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No smoking!

I’m sure most people will agree that the easiest way to keep the smoking population as marginal as possible, is to advise teenagers and young adults not to start smoking in the first place. Also stopping them from buying smokes is a good idea, personally I like this method of identification.

The problem is; teenagers tend to not listen very much to us “old hags” trying to tell them that smoking is just not worth it.

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The Danish Ferry Tale

The Lady (and The Man, and a couple of friends) went on a little trip last weekend. On the Danish ferry. We left from Oslo on Saturday, arrived in Copenhagen Sunday morning, spent the day at the Christmas market in Tivoli and went back to Oslo the following night.

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Vocal challenges

Frequent readers may have noticed the lack of new posts in the past couple of weeks. The Lady has been ill. Near death in fact.  In plain text; I’ve had a cold. A quite stubborn one as well. At first I was just stuffed up, but after a night out with a few colleagues, the most interesting sideeffect occured; I went mute. No volume from vocal chords whatsoever.

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GPS/SatNav - howto and how not to use it.

As my colleague put it; the reason for SatNav/GPS being invented, is that Real Men do not ask for directions.

Well, that seems quite likely. But I should think it would be wise to actually keep your eyes open as well.

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The first snowy day

It’s that time of year again. The one that keeps coming every year around this time. The first day in the fall when snow actually falls. For some reason, this seems to be a surprise to everyone. Hey, whaddayaknow; Winter showed up again. And here we were, expecting it to, what, skip us this year? Newsflash; this is Norway. We tend to get winters here. They usually last from October through March. At least.

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