Radio Korrespondenterna (Correspondents)

Yesterday’s  day of back exercises was very successful and now my back is feeling much better. However, I am continuing the exercises. In fact it was so much better that I was back at work on The Red House.
I did some more painting of planks and then spent a fair amount of time in the area above the upstairs door onto the balcony. This is because an enterprising woodpecker had created a large hole in the centre plank up there, and for many years birds had nested there, and it turns out, moved a lot of seeds into their nest area, which had attracted mice, so there was a lot of ancient mouse poo in the (well-chewed and hacked) glass-fibre insulation. It was just lovely - I hope I don’t get Weils disease from all the dusty crap! (see extra)
Back in the 1920's, when this house was built, they didn't bother with unnecessarily fine joints! But the roof has withstood the weight of snow over nearly 100 winters, so I'm not complaining.
In the evening we went to the town theatre to listen to three journalists from the (public service) Swedish Radio (SR). These correspondents spend a lot of their working lives in far-flung places but every summer they return to Sweden for a holiday, to update their training, and for some of them to do a tour of Sweden, talking to their listeners across the country.  It’s the first time they have been to Härnösand so they wondered how it would go. It went very well, the theatre was packed with very few empty seats.
As soon as I spoke enough Swedish to understand the radio I was very impressed by the quality and breadth of the talk-radio service. Listening to these journalists today just increased my admiration.  It was interesting to hear that as well as presenting “breaking” news they also spend time doing follow-up work, returning to find out how things have gone, or keeping in contact with people  to see how their story developed.
My blip shows Naila Saleem, who specialises in culture, talking about the picture in the background, which  is the Louvre in Abu Dhabi. Also in the picture is Alice Petrén who works with news about migration. It was a very cool evening!