Yes, it's Juliet! Amazing the stuff you remember from high school English classes, isn't it? Anyway, I'm not thinking of Shakespeare's play at the moment, even though it is quite topical with TWO productions beginning in Stockholm this week. The beautiful Juliet I'm thinking about is the one we saw here in Nynäshamn last year.

My intrepid husband has just discovered that she is available for charter, complete with her crew (including a chef). I looked at the website, drooled over the specs and pictures (check out that marble bathroom, will you!), but failed to find a price. I suppose it is the age old notion that if you have to ask, then you obviously can't afford it. Which is so true in this case, but wow, what a gorgeous boat. Of course, the only reason I'm not going to email and enquire is that pets are not allowed onboard. We can't possibly dream of sailing sans Lambi, Bruce and Sheila, so like Romeo, our Juliet dream will never be consummated.

On the subject of bathrooms, our renovations have begun and we will be living onboard the boat rather than at the building site. The builders have been great so far, but there is mess, power cuts, water cuts, dust, noise and all the other annoying things that come with a major renovation of all 35 apartments in our building. We have the painters due in our apartment on Thursday to do all of the window frames (they need two weeks), then there will be drilling through our clothes storage room for new piping and in late November/early December (builder's estimate - my guess is to add AT LEAST a month to that!) we will have a brand new bathroom and in January they'll do the kitchen. I don't know why there is a delay, but I'm not complaining.

We went out and looked at tiles and fittings and managed to agree without any bloodshed. Who'd've thunk it? I won't post pictures or even tell you the colour. You'll have to wait until they are on the wall and floors in our bathroom, but we are both really happy. We had already decided to ditch the bathtub and opt for a shower only. But the cubicles they offered sucked big time - tacky patterned frosted glass and so small that even Kate Moss would have to breathe in to step inside. The alternative was somewhat bigger but with a shower curtain to billow then wrap itself around you. Nope. Not this little black duck. So we've decided to have a clear glass wall built the length of the bathroom with a sliding door in the middle. This should be a huge shower and as it is a small bathroom, it will look more spacious with this solution.

The golden autumn light still continues to stun and delight.



Have I mentioned that I Love Autumn!


I know, I know. Could I blog anymore about Autumn? Well, yes I could. And I probably will. It's just such a wonderful time of the year. It makes me very happy and joyful. Plus it's a great time to find the extraordinary in the ordinary, isn't it? The colours. The fresh air. The clear skies. A time to forget all that small stuff and go out celebrate life.

And on that note, I may not be around for a few days - work to do plus we hope to sail away for the weekend while the painters do their thing.