Posts from ‘December, 2009’

Gleðileg Jól og farsælt komandi ár!

We have been in England for nearly one week and so much has happened including: 1 Wedding cake, 22 butterflies, 1 wedding dress, 13 wedding cars, 3 paramedics, 1 quick response unit, 1 ambulance, 2 days of snow, 5 days of ice, 3 pairs of leggings, 4 bottles of wine, 12 family members, 1 glass [...]

…until Sam and I are waking up and making our way to the airport to fly to England. It´s been six months since we last saw our family…and I cannot wait! There is so much to talk about. We have three weeks to organize a wedding. It could all go smoothly and according to plan [...]

Little Donkey Little donkey, little donkey on the dusty road Got to keep on plodding onwards with your precious load The RSPCA have issued strict guidelines with regard to how heavy a load that a donkey of small stature is permitted to carry, also included in the guidelines is guidance regarding how often to feed [...]

In the advent calender my mum gave me you get a chocolate and a joke. They are quite bad! However, when I told Sam the snowflake one I got the giggles and couldn´t stop laughing… Who delivers cat´s Christmas presents? Santa Paws! What do you get if you cross a hen with a bedside clock? [...]

Today Sam and I went to see a horse show with Brimrún Eir riding one of the horses. Everyone from the riding classes got together and showed off their horse riding skills. The younger children wore capes and Santa hats. It was very good. We met Jónella´s parents for the first time, they were lovely [...]

Friday night everyone who works for Rangarþing was invited to a Christmas party. We were picked up by a coach in Hella and made our way to Hotel Örk in Hveragerdi. There was about 250 people there…including our next door neighbours and our old Icelandic teacher who talked to Sam about the football World Cup. [...]

The Christmas spirit has well and truly hit Hella. We put up our Christmas decorations at work yesterday whilst singing Christmas songs and wearing Santa hats. People are bringing in cookies and cakes to eat We are doing a Secret Santa; which means everyone buys one present, which could be for anyone, we put it in [...]

Yesterday we took Barry to the land of return… to be told that they would sell him! Barry was/is an awesome car. We had some good times and some bad times. It is sad to see him go. It is like an end of era! I think he will always be my favourite car