Confessions of a displaced hedgehog

A displaced hedgehog is a figure - or rather an image - from Tove Jansson's Moomin books. This is how I can best describe myself. This blog is mostly about being displaced.

Saturday, 27 June 2009

Home to Sweden

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Everybody keeps asking us when we are going home to Sweden for summer. (Nobody asks if we are going to Sweden). A legitimate question. The ...

Friday, 26 June 2009

Can it be still more complicated?

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I have praised myself for finally understanding the assessment system in Cambridge. Could I be more wrong? I haven't even started, judg...

Working from home

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In my youth, the worst curse was to have to go to work. My father was a composer, my mother an art critic. She was employed at the Academy o...

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Thursday, 25 June 2009

T-shirt privilege

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Tomorrow, I can wear a T-shirt to work if I want to. It will cost me £2 which go to charity. Last autumn, we had a jeans day. Jeans privileg...

Sunday, 21 June 2009

Herbaceous

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I have until recently only encountered the word "herbaceous" in "Spotted and Herbaceous Backson" in Winnie-the-Pooh . I ...

Friday, 19 June 2009

Out of sync

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It is a holiday in Sweden today. Midsummer. All our friends are in the country or in the archipelago. Here, it has been an ordinary, quite b...

Tuesday, 16 June 2009

Hard decisions

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I have frequently served as a referee for promotions and appointments all over the world. Promotions are easy: you warmly recommend a collea...

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