My post-lockdown commute back to work

[Mendip]

It is the direct translation but in Sweden girls become knee weak (knäsvag) and when their knees gets weak enough then they fell for you.

This girl doesn't seem to be 'knee weak' for me... in fact she's been giving me some strange looks.

I think it'll be safer not to try out my new Swedish phrases on her.

Don't do it, it is unlikely that you will appreciate surströmming.
You are a Briton and already have problems with Scandinavian food so you'd better stick to the whistling ready-made meals until you get back home to peas and pies, surströmming is not for everyone!

Today is Saturday, no school day for my grand childs so I will bring them and their father to Tony's Bamboo Cafe in Hua Thanon so that they can learn what a Big Boys English Breakfast is.

and lovely it was.
Brought home some of his homemade pies and homemade English breakfast and Lincolnshire sausages.

There's something very unfair in life when I'm a Briton yet stuck in Gothenburg and considering eating some rotten stinking fish in a can, and you're a 'Goth' and eating superb British food in Koh Samui. I was obviously bad in a previous carnation.

Last night I had a whistling Swedish meatballs and potatoes in gravy as they've run out of whistling lasagnes. It was awful.

That sounds like a challenge, Mendip!

Not really... I've heard rumours about this stuff. But, in the interests of research I will try some if I can find a small tin somewhere.

Just the fact that this is tinned food yet has to be kept in a fridge is warning enough.