Sweden, Sweden, Sweden... Bork! Bork!! BORK!!!! Slacks Creek, Queensland, Australia
By Peppa on 13-Aug-23. Waypoint GCABM0Q

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20-Aug-23
Hello...

As I prepare to archive this event I wanted to say a few words of thanks...

Thank you.

Whether you came from Brisbane City, Logan, Caboolture, the Gold Coast, Toowoomba, the Sunshine Coast, Sweden, or wherever Georode jetted in from, I really appreciate the effort each of you made to attend...

Thank you.

Your spirit, attitude and willingness to participate was brilliant and beyond what I as a host could have hoped for...

Thank you.

For being part of our community that hopefully brings you as much joy as it does to me...

Finally, to Rickard... Without getting maudlin, but your Bookmark List gives me some latitude, I say tthhhrrrpppptttt.... Mate your generosity of your time is a testament to your character... And your character, although way to Swedish for my taste, is one that I could only hope to come close to emulating...

Hopefully we can all fika again soon...

Peppa
(aka Robert)
 
20-Aug-23
Time to remove this icon from the map...

Play on...
 
13-Aug-23
Vale Rickard! Miss you. Took your boat on our maiden voyage today. Had to deal with stressed person because you werent there to show how its done. Fuck cancer! In the world I walk cancer doesnt existed and you are the hero to end all heros! Cant wait to see you in a loin cloth xx
 
13-Aug-23
Au revoir,tills vi ses igenRickard?? Thank you Robert for hosting Rickard's farewell??
 
13-Aug-23
What a day, I had been planning this day for a while to complete 4 loops in a day. I needed six caches to achieve my goal. Along with my personal challenges it was going to be a long and calculated day of caching. It is good I have a good friend and my caching buddy to help me along today. We also grabbed a few extra caches as we drove past.

The day started with a drive to Nambour where we got two caches. Then it was a drive back to Brisbane in time for an important, mega event at IKEA. Then it was off for a paddle in Logan before a drive to Redlands. From there we drove to the Northside to grab a few more caches and finish off on two caches in the area.

Had to take a moment out and put aside our caching plans to attend this MEGA event. A very well attended event and I think maybe the new Logan caching meetup place. Was nice to see so many people attend and so many conversations. The food was good and cheap, the conversations flowed, and the event was a huge success. So honoured to have been present, thank you.
 
13-Aug-23
It was lovely to see so many people make the effort to attend today. We arrived early and already there were a good number of people to chat to. The concept of fika seems to have been embraced by everyone wholeheartedly and IKEA proved to be the ideal place to experience it. Many thanks to karicka for the bonus caching items received and to Peppa for organising and hosting this event.
 
13-Aug-23
That was the first! Given the theme of this event was Sweden and everything Swedish, we were given permission by the kind CO to attend this one remotely on FaceTime as we are currently in Sweden.
In Stockholm, the event was starting at 1:30 am, so we set the alarms and got up, and then called in on a very large and merry crew at IKEA on the other side of the world in Brisbane.
It was morning coffee time for them, and so lovely for us to see so many happy and friendly faces.
Of course, it was also wonderful to connect with the Brisbane Swede Karicka , who is now based in Brisbane and is a great part of our Geocaching community there.
Greetings again to all from Stockholm!
A million thanks to Peppa for this outrageously wonderful event and for including us!
Domsky
 
13-Aug-23
Yep. Great turnout.
 
13-Aug-23
Thanks for organising this event! Great theme and location! Almost qualified for Mega status!
Cheers
Georode
 
13-Aug-23
Thanks for hosting Peppa. We thoroughly enjoyed our time and the food.

#3767 - TFTEC
 
13-Aug-23
Wow, what a wonderful roll-up of very happy geocachers attending this fabulous event in such an ideal location.
Apart from the usual suspects, it was great to meet the South African team of Jenpeteh and team domsky, face-timing in from Stockholm ????
Also, many happy memories were made today by our enthusiastic photographer, E_Smiley, who will be sorely missed when she moves to Alice Springs ??
Thank you, Peppa, your events never fail to impress, and this was no exception ????????????
 
13-Aug-23
Put on an event and they will come and sure enough they did!!
What a fabulous turnout of geocachers from near and far enjoying fika and breakfast. Karicka worked the room and it was great to spend some time reminiscing about the good times spent geocaching with him.
Many thanks to Peppa for hosting this event.
 
13-Aug-23
Thank you Peppa for a great event, wonderful to see so many cachers there.
I also enjoyed the food - I spied was something called Choklad Not. Clearly it wasn't chocolate so it wasn't going to bring undone all the good work I have done in not eating chocolate for a month!
 
13-Aug-23
Sweden, Sweden, Sweden... Bork! Bork!! BORK!!!!
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Thank you for the great FIKA Peppa. I reckon you can organise a MEGA single-handedly!

Wonderful to catch up with all the social butterflies and a day filled with mixed emotions! Thank you @karicka for the hammock, it will surely have a special place at the Red Centre where I'm going to live and where first met you! I will make sure every cacher who visit will have a go and will definitely take a photo for you.

I've attached some photos here but I posted a lot more on my Facebook! ??

Thank you again Peppa! ?? See you in Alice or an event somewhere! ??
 
13-Aug-23
Nice to see so many people at this one. Not normally somewhere you would convince me to go on a Sunday, but the time was good and I need an event for this month's souvenir.

Managed to catch up with quite a few people, and my mini bike rack that I bought is just perfect. Wink
 
13-Aug-23
A great time of catchup. Thank you Karicka for the time you spent to chat with us.

Enjoy your time with your family.

Hope to catch up soon.

TFTCache Peppa
 
13-Aug-23
Had fun catching up and chatting with the people attending this event. It's alway great to meet new faces and catch up with a few we have met along the way.

Thanks Peppa for put on a great event and making us southeners, feel so welcome.
 
13-Aug-23
Have met 2 or 3 ppl in my life that speak very much like the Swedish chef, both native Californians
 
13-Aug-23
You had us at Bork, on our way!
 
13-Aug-23
An extremely late decision but I’m here
 
13-Aug-23
TUFTE largest one we have attended in a while.
 
13-Aug-23
On our way!
??????
 
13-Aug-23
Noisy fun bunch with an amusing log TFTC
 
13-Aug-23
Thanks for bringing us here. A great turnout and an opportunity to get some meatballs for the freezer.
 
13-Aug-23
It was good to see some of faces behind the handles. Thanks Peppa
 
13-Aug-23
?? TFTC?? JENPETEH, The H,s , South Africans ????living in Tassie ???? GeoCaching our way around Australia and loving it ??

Awesome group of people, thanks for being so welcoming ??????
 
13-Aug-23
Not sure I’ve ever been to an ikea but I would have liked to have attended this one. I’m sure everyone is having fun and all those that attend fulfil their caching goals
 
13-Aug-23
13/8/23
 
13-Aug-23
This was a lot of fun. Nice breakfast, good chats and a breakthrough on a tough puzzle!
And I picked up some IKEA products for home too.
Spend your commission wisely, Herr Peppa and TFTE!
 
13-Aug-23
Thanks for hosting this event Peppa, a great turn out, managed to navigate out the store without getting any not required excess products, and we found the car without too much hassle ??
 
13-Aug-23
Thanks Peppa event lot of people went there lovely see all ????????
 
13-Aug-23
Good to see crowd today
I love IKEA
Thank you Peppa
??????????
 
13-Aug-23
thank you for enjoy event and wow lots of people cool thank you Peppa well done
 
13-Aug-23
It was gratifying to see such a great turn out for this event. Thank you very much for organising the event Peppa
 
13-Aug-23
What a fantastic turnout! Great work Peppa TFTE
 
13-Aug-23
Fantastic to see such a great crowd gathered together. Thanks Peppa for the well organised event.
 
13-Aug-23
What a super fun time we enjoyed today at Peppa’s Event. Aussie Bob was impressed it was being held somewhere he could enjoy some breakfast while meeting and chatting in the company of other geocachers. And what a great location! We had a large space with tables and chairs all to ourselves and it was perfect. Being in our own area we didn’t annoy anyone else and could feel free to move around amongst our crowd. Thank you Peppa for putting this on today. We are glad we came.
Cheers and happy caching!
 
13-Aug-23
Only the 2nd time to visit an IKEA store and left with no items from the store but it was great to catch up with so many cachers. Thanks for organising Peppa.
 
13-Aug-23
Had such a good time that I forgot about time.
Chatting about caches får and wide and about many more little things.
Feel like I can take some of the honour from the naming of the event.
Tried to have a chat to most of the attendees but know that I missed too many of you.
Hoping that the supplies that I brought will come to good use in future caches or be passed on.

Thank you for attending
R
 
13-Aug-23
Thanks Peppa for holding this Event at IKEA. Great to see so many cachers in the one spot.

No I didn't walk the walk throughout IKEA today, therefore I left with nothing lol.
 
13-Aug-23
A great turnout… even though I thought I was going to be crushed in the stampede upstairs at 9am…

I will have more to say later - no surprises there…
 
13-Aug-23
Wow, wow, wow that was a super sized gathering. Thank you Peppa for organising it. I didn't realise that there was so much space.
Enjoyed my breakfast and coffee and I got to chat with people who I have never met before. Plenty of space for everyone but I think that we may have taken some regulars space.
Thanks for your chat Karicka as I know you were pressed for time as you tried to chat with everyone there.
Signed the Attendance book.
TFTE
 
13-Aug-23
TFTC smile 16641 ?? out and about on a lovely day ?? sign as GS1947 on small logs Signed and replaced??
Thank you, Peppa, for placing this Event for our enjoyment. ????
 
13-Aug-23
Thanks Peppa for getting a group together. It was great to see so many familiar faces get together for a traditional old-style event where everyone mingled and chatted. The venue was great for such a gathering.
 
13-Aug-23
I can definitely say we are a big fan of Fika!!
We enjoyed being shown how to navigate the IKEA cafeteria by a local.
Thank you for putting on another great event Peppa. ????

(Amazingly I managed to get JDavs out of IKEA without spending a small fortune on Swedish Tupperware)
 
13-Aug-23
What a great event that was, a great location, a great crowd & the chance to catch up with some friends & enjoy fika!
Thanks for organising the event Peppa
 
13-Aug-23
Peppa always knows how to put on an event. I need to get better at looking at the event calendar. I am glad that I found out about this last minute and that I could attend. It was nice to chat to people I haven't seen for ages.
 
13-Aug-23
Thank you for organising the event “Sweden, Sweden, Sweden... Bork! Bork!! BORK!!!!” on 13 Aug 2023 Peppa

I only wish I could have stayed longer. Once I win lotto and retire then time will be on my side. As it was I had to run off to work. It was lovely to say hello to many friendly friends new and old, even though some were only a quick hello.
Thank you Rickard for passing on a path tag I will treasure it.

I had forgotten that it takes 10 minutes to work out how to escape IKEA once you’re in!

Take care Rickard.

TFTE Peppa
 
13-Aug-23
It was good to catch up with so many friends

TFTC Peppa
 
12-Aug-23
I will squash this in very briefly before the rest of my day gets busy.
 
12-Aug-23
My intent is to be there. Hubby will be at work so need to juggle some kids before I start work but I think it can be done.
I guess it will be too early for meatballs so cake it will have to be.
Lovely idea so thanks for organising Peppa
 
12-Aug-23
Up in Brisbane for a few days so will be attending 1x
 
12-Aug-23
We are in Brisbane for a few days, so will be great to attend and meet some locals.
 
12-Aug-23
Hälsningar till dig

Jag ser fram emot att träffa alla imorgon... för de besökande cachers som kanske inte känner någon lokalbefolkning än, jag kommer att ha på mig en knallrosa skjorta, men jag hoppas att vi kommer att bli den största, konstigaste sammankomsten i cafeterian...

Jag tror att IKEA har fyllt på med sina pennor och måttband speciellt för detta evenemang...

Om någon har en extra insexnyckel liggandes skulle jag uppskatta dem för ett framtida projekt...

Säkra resor
Peppa



Greetings to you..

I look forward to seeing everyone tomorrow... for those visiting cachers who may not know any locals yet, I will be wearing a bright pink shirt, but I am hoping we will be the largest, strangest gathering in the cafeteria...

I believe IKEA has restocked their pencils and tape measures especially for this event...

If anyone has a spare Allen Key laying around, I would appreciate them for a future project...


Safe Travels
Peppa
 
12-Aug-23
Just been handed a shopping list
I thought I was just going for cake.
 
11-Aug-23
I reckon there’s a good chance I’ll be there.
 
11-Aug-23
We are gonna come.
Thanks for organizing this one Peppa!
 
11-Aug-23
Will be there
 
10-Aug-23
Visiting Brisbane from Tassie. Any excuse to visit IKEA ️.
 
10-Aug-23
Hoping to get time to call in and say hello.
 
10-Aug-23
Could be my last event in QLD or last Sunday around Brisbane area? Will make time. Warning! Will take lots of photos or videos if i remember! (Apologies for not counting already!)

Say fika!!!
 
09-Aug-23
Sounds like a plan… cheers 13
 
09-Aug-23
Will attend. See you there.
 
08-Aug-23
Yep
 
08-Aug-23
There are quite a few translations of "I'll be there" online.
Some I wonder where I'd ever use them???????

????Räkna med mig
????I'll be there

????Jag kommer när jag har samlat mina tankar lite.
????I'll come when I've collected my thoughts a bit.????

????Jag ska vara där i två månader och inseminera inhemska leguaner.
????I'll be there for two months inseminating indigenous iguanas.
????????????

Contextual examples of "I'll be there." in Swedish...
??These sentences come from external sources and may not be accurate. bab.la is not responsible for their content.

????Och vi ses i New York...... när du kommer för att rensa ditt bord, din skithög.
????Oh, and I'll see you back in New York when you come to clean out your desk @$$wipe.

????Först kommer jag tala som astronom och sedan som en bekymrad medlem av människosläktet.
????I'll talk first as an astronomer,????and then as a worried member of the human race.??

????Du kommer att fastna där ute...... och jag måste hämta dig, innan en annan fisk gör det.
????You'll get stuck out there... and I'll have to get you before another fish does.??

????Jag ska bara lägga den store killen, och presentera er för några vänner.
????I'll just put the big fellow in his bed and introduce you to a few of me friends.???

????Jag är snart där, skada ingen bara.
????I'll be there soon, just don't hurt anyone.??

????Jag kommer bara att säga ett par saker och sedan fortsätta till sex och kärlek.
????I'll only just say a couple of things, and then go on to sex and love.??

One for Peppa....
????Men klagar du på nåt, så förvandlar jag dig till en griskulting direkt.
????But one peep out of you about anything, and I'll turn you right into a piglet!????

And one for me...?????
????Och om jag ska vara riktigt ärlig, så är de bättre kockar än vad jag någonsin kommer bli.
????And if I'm going to be really honest, they're a better chef than I'll ever be.?????

So I'll be there and the fika will be edible and the company enjoyable.
??????????????????????

***talking of things Swedish????...
Next year is the 50th anniversary of ABBA winning the 1974 Eurovision????

Maybe this event can be a planning meeting of how we will celebrate it?????????
 
05-Aug-23
Hoping to sneak away from EKKA judging for this event. - with the rest of the MummaBear and the Cubs gang
 
05-Aug-23
I'll be there to enjoy coffee and cake and friendships. See you all there.
 
05-Aug-23
Fredagsfika at work is next level.
The responsibility circulates according to a carefully monitored list.
Depending on workplace this can be during the morning or afternoon break.
Friday morning fika can be a small smorgasbord of make your sandwiches and as well as something sweet. Or perhaps Smörgåstårta.
Friday afternoon fika should be more on the sweet side could be Danishes, Semlor if in season or a traditional Swedish cake. In autumn a home made apple pie with custard is.a safe bet.
 
04-Aug-23
Sounds like a fun time with all the Muppets. Looking forward to it.
 
04-Aug-23
We’re both looking forward to attending this event.
 
03-Aug-23
We’ll be there (unfortunately not in sverigedräkten though)
 
03-Aug-23
We will be there ????????
 
03-Aug-23
Hmm, I haven’t got anything resembling sverigedräkten, but can I come anyway? Fika sounds like an excellent tradition to adopt!
 
03-Aug-23
Yes I will be there with CaptainVimes
 
03-Aug-23
A few notes on fika rituals.
To go for a fika is a great way to socialise. Be it morgonfika, eftermiddagsfika or kvällsfika.
At a Cafe, at home or in a park, it's all about the small talk and cinnamon scrolls.
For the purists there are set times that should be adhered to 9-fika and 2pm-coffee.
In the workplace the timing and ceremony can be next level.
When arriving at work the day starts with a coffee, in a blue-collar workplace this is often taken sitting down while planning the day. Office dwellers will often have this first coffee at their desks.
This is followed by 9-fika, a break 15 to 30 minutes, coffee (did I have to say that) and often a sandwich or snack.

Back to work again, 11-coffee is a brief affair at work but privately it can be a big deal.

Lunch, followed by coffee.

Feeling caffeinated yet?

Next coffee is at 2pm, 15-30 minutes, time to sit down and discuss your plans for the next holidays or your home renovations.

Once your work day is done there is still evening coffee to be had
 
02-Aug-23
Should be able to make it on time from an early morning return flight and will definitely need a nice breakfast by then
 
30-Jul-23
Any excuse for JDavs to go IKEA… are you supplying the credit card Peppa??
I will need cake for stamina…
 
28-Jul-23
Thanks Peppa. I'll be there.
 
27-Jul-23
Last time I was at this Ikea was with the ex ... To Buy a shoe cupboard.

I wonder if anyone will bring the Allen key...
 
26-Jul-23
Sorry Peppa. I will be OS in Bali preparing for a wedding. Not mine. My daughters. But I will try to find a piece of cake. Hmm what kind. Love them all. Carrot, banana, chocolate or caramel mud. No idea what they have in Bali. Never been to Ikea only a cache nearby. Have fun and thanks for the invite.
 
25-Jul-23
Sounds like a fun event…
I think I’m double booked with a foursome of nuns from the Irish catholic bushwalkers club reliving some folly from the past …but if that doesn’t come to fruition I will do my best to try make it there.

I think IKEA was funded from secretly finding the Nazi Gold…more on that later .

Cheers Peppa…thanks for the understanding.
 
25-Jul-23
My go to place for breakfast/lunch when my car gets serviced or I need inspiration. I'm there!
 
25-Jul-23
Var det någon som sa fika?
 
23-Jul-23
awesome wont miss this one.
 
23-Jul-23
Coffee and Cake two of my favourite things and put them together its a perfect combo. I've only been to IKEA once before and we were there for ages as we had to loop all the loops like a maze. I have been assured that the Cafe is at the entrance and I am hoping they are correct - otherwise I may just be lost wandering around the kitchen section.
 
23-Jul-23
I love Ikea & I love cake so I plan on being there, fika sounds like something I need in my life too!
Thanks for organising the event Peppa
 
22-Jul-23
yeah why not we go there
 
21-Jul-23
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21-Jul-23
I shall start preparing some blodplättar..
 
21-Jul-23
I am in. Close to home and coffee, too. Good one. Often thought of having an event down here.

TFTCache Peppa
 
21-Jul-23
Woohoo! Love a bit of Fika ????????
 
21-Jul-23
Great zcake first thing in the morning with hot hot chocolate make it banana
zcake
Thank you, Peppa, for placing this Event for our enjoyment. ????
 
21-Jul-23
Ummm Ummm alright im in
 
21-Jul-23
Dammit I'll be OS in NZ so won't be able to make it to IKEA.
No matter where I am l'll try to find a piece of cake at the marked time to join you in spirit .
I hope the QANTAS hosties will be able to assist me .