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Watching the finish line
Only six more days to the winter solstice. Amazing how that particular date looms like a psychic finish line: persevere through the gradual descent into winter darkness to this point – the very heart that we are currently immersed in – until the 21st when the trend is...
Mmmmm, sleeeepp…
YT gets positively Homer Simpson-esque at this time of the year, although where The Home fantasizes about beer, I fantasize about sleep. Honestly, I think I could sleep around the clock in this midwinter darkness! Getting up in the morning is a Herculean task at times...
Invasion of the Yule Lads
First Yule Lad arrived in town yesterday morning. For those not in the know, Yule Lads are Iceland’s version of Santa Claus and are, I venture to say, infinitely more interesting than the tubby and insipid ho-ho-ho Coca Cola version. For starters there are 13 of them,...
Everything Happens
Yikes! Another blaze last night. This time right in our little nothing-ever-happens-here neighbourhood, which is rapidly turning into Everything Happens Here Neighbourhood (witness blog a few days ago about the cops ‘n robbers action outside my window). It was in the...
Let it snow! Please!
I’ve got a sick little AAH staying home from school today. Sore throat, muscle aches, fever. Which reminds me how grateful I am to have the opportunity to work from home – and Be Present on occasions like this without having to explain to anybody (boss, colleagues)....
How to get rich quick
Boy, if there was ever a time to pop over to the States to play Rich European Person, this would be it! What on earth is happening to the US dollar? It is now at its lowest rate in relation to the Icelandic krona since 1992. How tempting to jump on a plane and finish...
Thunder ‘n lightning, v.v. frightening…
I’ve managed to figure out the blogroll thing - yay! Have one foot in the club already. Who’d have ever thought that YT would turn into a Blog Geek? Very short post now – too much information to process. YT THE NATIONALIST Our girl Björk and our girl Emiliana Torrini...
Thespian swan!
Loyal readers of this space may recall that a couple of posts back I made mention of a dead swan that EPI and I happened to find while on our customary stroll around the golf course. Now, lest you think The Iceland Weather Report is merely another useless blog with...
Cops ‘n robbers
Loyal readers of this space will recall that just a few days ago I related my paranoia about having our place broken into and our stuff stolen. Lest you think this is merely the demented thought process of a mistrustful mind, think again! EVIDENCE THAT YT IS NOT...
Running mad
Sometimes, I swear I should have me ‘ead examined. Went out for a run today in gale-force winds and was practically swept off my feet repeatedly – and certainly not in the best sense. Took the favoured route along the seashore and waves came crashing over the...
Mini break
EPI and I back from a mini-break. Which YT purposefully did not announce in this space because I’m paranoid that People (bad People) will take the opportunity to break into our place and nick all our nice stuff like the Christmas ornaments I bought in Oslo two years...
Cookie-shmookie
MORE SIGNS THAT LET YOU KNOW CHRISTMAS IS COMING The neighbours start baking cookies. Last night, the air in the corridor of our apartment building was thick with the smell of gingerbread. Hot damn! Yet another reminder of YT’s hopeless inadequacy in the...
