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Born To Butt.
It is very clear and crisp at the moment. Yesterday, Alma and I clipped Holly. This meant turning her on her back to cut the wool underneath, and I think it caused her to get grass and twigs stuck...
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Three More Of The Goats.
We lost the goats for a while, but then two of them turned up in Alma’s old hut in the back garden, taking some sun. Where was Vesla? Vesla was hiding behind the goat house… Dyv took these with a...
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Opening The Windows.
Alma painted the Easter-egg heads that are sitting on the windowsill. It means your children are growing up when they’d rather paint Kant, Descartes and Nietzsche (l. – r.) than chicks and bunnies....
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Storm Clouds Over Europe (Not).
Not from here, where flanking the house you can just about see the two cherry trees in bloom: but a few minutes earlier it looked like this from the garden: Everyone in Norway has their flags up today:...
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Awakened By Gunfire.
As usual on the seventeenth of May, we were awakened this morning at seven by a deafening twenty-one-gun military salute from the cannons outside our neighbour’s palace. 17 May is Norway’s national...
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Dog Run.
I’m not sure it’s possible to have this much fun if you aren’t a dog. I love the front dog’s shadow, it shows she’s completely off the ground. It hasn’t been taken at a funny angle, they really are...
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A Warm Afternoon In The Garden.
Perfect weather; it’s about 25-ish. Some of our trees are still in blossom, the one above is a so-called ‘summer’ apple. Not all the blossom is alike in colour and size. This below is from a Bramley...
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New Improved Goat Pictures.
Dog pictures too. I was given a camera for my birthday and – this is always my biggest problem – I think I can focus sharper with it. It’s got a video button too, so expect some Youtube action once...
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A Midsummer Garden.
Here are some pictures I took yesterday in the garden. You can see the two stray dogs that Alma found on the road. They stayed overnight in the kitchen and were then returned to some people down the...
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Cows.
The dairy cows are grazing in the meadow next to our garden. They’re mostly the local brown-and-white (NRF – norsk rød fe), or they’re black-and-white (Frisian), but there’s also this one. It looks...
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Two Crows In A Field Of Hay.
A man in a tractor had just cut the hay, and these two were looking for food as we walked past. They soon flew off. They are always so timid; I don’t know why. Later it’s a surprise to see what was...
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A Fox And A Rainbow.
The rain continues. The good side of this for Norwegians is that the utility companies won’t be able to charge more money for water or for our hydro-electric power, this year. Not unless they can...
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Mountain Sheep.
I should have taken more pictures. The sheep and lambs near our cabin in the mountains love to lie in the middle of the road, usually three or four of them together. This one is doing it right in...
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A Grand Canyon.
A couple of weeks ago, we went for a walk across a flat plain near our cabin in the mountains. It’s not terribly high, I think about 1,000 metres. To the west you can see the Jotunheimen mountains...
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The London School of Mould.
I saw this last week, near the British Museum. It’s part of University College, London. Why “Hygiene & Tropical Medicine”, what’s the connection? London School of Hygiene is a terrible,...
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To Richmond Station & Beyond, Part II. (Note: Read Part I first.)
From Waterloo I took the Tube to Goodge Street, and walked through Bloomsbury to the British Museum, where I took many, many blurry photographs: And an occasional sharpish one: I wouldn’t mind spending...
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To Richmond Station And Beyond. (Part I.)
To get to central London from my mother’s, you take a double-decker bus to Richmond, and then a train. The bus stops are named after the nearest pub, “The Fox & Duck” in this case. At Richmond,...
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Alighting From The Bus In Mauritius.
Yesterday, I got a letter from Siganus Sutor in Mauritius regarding his comment in my last post: Good morning Artur, As promised, please find attached pictures taken at Vacoas‘s bus station (“la gare...
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