Landsmót Frenzy

Hmm...I suspect that next week in Hella is going to feel like August in Edinburgh-crammed full of tourists and all sorts of people getting in my way when I'm trying to go about my business. Hella is host to the Icelandic Equestrian Games this year and just now they are working all hours to finish the following: the riding arena, the swimming pool and the petrol station. I am amazed that they decided to do up the latter two "quarter to" Landsmót, as everything is kind of stressing up around here. I guess people around here needed a bit of stress in their life, this will maybe get them moving faster than 15 km/hour in the main street, making me a bit happier!

Anyway, I am afraid that all this hoohah is going to cause me some road rage next week, seeing that trying to get to a bank via Royal Mile in August really got my blood boiling last year.

I seem to always have a night shift...the second one this week, after a weekend shift and two night shifts last week. Tonight I had a 2-day old foal to save, which apparently had been bitten by a predator of some kind-an arctic fox or a dog, I guess. Was trying to look for images on the Internet to show typical lesions caused by foxes or wolves, but didn't succeed. This is very close to being an unknown occurrence so I don't know what to think, really.

Anyway, must be getting ready for tomorrow's trip to the summer cottage after work, where we're going to get ready for my wee brother's wedding on Saturday!

Niihhgellahhh!

What is it with Nigella Lawson? Her unhealthy passion for food is ridiculous! How she stands there gloating, pushing her boobies into whatever calorific creation she is working on. Then she always has to pick at the fridge in her satin nightie at the end of each program...aaarghhh how it bugs me! She can't stand being away from food any time of the day, as was apparent in a program of hers I saw tonight, in which she was shown sipping pea soup on the bus, in the park, in a cab...all supposed to take place in the same day. Honestly, how obsessed can you be?

Ok, this was the sour pill of the day. Really, I am fine, quite happy with things in general.

Iceland in a nutshell

Well, well! Since I moved back home there has been a big earthquake and today they shot a polar bear in Þverárfjall, a mountain pass that I drove through on Saturday and again on Sunday morning. So it would seem that many of the clichés about Iceland, that I have been trying to dispel whilst living abroad and having people asking about the country, are actually true! So maybe I really DO live in an igloo and eat puffins for breakfast!