Thom's
Corner
Before I came to Sweden in 1975, there is not much known about me, mainly because I choose to keep the memory fragments I come across to myself. Let's say I was born in Sweden in 1953, moved to the UK four years later and experienced a normal English schoolboy life; cold showers, 1.5 mile cross-country runs before breakfast, bullying at school (yes, I know who you are and where you live) and then grammar school followed by freedom at a "college for further education" which is nothing more than a synonym for having a good time at the pub at the age of 17.
The year 1975 was a turning point. I came to Sweden to make a short tourist film (something of which I knew nothing) when I met my life partner Monica. Ironically enough, in the same small lakeside town where we live today.
After a few years of commuting between a cold and drafty cottage in England and a student apartment in Uppsala, we finally settled down in a cold and drafty cottage on the outskirts of Stockholm.
Children started to appear, at the same time as a promising career as a film editor at SVT took off. However, that career only lasted three years - one boss was enough.
Freedom from the rat race came in the form of the booming IT industry, more specifically the first personal computer. It wasn't long before I scrapped my newfound freedom from the TV world and started my own company selling software for the PET Commodore computer. At that time, you had 16 MB of RAM to play with and 128 kB floppy disks.
35 years on, I sold my company and retired to the small lakeside town of Hjo, where we bought and renovated a former nursing home for victims of the Spanish flu. From here, with a fantastic view of Lake Vättern from my studio window, I spend my days cooking up new projects while completing old ones.
