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Big Bash Night!
It's Reykjavík Culture Night and the weather is fine, lalala....
The Plumber Speaks
Yesterday I had the great fortune of having a plumber here for the better part of the day, who knew absolutely everything there was to know about everything. And was passionate about sharing that knowledge with YT. To the point where it was difficult to ascertain if...
Leaky pipe
Last night, after a lurrvely dinner at home with some great company, YT retired at 12.50am. Precisely one hour later, at 1.50am, she was shaken out of her slumber by a highly agitated EPI standing over her and declaring, “We’ve got serious trouble!” EPI went on to...
YT complains
Here’s something I bet you didn’t know: YT is renowned for her remarkable skills in the art of complaint. [Yes, it’s true.] Take f’rinstance the Tale of the Expired Hamburger Buns, frequently related at family gatherings and other momentous occasions. It goes...
Ta da!
For Louise, and anyone else who cannot imagine what mint green pumps with kitten heels look like [not to mention anyone with a shoe fetish] I give you...THE PUMPS... Now if I could just find something to wear them with, I'd be all set.TODAY'S NICELAND WEATHERGrey,...
Raiding the High Street
Purchases garnered today through a last-minute raid on the remaining summer sales:1. Pair of mint green pumps with kitten heels. YT never wears green, much less mint green, but the leather was simply too exquisite to pass up. Plus they were 50% off.2. 1 Gerald Darel...
Cockatiel love
Polly the cockatiel is driving me insane. She refuses to leave me alone. At this very moment she is running back and forth outside the door to the room I am in [little feet-pitter patter], back-and-forth, back-and-forth, and occasionally emitting the sharpest, most...
A tragedy
Dreadful news yesterday: a horrific car accident in east Iceland, a private vehicle in collision with a transport truck. Two passengers dead at the scene, the driver sustained life-threatening injuries. Only today did we discover that the driver is one of EPI's...
God’s little joke…
What-oh-what would possess Him to make it so that two women living in the same household always get their periods at the same time?Hmm? Are we s'posed to be laughing?THE WEATHERCrappy. Rainy. Oh and guess what? Current temps are 12°C. Betcha didn't see that one...
Romanian orphans and things flying
EPI’s eldest daughter went off to Romania a few days ago. She’s there for a month to work in an orphanage in a region about an hour out of Bucharest. She’s a medical student, going into her fourth year in September, and last summer she was in Slovakia to work in a...
Gay Parade
It was Gay Pride day in Reykjavík yesterday. EPI and YT went and checked out their oh-so-fantabulous parade, along with 39,998 others. I managed to snap a handful of photos before my camera battery conked out on me.Iceland allows gays and lesbians to marry in a civil...
Speeding deadlines
Friday again! How did that happen? I guess this is what transpires when you barely look up from the computer screen for days on end... that's right, after a fairly lax July [in which all of Iceland practically shuts down - well, except if you work in tourism] YT has...
