Britt-Arnhild's House in the Woods

Advent music

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I am so happy today to take you with me to man parents home, to listen to my mother´s piano music:

 

 

December 3rd. Winter hiking

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Because of the corona pandemic, Terje is working from home for the moment, having his own home office up on the first floor, just across my studio. This means we can have lunch together every day, and if Terje is not too busy with meetings, I can invite him out for a lunch hike.

And I can squeeze in time for some nativity photography, haha.

 

I did some filming as well of course :-), which resulted in this advent episode for December 3rd:

 

 

December 2nd. Christmas balls

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I love to learn about the traditions and the stories behind the Christmas ornaments. Did you know that the Christmas ball symbolise the world? I talk about this in today's episode on Britt Arnhilds World on YouTube:

 

 

December 1st

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Do you have an advent calendar?
I talk about the history's first advent calendar in my YouTube episode today:

 

 

 

1st Sunday of Advent in Britt Arnhild´s World

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I am so happy to share with you the first of a series of videos from Advent here in the House in the Woods.

 

 

 

Friday noons downtown

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Over the last few weeks Terje and I have developed a new routine, a routine we both enjoy a lot. Every Friday, which is Terjes day off, we go downtown just after breakfast. To do some shopping, for the moment it is Christmas gift shopping, and to have coffee in a cafe or lunch in a local no chain restaurant. Today was such a day. A list of gifts to buy and then a no-calory coffee (as my American friend Jane calls it, lol).

An hour with our coffee, our pastries, each other.......watching life outside the window. Downtown life in the time of the corona. A mother with a pram. a young couple holding hands, a lonely old lady, the garbage van, a little boy with his grandma.......so many lives, so many tales.

On our way home we passed my dear friend Giorgio with his accordion. Always smiling, just living his life here and now, challenging as I am sure it is. His music brightening up my city, my life.

 

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Don't forget to watch my latest YouTube-episode:

 

 

 

A new English video and plans for the upcoming weeks of Advent

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I have a new video out on YouTube today, in English, the November Monthly. I am so excited about these videos, and they are so fun to make. Of course the Norwegian ones are the easies, when I can speak my mother tongue. It is a bit more challenging to do it all in English ands quite so often I have to search for words or ways to express myself. I am sure I do quite a few mistakes, but who cares :-)

With Advent coming up, I have so many plans for new episodes. I plan to share one Norwegian episode every day through Advent, and I am now crossing my fingers (and toes) that I also manages to make them in English. No promises yet, but I hope, I hope.......

Here is the episode I uploaded today. Please go visit, press the like button, leave a comment and share with your friends. It means so much to me:

 

 

 

Portrait of a "bestemor"

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Our oldest grandson, soon to turn 5, has made a portrait of his bestemor, grandma. It s easy to see it is me, with my long dress and even longer hair :-)

I love it!

Photos of grandchildren are precious. So are writing down grandchildren tales.
Drawings and paintings are the best though and proves that a picture says more than a thousand words.

 

Let's play hide and seek, shall we?

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Here we go again

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Just like I told you yesterday, today we woke up to a winter wonderland. I have not been up in the woods hiking today, I have more than enough beauty in the garden. Every autumn we move all the garden furniture under roof in a small house we have, but this year I asked Terje to leave this table and bench.......for nice photo shots :-) I am glad I did.

The birds are having a hard time now, with a world completely covered in snow from one day to the next. As soon as we got daylight this morning I was out to fill the feeders, and I am sure we have had more than a hundred birds visiting. This little red robin, rødstrupe, is my favourite.

It is a quarter past three in the afternoon when I write this, and here is my view just now. Yesterday it was dark at three o'clock, now the snow brightens everything up.

Five minutes later and Terje (and a neighbour) is out to shovel the courtyard. (the light you see up in the left corner is reflections from an indoor lamp)

I took some footage as well when I was out photographing, and will include it in my next YouTube-video :-)