Notes from the north.

Why northern houses frame the view instead of surrendering to it, and what that does to a room in February.

A short list, tested over four winters. Most of it is wool. None of it is a laptop stand.

Salt is patient. Everything on this coast is designed around the assumption that it will win eventually.

Three days in Jämtland with no plan beyond keeping a stove lit and walking until the light went.

Sharp knives and a heavy pan matter more than an island. Notes from eight years of restocking cupboards in February.

The forecast covers an area sixty kilometres wide. The window covers the one you are standing in.

We were asked for one about forty times. We built a sauna instead, and here is the reasoning.

One boat a day sounds like a constraint. After a week in the archipelago it starts to feel like the point.

Getting here takes most of a day from almost anywhere. That is the price of the view, and it is worth being honest about it.

How far north you go changes what a window is for. A note on orientation, glazing and the long blue hour.