The First day of Summer.

The First Day of summer was a glorious day after the Crime party, in which I took the role of the Bulter who didn’t do it, but who did do the B-B-Qing. We are not, although, entirely innocent, since Tabitha, played by Anna Bryndis did do it, and very nearly got away with the perfect crime. But now its summer and so to celebrate we went to the pool and then had coffee with the Reykjavik branch and RC volunteers from the Gambia.

We cleaned the car, and cleaned it again.... all to wash away the accumulated winter crime. What a winter !!!! The Car will need another cleaning.

Sveinn Runar and Hjördís had b’days this weekend.

Hippy bathday !

Bye the way...

The Easter joint turned out well this year, longer in the oven at a much lower heat. And also tastes better because of the efforts of dads kitchen helper, Sandra. Thanks Sandra.

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Good News

Introducing Georgia Ann, born about 2315hrs Mon 16 April 07.All well.Tony spoke to C about midnight.They are both over the moon. I think KJ is already thinking of buying another pony.

Sandra´s first Holy Communion

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For everybody who is not so good at Icelandic, the advert is warns about the dangers of internet identity theft. This well known singer has had his identity stolen by the aweful imposter. Ummm. Yes... I am the guy at the back, the stooge.

Eirikurs Birthday

On Friday Eirikur celebrated his 12 year birthday. He was woken up with song and presents before being turffed out to school. Later on in the day the boys from his class came round for a pizza party, videos and general racousness. A good day .......Congratulations to the main guy!

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Eirikur did his play at the City Theatre house, a proper pukka theatre. He was on a round stage and coped well with it because technically it is harder to act on this type of stage I am told. Eirikur did very well in his part as the school teacher and gave a rousing rendition of a pirates song for his solo. There was a lot of power and energy in it and it carried well into the audience. We really enjoyed the show. Thanks Eirikur, I think your Grandmother would have been so proud of you !

In honour of Sandras ballet show

Sandra and Silja did a great job in their ballet show, two beautiful flowers.

Easter Vacs

I am making a big effort to catch up because there has been so much going on. The first issue is male voice choirs. Not exactly what you might call my normal fare, however..... we got tickets to the Fosturbræður concert and it was good to hear; powerful.

From the highbrow to the low brow... passing through the film “300” the story board version of “go tell it to the Spartans”. Good company and a beer or three afterwards.
The verdict : A visual feast, epic dialogue and the ten packed actors. There is not much more that that to it... yeah,, but powerful enough to send me on a guilt trip to the gym.

Okay, it was better than "Alexander",
well nuff said !

Countries I have visited

Apparently 53 countries

Family news

Was on the phone to Father and caught up on tha latest news. The first beautiful news is that baby girl Abby Elise has been born to Justin and Shannon Cabeza. This is lovely to hear.

And then there is more... Camilla Lynch is engaged to be married, many congratulations.

Tarantula-la-la

Sandra and Erik are staying over the weekend and we are in heavy chilling mode due to coughs, sneezes and other end of winter disease´s, all except Sandra who is going a million and winding herself up for the big ballet show. Its going to be great!

The Joy of Rugby

Erik and I went to watch the match at Players, down the pub, so to speak. It is a Boy and Dad time. A chance to hang out, drink coke, munch nachos and discuss the game. Wales lost by a hair´s breath to Italy. Erik´s verdict “Wales is a good team, but they don´t think enough.” Absolutely right, my boy.

The Last King of Scotland. My verdict, for what it’s worth, a master piece of acting from Forrest Whitaker. He soooo deserved the Oscar, and the doctor´s complex character, were sensitively portrayed. There appeared to be little room for other characters to develop, which is a shame. I would have liked to see a deeper and more rounded African characters emerge beyond the central role of the character of Idi Amin.

Catch up and Brain Joga

I have to confess that my nose has been tickled by the occassional sunbeam and its promise of spring. Well, more of a wink and a nudge. But, it was enough to drag me out for a walk by the sea with Bekka, of the younger generation. It´s still cutting cold in the pale sunshine. However, this up-side position is leveraged by hot chocolate in Saltfelagid, a new design, chic centre, raw concrete floors kitted out with modern sofas and fasjion magazines. Very productive to revive the body and tickle the culture buds at the same time.
Also this week, the brain buds have been tickeld big time, because I am learning to make simple computer programmes. The younger generation says “ and so what ?” and I say, for someone is so rubbish at maths and also addled in the brain house, this excursion so stretches the brain´s hamstrings.

Rugby Fiesta

Now is the time of the 6 nations rugby competition, actually it is already half way through. I have been able to check into Players, the sports bar, and catch a couple of games. Now the bar tender has recognised me and I have a little spot tucked away in a corner, with my own screen and comfy leather chair. This weeks matches are timed so that they don´t clash with the F.A. cup matches. This means that the bar is virtually empty when the rugby comes on. Hopefully, some people will get to be abit curious and a crowd might develop in time for the world cup.

The weekend again

Great sunshine with no wind although cold. Is spring around the corner ?
We went to see the new kids film “Bridge to Tarabithia”. A very beautiful story and great to see the hero of the film as a drawing guy!

I also have to recomend another film “Death in Gaza” a harrowing documentary about kids growing up in Gaza. The conflict is engraved on their faces and they are sucked slowly and surely into the mad logic of the struggle.

Meanwhile here in Iceland, we are able to go for an innocent walk on the bitter mountain. Out of the wind, in the secret wooded spots the pale sunshine warms the brittle grass. This is a good place to pause and warm up with hot chocolate. Games to play in this weather are to watch the mesmerizing patterns of the water flowing under the inch thick layer of ice. Even more fun is to smash the ice with rocks. Today on the bitter mountain, the ice smashed the rock.

Reasons to be cheerful

Jogging on Sunday morning.
A decent cup of tea.
Chatting on the phone.
Solving an excel problem : )
Finishing the laundry

Horses

Horses

Kids came to stay and that is always fun. Saturday is busy with extra school programmes, and all is well that ends well with home made pizzas, á la Eirikur. Sunday on the other hand was alittle more laid back, a slow breakfast then a visit for a birthday party with waffles and cream. Then towards the end of the day we went out to the country to visit some horses and let the kids go for a little ride. Chilly but fun! The evening was rounded off with a nice supper and a Disney Video. Everybody went to bed happy.