Wordless Wednesday
Month: July 2009
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Flu proof?
My grandma, who was born in 1910, told me how she, her sister and her father all lay sick – so weak they were often unconscious – for two weeks with the Spanish flu in 1918. Grandma’s mother didn’t get sick at all. Not even so much as a sniffle. The Norwegian newspapers announced yesterday […]
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Wordless Wednesday – Stone wall
Wordless Wednesday
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Asleep
It has bugged me for quite some time that I couldn’t remember where I was when Neil Armstrong first set foot on the moon exactly 40 years ago today. I knew I was in Norway, on Grandpa’s family farm in Mundal (in Lindås, not the Mundal in Sogn that former vice-president Mondale came from) and […]
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Wordless Wednesday – Massive
Wordless Wednesday
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Wordless Wednesday – Skolebolle
Wordless Wednesday – a Norwegian Danish
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Keys
They were tucked behind a little notepad, in the tiny envelope they were handed to me in by the attorney handling my grandma’s estate. Nearly exactly four years after her death, I finally got around to handing them over to whoever had taken over her apartment. I hadn’t been by there in all this time. […]
Here I was, thinking that the data the Norwegian meteorological institute (NMI) uses to forecast the weather for the 70,000 places it brags about forecasting via the website yr.no was collected by charming geezers in wayward places, who empty little cups marked in tenths of millimeters to say how much rain has fallen and observe […]
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Wordless Wednesday – Church bells
Wordless Wednesday
A Roll in the Universe 