffee Van, containing Swedish books, magazines and Dvd's for you to borrow.
To use this service you will need to register and there is a small membership fee of $10 per 6months.
There will be a list where you write down which books you are borrowing - we don't want to lose any books - and when you return the books you need to sign the list as returned. There will be a fee for any lost/ruined items (each book/dvd will be marked with it's own "lost fee" as this needs to be decided by the owner of the book/dvd).
Do you have books that you are willing to lend out? Please bring them, marked with your Name/Phone Number and a "lost fee". Johanna will then add them to the list of books available for lending.

Swedish Mondays @ Espresso rescue is starting this coming Monday (6.30 - 12.00) by the Red Coffee Van , 399 Hutt road, (outside laser strike bowling) in Petone.

Any questions? Contact Johanna on books@sweden.org.nz or 0226924883

Happy Fathersday to all Dads in Sweden !!

Sweden Celebrates Father's day (Fars Dag) on the 2nd Sunday of November. If your Dad is living in Sweden - Don't forget to call him this evening as it's Fathers Day in Sweden today!

Facebook pages of interest

For those of you who are on Facebook, we have some great news:
One of our members has just started a Facebook page for Swedes in Wellington – Great initiative – please join [Nu har vi en liten samlingsplats dar vi kan prata, rekommendera, organisera fika traffar, utbyta tankar och roliga anekdoter! Gammal som ung ar valkommen att delta! Hoppas pa manga trevliga inlagg!]:
https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Swedes-in-Wellington/277539625618615


Did you also know there is a Facebook page for Swedes in New Zealand? Please join:
https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/5712607202/

10 Nov - St Martin's Day (or "Martin Goose")

10 Nov - St Martin's Day (or "Martin Goose"):St Martin of Tours originally took the goose as his personal symbol, because when trying to avoid being ordained bishop he had hidden in a goose pen, where he was betrayed by the cackling of the geese. He celebrates his nameday in November, when the geese are ready for killing. St Martin’s Day was an important medieval autumn feast, and the custom of eating goose spread to Sweden from France. Black soup is served with entrails of various kinds, as well as goose-liver sausage, stewed prunes and potatoes. The goose is stuffed with apples and prunes and roasted slowly while being constantly basted in its own fat. The carcass is then boiled in water, which is thickened into sauce. The custom is particularly popular in Skåne in southern Sweden, where goose farming has long been practised, but it has gradually spread northwards. (source: Sweden.se)

6 Nov - Gustav Adolfsdagen (Gustavus Adolphus Day):

6 Nov - Gustav Adolfsdagen (Gustavus Adolphus Day):

A general flag day in Sweden, celebrated on November 6 in memory of king Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (Swedish: Gustav II Adolf), who was killed on this day in 1632 at the Battle of Lützen. This is the day to have a Gustavus Adolphus tart, yum!