Escape from boredom

Today we had the first day of voluntary communal work, Elin and Anders raking leaves, while others where cleaning the parking lot and such.

Yesterday evening Elin was away partying, and I was home alone with the kids. What else to do than test beer newer tasted before. This time it was the Cumberland Ale.

Enjoyed the taste, might actually buy it again (and again). And since I was in the mood of testing new stuff yesterday I had to test the Coop micro popcorn. It cost less than half the price of Maarud micro popcorn, which is by far the best one I’ve tasted until now. Must admit that the Coop popcorn was not all that good, but it was well worth the 8 NOK instead of 21 NOK. Might buy it again…

It is just 5 days since I started spreading the snow pile on our lawn, and now it is totally gone away, so spring is here.

Spread the last two snow piles as well, so now we should be ready for voluntary communal work (dugnad) on Sunday.

My neighbor towing away some branches cut down by ISS this winter.

Had to go to the post office, and when heading home I felt I deserved an ice cream, the very first one this season, outside at least.

Me and my oldest son Anders helped spring yesterday. The Department of Transport will be doing their annually cleaning of the streets already on the 12’th of April, so we need to get rid of the snow in order to rake the lawn. Much sand and such after a long winter, and in order to do that we need the lawn to dry as much as possible. Therefore trying to spread out the snow yesterday, and when finished my son said to me “It’s hard, working outside daddy…”

Not a very good picture, anyhow: Last Sunday I had to go out to Fornebu to empty my locker, so I jumped on my bike and headed for Fornebu. Passing Skøyen, both ways, I had to pass a swan standing on one foot on the side of the pathway.

Did not want to stop to get a better picture, video showing why.

Then another bicycle related issue. Yesterday I had to go to “Den Rustne Eike” (The Rusty Spoke) to get a new tyre for Elins kombisykkel. Turns out that 24 inches it not just 24 inches, it is a jungle out there. So XXL could not help me, they had only 24 1.75, and I needed 24 1/2, and it even turned out that among the three different types of 24 1/2, it was the 543mm one I needed. All this knowledge thanks to Einar Støp-Bowitz, a living encyclopedia when it comes to Norwegian bicycles – you can read more in this article.

Took some (really bad) pictures of how to find the bicycle garage. When entering the “inner room”, it was like being part in a Harry Potter-movie or such. See the picture found in the article mentioned above, you can imagine.