Følge og følge, Fru Blom

Jeg leser i hovedsak blogger i Google Reader. Det passer meg best, det er nemlig den enkleste måten for meg å sørge for at jeg får lest de viktigste (for meg) bloggene hver dag, samtidig som jeg har et lass med inspirasjon i form av forskjellige kategorier som jeg leser litt mer av og på. Men så var det dette med følgere, da. Det er jo for eksempel sånn at de fleste som har giborter og som bruker Blogger/Blogspot har som krav at man er “fast følger” for å få ekstralodd. Og, joda, jeg kan jo gjerne være det, men Bloggerprofilen min er jo ikke akkurat så givende. Men jeg skjønner jo at det er litt morsomt for folk å følge med på hvem som leser bloggen deres, så de siste dagene har jeg tatt et lite raid og forsøkt å få lagt meg til som følger på de bloggene jeg har i Google Reader. Det blir nok fler etterhvert også. Og sånn helt forsøksvis har jeg lagt en sånn Google Kontaktnettverk-widget på egen blogg også, nede i høyre marg, så hvis noen har lyst til å følge meg, så har de nå mulighet. Ikke helt sikker på hvordan det egentlig vil funke siden bloggen min ikke er en Blogger/Blogspot-blogg, men det vil jo vise seg. Og jeg kan jo alltids ta den bort etterhvert dersom det ikke later til å ha noe for seg.

Men så vet dere nå det. Hva det nå var.

More hooks

We followed up the Oslo Whiskyfestival with a short cruise to Fredrikshavn, and with 12 hours ashore, we decided to take the bus down to Ålborg instead of hanging around Fredrikshavn. In Ålborg I had noted down a couple of shops I wanted to visit, and one of them was Tiger. They had a lot of almost interesting things, but very few interesting enough to tempt me, but I did find some more wall hooks, or coat hangers or whatever you’d call them. Blatant rip-offs, obviously, and normally I don’t hold with buying designer rip-offs, but what with the problems I’ve been having finding any hooks I like and that actually work, in that it’s possible to hang something on them and expect that it stays there, I thought I’d go for them. Also, they were only 30 DKR each. Later the same day I saw some others, also quite blatantly rip-offs, more or less identical, at 6 times that. I mean, if you’re buying rip-offs, why pay more than you have to?

Anyway, they are up now. One has replaced the very cute but completely useless (in that it would only hold two garments, and not very bulky ones) coat hanger from IKEA that we put up in the hall for the lass’ clothes:

See: More than two garments, and bulky ones at that. And still there's room for more!
See: More than two garments, and bulky ones at that. And still there’s room for more!

The other one has been added to the bedroom wall, where some odds and ends have also come up:

20101114_knagg2The crooked (my fault, I haste to add) picture is a present from T, the angel from L and the messy artwork is the lass’ “creation”, with rather a lot of help from the daycare staff.

Selvsagt

Jeg og snuppa var på kafé på lørdag, og mens vi satt der kom en far med to gutter – mest sannsynlig tvillinger. De satt seg på et bord i nærheten, og den ene gutten hadde veldig fin strikkelue. Snuppa var midt i en “Hvor kommer … fra?” spørsmålsrunde, noe hun driver med en del for tiden, så hun spurte selvsagt:

Og hvor kommer luan demmers fra?

Jeg: Tja, de kan komme fra fabrikk, eller kanskje de har en farmor som har strikket til dem?

Snuppa: Ikke min farmor!

Jeg: Nei, ikke din, farmor, men de guttene har kanskje en farmor de også, som har strikket til dem. Eller en mormor.

Snuppa: Eller beste.

Jeg: Ja, eller beste.

Snuppa: Eller farfar.

Det er bra å få en påminnelse når jeg glemmer meg og forfekter et gammeldags kjønnsrollemønster.

Score!

Saturday afternoon we visited IKEA. Since there were a few specific things on our list, we started in Rotekroken – the section with all the stuff that’s been displayed or returned and is being sold at reduced prices.

And what do you think we found? A limited edition Billy bookcase, that’s what.

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Billy is 30 years old, and to celebrate, a special edition was designed by IKEA designer Annika Bryngelson. They were supposed to be available from 1 October, but we haven’t been able to find them. And though we are sticking with boring old oak in the living room, we thought one of these would be perfect in the craft room to hold comics.

20101104_billy2Though it would work for Shakespeare, too, I guess. And we sure have a few volumes to host with his name on them, too.

20101104_billy3I love it. It came with shelves, by the way, but we had to remove them to get it home, and haven’t put them back yet. All in all we were pretty happy just to find the darn thing, but the best thing? The price:

20101104_billy4I don’t know what’s up with that. I’m pretty sure the “was” should be the same as standard Billy, which starts at 365 kr for the plain white. You won’t see me complain, though.

Oh, and three steps down we found another Billy, this one in oak, which was one of the things on our to-buy-today-list. Nice.

The delights of Trondheim #1

I might make this a series, hence the #1.

First up, anyway, is Strindens promenadeorkester, eh, excuse me, Strindens Promenade Orchester. We tend to head for the town centre most Saturdays, to take a walk up or down Nordre and have coffee at a suitable café, most frequently Somma. This Saturday we walked out of Somma to find Strindens just getting started on a little street concert to celebrate their 47th and a half birthday.

Most of the orchestra
Most of the orchestra

We stopped to listen, the lass had a wee dance or ten and we had some laughs. Because with Strindens you get antics. You also get music, swinging music, but mostly you get antics.

Music
Music
Antics. A fast head-shoulders-knees-and-toes to warm up.
Antics. A fast head-shoulders-knees-and-toes to warm up.
Antics. A little nap. And as you can tell, I wasn't the only one with my camera out.
Antics. A little nap. And as you can tell, I wasn't the only one with my camera out.
Antics. And music.
Antics. And music.

NaBloPoMo

Ok, so, I know it’s the 2nd. But I did post yesterday, it’s just that I posted on the bookblog and on the ingestibles blog rather than here. I’m going to say it counts, though.

So, I’m not going quite as crazy as tonbel and doing the NaNoWriMo, though every year when it comes up I think “well, maybe next year”. So, maybe next year. But I think I can do NaBloPoMo, as I’m in a bit of a blogging groove or something (I mean, when’s the last time I wrote as many blogposts in a month as I’ve done this October?). One thing, though: By now, shouldn’t it be IntBloPoMo? It’s hardly a “national” phenomenon anymore, is it?

Wait, ok, just to be completely crazy – or possibly bite over more than I can chew, I’m going to post the ingestibles blog to the blogroll, too. That’ll be fun. Yeah.

Bloggers I read regularly who are also doing it (will add to this list as I discover more…):

Parker on a Friday

Like I just said on the bookblog, I found out via Mammadamen (thanks!) that The Paris Review have put some of their interviews with significant authors online, amongst them Dorothy Parker, and who doesn’t love Dorothy?

So I thought it fitting to post a little poem of hers, despite it being almost impossible to choose which one. Here’s to you, on a Friday:

Neither Bloody Nor Bowed

They say of me, and so they should,
It’s doubtful if I come to good.
I see acquaintances and friends
Accumulating dividends,
And making enviable names
In science, art, and parlor games.
But I, despite expert advice,
Keep doing things I think are nice,
And though to good I never come-
Inseparable my nose and thumb!

— Dorothy Parker

Noen “giborter” rundtom

For av og til må man jo prøve lykken.

Hos bare Wunderbar kan man vinne et emaljeskilt fra Ramsign.dk, og det hadde jo ikke vært å forakte. Ganske så flotte er de, og jeg må nok vurdere å få laget et navneskilt selv om jeg ikke skulle vinne, for det ser da bra ut på døren:

ramsign_dk

Hos Sofie Legarth kan man vinne verdens mest fantastiske tekstilstjerner. Jeg har brettet slike i papir, men, åh, å få dem i Liberty-stoff, da. Vinner man ikke får man forsøke å lage selv, for sånne SKAL jeg ha:

stjerner

Og sist, men slett ikke mins, må jeg ta med at at Namaste på Kreativ impuls gir bort et knippe vintagestoffer som kan få enhver stoffavhengig til å hyperventilere. Vil ha:

namaste

Så da er det vel bare å krysse fingre og håpe på vinnerlykke.