Norwegian Pig-Racing
My friend the Country Doctor has just sent me a postcard from Norway. Sadly, owing to the inadequacies of technology, I can't put this up on the blog, but it depicts a strapping Nordic peasant astride a particularly large porker. In the background a range of Norwegian mountains is slowly eroding. To one side, a sign on a wooden shack reads 'Ekte Ceitost til Salos', which I assume means 'Last Bacon Before The Arctic Circle' or something. I'll be finding out the truth about Norwegian pig-racing myself this weekend, as I'm off to visit the Musical Engineer & Sundae Girl. After that a few days in Scotland. Which means that posts to this blog may be a touch irregular in the next 10 days.
So while I'm gone - here's a meme I picked up elsewhere in the blogoverse.
What three books are you most embarrassed about having started but never finished?
My candidates:
The Naked And The Dead by Norman Mailer
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Insatiability by Stanislaw Witkiewicz
Further contributions welcome in the comments below . . .
So while I'm gone - here's a meme I picked up elsewhere in the blogoverse.
What three books are you most embarrassed about having started but never finished?
My candidates:
The Naked And The Dead
Further contributions welcome in the comments below . . .
posted by Nick at 10:37 pm
4 Comments:
Love the Blog guys...!
If it stays clear later on, keep checking the sky for the northern lights... there's a "storm" going on right now (8.30pm, Monday) and if the storm persists a few more hours, until it's dark here in the UK, we should see something....
Fingers crossed!
- Stu (Cumbrian Skies)
STUARTATK@aol.com
Stu, if there's any evidence up here in Torridon, I'll let you know.
Renaissance Man - I think it's embarrassed not to have finished (at least it is in my three). But please feel free to expand the terms of reference . . .
Please go ahead . . .in my case there'd be too many to mention . . .
Several years too late, I know, but I came to this by something of a roundabout route. I was rather enjoying the quality of the blog... and then, suddenly, a chance presented itself to get all big-headed about knowledge of Nordic languages...
Can't say I know what ceitost is, but I imagine the sign on the shack on the post card probably simply says "Genuine goat's cheese (geitost) for sale".
Glad to be of service.
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