Someone just knocked on my door.
Which my husband actually warned me about since they’re changing something to do with the power thingy.. Oh I get it, the power’s gone now. Well I can live with that. I’ll just write this then post when he’s done. Jokes on him and I didn’t need to ruin my morning by opening the door. I assume it’s a man since that’s what all my previous encounters with electricians has taught me. This is not a statement I feel nor wish to be the standard.
On a totally different note. My neighbor is out on his terrace every day now since this crazy weather affected our beautiful northern hemisphere and caught us all by surprise.
I mean I get it. We’re all astounded and acting weird due to this but this is nuts. It’s not only looking really boring and like questionable behaviour to me, it’s preventing me of walking out on my own terrace looking like the grinch stealing presents retrieving my clothes I left like one hour ago for drying. I’m obviously taking this temperature opportunity to do all my laundry, which must also lead them to believe I’ve been hoarding dirty laundry all winter. I don’t appreciate a bystander as I’m performing this act. I don’t appreciate having to nod to someone this early in the morning. Especially from my own private property.
It’s probably highly inappropriate to sneak around taking (not to mention posting) pictures of unaware people on their own private property. But after going several rounds with myself I concluded that you can’t really see the guy and he could might as well just be in the background of a picture of a totally different object. I can’t imagine how many pictures featuring me in the background of a Chinese person posing in front of.. anything in Bergen. (Was that generalizing? You can’t write anything these days without being verbally slaughtered. But there really is a lot of Chinese tourists, there really is).
Plus the issue is far greater than the damage it would do me facing a possible arrest based on inappropriate photography.
Ah.. one of the many inconveniences of 30 degrees celsius. How can we not be prepared with emergency fans for this highly unlikely situation we’re now facing totally unarmed?
Rejoice! Power’s back and I can and now continue steaming my fabrics. After posting this. I have yet to be presented the possibility to retrieve my laundry, but that can wait. At some point I’ll have to get dressed since I’m meeting my family later, then I’ll show him how groomed I am whilst working from home. That’ll teach him..
Isn’t that awful? When you’re forced to hide in your own house to avoid seeing your neighbors, almost stalking them from your window? It always surprises me the level of my social awkwardness that reaches the point of preventing me from going out of my house when needed if I see/hear that my neighbors are outside, specially if they’re having fun, I don’t know why (lol). The motives, however, can be extremely persuasive. When it’s about getting food, no one can stop me. Anyway, for future reference ,I highly recommend the Damian at the gym/”She doesn’t even go here” outfit; very classy and always works.
Cheers!
Cami.
Hahahaha googled the outfit
I’ll let you into a little secret Viktoria; I have been hanging my under garments in my greenhouse (I do hope to use it for food production one day….(the greenhouse, not the under garments)), but do I care what the overlooking neighbours think??
I am writing a long work about a 1920’s English village and I am populating it with people I know (but very loosely) so I appreciate your ‘photograph dilemma. (Also, I send pictures to an old lady I know of places she knew in years past, and you have to be careful about not taking pictures of children etc. even though it is all perfectly innocent). We are liberalising our way to serfdom.
Like you, this hot weather has really held me back. Ten minutes cutting the hedge then a dash to the shade for twenty minutes of recovery, ice cream and cold drinks)! <3
I know, children’s a no, no!!
Haha, underwear in the greenhouse! They’ve been washed, so why not!
wrong approach; Go to the nearest fire station, tell the firefighter he’s having dinner with you, borrow this suit from him, put him on and sit on your balcony, all natural and relaxed, then wave over and let your cell phone like a geiger counter rattle 😉
http://ff-okriftel.de/media/einsatzabt/schutzkleidung/hitzeschutz.jpg
Ha ha t.a.g. that suit looks like the one I wear whilst washing my under garments! ; – )
I think the solution has been staring us in the face.
We could all wash our clothes whilst still wearing them, in the bath or (more environmentally friendly) in the shower.
That way, what we scientists call ‘ The Latent Heat of Evaporation’ would not only dry the clothes on us, but would keep us very cool on hot days. The bonus being that we would not have to iron our clothes either as our body form would remove the creases. What do you all think?
At this point I could have told a crude schoolboy’girl joke about having tried it already by having a bath with my swimming trunks on because I did not want to ‘look down on the unemployed’.
But I had better not as I do not want to end up in prison either!
I wish that it was that temperature where I live. (It was 100 degrees fahrenheit today) It is very annoying having to deal with people who have to come to your house and fix things. They do wonderful things — fixing the electricity and whatnot — but s9metimes you just would like to be able to lounge around in your pajamas and not have to worry about someone knocking on your door. Especially if you don’t wear pants to bed, and are forced to grab a blanket before you open the door for fear of exposing your legs to this person who is just there to fix a problem with your house.
That would be awkward.. We’ve actually left the workers for the day. Not like we couldn’t hold them accountable if anything was stolen, right?
And here in England we are faced with so much rain. Norwegians have stolen our sunshine!
🙁
Not sure if cheaply drying laundry is a fair enough trade off for nosy neighbours and prickly heat! I send you good wishes in the hope you may endure this balmy hardship.
On an unrelated note; I just discovered Nidar Troika, and it sounds like the most delightful thing. Is it?
I don’t get it?
It is good!
Er, sun bad? 😛
Stay cool Norway. Eat ice cream and swim in the fjords.
This youtuber called LizzieAnswers has a lot of interesting videos on bipolar that you might find interesting:
I don’t need to be diagnosed though, haha
I know this is really off topic…but I have been away from your blog for awhile, came back, and noticed; Wow! You have a new splash page picture! Then I had a déjà Vu moment in my head and suddenly your picture reminded me of Johannes Vermeer, The Girl With The Pearl Earring. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s the pose you have and the soft light from the window. But it struck me as a very classic female pose. Been catching up with your posts and I have to say you’re really writing some fantastically honest and enlightening material. Thanks, as always, for sharing your life.
PS> Oh yeah! I’ve been seeing these new outfits your sister is wearing. Look fantastic! I’m presuming you must have had a hand in that?
<3 <3
Depends which outfits you're referring to!
Wow! This is embarrassing! She wears so many unique outfits! I’ve been presuming that all her outfits on stage are by your hand. This would include special events. I presume this because I usually see the mix of both modern and traditional Norwegian style incorporated into your designs. Plus the designs are very unique and don’t follow the latest cliché of the times. Your sister doesn’t follow any fashions but of her own making; of which I presume your designs have heavily influenced this particularly unique and personal entourage.
Either way, I really like it. Sometimes very feminine; sometimes very spunky and rebellious to any rules. Unique. I’m personally not a fan of mass produced clothing, and your sister, with the combination of your designs, has made her fashion presence easy to approach yet strongly self identifying. I’m just a real fan of people who take risks and pull it off making it seem pretty effortless.
Of course, I know this requires an unbelievable amount of hard work too. Complete with its up and downs. As a designer myself, it seems that it’s never quite as good as you would like it to be and at the same time you dread over designing it to oblivion! The diatribe of woe for every artist alive.
Talking of ‘outfits’, the title picture of ‘Queendom’ featuring Aurora as ‘The Green Woman’ reminded me (being of a certain age (ie. ANCIENT)) of a BBC adaption of the Kingsley Amis novel ‘The Green Man’ from 1990.
If anybody likes a good ghost story, search on Youtube for ‘The Green Man Albert Finney’.
The programme obviously made an impression on me, remembering it all these years later.
Beware of Doctor Underhill ! I think I feel a lot happier with Aurora’s ‘Queendom’ !!!
There’s one outfit in Queendom that isn’t by me. when she kisses the girl 🙂
But yes, sometimes she wears my designs on stage. But she can’t wear only me on every single concert..! She mixes it up. But if you watch a really big concert, or the outfit is of a total look (if you know what I mean) it’s most likely mine!
okay this is semi off topic too, cause the headline is still right. i really don’t like casting shows and all of these hyped season wonders for feeding the industry, but from time to time some of those unique asteroids seems to hit the earth.. again……right ?….. courtney hadwin… as a sister of one of these rare talents, what do you say ?
Which industry? I don’t get it.
ähhh… musicindustry
Hey Viktoria! i was just wondering if you had any links to where you buy your materials from. Thank you so much and your blog just gives me someone to relate to, you have been so great and i wish you and little Aurorie the best and Miranda of course!! <3 <3!
Hey Maryam! I usually buy stuff when I’m traveling! And online at Alibaba e.g. if I need specific stuff, like buttons or whatever.
When I’m in London I often go to Goldhawk road (shepherds bush) for fabrics.. Just google beforehand wherever I’m going 🙂
Kisses!!