"'Hairless llama'...?" "Hairless llama, five letters." "Ends inAl." "Isn't there a kind of gnu..." "Agawai...?" "Dalai, Dalai Lama." "Dalai Lama, clever." "Eva..." "I said No!" "Why won't you listen to me?" "Turn it down." " Turn it down!" " I am!" "Rolf..." " Rolf!" " It won't turn down!" "SEEDS OF THE FALL" " Was he drunk?" " No." "Diabetic." "Had a blood sugar crash and dropped off at the wheel." "Jesus." "Jesus." "But you walked away unhurt, right?" "Yes, by the skin of our teeth." "What do you reckon about this, then?" "Jamiroquai died." "Who?" " Jamiroquai, the neighbour's cat." " Stuck under the wheel like a sticker." "All I could do was get the spade and scrape it off." "It wasn't pretty." " No nine lives there, I see." " Nope." "Poor Ulrica." "Her husband, Glenn, ended up in a wheel chair last year." "Strange business that." "No one really knows what happened." " There you go." " Lovely." "I'll pop down to the shop then." " Don't forget the Wasabi." " Moshimoshi." "Bye, Jamiroquai." " Cycle carefully!" " Of course." "Bye!" "You can have a pee, now, Jamiroquai." "That'll be fun, eh?" "The ice-cream man was so shocked that he continued with with Glenn on his windscreen all the way to Tjärby." " When he ran out of petrol." " All the way to the south?" "Almost." "Anyway, could you give us a rough estimate of what it'll cost?" "It's just a few nails and insulation and then bang the bugger back together." " But what'll it cost?" " Yes, how much...?" "You can spend a packet insulating under the house- ...or you can just knock up a tarpaulin for a few quid." " Won't it be freezing?" " Was there any pipe damage?" "Oh, no." "Not at all." "The kitchen got a bit of a knock." "But it's nothing we can't live with." "You don't say." "No, it won't go." " Take it easy." " 'Take it easy'." "But, er..." "The whole place is skewiff." "Skewiff?" "What do you mean?" "Look." " Well, bugger me." " It's totally wonky." "No, it's straight." "It's the house that's wonky." "OK, so what can we do about it?" "Well, it'll cost you." "We, or rather I, haven't taken out any home insurance yet." "So..." "It's a question of time, and how you distribute it, time." "And the diabetic was broke, of course." "So that was the end of any hopes of compensation." "You never think it'll happen to you." "And then..." "Excuse me." "Glenn has something to say." " Hello." " Hello." "May I begin by saying thank you for the flowers I received last year." "I never really had the chance to say thank you for them before." "But I'm doing it now." "Thank you." " It was our pleasure." " Yes, don't mention it." "It seems we've both been affected by yesterday's crash." "Yes, you with your facade and we, who lost our Jamiroquai." "Yeah, it was a real tragedy for us both." "It seems the whole house is a bit..." " Skewiff." " Skewiff." "We don't really know..." " I have a suggestion." " What?" "I have a suggestion." "Can we come in?" "Of course." " Maybe you need some help with..." " Thanks." "How do we do this?" "Shall we lift?" "Take it easy, now." "We also had cats once, when the kids were little." "We know how it feels." "Oh!" "You'll have to watch out, the floor slopes." " Sorry, are you alright?" " It's totally skewiff here..." "After the depression had eased, it was a matter of getting used to it." "I had to re-leam my daily routines so that I could live a decent life." "Simple things, like combing my hair, suddenly became pure hell, as I can't move my arms." " Without Ulrica, I don't know what..." " Glenn..." "Ulrica and I have always wanted to start a family." "But since the accident, I'm paralysed from the chest down." "I'm sure you understand what I'm getting at." "Glenn can no longer get an erection." "There's no sensation there at all." "I got a lot of money afterwards, though." "And you were entitled to it, it was only fair." "Definitely." "Rolf, would you consider making Ulrica pregnant?" "If we pay for the renovations and the other costs?" " And a bonus, naturally." " Exactly, and let's say cash." "You... you mean, for real...?" "Yes it's what we want." "Otherwise you can always..." "...in a little test tube and then..." "Au naturel." " I'm sorry?" " Au naturel!" "No bloody science-fiction." "I realise this is a difficult decision to make." "We fully understand that." "And we've asked everyone we know." "We wouldn't mind your genes, Rolf." "We've both seen you digging your potato bed, topless." "You've gota good frame." "Hard." "Well..." "What do we say?" "I'm afraid we'll have to say no." "Won't we, Rolf?" "I can do it." "It's no problem." " Who are you?" " Staffan." "I'm having lunch in half an hour, if you want to..." " It's the carpenter." " But he can be a druggie or something." " And you might be firing blanks." " Ulrica..." "Ulrica!" "Who is it?" " It's just the carpenter." " Hi." "Hey, can you..." "If you just..." "Now let's all calm down." "Eva, shouldn't we try to think through before taking a decision?" "On what?" "This could be good for us too, and they need help." "Our help." "Or rather, my help." "Well, what'll we do now?" "Yes, what'll we do now?" "I think I've got myself into a bit of a pickle." "250,000 kronor" " We needed that." " Yes." "God, I'm going to feel this in the small of my back tomorrow!" "You know that I love you, don't you." "Good." "It's just you're so ardent at times, and then there's the blood pressure..." " I know, Rolf." " Good." "What made you think of all this?" "I heard that Staffan was going to get some and I couldn't have him outdoing me!" "At first I thought I'd get myself some leather underpants." "But they don't really breathe properly." "You dirty old bastard." "Thanks."