May 23, 2005 | Uncategorized |
It’s exam week and I’ve been helping AAH study. I’m learning so many interesting things! F’rinstance, did you know that Icelandic women only earned the right to vote in 1915, and the age limit was 40 years? And prior to the advent of labour...
May 21, 2005 | Uncategorized |
I find it utterly alarming how many hits I’m getting via google searches for ‘Icelandic sluts’, ‘promiscuous Icelandic’, ‘Icelandic teenage sex’, etc. In fact, in the time it took me to write this post, one came through...
May 20, 2005 | Uncategorized |
We’re having some masonry work done to the outside of our building and here’s a pic I took of one of the workers:… and another one when he leaned over, wheeeee….Meanwhile, Polly the cockatiel sat on her laundry basket, trying to convince...
May 20, 2005 | Uncategorized |
Was it the clothes? The dancers? The absence of drums? The nepotism?Such are the questions preoccupying the Icelandic nation, after our girl Selma was eliminated in the Eurovision Song Contest semi-finals last night. I think it’s safe to say that everyone was...
May 19, 2005 | Uncategorized |
The Eurovision preliminaries are tonight, held to decide who gets to move through to the main contest, which is on Saturday. Icelanders lo-ove Eurovision. [Even if they pooh-pooh it and proclaim to be way above it all.] I reckon that nowhere-but-nowhere are our...
