Tuesday 10 January 2012
Monday 2 January 2012
Merry X-mas and Happy New Year!
We are not sending postcards this Christmas, we gave all postcard & stamp money to charity. This image is one of the first experimental images by Lumi, she got a cheap digital Fisher Price kid's camera from a flea market. That's the way how you start doing art...
Merry X-mas and Happy New Year!
Merry X-mas and Happy New Year!
Thursday 29 December 2011
X-mas Gale
Damn! We got a serious gale coming from the Atlantic all over the country for two days: first day it was max. 31 meters per sec (about 69 miles/hour). In Norway it was even worse. Local pine and spruce forests looked like battle grounds, because the soil was not frozen and the trees were easy to capsize. Oh boy, our neighbours lost quite a lot of trees from their home yard. But luckily not their house.
We were without electricity for more than 30 hours. But we had our own well, our own firewood and a Good Old Grandfather's House with stoves and ovens.
It is a bit silly: the shops or pharmacies did not work in local towns because cash registers & automatic doors needed electricity. Local people needed running water but the infrastructure did not work because lack of electricity. WTF? This is a well developed economy, and 250 000 - 300 000 households lacked information and support from the companies. It was our good luck that it was not minus 20 Centigrades. For some people this situation will still last several days.
So, 1) we are vulnerable more than ever (because of these stupid doors?), 2) it will remind all my fellow people about the underdeveloped countries, where the results are more fatal. This was not an earthquake, or a monsoon flood...
We were without electricity for more than 30 hours. But we had our own well, our own firewood and a Good Old Grandfather's House with stoves and ovens.
It is a bit silly: the shops or pharmacies did not work in local towns because cash registers & automatic doors needed electricity. Local people needed running water but the infrastructure did not work because lack of electricity. WTF? This is a well developed economy, and 250 000 - 300 000 households lacked information and support from the companies. It was our good luck that it was not minus 20 Centigrades. For some people this situation will still last several days.
So, 1) we are vulnerable more than ever (because of these stupid doors?), 2) it will remind all my fellow people about the underdeveloped countries, where the results are more fatal. This was not an earthquake, or a monsoon flood...
Wednesday 21 December 2011
Tuesday 13 December 2011
Sunday 4 December 2011
New Love
Passalacqua Cremador espresso – check the yellow package at the right hand side of the photograph... 70% Arabica with 30% Robusta coffee beans. Good stuff with a strong character. Goes well with my handpresso domepod (not in the image). I got one when I turned into 50 in March and I will not leave the shoreline for camping without it.
Monday 21 November 2011
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