Happy New Year 2006!

New Year´s Eve in Reykjavík - The photo is borrowed from the site of Stelpa
but this is in fact almost exactly the view from mys sisters apartment,
where we are going to spend the evening.

Many thanks for stopping by and reading my blog in 2005.

Scenes from last years New Year´s Eve celebrations in Reykjavík.
Photo on the left by Torfi Frans Ólafsson

Gerður Helgadóttir 1928-1975

Gerður Helgadóttir (1928-1975)

A television documenty film about one of our best artists:
Líf fyrir listina eina

Silent Night ! Holy Night !

The Holy Night - Painting by Carl Bloch

Silent Night - Wikipedia
Silent Night
Silent Night Web
Silent Night - English Variations
Silent Night and Oberndorf
Silent Night Audio
Silent Night, Holy Night - Notes

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

* Christmas Carol *

for everyone that views this,
from Millan.net and me.
...and I´ve decided that you simply
MUST see this fabulous Santa Dance too!
Christmas Is LOVE!

Nisse

As I have already given links to blogs with stuff about the Icelandic yulelads, I now want to give a link to the Danish Christmas NISSE, from Denmark, the country of my grandmother on my father´s side. And here is some information about Danish yuletide traditions, some of whom have been adopted by the Icelanders, with Iceland being a former Danish colony, or until 1918, and a part of the Danish Kingdom, having selfrule in certain matters but with a shared monarch, until 1944.

Almost too good to be true...

...have a look at this site:
Millan.net

Just for fun.....

This is the girl the Icelandic Bachelor chose, with her daughter.
She is a single mom from a previous relationship. Even though always seeming a little withdrawn and shy, she very obivously had a big crush on the bachelor from very early on in the series. After the series she told that she had not expected to fall in love participating, but she also told that she held herself back on purpose in the girls competition over the bachelor, because she had sensed very early that it was her he was really interested in. Even so, she was not very good at hiding her jealousy! But, as the bachelor himself admitted: "I could not very well go ahead and choose one girl right from the early start, because then there would obviously have been no series... :) (Yeah, Monika, I think too he also had a lot of fun fingering all those other girls!)
A lovely girl and I hope they will be happy and manage to build a good relationship in peace, even though they have the eyes of our whole little nation on them !

*Íslenski bachelorinn - Skjáreinn

Monika also blogs about
the Icelandic "jólasveinar"
like Móa of "Leikur og list".


<- This is Pottaskefill aka Pottasleikir/ Pot-scraper

John Winston Ono Lennon
October 9. 1940 – December 8. 1980

John Lennon Official Website
Instant Karma
John Lennon Dreamsite
John Lennon Museum

I saw this guy today

in Laugarásbíó in Reykjavík.