Andreas
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You're putting us all on the same page. "Nordic" is a geopolitical concept, not a common identity.
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Hlakka þegar til jólanna.
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I love it too and read it every Christmas.😊
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I'm making béchamel sauce like a pro.
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I don't remember.🫤
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I HAD ONE FOR A WHILE! It was in the cold winter of 1985 and my dad and I found one freezing on the snowy pavement. We rescued it and kept it for a couple of days until my dad found out it had escaped and contacted the owner.
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Pretty edition from 1954 of Norwegian Hans E. Kinck's collection of short stories "Flaggermusvinger" ("Bat wings"), originally published in 1895.
Reading "Høstnætter" ("Autumn nights") while storm Amy raged outside yesterday night was a more than charming experience.
A collection of short stories by the Norwegian writer Hans E. Kinck. The title of the book is "Flaggermusvinger," Norwegian for "Bat wings." The cover of the book has a black-and-white drawing of a violin on some rocks with bushes all around. It's an edition from 1954. Page of a book with only the title of a short story on: "Høstnætter", which in Norwegian means "autumn nights."
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Storm Amy is whipping Stockholm hard. I opened the window, and immediately the wind, the rain and the smell in the air took me back to a stormy night in the Yorkshire moors many, many, too many years ago. My friend found it miserable. I was elated. To feel the force of the elements is empowering.
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And the wine! Trying a new Italian one from Molise tonight.
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I can't even conceive the notion of moving to another country, even just for a couple of months a year, and not learning the local language. Language is the key to a wider and richer world, to a better understanding and appreciation of other cultures.
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Something that increasingly sends me round the bend is people who buy a home in another country and then just complain about how bad the locals' English is. Such a skewed perspective. If you buy a house in Italy or France, you should probably do your homework and learn the local language. Full stop.
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Jag har kantareller, buffelmozzarella och blåmögelost. Ikväll vankas det vit pizza tror jag minsann.
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Only today did I learn about 'samizdat', a Russian word meaning 'self-publishing' and the underground practice of spreading censored, forbidden books - sometimes even translating them - in the Soviet Union and former Eastern Bloc. A surprising example is Astrid Lindgren's 'The Brothers Lionheart'.
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He doesn't fit and he doesn't care. I raised him well.
A leopard-spotted snow Bengal cat sits in an open package box and looks at something higher up. He's too big for the box but doesn't seem to care.
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1000 sider på norsk? Ja takk.
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Took this one earlier on my way home from work today - when the sun was still shining and I was a couple of hours younger - and then forgot about it. Anyway, at last the weekend is here.
Beardy man in his late 40's takes a selfie. A tree and some buildings in the background. He wears a dark blue coat, a black shirt and a grey rucksack.
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The amount of tiny blood-red juice stains you find on the walls and in the sink of your kitchen after picking the seeds out of a pomegranate is impressive and makes it all look like some gnomes used your kitchen as the set of a splatter film.