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During the last year I've developed a strong liking for peppermint herbal infusions and teas. The other day I visited Le Palais des Thés, an originally French chain of stores that opened in Norway a couple of years ago, to see if I could find something to assuage my peppermint craving and hopefully find a new favourite to replace the Tazo ( Read more... )

As wellinghall reminded me (thank you - I needed that!), I've been neglecting my blog lately. Not because I don't enjoy blogging anymore - far from it - but because work is very intense at the moment, and most of the creativity I have to spare is taken up with photography and flickr. I have a ton of posts mentally lined up to write and no time to get started ( Read more... )

I know I have a tendency to speak badly about the country I live in. While Norway is a very good place to live in general, there is a bunch of things I tend to complain about, from politicians to my fellow countrymen's taste in tv-programmes, as evidenced by the growing number of reality shows and Norwegians soaps to the exclusion of the things I ( Read more... )

I know I have been saying that I'm sick and tired of travelling after my monster trip to the States. I know I spent too much money on that trip, and that I really should be careful with money for the next couple of months. But then they announced that Nightwish will play a special end-of-tour show in Hartwall Arena in Helsinki, and I suddenly ( Read more... )

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'We will honor the angel in the snow...'

We've had a lot of snow over the weekend, with all the consequences that entails, both positive and negative.
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I seriously cannot get enough of this video. It's a fabulous fan video based on Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series, and shows the two main characters Jack and Stephen visiting a foreign dignitary in the hopes of getting him to sign a peace treaty with Britain. And now I'm making it sound all serious, right? Well, it's not. There are dancing ( Read more... )

Music meme - snatched from morarwen a while ago:

The Rules of the Official Musical Horoscope:
1. Load up iTunes, or the music player of your choice.
2. Set the player to random/shuffle.
3. Press play.
4. The first song played will be your horoscope-filler for Wellness, the second for Intellect, etc.
5. You're not allowed to skip songs. You have to take what you ( Read more... )

In the coffee shop today they had Suzanne Vega's Luka playing over the speakers. After the song was finished, the guy working behind the counter started singing the song again under his breath.

My name is Luka, I live on the second floor...
He stopped after the first line, but then the customer behind me in the line picked it up and sang the next ( Read more... )