Sep 12, 2005 | Uncategorized |
Hot on the heels of YT’s declaration that ‘nothing ever happens in Iceland in September’ comes the Reykjavík Literary Festival with its line-up of luminaries. This year’s festival – which started yesterday – is packed with a Whole Bunch of Famous Authors: Margaret...
Sep 8, 2005 | Uncategorized |
A lot of fun points came up in the last comment thread; however, before I address those let me assure Cat that AAH had a great day at work on Saturday [despite the text message that came mid-afternoon declaring that she was dead on her feet and had better get paid...
Sep 6, 2005 | Uncategorized |
Waterhot deposited a comment here yesterday asking if the end of September is a good time to visit Iceland. And while I’d love to respond with a blithe ‘Oh, any time is a good time to visit Iceland!’ I thought I’d give a bit more thought to both the question and the...
Sep 5, 2005 | Uncategorized |
A few days ago, Nancy tagged me with a meme. And threw me for a loop because I’m a bit of a wuss when it comes to memes [as regular readers may recall]. Of course I couldn’t pretend not to have seen it because that would just be stupid. And having acknowledged to...
Sep 2, 2005 | Uncategorized |
To wit: AAH, aged 14, heads downtown today with her girlfriends, as girlfriends-aged-14 do. Returns home and announces with great enthusiasm: ‘I have a job!’YT: […]Seems she’s got a job at an upmarket bakery downtown. Evidently the manageress...
Sep 1, 2005 | Uncategorized |
Niceland is waking up to an alarming problem. Now that all the students are going back to school, it seems there are a lot more jobs to go around than there are people to fill them. Which as you can imagine is not a happy state of affairs. As early as Monday, day-care...
