And Iceland!! Norway wasn't cold enough apparently!
Reminds me of Billy Connolly talking about how the Scots migrated around the world and in particular Ireland, " come on lads I've found somewhere even colder and wetter than here, let's go"
They saw how flat Minnesota is, then they plowed and they saw the plow didn't even reach the bottom of the soil. Then they decided to stay.
On this farm we have one field that's reasonably "flat". Once my father plowed a part of it and at the shallowest the soil was an inch deep. I'm not joking!
They saw how flat Minnesota is, then they plowed and they saw the plow didn't even reach the bottom of the soil. Then they decided to stay.
On this farm we have one field that's reasonably "flat". Once my father plowed a part of it and at the shallowest the soil was an inch deep. I'm not joking!
Is that typical of Norway? Or do you have a rich agricultural area, a garden of Norway as it were?
They saw how flat Minnesota is, then they plowed and they saw the plow didn't even reach the bottom of the soil. Then they decided to stay.
On this farm we have one field that's reasonably "flat". Once my father plowed a part of it and at the shallowest the soil was an inch deep. I'm not joking!
Is that typical of Norway? Or do you have a rich agricultural area, a garden of Norway as it were?
Along the west coast it's pretty normal. The region around Stavanger and Trondheim are flat and fertile.
So is the south-east.
I'll derail further
To exercise my mind (the only type of exercise I do...) I translated the first two versus of the song Anne Knutsdotter. It gives a pretty accurate image of what it was like to live on the poorer farms by the coast.
My name is Anne Knutsdotter, Kari is my Mother and Truls he is my Brother.
We live in a place where no-one would believe anyone can live.
And the place is called Cairn, Luren, Journey-to-Heaven, Rockery, Rockery, Starve-to-death.
Yes, the place lies so high, high up there on a head of rocks
right up against a rock wall.
And there is barely enough for us to barely feed two cows and a pig.
And the cows' names are Dagrun, Fagros, old Fagros.
The pig is named Giss, Giss, Giss.
Leonardo diCaprio has expressed worry after the extreme cold in Siberia this winter. These martial arts practicioners in Yakutsk: "Hi, Leo. Thanks for thinking of us. But we're fine ...." (the medium temperature in Yakutsk in February is minus 38 degrees celsius/ minus 36.4 f)
This strange phenomenon was filmed on a lake near me a few days ago. Something is happening to the ice, but I don't know what. It's very facinating, watch the movie!
I love a bit of James Brown, but he was definitely on drugs here! Either that or he took a bet to see how many song titles he could get in on an interview. )
"The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
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Reminds me of Billy Connolly talking about how the Scots migrated around the world and in particular Ireland, " come on lads I've found somewhere even colder and wetter than here, let's go"
On this farm we have one field that's reasonably "flat". Once my father plowed a part of it and at the shallowest the soil was an inch deep. I'm not joking!
Along the west coast it's pretty normal. The region around Stavanger and Trondheim are flat and fertile.
So is the south-east.
Sorry for the derail.
To exercise my mind (the only type of exercise I do...) I translated the first two versus of the song Anne Knutsdotter. It gives a pretty accurate image of what it was like to live on the poorer farms by the coast.
My name is Anne Knutsdotter, Kari is my Mother and Truls he is my Brother.
We live in a place where no-one would believe anyone can live.
And the place is called Cairn, Luren, Journey-to-Heaven, Rockery, Rockery, Starve-to-death.
Yes, the place lies so high, high up there on a head of rocks
right up against a rock wall.
And there is barely enough for us to barely feed two cows and a pig.
And the cows' names are Dagrun, Fagros, old Fagros.
The pig is named Giss, Giss, Giss.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmBEpzBk1Rg
Just imagine what life could be like
In the year 2000
The wonderful world of animals.
Possibly the finest raconteur alive today...and better than most dead ones -{
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdTYojRGXvI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXpEKzUjYBk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS0YJUgP2QM
Darth Vader by Stephen fry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeVd3pRaUuc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQmqcaS5LIM
I love a bit of James Brown, but he was definitely on drugs here! Either that or he took a bet to see how many song titles he could get in on an interview.
https://youtu.be/xXcngBUXqvA
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/video/headlines/brave-model-does-underwater-photo-shoot-with-crocodiles/vp-AAA8BgN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU7Glxaf88Q
Yes, not seen that before!
https://www.vgtv.no/video/164145/mister-pistol-og-buksene-under-ransforsoek
video1: https://youtu.be/twW8OQ90_4M
video2: https://youtu.be/TlsJGNs0_hQ
https://youtu.be/FQ9Xpzi4qkU
Someone's top 15 John Barry choices. Plenty Bond, good editing, and I can't argue with the top choice!
https://www.nrk.no/ostfold/skoyteloperne-fikk-isen-til-a-_synge_-1.14400655