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

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.