@brittarnhild
It is the second day of February, it is a beautiful world outside, virgin white snow, sun from a pale blue sky, birds busy at our feeders.......and very, very cold. Minus 17 Celsius here for the moment, which is very cold for Trondheim, close as we are to the coast/fjord. I am sitting at my desk in my studio, Terje is just across the landing, in his home office. Just the two of us, as is the new normal these days.
We are kind of lucky here in Norway, we do not have a lock down, at least not in our part of the country, we have been able to meet people, a few, most of the time, shops are open, the infection rate is lower than many other places. Still, we are infected by the pandemic, both here in our little corner, and because we are inhabitants of a common world.
I have had a bad cold for almost a week no. A lot of coughing, especially during the nights. I am tested, it is not Covid 19, but of course I stay away from people. Two days ago Terje started to cough as well. So here we are, the two of us, making the best out of out twosome life.
Getting bored is not an option. I have too many things I want to do. Instead I realise, with great pleasure, that my creativity flourishes these days. I write, I knit, I draw, I paint, I blog, I make videos, I cook and I dance (when nobody sees)
During this period I have started a couple of new creative journals, and I try (again) to come back here and make Britt Arnhild´s House in the Wood a more active place, hopefully on a(n almost) daily basis.
The YouTube channel is becoming a more and more important place in this flourishing life of mine. I have not made any more English episodes since the one I've already linked to here, in a previous post, but in a couple of days I hope to make one, both in English and in Norwegian. What I have done today is to do some tidying up on my YouTube channel, sorting the videos into playlists. This means that you can now go to my playlist page and easily find all the English videos I have posted the last two years, 27 of them in all. That's not bad, is it :-)
I started this blog, back in 2005, several thousand blog posts ago. My goal then was to practice my written English, and, which is important, share bits and pieces of what an ordinary life of an ordinary woman living somewhere in the middle of Norway, is like. I think I have reached that goal. But I do not want to stop here. My ordinary life continues, I am retired now, I have more time and I want to continue this path.
I hope to have you walking with me.
You can easily find my other active blogs through my new webpage, brittarnhild.no
The other blogs, which focus on different themes, are all in Norwegian, but the images are all our shared language, and you can always easily use google translate :-)
I have a list of different instagram accounts:
@brittarnhild
@akeleiehagen (the blue garden)
@brittarnhildsstrikkedagbok (knitting)
@brittarnhilds_naturdagbok (nature notes)
@brittarnhildsbokhylle (my bookshelf)
@brittarnhildsflora (wild flowers, active during the summer months)
@brittarnhildsmatseddel (menue)
@dagenslillegrønne (green living)
On Facebook I hava a page connected to this blog, which I call, obviously
Britt Arnhild´s House in the Woods. Feel free to subscribe to it. I am also considering making a group connected to this page, where we all can post, chat, have discussions, sharing and so on. Would that be of interest for you? Well, let's see where this path leads us, shall we?
I do have an account on snapchat as well, mostly for family and a few close friends. Let me know if you are interested in getting the stories I share there, and we might connect :-)
Well, this should be about all for today.
I hope to see you again tomorrow :-)
.........but before I close. I have made two YouTube episodes in Norwegian after the last one in English. There is some pretty good nature filming accompanied with my mother's piano music in them, so even though you do not understand my talking, you might like to watch part of them:
