Ropossa and wonderful toys

I often go to a place called Ropossa (Sapporo, read backwards in Japanese). They have lots of wonderful toys. Last time, I was shown a very interesting handkerchief, which I wrote about on my other blog.

Magic Bar Twister renewal open

Our magic bar has moved to a new place, so here is a link to my post about that on my other blog.

Ha kul ljud och oljud

There is a shop close to where I live where they sell clothes from the "Fjällräven" brand. This is a Swedish brand, and some of the clothes have Swedish printed on them. This one was a bit weird... It says:

"Ha ljud och oljud djur, till exempel skogsträd vajande i vinden, tyst, inte erfarenhet av i vardagen"

This is not correct Swedish. It is even somewhat difficult to understand what they may have been aiming for. Not it says something like: "Have sounds and noise animals, for example trees swaying in the wind, quietly, not experience of daily life" (the grammatical mistakes are imitating the grammatical mistakes in the Swedish). Who designs these shirts? Since it is a Swedish brand, you would think they had someone available who can write Swedish.

Rappers for sale

In my local supermarket you can by your own rappers. And it is cheap.

Dead frog at work

There was a dead frog outside my office.

A crashed display window monitor

I am not sure what kind of shop this is, but their display window has crashed.

Licorice green tea

When I was in Sweden in May, I visited a licorice and salmiakki specialty store. They had green tea with licorice. In Japan everyone likes green tea (you often get green tea at restaurants instead of water) but almost everyone hates licorice.

I bought a bag of this tea and recently started drinking it. It is actually very good! Even the packaging is clever and it comes with a clever system for keeping the rest of the tea dry.