Jul 10, 2005 | Uncategorized |
Here in Iceland we have a groovy system: labour unions buy summer cottages that their members can rent for a nominal fee. [That’s pretty much every salaried employee, because if you work for someone, you belong to a union]. It’s a pretty cool deal. I’ve been going to...
Jul 9, 2005 | Uncategorized |
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...
Jul 9, 2005 | Uncategorized |
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...
Jul 1, 2005 | Uncategorized |
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...
Jun 27, 2005 | Uncategorized |
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...
Jun 26, 2005 | Uncategorized |
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...
