Britt-Arnhild's House in the Woods

Journaling in the greenhouse

@brittarnhild

A perfect way to end a perfect day.

Letting the evening sun warm my body, while sitting in the greenhouse, writing in my greenhouse journal.

 Admiring the flower drawing made by my grandson.

 

 

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Tiny plants, perfect gifts

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Spring in the cabin garden

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While I long for spring in the garden at home, I can always visit the cabin.

Spring is several weeks earlier here, and even though it is still cold,

I can dress well, and enjoy the colour symphony.

 

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My blog world today (will be updated):

Britt-Arnhild´s Blue Garden 
 

My cabin blog

dagens lille grønne - daily green ideas

 

 

 

This blue time of the year again

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Again they are here,

the blue days of the year.

Since last year,

I have changed office,

so I can´t see the blue spring carpet from my office window any more.

But nothing can stop me from taking a walk,

before work,

after work,

or a break during the day.

The lovely blue scillas in the Cathedral Park.

 

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My blog world today:

Britt-Arnhild´s Blue Garden

 

 

 

Gifts to look forward to

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I unwrapped one of my birthday gifts today.
A friend, who was not able to come to the party, sent me a message not long ago. "Britt-Arnhild, I am coming to Trondheim on Wednesday. If you have time I would love to invite you out for lunch. My birthday gift to you."

Of course I had time.
Well, not on the first Wednesday she suggested. But on the second. Today :-)

So I left work almost in the middle of a meeting and ran down to Café Sunnanå, where my friend already was waiting. All smiles.

We had lunch, home made gnocchies, we drank foxberry juice, we talked, we smiled, we talked some more, we had coffee, and most of all - we had a jolly good time!

 

 

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My blogworld today:

dagens lille grønne

Britt-Arnhild´s Blue Garden

Med bøker på menyen

My greenhouse blog

 

On YouTube:

 

 

An den Frühling

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I had lunch with my parents today. They are 88 and 85 now. My father has not been feeling quite well lately, was in hospital when I had my birthday party, but is home again now, feeling better. I am happy to spend as much time as possible with them.

No lunch without my mother playing the piano.
She is reading Lucinda Rileys series Seven Sisters for the moment. She especially loves book number two, which is about the Norwegian composer Edward Grieg, and is playing a lot of Grieg for the moment.

Today she showed me a sheet of paper given her by her father, my grandpa Benjamin, at Christmas 1946, when my mother was 16 years old. Grandpa Benjamin, who died of cancer only two months after I was born, was a great lover of his daughter´s piano music.  He often attended Christian meetings to speak, and then my mother came with him to play.

The music she played for me today was from this sheet. To the spring, An den Frühling, Til våren, by Edward Grieg.

 

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Blogging/vlogging just now (will be updated)

 

Med bøker på menyen - books I read (in Norwegian)
Santa Maria Ferrano - a blog from a retreat center in Tuscany
The Blue Garden  - my garden blog
Nederst i hagen - my greenhouse blog
dagens lille grønne - daily "green" ideas
maskerade - my knitting blog

 

 

 

Today´s YouTube video

 

A little update

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Even though I don´t post here every day for the moment, a lot of stuff is going on in my social media life. So I decided it is time to give you a little update.

 

maskerade - my knitting blog
where I am busy working on a traditional cardigan, my own design

Britt-Arnhild´s Blue Garden
has opened after the long winter

Santa Maria Ferrano
a new blog from my lovely retreat place in Tuscany

 

There are a few more blogs which has been updated as well. You find a list of all my blogs in the right hand side bar here.

 

Then there are my three instagram accounts:

akeleiehagen

brittarnhild

and

Trondheimtales

 

A couple of accounts on Twitter, where I am not very active,

 

and snapchat of course, where I am: britt-arnhild

 

Last, but not least.
Britt Arnhild Lindland on YouTube :-) where I post about gardening, about knitting and a few other things.

Here are the three latest videos, or vlogs as they might also be called:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sowing time in the green house

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With the lovely weather which continues, I am tempted to start early with the sowing. I know that there might still come nights with frost, but I don´t have room for all the pots indoors. I have an oven in the greenhouse which I can turn on during the cold nights, so hopefully it will be okay. I also believe that the plants will develop to be strong and stubborn with this start.

 

Of course the sowing is perpetuated at YouTube :-)

 

 

 

From winter to summer in a couple of days

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A few days ago we had full winter here in my corner of the world.

Then the temperatures warmed up, and all of a sudden, summer, and bumblebees and butterflies were here.

I love every season, but how can I say that any other season than these lovely days of spring is my favourite?

 

All my life I have been counting signs of spring, and for about 10 years or something now, I have had a very special, beautifully bound notebook where I write down signs of spring. Like yesterday I saw the first northern lapwing of the year, today I saw a flock of flying geese on their way north, the other day the first common chaffinch of the year had lunch in the garden, this afternoon I picked the first leirfivel / tussilago and gave it to my American friend Jane.......and I could go on and on and on.

 

 

 

The symphony of spring

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After six long months of cold winter and snow it feels strange when summer suddenly knock on your door. With temperatures up to 17 degrees Celsius the snow melt so fast you can almost see it with your eyes. Wed are having our friends from California, Jane and Lanny here for a few days, and today we had this year´s first meal out in the garden.

Terje´s vafler of course.

 

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