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Continue reading →: In Praise of Dumplings..There are more reasons for hills Than being steep and reaching only high. The small hills around Vingsand were a delight, though much harder going than I had thought. There are steep little ups and downs, big steps, chains to help ascent on slippery rock, the occasional ladder, and treacherous…
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Continue reading →: A morning with the hárrThis morning a sea mist rolled in with the tide, described here by the 17th century Norse word, a hárr. A Norse word, but it’s used in the northeast of England and eastern Scotland also, with the spelling ‘haar’. This was a more moist hárr than I have experienced before…
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Continue reading →: In Concrete by Ann Garréta
translated from the French by Emma Ramadan This is a splendidly strange fable of a working family’s life as told through the eyes of a child.The style Garréta’s writing is the highlight, a sort of mix of poetry, wordplay, puns and tricks with grammar. To provide the opportunity she needs…
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Continue reading →: My Work is Not Yet Done by Thomas Ligotti
I read a lot of horror, though only the occasional short story from Thomas Liggoti, and I am on a mission to remedy that, especially having completed this. The 9 to 5 of a corporate office is generally depicted as boring, though both Rick Gervais’s series, and its US version…
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Continue reading →: Vingsand Bay
There were a few rumbles of thunder around yesterday evening but any rain that fell was out at sea. The flat bit of land I was on to the south of Brekstad was still and humid. It was difficult to sleep, especially for Roja, who ended up on the grass…
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Continue reading →: Vincent Must Die
France 2023 Seen through a wider lens, this is a clever satire; a satire on paranoia, of how society treds in the wake of the recent virus, on the deterioration of amicable relations between people. It is also a twist on paranoia itself, in that not only does Vincent think…
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Continue reading →: A weekend at Abelvik Bay and Wash DayAbelvik is on the Seterneset peninsula and was a wonderful place for the weekend. There are a few holiday homes tucked away in the forest, all with incredible views over the Norwegian Sea and islands. While out cycling on Saturday morning I met a German couple who told me they…
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Continue reading →: A Small Brewery on Frøya and back to the MainlandThe island of Frøya actually has a relatively large population, of 5,500, but it is concentrated on the more sheltered east side. Titran was remote and depopulated, much more my sort of place than the rest of the island. On Thursday I headed to the north where there are many…
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Continue reading →: Many thousands of Pools of DoomTemperatures in Trondheim hit 28C this afternoon. I’m not far away, out on one of the islands, Frøya, about a hundred kilometres to the west, and at the far west of the island, and it’s a bit cooler, a maximum or about 24C. Though this weather is rare over the…
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Continue reading →: A Challenging Hike and Lessons in Norwegian HistoryThe hike I had planned to do at Kalika Beach, the Sandvikstein, proved to be a lot more challenging than I expected. I took it on anti-clockwise and the first half climbs over lots of bare rock with magnificent vistas, before descending after three kilometres or so, through pine forest…
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Quote of the Week
Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, ‘What road do I take?’ The cat asked, ‘Where do you want to go?’ ‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered. ‘Then,’ said the cat, ‘it really doesn’t matter, does it?’
Lewis Carroll
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