S C O T L A N D

I was living in Scotland for four years, 1976-1980, or to be more precise, 3 1/2 winters, because we always went back home to Iceland for the summer.

Edinburgh

We lived in the small town Galashiels in the Borders area south of Edinburgh. My ex-husband was studying textile technology at The Scottish College of Textiles.

Galashiels

My older son Eysteinn started schooling in Burgh Primary School and learned to read in English. My younger son Úlfur was born there, March 15th, 1978, in the Galashiels Cottage Hospital. Very appropriately The Wee Scot decided to continue his studies in Scotland after completing his studies in computer science at Reykjavík University. He went to the University of Aberdeen, and after that he worked for about a year in Newcastle Upon Tyne for a company producing computer games. Now he is back home in Reykjavík and working in The Computer Centre for Icelandic Savings Banks.

Our landlords at 94 St Andrews Street for 3 winters were Isobel and Ian Aitchison, a very nice couple who gave us a lot of assistance in many ways. They have two sons, Peter and Michael. It was their plan to vistit us in Iceland, but I was so sorry that when they were able to come we had moved to Tanzania, Africa. Then me and my husband divorced while staying there and somehow I lost touch with those very nice friends.

I always look upon Scotland a little bit as a second home away from home.

Give it up for kids!

Spanking in Reykjavík

Fréttablaðið/The Newspaper, yesterday:

"A man has been taken to court accused of spanking a playschool teacher, laying her on the enginehood of her car and hitting her a few times on the butt.

The man admits to his crime, but says his excuse was that the playschool teacher had parked her car illegally, blocking the driveway to his house. As he had watched her park and she was getting out of the car he had walked up to her and asked her very politely to park elsewhere, as she was parking illegally, blocking a driveway and making it impossible for him to get his car into his driveway. He claims that she denied this and started making attacks on his manhood, sexually assulting him verbally by calling him names and that she had tried to kick his balls. He reacted to this in the way his mom had taught him by laying her on the enginehood of her car and spanking her lightly a few times.

The Way his Mom taught him ?

The playschool teacher claims that she had done nothing to deserve seach treatment and that she had never tried to kick his balls. Asked to remember the chain of events last fall, her feelings got the best of her and she started weeping, having to halt her testimony for a few minutes. She admits to calling the man "frekjudolla"/pushy just before the spanking took place. A witness claimed that the teacher called the man "rugludallur"/ idiot.

The defending lawyer of the accused claims that he cannot be judged for charges on a single link in an unfortunate chain of events. He claims that the playschool teacher herself broke the law abusing the man with demeaning comments; that she had attacked him verbally before he attacked her literally.

The verdict will be heard in the beginning of June."

Maybe they could learn something from this book from amazon.com?

Keep in mind:

Bad Beaviour never pays
Best not mess with a Playschool Teacher
Not everything your Mom taught you was right

Why won´t bears eat clowns?

Beacause they taste funny ;)

Hi Weatherpixie...

Reykjavík in the midnightsun

...you´ve got it all wrong, it´s NOT raining in Reykjavík right now, birds are singing and the sun is shining brightly - yes - still - at 6.50 p.m. !

Bravenet photocenter

I have started putting some pictures into my Bravenet photocenter. You are welcome to have a look; it´s located in one of the Bravenet-buttons at the bottom of the sidebar of my blog. It´s some photos from around the country that I´ve googled.

I also decided to try out this "free-links" that I´m not sure of how works.

Bravenet.com also has the same Icelandic flag that I have in my sidebar in their clip-art section - but theirs is moving ! - But I don´t know how to transfer it to Blogger with the motion, the Picasa service that I use a lot just demobilizes everything! I suspect that maybe it´s just my computer that doesn´t have the right installment for making this work ?

! O.M.G.! The troubles of the middel-aged millenium mouse learning to use a computer all on her own!

Please place your pin in my guestmap and have a look at the daily cartoon too for a laugh!

"The Rainbow Children"

Actor Stefán Karl Stefánsson

Read in the link above how "Robbie Rotten" helps Icelandic children with the organization he founded.

Am I Stupid?

OK

So I sacrificed my old addings and rechose the same template,after endless attempts to find out what was wrong so I could correct it. Looking the template over time and time again but saw nothing. Maybe I had just messed around too much with the old blog, I admit it was becoming a bit crowded!
So now I can start rebuilding,..oh, isn´t that after all the story of my life...;)

And pretty soon I´ll be changing my profile too because I was at the doctors yesterday and he told me OK to start working again. So then I am not going to have the time to be hanging by the computer all day. My bloodtests were fine, values going down slowly but steadily, I´m going to live to be 100 for sure.

BLOGGER

My blog has gone quite out of control and I don´t know what to do. It performs changes on its own and I seem to have nothing to say about it any more. And Blogger help is not of much use to me today. Maybe I´ll just have to learn html-coding from bottom to be able to manage this blog!

All posts have become centralized on an outstandish white background, biggest side-picture overlaps post-text and now my footer-troll has moved up, up up->This looks like an internet-troll at large? ;)

O.M.G.