A Fresh Start

Ok then. Here you are. Two snaps from yesterday and three from today as more “teasers”. I’ll bring back something suitably tacky from Norway as a prize for whoever’s first to tell me the subject of the last photograph.

Clue No. 1: It’s at the top of Mount Fløyen.

Well, I suppose it’s time that I lost my blogging virginity.
Last night after football training (registering players, not participating, I hasten to add) I found myself in the pub recounting a story of football supporting daring-do involving myself and our host. It therefore seems opportune to recount it again.
Our beloved yellow & blues were playing […]

Being an honoured Guest blogger and as “mini Em3” (as the rumour suggests) is sleeping, I thought I would offer some words of wisdom confusion….
After dropping Em3 off at the heli-pad on Sunday, that wisked him off to his secret Fish surveylance mission in Norway (shhhh…), I felt empty, withdrawn and concerned.  No not because […]

Ignore me, I’m not here. If I was, though, I’d be teasing you with the view from my hotel room at 11:30 at night, Bergen from the top of Mount Fløyen, Bryggen and proof that the whole city (wildlife included) is obsessed with fish.

But as I’m not here, I won’t.
Adjø.

It is a great honour to be amongst the Half Dozen guest bloggers whittled down from the initial, er, six applicants to fill the expansive boots of the Em whilst he is exploring darkest Norway. Or lightest Norway. I tried to come up with a collective noun for us but “Em People” was the best […]

Brrrrrrring, brrrrrring, brrrrrrring.
 
“Hello.”
 
“Yes, one moment please.” 
 
“Mom, you’re wanted on the telephone.”
 
Have you heard that saying, if looks could kill?  I received one of those from my mother at that very moment.  I just smiled at her and handed her the receiver.
 
In a sweet, friendly voice my mother said, “Hello.”
 
“Oh yes.  Mmmmhmmmm.  Yes, uh huh, well, […]

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I‘m away on my holiday - to Norway - and leave the blog in the capable hands of my Dirty (Baker’s) Half-Dozen: Croila, Daisy, Mulbo/Murphy, Rosa, Shelly Tall Andy and The Bishop.
Read their excellent contributions below. I’ll be back in a fortnight.
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VirtualTourist.com
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Events I’ll be considering at Bergen-Travel
The […]

I washed clothing last night and hung it out. Should I bring it in?, I pondered at bedtime. Nah. It’s not quite totally dry yet.
I mean. It’s the end of June. Summer time, in fact.
Bugger.
Talking of clothing and Longfellow (Sam’s going to be a tall lad, you see, and […]

I’ve upgraded my ClustrMap to the “paid” version.
As a result, I can now tell that my South American fanbase is firmly in Argentina rather than Uruguay.
In fact, I think I recognise some of the dots - see if you’re there by going to the main map and “zooming in” on your continent.
And look - […]

The photographic exhibition was a strange mix - some excellent photographs and some … well … mundane snaps. Tippler, Sticky, Chorlton and I trooped over there at lunchtime and I checked with them that I wasn’t being unfair in my judgement. I wasn’t.
You’ll notice a key name missing from that list. Stubby’d […]

“Would you like a cup of tea?” asked the lovely Stubby as I stroked her pussy.
“No thanks, I won’t hang around.” The atmosphere was, after all, awkward enough. Making friends with the cats had been much easier. Stubby herself was curled up at the far end of the sofa and I wasn’t even […]

Purely as a matter of idle speculation, I’ve been working out how far I’ve been from “home”.
This map shows the furthest north, south, east and west I’ve been, counting locations where I’ve slept for one or more nights (e.g. I travelled west from Dearborn on my day out with Howie but Dearborn’s the furthest west […]

I wonder whether Stubby’d be interested in a visit to the Novi Sad and Vojvodina Photographic Exhibition which opens in The Forum, Norwich, on Friday …

“Sorry about yesterday!” the email started.
“Can you make lunch today?” it continued. “Cheesey chips in the Slurry (Tavern)? xx”
“Sounds good” I replied. “12 (o’clock) or 1?”
“12!!!!”
High noon came … and went.

Diamond Geezer’s summer twilight post (about how little “night” he found in the Hebrides on holiday last week) made me wonder.
So I went here (and was patient, as DG suggested). I changed the country to Norway and chose Bergen/Flesland.
It seems that at this time of year, night (i.e. the period between Civil Twilight setting […]

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Being a pessimistic sort I had assumed it was the same old story when Shazza cancelled on me yesterday. I wasn’t overly surprised, then, when she postponed today’s planned chat until later in the day … and then again postponed it again until tomorrow. We’ll see. Let’s just say I won’t hold […]

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