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WARNING: Rant coming up
Oh, f'rgodssakes! Here I had this blog post all carved out with pictures and everything - and when I go to upload the pictures in imagecave so that I can resize and post them, I get stonewalled. [cue nasal-sounding computer-generated voice]"Your login has expiredORThe...
Hats off to London
So, we went away for a few days. Back now.On day six of being away we learned of the atrocities in London. Cocooned in our little summer house in arguably the best place in Iceland to make you feel coddled [more on that later] we were stunned and shocked and grieved...
Famous people. Alert.
The Icelanders are in trouble with the Chinese again as the Taiwanese Foreign Minister decided to pop in for a ‘private visit’ yesterday. There’s a picture of him on the front page of Fréttablaðið today, sitting in the back of a luxury car sheltering his face from the...
A little bit about grief
Thank you friends in Blogland for all your kind words and wishes. They really do mean a lot.There has been no major change. Still, the imminent event seems so overwhelming and huge that just to blog about something silly and insignificant seems, well, silly and...
A serious post
EPI’s mother is dying. It’s a matter of hours now, rather than days. It’s huge and rather scary. I have never been so close to anyone going through this process before; have never observed it up close like this.It’s so often said that here in the West we’re so removed...
Phew!
Boy, this moving business sure is a pain. All that packing of the old archives into boxes and transporting them to the new address, contacting the relevant parties [electricity, water utilities, service providers, stat counters] to inform them of the changes, and...
Talking cows and stripping seals
It’s midsummer night – one of my very favourite nights of the year. It’s so totally irresistible – that sense of mystique, mischief and celebration. Here in Iceland we don’t celebrate as much as the other Nordic countries do, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t myth and...
Solstice snaps
EPI and I went out for a nature walk last night, it being the summer solstice and all. Encountered lots of tourists with huge cameras out by the lighthouse, taking pictures of the sun setting behind the clouds. YT wielded her little handy-sized digi-cam and managed to...
Icelanders dissected
Right. So now that I’ve waxed all lyrical about the Icelandic nation and the glory of independence and blablabla, I think it may be time to come down to earth for a short while and dissect the Icelandic national psyche in an effort to find Ten Glaring Flaws. And so,...
Independence and bragbragbrag
A lot of people don’t realize that Iceland has only been an independent republic for just over 60 years. Still fewer realize how amazingly far this nation has come in that time. After all, well into the last century, the people of Iceland were still living in turf...
Gleðilega Þjóðhátíð!
National day. June 17. Celebrated each year to commemorate the day when Iceland officially declared its independence from Denmark in 1944. It’s a big day for the people of this country and there are celebrations ALL DAY LONG. It starts with a ceremonial laying of a...
Photoblog!
So yeah. Went out for a walk last night after pressing PUBLISH. Just as I was about to go out the door who should come home but EPI, so he tagged along. It was about 10 pm and there were lots of people around enjoying the evening. That's Mt. Esja there in the...
