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Wednesday

A midnight bonfire (and a short catchup)

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I've been inwards Republic of Iceland for 4 weeks at i time (which seems impossible) , but haven't blogged my daily adventures , similar I direct maintain done over the terminal few months.  Most days would become something similar "I woke upwardly , faffed roughly inwards my studio for vi hours , collected objects from the beach , watched an episode of The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau and went to bed."  It wouldn't brand the most riveting of journals , but that doesn't hateful it isn't magical.


I'm currently living inwards the due north of Republic of Iceland , inwards a pocket-size town on a pointy peninsula.  We're hitting daily past times intense , buffeting winds coming from the arctic , together with our studio plays host to some local stray cats (we've semi-adopted one).  Everybody inwards the town knows everybody else.  There's a primary schoolhouse , a space-age-looking church building , a thriving line-fishing manufacture , a mountain , a museum of fortune telling together with a pocket-size pool.  I had my fortune told past times the local prophetess the twenty-four hours I arrived , together with she had (mostly) practiced things to say.


The line-fishing boats larn inwards roughly 1600 - I've noticed everybody speaks inwards 24-hour fourth dimension hither - together with if you're at that topographic point , y'all tin lav marking a gratuitous cod , halibut or catfish for dinner.  If you're overnice , y'all tin lav accept it to the local eating theatre together with they'll gut it for you.  If you're me , together with y'all don't swallow fish , y'all pay premium toll for greenhouse-grown tomatoes piece everybody else eats their gratuitous fish.

On days when it's specially windy , the local children are instructed to crawl habitation thence that they're non blown away past times the potent winds.  This is a existent thing.  The principal street - where most houses together with the schoolhouse are located - is alone near 1km long , but I don't envy those who direct maintain to crawl their entire agency home.


Things inwards our petty town are peaceful together with quiet.  A immature daughter inwards the community passed away the minute calendar week nosotros were hither , together with everything came to a standstill.  Last calendar week nosotros had an Open Studio to present the town our operate , together with I made jokes near Icelandic tongues to a human being who turned out to last the mayor.  A few days agone , our local choir had an opened upwardly rehearsal inwards the church building because they're leaving to become on tour inwards Canada together with North America.

While things had been tranquility , I had been busily working away , together with lay this spider web log on the backburner.  This forenoon I woke early on , reading to explore the magical photos we'd taken of puffins inwards Vik , Skogarfoss , Skaftafell... together with my SD carte du jour had completely crashed.

I'd backed upwardly some pictures , but goose egg taken afterwards nosotros were inwards the Cairngorms inwards Scotland.  My tum dropped.  I felt ill.  I fretted together with fretted together with frantically messaged Nicholas (who is at i time dorsum inwards Melbourne working away together with edifice things for the Christmas season) who thinks he might be able to restore them amongst a figurer program.  Let this last a lesson inwards backing upwardly your files.  Regularly.  (In the meantime , y'all tin lav run across some of our Icelandic adventures here , here , here together with here)


On a to a greater extent than pleasant Federal Reserve annotation , nosotros had a bonfire 2 nights agone , afterwards listening to our town choir.  Many artists are leaving this calendar month , thence nosotros educate off downward the beach , lugging pieces of driftwood amongst us , together with sat roughly the dismiss drinking until late.  We wrapped some potatoes inwards aluminium foil , drank thence many beers nosotros almost forgot near them , thence forced downward some potato-shaped pieces of charcoal.  


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