Wednesday, August 5th, 2009 at
12:08 pm
I (an Englishman) live in Sweden with my Swedish wife, and we rent an apartment in the middle of quite a large town in the middle of Sweden.
When the summer finally arrives we do not want to be in the flat/apartment in town, so with the help of a friendly local bank, we managed to buy a very small torp out in the countryside.
A torp is very much like a Scottish croft and basically is a small, red timber house with a large red barn, usually in a large clearing in the forest where, in the past, the people living there were self-sufficient, growing food and keeping livestock .

The house is well over 100 years old and not a lot has changed as far as normal facilities are concerned so it is a case of water from the well – and so on.
Back to basics indeed.
Needless to say, our Norwegian Forest Cat loves to be here as well and soon reverts back to nature, unfortunately for the local small animal population.
I was rudely woken up by my wife’s screams the other night.
The cat had brought her a present in bed – a small, live furry animal.
Absolute chaos! Oh dear ;o)
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