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Fashion queen has design as passion Sotheby's International Reality came out with a new selling prospect which is indeed the home of Filippa Knuttsson, also known as Filippa K. She established her well known Swedish fashion line in 1993 and has now high street stores all around Scandinavia and Central Europe. The apartment, two story penthouse suite, is situated in one of the Stockholms most valuable area in Norrmalm. Nearby the city's fashion distict. The house is built in the late 19th Century but it was recently refurbished by famous Swedish architect couple Björn and Marianne Aaro. The apartment is - as apartments in Stockholm often are - an co-op apartment. It has 7 rooms and a kitchen (with four bedrooms). Living area is rather big: 340m2. It has one backlash: the house has no lift. Perhaps Filippa was tired to bear grocieries up to the third floor? The bidding starts from 25.000.000 SEK (around 3M€) and the monthly fee for the apartment is 9617 SEK/month. Look...

I wonder why this haven't made news here in Finland. It has all the incredients to that. According to Swedish flight radar system a Norwegian pilot flying a passenger plane NAX3194 from Copenhagen to Stockholm flew a penis figure to the sky while waiting landing permission to Arlanda. Flight radar system recorded the route in every 10 seconds and there it was: Pilot has not been reached for commentaries, but the person from the Swedish flight control verifies the news. Picture has been circulating in social media and thus, it is also verified to be a real thing. This happened on the 5th December, 2012. Norwegian pilot drew a penis to the Swedish sky. Photo: Flightradar24

It happened again. Gävle bocken, a gigantic goat made from straw, was burned last night.  As I wrote couple of weeks ago, this goat has become a phenomenon in the world due to fact that it is more likely it is burned down than it survives to Christmas. Burning of the straw goats (though not so big) is an old Nordic tradition for the darkest time of the year. Burning washed away the bad spirits and bad luck away and was a promise for a good crops for next harvest. So, Gävle's citizens are saved from bad spirits also this year. Since it was raised fist time in the 1960's the goat has been burned almost 30 times. Some years ago it was burned by an American tourist who actually thought that it was the traditions people just had to do - and he thought himself lucky. So, this morning when I visited Gävle Goat's site , I saw the smoking rests of it: RIP Gävle Goat - Gävle bocken 13.12.2012 The Goat's last words in Twitter were: "The last hour is here.I'm...