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Boy, if there was ever a time to pop over to the States to play Rich European Person, this would be it! What on earth is happening to the US dollar? It is now at its lowest rate in relation to the Icelandic krona since 1992. How tempting to jump on a plane and finish...

I’ve managed to figure out the blogroll thing - yay! Have one foot in the club already. Who’d have ever thought that YT would turn into a Blog Geek? Very short post now – too much information to process. YT THE NATIONALIST Our girl Björk and our girl Emiliana Torrini...

Loyal readers of this space will recall that just a few days ago I related my paranoia about having our place broken into and our stuff stolen. Lest you think this is merely the demented thought process of a mistrustful mind, think again! EVIDENCE THAT YT IS NOT...

Sometimes, I swear I should have me ‘ead examined. Went out for a run today in gale-force winds and was practically swept off my feet repeatedly – and certainly not in the best sense. Took the favoured route along the seashore and waves came crashing over the...

EPI and I back from a mini-break. Which YT purposefully did not announce in this space because I’m paranoid that People (bad People) will take the opportunity to break into our place and nick all our nice stuff like the Christmas ornaments I bought in Oslo two years...

MORE SIGNS THAT LET YOU KNOW CHRISTMAS IS COMING The neighbours start baking cookies. Last night, the air in the corridor of our apartment building was thick with the smell of gingerbread. Hot damn! Yet another reminder of YT’s hopeless inadequacy in the...

Today is the anniversary of Home Rule – the day Iceland obtained sovereignty from Denmark, in 1918. Whoo-hoo! Quick historical briefing, courtesy of Fréttablaðið: “A short and simple celebration took place at the Government House, a brass band played Eldgamla Ísafold...

WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IS What the bejesus is happening to The Sopranos?? A full head-scratching episode last night that jumped from one baffling scene to another, beginning with Tony’s girlfriend setting herself on fire and progressing bizarrely to Tony renting a...

A comment in the editorial of Saturday’s Fréttablaðið caught my eye. It concerned the abduction of the little nine-year old girl last week, the perpetrator of which has not yet been found. “In a large part of the world, including the one which we inhabit, a large...

Well, Windows XP has come sashaying into my life with all its snazz, flash and (misspent) pizzazz. YT is not impressed. In fact my acquaintance with XP has so far been a brutal disappointment. Whereas me and ME didn’t get along famously, particularly not in the last...

Was at a gathering last night where somebody described a recent illustration in The Economist (UK), which showed the diagonal lines of the Union Jack being painted over with blue, thereby creating the Icelandic flag – all because Icelanders are systematically invading...