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Today's weather is 'window-weather' as they say here. (Yes, you could be forgiven for thinking I am completely obsessed with both windows and weather. You would be wrong, though; it's purely a coincidence.) Window weather means that it looks a lot warmer from the...

Sunny and damned cold! Appropriate considering it's the first day of winter according to the old Icelandic calendar. That nasty wind is the culprit once more ... crept back in during the night after a welcome absence over these past two days or so. Strange how it...

Arrr... a mighty fine day it is today! The sun shines, the wind is somewhere else making life miserable, the temperatures are ... wait, haven't been out yet. But I opened a (still dirt-encrusted) window and I think it's cold. Latest window update: yesterday one of my...

Windows still a vague brownish hue. Acting as a filter - diffused light coming through. However, wind has slowed and the sun is shining and it is a beeauuutiful day! Took a lengthy walk to 'weather myself' as the Icelanders say and was not sorry. Oxygen tanked, ready...

Got up this morning and thought the blinds were still drawn. Discovered they were not. On my window, externally, a fine layer of dust covered the pane - the product of three days' worth of the most WRETCHED weather I could possibly envision ... well, apart from a new...