He is not only inspiration to my illustrations he is also the cutest and wildest pensioner I know. Nantwich Lad aka Spot came from England to Sweden as a birthday present for my sister 16 December 2004, 10 years ago!! It was a cold and snowy winter that year and he was acting as if he had never seen or experienced cold, snow and ice before. I lived in England at the time and I was helping Family Smith to ride their young horses. They had this very furry pony that was not doing a great lot. He was old already back then and had had an injury to one of his front tendon "Why don't you send Spot to you sister?" Cheryl asked me one day. I thought why to send that hairy old thing with bad legs all the way to Sweden. As I got to hear his history I realized that this pony is just not any old pony he is a very special pony with a extra big heart.  According to his passport Spot is born 1981 and I have heard that he was bought on Beston cattle market as a young pony...

Today me and Mila celebrated another little friends first birthday. I have been working on her present for a couple of weeks and I most say I am very happy with the result. I got great ideas from the mother of what she would like, the group of small friends in a Prague environment as a great memory for the future. So here they are... Rozie and birthday girl in the middle, Mila and her baloon, Loki walking around, Manon crawling and Lisa checking out a present. Significant for Prague is the astronomical clock on Staromeska (Old town square) Charlesbridge and also Narodni Divaldlo ( The national theater)

Let me tell you about Mr Nikolovski and his friend Adad. But where do I start? Do I start to tell you that they can discuss for hours what year, what month, what day and even what time they did certain things. Bigger events as well as smaller events. " I bought my last packet of cigarettes two weeks ago!" says Adad when they are having a discussion whether or not you can call yourself a none smoker when you smoke regular every time you have a beer. " No you didn't! You bought it one week and three days ago when we went to the cinema!" Says Mr Nikolovski with a great certainty. " Are you sure?" says Adad and starts to explain what he did earlier that same day he bought this particular packet of cigarettes that he is holding in his hand. And this is how they can go on and on and on for a while about the same thing over and over. They discuss politics with a great passion and loud voices. They wave their hands as their voices are getting louder and ...