I went to the bakery in Alta and asked if they had any croissants.  Their response: ‘What’s that?’  An Australian reply would be ‘You are kidding me, right?’ but I saw that they really meant ‘what’s that?’.  With a big breath in and a big exhale, I composed myself. I have been a little disappointed [...]

Lilu came home the other day saying ‘Jo!’, pronounced yoo.  I had no clue what she was meaning.  I had to look it up in my English-Norwegian dictionary.  It said jo just means ‘yes’ but I was sure there was something more to it than that.  Lilu was using joooo with a whinny or angry voice. [...]

In dressing Lil’ Red, I noticed I had put him in a stripped top and striped stockings.  I lifted up his top, and you bet ya, I had put him in a striped bodysuit too.  Oddly enough, the stripes were all the same thickness – the stripes were all horizontal. The stripe isn’t something I [...]

We have had about a metre of snow on our roof for some time now. We have been living ‘on the edge’. Roof avalanches are a part of life in Norway and if you live here long enough you are bound to get caught in one or at least watch the person in front of [...]