Britt-Arnhild's House in the Woods

A new video, from the greenhouse

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I have been out in the greenhouse this morning to film a new video in English.
Enjoy!

 

 

 

Trondheim again.......

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Well, I know that many of you have kind of fallen in love with Trondheim through my Trondheim posts, haha, so when I was downtown one morning last week I thought of you when I took my photos,

Red hearts, red flowers in front of the cathedral.

Down by the river.

The Old City Bridge kind of laced by leaves.

If you come to Trondheim we can sit down and have a chat on this red bench. The yellow rose is the symbol of Trondheim, The Trondheim Rose.

Or we can have coffee in our of our cafés.

 

What do you prefer?
Coffee or a red bench on the bridge?

And more images from Trondheim?

 

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Do not forget to visit my latest video, where you can come with me downtown, you can come for a walk in my garden and also a hike in our hills:

 

 

My new Sun in Stockholm cardigan

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Last week's episode over on Britt Arnhild´s World on YouTube was in Norwegian only.
Today I am very pleased to let you know that I have posted two new episodes, one in Norwegian and one in English :-)

I hope to see you "over there", to enjoy this very special Sun in Stockholm cardigan, which I designed after a trip to Stockholm to visit our son, in the summer of 2019. I tell the tale in the episode.

 

 

 

A garden for all

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My grandpa Johannes was a headmaster, my grandma Ragna Josefine was an art teacher. They lived in an appartement in one of the old buildings in the school area, with a classroom up on the loft where we kids were sent to play during family dinners. Oh my, what fun we had. The house had a garden, with old trees and columbines and a bench, with old chairs and a wooden table where we sat down and had ice cream on hot summer afternoons. The adults had coffee as well, of course, for us kids ice cream was more than enough, Eaten in small glass bowls, using silver spoons, the silver giving you this very exciting brain freeze when you topped the spoon with home made vanilla ice cream and ate it all at the same time.

When Johannes and Ragna Josefine retired, they moved to a small house with a big garden. Grandma loved her flowers, and every time we came to visit, we found her on her knees in the alpine bed, her huge pride. While my grandpa planted trees.

I played with my brothers and cousins in the garden, and one day I was unlucky and cut the top of a tree with the ball we were playing with. Pa got angry. Grandpa said, no problem, let the children play.

For me it is important to have a garden where children, and of course adults as well, can play and have fun.
Today our grandson Milian, 2 years old, has been with us. We have an area in the back garden where we have created an area especially for our grandchildren.  We had lunch there, while Milian played in the sandbox.  A fairy tale garden. For children of all ages.

 

Breakfast in the greenhouse

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I had breakfast in the greenhouse this morning. A late, long breakfast.
First food, then some redoing and some knitting while I finished my fresh mintleaves tea.

While I sat there I got visitors.
some of the snails came :-)

And a new snail tale created itself, with the red snail wondering about the red sweet pepper.

How is it that the pepper bell could be hanging on a plant yesterday, then appear as thin slices on a cheese sandwich this morning?

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The snails hava their own blog, here:

sneglestrikk i sneglefart
(use google translate for an English version)

and a month ago I made this very cute snail film:

 

 

 

Colour hunting in the garden

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We came home yesterday afternoon, from the cabin, and the first thing we both do as soon as we have stopped the car, is to go for a treasure hunt in the garden.

Terje mostly goes for fruit, berries and vegetables, while I hunt for colours.

The garden is amazing this year. I finds colours, fragrances and beauty around ever corner.

Sure, I find work to do as well, weeding deadheading, watering, well, everything there is to do in a garden.

Did I say work? Well, very pleasant work though. More like playing.

August can be a cold and wet month here with us, but so far we enjoy sun and warmth. And garden life.

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A summer like never before

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What a summer.
Sun. Blue sky. Warmth.

Swimming in the ocean or in lakes almost every day.

Long lazy nights.

Books.
Knitting.
Blueberries.
Cabin view.

Ok, I know it is too dry just know. 
I know there are flooding and draughts around the world.
I never for one moment forget the climate challenges.

 

But just know, these days, these weeks, I am opening my heart and my mind to the lovely, balmy days. I dress in sun rays every morning, I shower in wild berries and bird song, I dine on fresh air.......

.......and I know that one day, some day, soon, I will sing in the rain.

The image is from our cabin, late last night.

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Welcome over to my episodes on YouTube, where I share with you bits and pieces of my daily life in Norway.

 

 

Slow Living, my way

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A week at the cabin

Terje and I

Slow Living

My way

 

Hiking

Knitting

Reading

Cooking

 

And time to make another episode in Britt Arnhild´s World on YouTube.
This time I sit outside on our terrace, with the camera hold to show you the amazing view we have, me looking directly into the cabin wall :-)

It is a short video.
A slow life video.

I hope you like it.