My crocuses (croci?) have started blooming!


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So while I was away, the heat wave came and ravaged my garden. I've already talked about how the placement of the flower bed makes it a furnace even during normal Norwegian conditions, but the overwhelming heat sure did a number on my poor flowers and plants ( Read more... )

It is with great pride (and a little sense of shock) I unveil...

MY FIRST FLOWER!


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I once bought some second-hand action figures of two of my favourite superheroes. I always intended to make it a little collection of superheroes to have on top of a shelf somewhere (shh, it makes me happy). But then I sort of got stuck trying to choose which figure to get next ( Read more... )

Among the fab gifts I got this Christmas was a second-hand DS Lite (which proved a very welcome diversion on the seven-hour train trip home). I've named it Lance.

It needed a case though, so today I went down to the Salvation Army, bought clothes for 20 kroner and then went to work with the sewing machine:


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Back in Bergen again - where I discovered a commode in the shower and the wires and bits of the water heater coiled up on the the bathroom floor. Not entirely certain what's going on there ( Read more... )

Tiny and Morten are well on their way back to eastern Norway, while I'm slipping back into my Bergen lifestyle.

( A handful of pictures from the last couple of days )

I was literally losing sleep thinking about it. Not so much that I expected bad news, just the thought of the stress of capturing Linni and then having another vet scoff at my inability to hold or carry her. I was really not looking forward to this ( Read more... )

Having another period with insomnia, I can only seem to manage a couple hours of sleep every night. Constant headache and nausea not good, but at least two hours of sleep per day is better than none. Anyway I don't need a lot of energy to play video games and draw anyway, which is what I'm doing these days ( Read more... )

Notice how, when I find a new interest, I somehow always wind up with toys, even though I'm really not a toy person?

Or a diorama person for that matter.


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