This house is the 5th house that I've owned and they all have had one special thing in common. A fireplace. It's very relaxing to light a fire and then just sit there and starr into it, in a similar fashion that my ancestors probably have done for thousands and thousands of years before me. That's what I like about it. It's somehow timeless. Lots of other stuff (electricity, nuclear power, etc) are invented but will either be replaced with something else over time or dissappear due to disasters or similar. With a fire, it doesn't really make a difference if you are sitting inside a nice house, in a rough cave or outside in the bush. The fire is the magic component and most probably one key reason why the human beings have survived through history.

So now when it's getting colder and darker, the fireplace is really special. Or like Confucius put it "Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness".

One of my favourite bands as a teenager was Slade. I always had lots of arguments with my friend Johan who was a T.Rex fan, about what band that was the best. I insisted in a classic inmature black and white way, that Slade were super heros and T.Rex were crap. When I now look on how Elvira is talking about her favourite band, My Chemical Romance, it's about the same bullshit arguments. Well, I realized after a while that T.Rex were quite good and much more cool, but I never admitted it to Johan. Today we still play T.Rex quite often, but never Slade ... They were very good though and also very successful.The only vinyl album with Slade that still remains in my collection, is actually Slade in Flame. The rest were probably lost during separations or trading. I found lots of boxes with nostalgic old stuff when we moved into the house and of course I browsed through the albums and got some memory flashbacks. They will most certainly never be played again, but it's also hard to dump them.

"And I'm far, far away
with my head up in the clouds
And I'm far, far away
with my feet down in the crowds
Lettin' loose around the world
But the call of home is loud still as loud"

PS. My Chemical Romance is really crap or I am really old ;-) I feel sorry for the youngsters of today ...