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Tonight we celebrated the first Sunday in advent in ‘Old Bergen’. The mayor lead the annual torch parade which ended up at the old square where the christmas tree stands, ready to be lighted.

A lot of people participated this year, they even didn’t have enough torches. We were a bit late so we didn’t get one, but I think that is better than when they have lots of torches left because people aren’t showing up. We had a great time and the athmosphere were awesome.

Earlier we visited the old mill, a few artist workshops and the old jeweller, Santa in the old barn and we had a cup of coffee and some cake at the old restaurant. If you come to Bergen once I recommend visiting Old Bergen.

It is an open air museum with more than 40 wooden houses, representative of the Bergen architecture in the 18th and 19th centuries. The houses have interiors from the 18th, 19th and the 20th centuries, and give picture of life in a small town with its dwellings, different shops, baker, barber, dentist, photographer etc. The museum area is open all year.

Sorry about the photo-quality, they are taken with my cellphone..

Testing new firmware no my n82 and posting images from lifeblog.
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Newspapers are filled with tragic news this week, I needed a break from it and filtered them out on a few sites. These ones appeared :

The drunk swede
This morning the police had to come get a drunk swede from the train at Voss station. Last night he went to sleep after a long day. He probably did what he always did, stripped his clothes off and went to bed. He should check his ‘bed’ better though. The passengers around him in the seat section kind of felt unconfortable with a naked man lying on the floor.

“The jump”
A 78 year old man was unfortunate to drive off a ramp in a parking house. Locals say it just had to happened some day. People are probably going to blame his age but if you look at the photo, it could happend the best. I mean, its weird that it didn’t happend before. Locals are calling it “the jump”.

Wet debate technique
Romania’s staid election campaign has been shaken after a former bodybuilder turned senator hurled a glass of water at a female rival during a heated TV debate yesterday.

Cardboard figure keeps police at bay
A cardboard figure of a person inside a Somerset County bank kept police at bay for 90 minutes tonight, authorities said. The standoff at the PNC Bank on routes 518 and 601 in the Skillman section of Montgomery Township ended at about 10:20 p.m., Somerset County Prosecutor Wayne Forrest said. Link to article.

No friday silly post without a lolcat

more animals

I read an article on Zuzana Pravňanská, from one of my favourite shows on TV when I was a kid. She were starring as Majka in She came out of the blue sky. Did you see it? When I saw the image of her now I got the urge to search up some of my other favourites from the 70 and 80’s. I also found some Youtubes of them, and some of the intros to the children TV.

Children TV intros :
ca 1987
ca 1986
80’s

Heres some of my favourites, then and now.

Then	Now
	Ante (Sverre Porsanger) – 1977
	Guro (Eline Simonsen Haga) 1981
	The kid with the gold-pants (Harald Hamrell) – 1970
	She came out of the blue sky (Majka) (1980) – Zuzana Pravňanská
	Madicken – Jonna Liljendahl (1979)
	Pippi Longstocking (1980s) – Inger Nilsson
	Punky Brewster (1980s) – Moon Frye Soleil
	Three Wishes for Cinderella (1974) – Libuše Šafránková
	The world of Buster (1980s) – Mads Bugge Andersen
	Huckleberry Finn and his friends (1980s) Ian Tracey, Sammy Snyders
	Ronja the robber’s daughter (1980s) Hanna Zetterberg

Before going to a birthday party today we spent some time on Monsamarken (Mons’ field) having fun on sleds. Our litle one enjoyed sitting on them sliding down the hills, she smiled wide all the way – it was her first time on sleds. I love to watch kids play in snow, its like they blossom in a special way. Its energygiving to watch.

The Monsamarken is an endangered spot, like many green spots in Norway. We try to use it as much as we can, it might be built on one day. There is an ongoing project but luckily lots of local people resist. Its kind of our last spot where we can use sleds near us.

Since the 1600s the field were owned by farmers, the spot originally belonged to a large farm Eid, later it were sold in pieces and we now how stories go then. I’ll try to get a wide picture of it one day.