Highs and Lows
Posted: Thursday, 04 January 2007 |
Well Godt Nytt 脜r to all. No it doesn't translate as good night all - it's Norsk for Happy New Year.
I have had such a good time over the holidays, with my kids being with me for christmas this year, and my mum and dad coming up from Orkney, and my boyfriend from Norway visiting for a fortnight.
All the travelling arrangements went without a problem, so a big PHEW there. (accompanied by wiping of the brow.)
Damadcoo and Muness Views took in the New Year with us, and we celebrated with some champagne and hibiscus flowers. Damadcoo provided both the tipple and flowers which came all the way from Oz. Don't know if you could say the flowers were a resounding success, but at least we can say we tried it. And they made the champagne a pretty colour.
Anyway, the holidays were filled with lots of good highs, the only low coming yesterday really, when my mum and dad left again for Orkney on the ferry and I took my boyfriend to the airport and watched his plane leave.
But every cloud has a silver lining, and I'm counting the days to the end of January when I'll see him again in Norway.
Comments
The glass looks better in the picture than it did in real life.
Muness from Fetlar
If I'm not mistaken that's guga liver in alcohol. What a delicacy!
calumannabel from san lorenzo swainbost
A female parental unit not far from here says what a clever idea to have a boyfriend in another country and wonders if there are grants available to transplant the male parental unit abroad..........
Flying Cat from among the empties
Happy New Year, Ruthodanort, and many meetings with BF.
Arnish Lighthouse from Stornoway
was searching for facts about scotland, and the first thing i saw was a norwegian sentence :) kinda funny :) hope you had fun!
ida from bergen
Arnish-thanks! and Ida, yes we had fun, thanks, and how's Bergen-still raining all the time? Heard it's a new record now.
Ruthodanort from Unst
Is your glass half full? Or half empty?
thewhitesettler from don't know
Featured Blog? You should take up professional photography with that pic.
Muness from Fetlar
FC, do you really want to be chipped and rabiesed for your pet passport? Just a thought!
Hyper-Borean from Behind the V E T
meeeeeeep.......no.
Flying Cat from under a duvet
glad to hear it was the flower that coloured the champagne--got me a bit worried there--lucky have a boyfriend in norway--so near--try trying bto have a love affair with someone in nz costly but great!!!!! ps: does that answer your questions scaloawaywife?????
carol chauveau from st dezery france
Absinthe makes the heart wander.
Flying Cat from the booze cupboard
absinthe makes the liver squiver;; and its a forbidden booze over here
carol chauveau from france
Jeg laerer norsk! Det er darlig vaer. Det er ikke pent vaer. Det er ikki sol. Det regner. Katten min er den dummeste av alle.
Digital sands/Silversprite from Berneray
Oy!!! You can't go insulting cats in a foreign lingo thinking they kan ikke forst氓! Pennen av min tante ar mistet....... og jeg ogs氓!
Flying Cat from House of Correction
DS/S. Det er ikke d氓rlig vaer bare d氓rlig klaer.
Hyper-Borean from Ordbok hj酶rnet
Jeg vil gjerne reise til Unst.
Digital Sands from Berneray
Carol - any affair is better than none - quality better than quantity and all that...but NZ? isn't that going a bit too far ... Sorry, pun intended!... whats bto? oh - I see now its a misprint. Flu made me thick. back to Beechams and now its afternoon a hot toddy. I've watched all the deal or no deal i can take, i might watch desperate housewives now. at last i'm getting value for money for my Sky plus....
scallowawife from in bed wi flu
That Beechams will cut off all your branchlines if you don't look out.
Flying Cat from supine in front of the telly
Mr beecham may have invented a pretty good flu tablet but he ruined the branch lines... maybe he had flu at the time??
scallowawife from lookin at train timetables
DS- you wid be very welcome to visit us in Unst. Why do you no come and see wis at Up Helly Aa time? It's usually a good spree.
Ruthodanort from Unst
But you will go home to Berneray with no idea of how much time has passed, what you did, or indeed what anyone did, during your stay. The parental units are going up for their first Shetland Folk Festival in Spring (using the term loosely) and fully expect not to have total recall on their return .......or any recall really. I'm constantly telling them - "Keep a diary. It may help."
Flying Cat from among the empties
Drink? In Unst? Unheard of!
Muness from Fetlar
Is there life in Unst? Only one blogger now where there used to be 5. I've noticed Ruthodanort blogs less when we aren't discussing how pretty she is.
Muness from Fetlar
FC, your PUs have made a good choice, The Shetland Folk Festival is GREAT. Make sure they book their tickets fast, they sell like hot cakes!
Ruthodanort from Unst
Ruthodanort - get our tickets, quick before recommendin other folk to get theirs fast...Soljey ...stand by to get us seats at the foy, front ones please, like last time...or is it our turn to queue for you? FC - what do they look like?
scallowawife from by the box office
For goodness sake ruthodanort, you nearly gave them a collective heart attack, they thought the tickets must be on sale already and rushed off to scan the FF site........ Panic over. Mpu is phoning tomorrow to be put on the mailing list. Flights booked, accommodation in Lerook booked. Bugger. Another visit to Big Cage looms.
Flying Cat from in a fluff
Scallowawife, aren't they usually sort of oblong, sometimes stiff and cardboardy and sometimes thin and papery; in two halves, each with writing on them (one to be given up and one to be retained)? I know Shetland is Another Country and maybe things are done differently there.........
Flying Cat from puzzled&confused
FC - my goodness, Ruthodanort and I will look out for anything resembling your description, hmmm. not going to be easy. I suppose you'll tell me next that we might find them lying on the floor?
scallowawife from taking notes on your description
Funny you should say that......... I'm trying to work out a suitably dense yet useful description of the parental units........
Flying Cat from Curiosity Cott
Please, please, please can we have a new blog?
Muness from Fetlar
Still waiting. Maybe a lack of heating blog? A Burns blog? A Norsk blog? A Ruthodanort does nowt blog?
Muness from Fetlar
muness - you know she canna blog, or doesna want to, or doesna have time to where she is eenoo....Skol!
scallowawife from edinburgh
Muness, why?
Hyper-Borean from Oot bye da sooth mooth
Because......
Muness from Fetlar
*aha*
Flying Cat from oot-bye
Had planned to blog on Friday afternoon, but things got a bit crazy and I forgot. So I will try n blog fae Norge this week.
Ruthodanort from Unst
En Norge Bl酶g?
Flying Cat from Linguistics corner
Norge? Whaar's dat? Yell?
Muness from Ruthodanort's Palace
En Norge Blog? Whaar?
Muness from A Sunny Beach
Thaar, right thaar.......
Flying Cat from Cheshire Grin
Blogs fae a thirty-something mum of 4 born in Fife, brought up in Orkney, and living in Unst.
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