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Right. Since you’ve all been such good sports, I reckon a few words of elaboration on my 10 truths are in order. [Even though each and every one of these could easily be turned into a whole book.] I owned my first property by the time I was eight. … And no, contrary...

THANK YOU everyone for humoring me! As you can see, it doesn't take a lot for me to be amused. And contrary to what you may think I haven't been holding out on you on purpose - I have a really packed schedule at the moment and haven't had a chance to get online before...

Almost 130 visitors to my website so far today and only nine - nine! - who have attempted to answer The Question.[Special props to Teri, who has attempted twice. What a trouper.]

I've always marvelled at those '100 Things About Me' lists that people post on their websites. Primarily because I always think I could never find 100 things about myself that other people would find very interesting. Or even 50 things. Even 20 would be pushing...

AAH has gone off on a trip with the local community centre. They went here. [Lucky girl]. She went armed with a large bag of candy, designed to provide enough of a sugar high to keep her and her girlfriends up all night. At least that was the plan. Because they’d...

Props to all who rose to the challenge and attempted yesterday's translation. Very commendable and infinitely entertaining for... me. And now without further ado, we give you the correct answers:Bömmer - bummer. As in: Ég er á ógeðslega miklum bömmer mar.Meika sens -...

Today, November 16, is dedicated to the Icelandic language, with various events staged throughout the nation. People are commended for their contribution to maintaining the language, awards are given out, etc. etc. With a population of just under 300,000, and an...

Someone came through via Google today on the search words: is iceland really ice? A perfectly valid question, of course. Perfectly valid. Although with technology and the global village and all that, you’d think that maybe, just maybe, the Entire World would know by...

One of the guests at the dinner party last weekend was a man from Zambia, who is married to an Icelandic woman and has lived here for about ten years. So of course he was asked the standard question that he's likely been asked a gazillion times: How do you like...

Am somewhat bedraggled today because had rather an excellent time last night at the party, although not quite as excellent as EPI, who went full-out and took no prisoners. It had all the ingredients of a successful Icelandic bash: Copious amounts of wine, excellent...

Quentin Tarantino’s in Niceland, and here's the story: He’s got this friend named Eli Roth who made a horror film called Cabin Fever. Eli’s a bit of an Icelandophile, lived here for a year when he was 19, in Selfoss. There he was lucky enough to catch some awful...

In the comments box to yesterday’s post, the phrase 'honour killing' popped up a couple of times. Prophetically enough, yesterday was in fact the very first time an immigrant was sentenced to prison for an honour killing here in Iceland.The case concerned two...