Happy new year

Kids have startet to ring down our door bell now, we just had three of them. “Trick or treat” they shouted when I opened up the door. I gave them some candy and when they went they yelled “happy new year!”. Kids here in Norway doesn’t understand what halloween is. Its kind of funny..

Media says here that we’ve inherited this from USA but I kind of disagree. Every kid here have bought their costume, not a creative soul out there. I’ve seen a lot of Americans preparing for Halloween this week, a lot of creative people who design their own costume. So to say we’ve copied this from the US is in my opinion wrong – we should copy their creativity too!

A lot of the kids who’ve been here tonight has masks from the same store, its kind of funny..

Our King sneaks in H1N1 vaccine queue

Once again people sneak in line, but this time our royal family, the king, queen and the rest of the family are now vaccinated. But they think they do it to protect others they meet, but isn’t it so that people who are vaccinated carry the disease anyway and can give H1N1 to others without knowing it?

In Norway we struggle to get the vaccine out to everyone so the authoroties had to split the vaccines in two. First the people with cronic diseases will get the vaccine, then the people without any problems.

I guess our king and his family is secretly in the problemgroup.

An autumn walk

My daughter and I explored our neighborhood last weekend and to study the autumn process. We had a great time – she loves walking though the leaves and the sound it makes. I found out that I love it too – it is relaxing. I managed to snap some shots and yesterday I stitched them together..

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We stopped here to study the nice wool-like clouds. Its a 5 minute walk from our home, well.. 20 if we count in the time my daughter stopped to check out some small rocks on the ground – I think she’ll become a rock collector.

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This was originally a mill, then a wool-factory and later a herring oil factory. Today the buildings host a paint factory. Here is an air-shot of the buildings, taken in July 1960. The area is called Kverneviken. (Mill Creek)

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There are still remaining channels from the river and into the building’s cellar here used for the mill. I never get tired exploring this area, I hope I can enter them once but I haven’t had the guts asking yet.

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This is a river near us running through our area and end up at the factory buildings where the mill was. I should have taken a few more shots so it became a square when I stitched them..

Tired of the Congo-case

I’m tired of the media coverage of the two Norwegians in Congo. One of the guys is now playing insane to either be transferred home or to mistrial – its ridiculous. If they’ve killed a man in Congo they deserve to be treated as other killers in Congo, if not – they trial will tell. In the mean time I wish media concentrated on other matters.

Like this for instance, or maybe explain why so many people get killed in the UN building from the 17th floor?

Skipping the queue for a H1N1 vaccine

Today my homecity started vaccinating people against H1N1 or swineflue as many like to call it. Bergen received 15000 vaccines and the first area got 4000. Early this morning queues were building up and they worry now that 4000 won’t last long. They are supposed to restrict vaccines to pregnant and people with severe airway diseases but I have a feeling more than these are lining up.

A few minutes ago they had to let pregnant go first in line because people have started to skip the queue – can you imagine that? This is embarrassing..

The personell there now fairs now that 4000 is not enough but they don’t know when the next shipment comes. The health system is a mess, noone seem in control but everyone knows that Norway ordered too many vaccines and theres no left for the poorer countries.

I hope the ones who take the vaccine today will be ok, I fear they are part of an experiment since the vaccine is quite new.

A 0.67 pound (307g) baby

The story about Clara was released today, she was born three and a half months too early and she only weighed 0.67 pounds (307 gram)!

Have you seen anything that tiny?

I was stunned when I saw these images (courtesy family photos) and was worried to carry on reading. But it was happy reading! She recovered quickly and today she is a happy and a healthy little lady.

It might be because I so clearly remember the birth of my daughter but I felt tears coming seeing these images.

Clara was born in Sweden December 17th last year.


Her father Anders Borg followed her to the emergency room and let his finger rest under her hand – and she gripped it!

The day after she opened her eyes, and after 3 weeks later the parents were allowed to hold her.

Clara at 888 gram (1.95 pound):

At week 24 she stopped growing and they had a rough time following, but each time the doctors came with grief news Clara gave them good signs of life.

Yesterday she was 10 months and look forward to her birthday December 17th.

Link to the Swedish newspaper.