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Just for comparison

First picture showing Oslo Spektrum during a free concert the 18th of August featuring plenty of popular Norwegian pop idols, such as Kurt Nilsen, Alejandro Fuentes, Mira Craig, Tone Damli Aaberge, Espen Lind and Marion Ravn. Audience: about 4000 I guess.

Second and third picture showing Oslo Spektrum during a concert featuring Australian Hillsong United during Penecostal for all in Oslo two weeks ago. Audience: about 7000 I guess. The capacity of Oslo Spektrum is 8600 seated people (9700 if people stand). A ticket costed 200-250 NOK.



I think it's pretty cool that a Christian praise and worship band, though they're well known among Christians, gathers so many more people than all these Norwegian pop idols in one lot! I had a great time at both concerts, brought with me three cousins to the first one, but I really have to say the Hillsong United concert was the best. Best when it comes to both quality and contents. You should've been there too... ;)

When taste matters...

Unnoticed similarity

Friday I bought a t-shirt in a new store in the place I live. I didn't exactly examine it before buying it (the price was only 35 NOK), therefore I was quite surprised when my older sister asked if the picture on the t-shirt was me! I looked at myself with the t-shirt on in the mirror, and could confirm it really looked like me..!

When I came home, my dad ("Portrait-like!") and younger brother asked me the same question. Mum and another sister were thinking the same. Every time I wear it, new questions come or a comment about the similarity. Not one disagrees.

... and I didn't even notice when buying it! :-D

I've got Harry Potter!

While thousands of Harry Potter books are locked in in bookstore basements in Oslo, and millions of people are waiting desperately to get one, I got my Harry Potter book today... one day before everybody else..! I'll say it again: People; I've got Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows! I've got the last book which people are going crazy tonight to get! I haven't started reading much yet, only a page... I can tell there is a conversation going on between Severus Snape and someone else... If I want to, I can find out who's dying... If it's Harry Potter or Lord Voldemort. Or both. Or maybe they just become friends! ;-D

"Sorry I killed your parents, Harry!"
"Oh, nothing to worry about, Voldy, I didn't really know them anyway!"

But the funny thing is; when Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince came out two years ago, I got the book one day before everybody else that time too!! "Not to be delivered before the 21st of July" it said this time, and the-date-I-don't-remember-any-longer the last time...

I nearly didn't believe it when I found it in my mailbox today... But it's a fact; I've got Harry Potter!

... and tonight I'm going to read a chapter... or three...! ;)

I like big bibles...

This one is nice! Listen to the text, it is actually quite good! :)

Make your own zoo

God has made many funny animals, and the human race has always been very fascinated by these... Sometimes this fascination expresses itself, and we try to imitate animals, resulting in for instance this.

Look and laugh :)

Piglet banished

Most of the times, little Piglet from the 100 Acre Wood, is a nice guy. He is cute, friendly, and cares about his friends. Someone might claim him as the cutest of the cutest.

Maybe it was one of Piglet's outbursts like this to the left that made Turkey kick Winnie and his friends out of the country?

It seems like the Turkish government have had their bellyful. The TV channel TRT, owned by the state, has quit sending "Winnie the Pooh".

Why?

Because Piglet is a pig.

In Islam, pigs are impure.

Poor Piglet!

Read more about this in VG (Norwegian)!

Springtime???

It has happened again.
Snow. On the 15th of May. This time in 2006. Last time in 2005.

Are we happy?
No.

Did anyone (e.g. me) say springtime?


It started yesterday. It was cold. Freezy.
But the sun shone. A bit.
Then, around 6 pm it started to snow.
It snowed. And snowed. Around 10 pm the ground was covered.

Green trees hidden.
Green grass covered.
Tulips and daffodils dressed up in white.

The idea has hit me. Making a "Snow on May 15th 2"-movie.
But I feel it too depressing.

Now, as I write, it is snowing outside.
Many cold, freezy, frozen snow flakes.
But the ground is no longer covered.

Green trees hidden.
Green grass covered.
Tulips and daffodils dressed up in white.

I should make a song!


(The photo shows Åndalsnes in the south-eastern part of Norway.)

Snow? Again?

TV tells us that it'll snow and sleet this weekend!
The weather has actually been colder these days... The jacket was too cold today.
Let's sort this out:
Last Sunday I lay on the veranda in bikini, this Sunday I maybe make snow angles.

North-Norway will never change...
It always surprises me.

But soooooon it'll become SUMMER!

... maybe...

Ten hens saved from chopping block

I'm going to tell about a very good thing that happened the previous weekend... :)
Through all years, we've had animals. Pusi, the cat, is three months older than me(!), we've had a dog (a Collie named Lasse), gold fish, two rabbits, a hamster, two budgies and hens... When I was a little girl, I wanted to be a farmer or a vet, and although my plans have changed a little bit, I still like animals and don't like it when an animal has to be put to death.

During the last years we've had "only" the cat and some hens. We've had hens in the barn for ten years and for two and a half years ago we got seven chickens in four different races. They were very funny to look at - two of them were very tiny and small, two had like an afro on the head (one of them looked just like the one on the photo above), one was very big and looked a bit like an eagle and the two last ones were just very pretty...! Three of them became roosters, so we gave one away... Last summer three out of four hens started to brood the eggs which resulted in two new chickens. Unfortunately one of them died, but it was very exciting anyway because no-one of our previous hens had ever had chickens before... This summer we suddenly got two chickens the same day we were to leave Norway to go on a summer vacation to England... Another chicken was hatched out before we came home again...

Though our hens were funny to look at, they didn't produce many eggs. (The previous hens we had, gave one egg each day, so we never had to buy eggs.) My parents, my younger brother and sister and me have a lot other things to do than looking after some hens that eat a lot without giving eggs back... So my parents decided last week to contact a farmer we know who could put our ten hens to death... I got to know this the Thursday before, and the farmer was supposed to come Saturday or Sunday. I've mentioned that I really don't like when animals are killed, especially not if it can be avoided!

I suggested to my mum that we could give away our hens instead. She didn't think anyone would want them, especially not nowadays with the Bird flu/virus-thing "everywhere"... But it was worth a try, and I picked up the telephone at Sunday and rang a woman who has a farm with some horses, sheep, goats, rabbits, hens etc. Actually I had not much hope she would have them, so I was rather surprised when she said yes! I was so happy, and so was my parents and my little sister and brother.

Thanks to God who I involved in this case through my prayers!
And thanks to the "mother hen" Elin :)