A Fresh Start

I really must either lose weight or save up so I can fly Business Class.

Penguins are very clean birds. I was impressed by the way that the young chick would bend over, so that he was horizontal to the ground, before letting fly with his, um, bodily waste.

In 50 years I will have destroyed umpteen languages. I didn’t even need a phrase book when I was in Norway. I find this rather sad.

No moose is good moose

Moose sausages and reindeer sausages are just plain wrong. Even though I lapsed from vegetarianism while on holiday, the thought of these “delicacies” (plus the smoked minky whale) just turned my stomach. I was considering starting a campaign: “No moose is good moose”.

Does Norway have an unusually high rate of young, unmarried mothers or is it that jewellry is so expensive that they don’t wear rings? In fact, given the number of young ladies waddling around in the later stages of pregnancy, I can only assume that Norwegian TV isn’t up to much and come the long, dark winter nights …

To save energy (and the environment) I turned off my boiler before I left. I remembered this when I stepped under the shower yesterday morning.