Everyone has a sledding hill in Norway.  Ours is at the end of the street.  Especially when it’s a sunny Winters day you’ll find all the neighbours up on the hill playing with their kids.  Snowmen are made, jumps are moulded, and somehow in all the chaos, an advanced, intermediate and kiddies track appear. It’s [...]

Great Uncle caught a 6kg cod in the Alta fjord.  He stopped by the farm to give it to Farmor and Farfar.  We all sat in the kitchen watching Great Uncle gut and fillet it with expertise.  And of course, the fish-out-of-water Aussie had her camera with her. Cod is a prized fish in Norway [...]

Moose has always gone out on the farm in the middle of Winter with just shorts and no shirt on, and sometimes without shoes!  And I always profess that he is absolutely crazy! It just so happens that last week I found myself in the middle of a paddock in just my pyjamas!  Boy, do [...]

On the farm we make sure there is enough wood for the fire to last the long Winter.  Around the farm there are clumps of trees at different heights.  This is because firewood takes years to grow and so farmers have to prepare sometimes ten years in advance planting small groves of trees for future [...]