tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69474687890791972362024-03-02T07:50:26.228+00:00Krims KramsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger626125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6947468789079197236.post-6961327134556583442014-06-30T18:42:00.001+01:002014-06-30T18:42:34.000+01:00Norsk sommer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Ah, Norwegian summer. You can't beat it! We have had glorious sunshine for the last month and I've totally forgotten about winter and embraced the fact that it never gets dark at the moment. There is plenty of fjord swimming going on here, ice cream and norwegian strawberries being scoffed and topping up of vitamin D :)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6947468789079197236.post-52749842862296495372014-04-05T15:15:00.000+01:002014-04-05T15:15:23.177+01:00Sweden <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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One of the best things about where we live is that we have Sweden as our neighbour. From our house Sweden is just 70 minutes away and we make the most of it every month by making the short trip to stock up our fridge with cheaper (and better) than Norwegian goodies. It's usually just a day trip to shop but a few times a year we stay a whole weekend and explore one of my favourite countries.<br />
This time we had a quick shopping trip to Gøteborg then drove back to Norway along the stunningly beautiful west coast, stopping off anywhere that took our fancy after staying in a lovely little B&B on the island of molløsund. Most places were closed as this time of year is usually still snow covered but we still had the most amazing weekend exploring in brilliant sunshine, eating delicious local lamb, freshly caught fish and straight from the oven kanelbullar.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6947468789079197236.post-79845373885787092742014-02-23T19:10:00.000+00:002014-02-23T19:10:09.579+00:00A week off<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm really hoping winter will be over soon. It's 5c today and the snow is melting rapidly and luckily it's not so cold at night so we are not getting those fun sheets of ice to kill ourselves on! yippeee<br />
I've been off work this week and had a visit from England, a trip to Sweden and lots of sorting out at home and if I'm honest a good few hours on the sofa, fire lit and a good film. Oh, and cinnamon buns- been making lots of those bad boys and filling the freezer with them :)<br />
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The snowy season! I can't say I jumped for joy on Saturday morning when we woke up to the white stuff. I could if I knew it was going to go away in a week or two but it's now likely to stick around for at least 4 months...... groan.<br />
I've been laid up with flu for the last 3 days and this morning I've finally managed to get myself out of bed, onto the sofa, under the duvet. It's the first time I've had flu and sweet jesus, I hope it's the last. I'm wiped out. Next year I'm getting that flu jab ;)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6947468789079197236.post-36076535843794018672013-11-23T07:59:00.000+00:002013-11-23T15:36:06.410+00:00getting settled<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Slowly getting settled in over here and getting used to waking up at 5am (ouch!) and driving an hour to work. We are loving our new house so much so the early mornings and long drive are <i>totally</i> worth it :)<br />
At 4am today I was woken by the sound of howling in the distance at which point I grabbed for my phone and quickly googled wolves in the area and sure enough there have been plenty of wolf sighting nearby! Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6947468789079197236.post-45148345730038676362013-11-12T21:11:00.000+00:002013-11-12T21:11:43.417+00:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Oh, November. The worst month of the year. Every year when the clocks go back it takes me at least a month to get back into the swing of things and this year it's worse than ever. November this time has floored me! I'm in bed by 9.30 at the latest which I hate as I'm a bit of a night owl and especially because with the house move I need energy but so far I have not mustered up any therefore moving has been super slow!<br />
We officially move in this weekend although we are still without a dishwasher, cooker and internet so neither of us are keen to move until those 3 essentials are sorted, but I'm well aware than we need to get our arse's in gear before the snow starts to fall (thankfully it's late this year)<br />
I'm slightly sad to be saying goodbye to out little basement bunker after 3 really happy (and cheap) years although I will not miss the snow half way up the windows! Instead we have a wonderful view(see above pics) over the treetops (which seems to change every single time I look out of the window!)<br />
The other pic is our 5 window living room (another great thing after living in the basement bunker!) which really needs a lick of paint and that hideous light removing but apart from that we are good to go :)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6947468789079197236.post-20357672150300386912013-10-22T16:18:00.001+01:002013-10-22T19:39:45.366+01:00House peek<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Little house peek for you there in the top left hand corner :)<br />
It's not our forever house, it's our "okay we need to get on the property ladder in Norway" house.<br />
It's further away from Oslo than we would prefer and we will now have to both commute to work (about an hour each way) but it's surrounded by aaaaaaaaaamazing forests and nature..<br />
It's only ten minutes from our cabin and if our neighbours chopped down some trees we would have a view of the Oslofjord (which is just five minutes walk away)<br />
It's only small but it's cute and has under floor heating and a cute little wood burner(important when it's -20c outside) and a walk- in wardrobe.<br />
It's ours and we cannot wait to move in :)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6947468789079197236.post-13136091271592055032013-10-21T14:01:00.001+01:002013-10-21T15:06:02.028+01:00Portgual & news <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Oi Oi Oi, it's been quite some time since I checked in here. Blame Instagram. I'm much much active there than here. <i>Must make more effort to blog</i>!<br />
We just got back from the most relaxing trip to Portugal which was wonderful. So nice to go back to summer just as winter is arriving in Oslo. As usual I'm not ready for the loooooooong norwegian winter-even after 3 years here I'm still not a fan of the frosty season :)<br />
What else? Oh, yea! We bought a house!!! We will get the keys on November 1st and begin moving slowly throughout November and hopefully be settled in for our first christmas in our new home :)<br />
We are super excited! Unfortunately we have 3 months notice on our flat to see out so the rest of the year is gonna be pretty tight paying rent and a mortgage! yikes :)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6947468789079197236.post-49710260712072561882013-09-02T20:47:00.001+01:002013-09-02T20:51:02.242+01:00Wales<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In July we had a holiday in Wales during a fantastic spell
of super warm weather. Ten days of perfect sunshine. So lucky. We
traveled all around North Wales stopping wherever we fancied to swim in
the most amazing cool, crystal clear water.We had not planned on going on holiday this summer as we wrongly presumed (and hoped) that we would be moving house so we decided to book a cheap little National Trust cottage on Snowdonia and every day Wales surprised us with lots of hidden gems. It was a totally unexpected fantastic relaxing holiday. Go Wales! :)<br />
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<br />Today it really felt as though someone just switched autumn on. We had extra blankets on the bed at the cabin last night, candles were lit as the evenings begin to draw in. Leaves are slowly turning brown and crispy and I wore socks today for the first time in ages. I'm sad to say goodbye to summer.<br />
The idea of the long, dark winter fills me with dread. Going to and from work in the dark, the heavy footwear,the bloody big thick as a duvet coat, crappy fruit and veg in the shops and 3-4 months of snow and ice. Ugh, <i>dreading it</i><br />
We had our last swim of the summer in the fjord this weekend (I'm presuming it's our last as we won't be going to the cabin for 2 weeks now and I've never had a swim so late into September but who knows? This summer has been full of surprising warm weather)<i> </i><br />
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We have practically de-camped to the cottage for the summer (hottest,sunniest summer Oslo has seen for 60 years folks!) where days are long and lazy. We have no internet and no tv. Just a radio, reading, talking, eating and swimming-heaven!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6947468789079197236.post-65903658566099960592013-06-22T07:20:00.000+01:002013-06-22T07:20:31.501+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We spend the weekend relaxing at the cottage and the week being stressed about finding a house.<br />
The house buying process here is horrrrrrrrrrrid!<br />
You view the house when it's open for an hour with everyone else who is interested it. If you like it the bidding starts at 12 the next day and usually ends 5 hours later. You can text your bids and then you receive texts showing the bidding going up. I thought bidding for a dress on E-bay was stressful......<br />
God help us!!!!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6947468789079197236.post-12314723653103997902013-06-10T20:16:00.002+01:002013-06-10T20:16:50.669+01:00Summer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Summer is in full force and we are making the most of the cottage at every opportunity. Summer in Norway is fab. Life slows down, (and in July the country closes down!) the nights are super light (and I often go to bed with daylight outside which is still weird to me) norwegian strawberries are eaten (best strawberries <i>ever</i>) and best of all we swim. <i>A lot</i>, at every opportunity. There is something about a long cold winter that makes you desperate for summer and makes you terrified about missing a single minute of it!<br />
p.s Pic of Henrik was taken at 11.40pm as he beavered away til midnight with cottage jobs (another downfall to the long winter is that you spend a huge chunk of summer fixing things that the winter fucked up!)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6947468789079197236.post-80545111325947989772013-05-26T10:19:00.003+01:002013-05-26T10:19:52.960+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've been without my car all week after wearing out my break pads. I took the car to the garage last Tuesday and it will be ready to pick up next Tuesday. That's how they roll here in Norway. They take their sweet friggin' time and it irritates the <i>shit</i> out of me. I used to drop off my car in London before work,get a service and the break pads changed, pick it up after work and hand over approx 170 pounds yet here I get to wait 7 days and hand over 1100 pounds for the same job.<br />
Our cottage makes shit like this bearable-<i>only just</i>!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6947468789079197236.post-19888724764213351192013-05-21T19:52:00.001+01:002013-05-21T19:56:27.466+01:00May<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Ahhhhhh, May. My birthday month and that lovely month in Norway with so many holidays that you are hardly at work. Bliss. It's also the month that summer decided to make an (better late than never) appearance here.<br />
We took off to Brussels for 4 days for my 40th which was fantastic. We dined on mussels, pomme frite dipped in mayonaise and chugged waaaaaaay too much delicious Kriek beer. It was the perfect way to say goodbye to my thirties :)<br />
We opened up the cottage, gave it a good old clean and enjoyed a 4 day weekend where temps reached 27c. There was much lounging,napping,reading,relaxing,planting,an attempted swim(still too cold) and bbq's.<br />
I <i>love</i> Norway during the summer when winter seems ages away and the days are long and light (and I can forget that we had snow on the ground 5 weeks ago!) Bring it on, summer :)<br />
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<span id="goog_294447401">Every year after the long cold winter Norway throws little glimpses of spring our way and then swiftly takes them back and throws some snow at us. It's been doing this for the whole of April but on Saturday it threw a summers day our way and we took full advantage. No jackets, shoes without socks, toes dipped in the Oslo fjord, 15c, bright blue skies</span>, ice cream and freckles on our faces.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6947468789079197236.post-6569243611888169782013-04-19T20:44:00.001+01:002013-04-19T20:45:26.779+01:00English v Norwegian<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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When I'm shopping here in Norway I mainly speak norwegian but sometimes I cant be arsed so switch to english and it's really weird how differently you get treated depending on what language you are speaking. I buy a chicken from the same place every week and the first time I asked for a chicken in norwegian the guy simply replied, "ja" handed me the chicken and off I went. The next week the same guy served me but this time I spoke english and he replied in english,"Of course you can have a chicken! Would you liked it cutting?" and after handing it to me he smiled and said,"have a great day and a great weekend!! Good bye!"<br />
Now if you have ever been to Norway you will know that this is not how shop assistants talk to you. They are people of few words with no idea how to be service minded (if they are friendly they are probably Swedes!) so I was wondering why this guy was so nice when I spoke english but cold when I spoke norwegian? hmmmmmm<br />
I have to say that even after 2 1/2 years here I still find Norway really,really odd!! I will be escaping the oddness for 4 lovely days in England from Sunday onwards. Yippeeee!<br />
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P.s Please note: NO.SNOW.IN.THE.GARDEN!!!!! (finally!) <br />
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It's still winter here, you can still walk across the fjord (someone puts little fir trees on the ice to show you that it's safe, but I don't trust them!) Fleamarket season has kicked off and we went to two today but my heart was not in it, I have enough crap and now I just want to move house (and then maybe buy some more crap!) You know, when you buy a house here it happens fast, you can buy on a Monday and move in on the Friday!<br />
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We've been having a sun filled (and snow free) few days in Gøteborg, wandering, eating and shopping.<br />
You have to love a city that's just 3 hours drive away, is open at easter and is way cheaper than Norway. Go Sverige :)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6947468789079197236.post-72663727695025995142013-03-25T21:11:00.002+00:002013-03-25T21:11:30.349+00:00this week<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm on Easter holiday right now and it's heeeeeeeeaven to be free. No more getting up at 6am, no more speaking norwegian all day,time to potter around and get stuff done,wander around Oslo with friends, eat cakes and sit in cafes and chat, pretend it's spring and put on your converse for the first time in 4 months only to get home with blue toes and feel like a prick for thinking that was a good idea in the first place, eat the most amazing fish and chips at <a href="http://fiskeriet.com/">Fiskeriet</a> and escape Norway for the Easter weekend (when everything closes for 4 whole days)and travel to Gøteborg where the whole population is <i>not</i> up in the mountains eating oranges and kvikk lunsj. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6947468789079197236.post-10324224704162762422013-03-13T20:56:00.000+00:002013-03-14T19:11:19.270+00:00lately<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Still winter here, I hate all my clothes, my shoes and that friggin' big, heavy coat which I'm desperate to put in storage and whip out a nice light spring number, but the damn weather is anything but mild! <br />
It was -17c last night and I have not seen grass for 4 months. Cheery, huh?<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6947468789079197236.post-50925654377474716522013-02-24T10:08:00.001+00:002013-03-03T12:03:12.720+00:00A cinnamon celebration<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We were offered a very nice mortgage on Friday which I am super proud of as we have saved like demons in the last year so we celebrated not with champagne but with cinnamon buns!<br />
It's the one thing that we've applied for in Norway that's actually gone in our favour without a fight. Now we just need to find our dream house (we found it already but it was just outside our budget and the bidding just keeps on going up and up) I'm no longer allowed to buy expensive Marimekko cups and probably won't be able to for the next ten years! <br />
Temperatures are slowly rising around here and the days becoming longer which is muuuuuuuuch needed. This winter has made me extra tired and I am no longer able to stay up later than 10.30pm during the week so I am really looking forward to those light summer evenings where you forget it's so late and end up rolling into bed at 1am. Ah, summer, I'm ready for you....Unknownnoreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6947468789079197236.post-40813256098514982502013-02-18T15:29:00.000+00:002013-02-18T15:29:37.095+00:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I just came home from work and inhaled a few cinnamon buns which my workmate Johanna made for me. We made a bet last time England and Sweden played football (back in June?) that the loser had to bake something from their country for the winner and Sweden lost so (better late than never) today I recieved a lovely bag of sugary,cinnamony Swedish goodness.Yum.<br />
In other news,it's <i>still</i> snowing heavily here, we fell in love with a house at the weekend and a huge moose (at least 7ft) walked past our living room window and I almost shit myself at the sheer size of that beast :)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6947468789079197236.post-74003804137191189782013-02-11T17:17:00.003+00:002013-02-11T17:17:47.055+00:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We are house hunting at the moment which is taking up most of our time at the weekend (and depressing me slightly that we can't get exactly what we want in the right place!) <br />
We have found lots of great houses in not so great locations and lots of great locations with not so great houses. We are willing to move further away from Oslo but not so far that Henrik can't travel in for work every day, and it can't be too high up as driving up hill in deep snow scares the shit out of me (I think I'd really benefit from a winter driving course as my technique is not really working for me at the moment!!) I'd also live to live somewhere where wolves have <i>not</i> been spotted in the area ;)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6947468789079197236.post-38344585765433672052013-01-28T15:09:00.000+00:002013-01-28T19:58:31.187+00:00Making it through the winter<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I did not know what winter was til I moved to Norway. Thirty four winters in England and two in America could not have possibly prepared me for a long, harsh Nordic winter.<br />
The first year I muddled through with a crap coat and even crappier shoes. I honestly though I could muddle through with my Converse and thick socks like I did every winter in London. ha ha ha hahaaaa! <br />
I'm an expert now. I can do winter just like a nowegian. There is indeed no such thing as bad weather,only bad clothing. I no longer slip and slide on the ice as I wear spikes that I just slide over my super warm and cosy Duckfeet boots. I no longer need lots of layers as I splashed out on a warm coat (if I'm totally honest it's too warm and is hell when I'm going in and out of heated shops...)<br />
I use nice stuff on my face thats not water based (this is the trick for your skin not turning into a chalky sore disaster) and I cope with the long,dark days by making our home as cosy as possible with <i>shit-loads</i> of candles.<br />
That said, I've now had enough. We've had snow on the ground for 6 weeks now. Some of it piled 8 feet high which could possibly take until April to melt and then you have the horror of it all melting during the day and refreezing at night turning your world into a scary ice-rink. I can also no longer see out of our living room window without standing on a stool. If we are lucky it will be gone in 8 weeks and we can count down to Spring.....<br />
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p.s That little bird feeder on my window is no longer a bird feeder, it's now a mouse feeder! Bless Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7