86-year-old Birgit in Kävlinge was shocked when she received the message from the housing association. Her monthly fee will be increased from SEK 4,384 to SEK 7,153 a month. A big increase for Birgit, who has 13,000 kroner a month in pension.
– It means living even more frugally, she says.
“Turns into living even more frugally”
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Scanians suffer more than others from the darkness
It’s not just what you imagine, the January darkness is a trial for many. Skånings often suffer more than others, because normally we don’t even have snow to make up for the scarce winter light.
– We are affected in many ways when it is dark. Many find it difficult to fall asleep at night, because our circadian rhythm is disrupted, says Thorbjörn Laike, professor of environmental psychology at Lund University.
Scania hardest hit by winter darkness
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Kadir saved the life of a little boy
In the middle of the journey, the bus driver Kadir Qaadir saw in the rearview mirror that something was not right with the mother and her four children. He stopped the bus and ran to the pram where one of the children had stopped breathing, picked up the little boy and rushed into the hospital in Kristianstad.
– I saw that the boy was not breathing and checked his airways so that the tongue was not lying backwards in the throat, then I picked him up against my shoulder and started running towards the hospital which was a couple of hundred meters away, says Kadir Qaadir.
The bus driver Kadir saved the life of a little boy
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Tongrots-r on the decline
The dialect of Scanian youth has changed and the typical raspy Scanian r seems to be on the decline. Greta Horn does research at the University of Gothenburg and she sees that more and more young Scanians speak with tongue-tip-r.
The screeching Scanian R is threatened
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