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Fjóla @fjolagud.bsky.social · 3d

Close, but not quite close enough. Raincheck 😁

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Fjóla @fjolagud.bsky.social · 3d

Short, snow-free (but rainy) holiday!

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Fjóla @fjolagud.bsky.social · 3d

Takk!

Fjóla @fjolagud.bsky.social · 3d

Hello England. Your weather is very on-brand and I like it.

Airplane window. Outside is a lot of rain.

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Fjóla @fjolagud.bsky.social · 4d

Yes, record snowfall in October in Reykjavík and proper chaos on the streets.

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Fjóla @fjolagud.bsky.social · 4d

Also, my hair, after one minute outside today.

A woman, frowning. She has long-ish heir that's white with snow.

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Fjóla @fjolagud.bsky.social · 4d

Winter came overnight.

A white fence and a few trees, further back, a little red shed and behind it, taller houses. Everything is c0vered in snow.

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Fjóla @fjolagud.bsky.social · 10d

Top news: The mosquito has arrived in Iceland, and we all have an opinion on this.

www.mbl.is/frettir/innl...

Moskítóflugur finnast á Íslandi

Þrjár moskítóflugur af tegundinni Culiseta annulata fundust hér á landi í síðustu viku.

www.mbl.is

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Fjóla @fjolagud.bsky.social · 13d

It doesn't bother me that much, I think their enthusiasm is sweet. Some people travel across the globe to see the northern lights, and I'm glad they get to. Also, I knew what I was signing up for when I moved here 😅

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Fjóla @fjolagud.bsky.social · 14d

They were particularly bright and they danced more than usual.

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Fjóla @fjolagud.bsky.social · 14d

I live close to a hotel in downtown Reykjavík and I get a northern lights alarm when they're very bright because tourists will start screaming outside my window. This time, it was a group of Chinese people.

Bright green Northern lights over rooftops.

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Fjóla @fjolagud.bsky.social · 17d

I mean, if the North Atlantic weather can't at least be used for something like this, what are we even doing here?

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Fjóla @fjolagud.bsky.social · 18d

True. And the odds of beating the Czech football team pretty slim.

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Fjóla @fjolagud.bsky.social · 18d

This was pretty much my thought process.

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Fjóla @fjolagud.bsky.social · 18d

The Czech football team just lost to our neighbours, the Faroe Islands, which I'm sure was a bit upsetting for the Czechs. They were about to escape the scene of their defeat when Faroese weather grounded the plane, and now the Czech football team is just stuck there.

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Fjóla @fjolagud.bsky.social · 20d

It's a little bench made from driftwood. Next to it is a hexagonal sandbox my husband built. In the photo, it's filled with old buoys and floating balls I don't know the name of. We pick them up on the beach below the cabin and use them for outdoor games.

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Fjóla @fjolagud.bsky.social · 20d

Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. My grandmother is from Hornstrandir, so I'm particularly fond of the area. It is a breathtaking place, hope you get to go some day.

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Fjóla @fjolagud.bsky.social · 22d

This is true and taken even more seriously in a very small language area.

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Fjóla @fjolagud.bsky.social · 22d

That should have been at the start of a "word," not "sentence." We have two 'th' sounds. One is the softer ð and the other is the harder þ. You can only use þ at the start of a word, never in the middle. And you can only use ð in the middle of a word, not at the start.

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Fjóla @fjolagud.bsky.social · 22d

And a very plausible one.

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Fjóla @fjolagud.bsky.social · 22d

When it comes to bad grammar, there is no trial.

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Fjóla @fjolagud.bsky.social · 23d

Every Icelandic child knows that you NEVER write the letter Ð/ð at the start of a sentence, but medieval scribes got to play fast and loose with the rules. Today, we can't do that because bad grammar means death or outlawry.

The top of an old manuscript page with a few holes in it. A big red letter on the left side of the page looks like a D for non-Icelandic speakers, but is the Icelandic letter Ð.

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Fjóla @fjolagud.bsky.social · Sep 28

The ways of the Internet People are inscrutable.

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Fjóla @fjolagud.bsky.social · Sep 28

It should be revenge bedtime procrastination. It's a very scientific term coined by the Internet People, and it describes staying up late even though you're really tired and know you should be asleep already.

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Fjóla @fjolagud.bsky.social · Sep 28

I'm sure I had a reason for visiting a Danish website devoted to the wood and furniture industry to read about old wood beams being reused in a Faroese bar but it was one in the morning and I was revenge sleep procrastinating. I did scratch my head when I opened the browser on my phone this morning.

A screenshot from a website called Wood Supply. The title of the article is "Bolværk fra Gammel Strand er blevet til færøsk bar". Below is an image of bar stools in front of a bar built of distressed wood.

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