Tête-à-tête with Mr and Mrs Bug...

Tonight is the night Swedish girls pick seven different types of flowers, one of each, before they go to bed. This should be done in complete silence, even if it means choking on the giggles that threaten to erupt from inside...

The seven flowers are then put under your pillow... and the man of your life will appear in your dreams...

Usually, the only outcome of this ceremonious floral gathering is a family of bugs transferred from the flowers to your bed, who will greet you in the morning, happy to have woken up in such civilised sleeping accommodation...

To all of you, whether you celebrate Midsummer or not, I wish you a very special Friday and that tonight you may dream of the love of your life...!

(Wreath made of a willow bunch from IKEA, first soaked in the bath tub overnight. The "ribbons" are torn out of an old sheet, and the rambling rose and ivy found in our garden. Tomorrow, you are welcome to join this wreath as it moves outside and finds a new home in a walnut tree..)