Hello world!

[mummimamma]

Name: Mummimamma

Age: In 14 days I'll be 42. I expect all the answers to the life, universe and everything will revealed to me.

Location: Normally Bergen, Norway, but for the next couple of weeks I'm in Athens (the one with the Acropolis)

Languages: My journaling is in English. I read all Scandinavian languages, Greek, and reasonable French and German as well. And Latin - in case anyone is writing in Latin I'd *love* to read it.

Describe yourself in 5 sentences or less:
Norwegian linguist (hence all the languages) who thinks all evils can be solved with enough tea (preferably Assam) and a long leisurely breakfast.
I love reading, talking and thinking about things.
I am extrovert, and sometimes I feel like minority on the net.
I also love chocolate and running slowly (and then eating more chocolate. And drinking beer)

Top 5 fandoms:
I'm a venerate lurker in several fandoms
Harry Potter was the first one, which I'm currently having a fling with.
I occasionally participate in the Bujold fandoms Vorkosiverse and Five Gods.
Also I think I am falling out of love with Sherlock.
And I love meta - is that a fandom?

I mostly post about:
Myself! (it's my journal after all).
I try to keep some kind of booklog and academic work log as well

My last 3 posts were about:
Two entries about getting installed in Athens and the last one about a dream I had and my forays on Greek Tinder

How often do you post:
So far in 2017 I have posted 21 times, so a little more than once per week. Although sometimes there are several post in one week, and some weeks I don't post at all. I'm trying to write more regularly though.

How about commenting:
I try to comment regularly, at least if I have something to say.

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Comments

Faroe Islands!

[jesse_the_k]

I'm subscribing to you so hard! I got a chance to visit the Faroes back in the 70s, when all inter-island travel was by ferry.

Also attempted to import an entire leg of skerpikjøt to the US. The certificate signed by the Head Veterinarian of the island, attesting complete absence of hoof&mouth etc, was insufficient. Tragically the customs at JFK in NY burned it. Evidently, I'm still mad.

Re: Faroe Islands!

[mummimamma]

They burned your skerpikjøt!? Heathens! the faroes are beautiful, how was it back in the 70s? even more remote I imagine?

Re: Faroe Islands!

[jesse_the_k]

It was lovely. I was 14. I stayed with my sister & her husband for two weeks. They lived in Skópun on Sandoy, but I landed at Váyar (taxi-ferry-taxi to Havn, then ferry to Sandoy) and I got to tag along to a wedding (on another island lost in the fogs of the N Atlantic).

I remember most:

• The deep silence (except when the ferry came)
• Whaling was still happening; I didn’t see a grindarap but I did eat whale (boiled, with potatoes & blubber on each bite. Horrible).
• How relaxed the boundaries were between households. It was assumed that dropping by and helping yourself to what you needed was fine; of course later the reverse would happen. (I’d never stayed in that small a town before, which could have been more relevant.)
• I admired the trees in Havn, but nobody else was trying to grow them.

My sister wrote a novel about it and my former-brother-in-law wrote his PhD. thesis on it.