Fracas Noir || Susanne Waldau - te Brake I swear to tell the truth as I know it…

Midnight….my day is finally coming to an end. Apart from a somewhat longer sleep (woke up at 8.30), it’s been full on. One meeting, and one cancelled. Completed a marketing plan…it’s now out the door. Laundry has been going on the whole day, the final wash being ready in some 20 minutes.
Luckily there was a [...]

I’m sitting here on the sofa, super relaxed, with a glass of Bailey’s in one hand and an espresso in the other. We’ve just come home from a day out in town. As it was just me and Victoria with little Sebastian in tow, we’ve been going in and our of shops for the most [...]

I’m reading an excellent book, The First Crusade by Thomas Asbridge. The tagline “the roots of Conflict between Christianity and Islam” makes it all the more interesting. Although not a brick in book terms, it’s heavy and when I’m tired, sometime between the hour of 12 and 1 am, I manage to get past a [...]

If there is one passion that has clung on to me like something sweet and sticky, always too tempting not to consume, it’s history. I am what they call a history buff. I live for the past, and I would happily put myself in a time-machine, never to come back….almost. I believe it all started [...]

I’ve started reading again. It’s been months since I read a book from cover to cover. In fact I was half way through a book called the Bad Girl when Sebastian was born. But if I ever quit a book, I never resume reading it again. NEVER! And thus the Bad Girl shall wither [...]

Aaah yes…Copenhagen part II. I have fond memories of Copenhagen, my earliest memories going back to around the age of 5 or 6. There was Tivoli which was the unbeatable amusement park for a young girl. Equally the toystores were always better than their Swedish equivalents and lunches consisted of red pølse (Danish hotdogs). What [...]

Another bright and beautiful day was welcoming me as I woke up this morning. I could feel my tummy making sounds, indicating its need for food. As of yesterday I decided already to kick-start my protein diet, but it will take some time for my body to readjust. There is a simple reason, apart from [...]

So here it is again, Valentines, the biggest commercial fraud history has ever witnessed. And this time there is no Valentine present. I was under the impression that the biggest present ever would be here, but oh no, life had another plan in store. So I need to dedicate some time today to a) find [...]

I’ve just come out of a hot bath, where I’ve been soaking myself for a good hour whilst reading my new book – The Bad Girl, by Mario Vargas Llosa and sucking on ice lollies – a tremendous combination on all three accounts. The bath was hot, and the ice lollies cool, providing a rather [...]

I have the tendency of becoming obsessed with certain topics. Jack the Ripper, Charles Manson, secret societies, esoterica, death penalty, the darker side of human nature….in fact that is what these subjects mostly have in common. The darker side. It started early on, as early as around 4, 5 years old. I recall seeing a [...]