Safe haven - nursery

Maud outside the door to her other life, away from her parents.
Looks pretty eager to get in too doesn't she.
Left door for the little kids, right door for the slightly larger ones.




Lola has previously been used to being carried around by her hair, so the new buggy really bought a smile to her face......



maud's too.

Spot of blogger

Erm......
yada yada ...OK so i've not blogged for a good while now, so many days since last time that it's turned into counting in months rather than days. Can't beleive how fast time is whizzing by... anyone guess how long i've been here in Oslo for now? No?
10 YEARS! Jeeezaloo - 3rd september 1997 - i arrived here with a suitcase full of clothes to live in flat that was 6m x 3m, and yes that included the bathroom and kitchen.
So ten years older and this getting back to work full time thing has been all to much for me, I have tons of footy to be watching as the english and Norwegian seasons overlap at this time of year, Silje works a lot of evening shifts atm. Oh.. and i've been lazy. Blogging has just fallen to the bottom of the pile.
The sooner i can fix the BlogThis! button in Picasa2 the better for everyone.

Well, on with it....i'll try and get all the blah blah blah out of the way at the start and then stick some pictures up at the end since that's what you come here for ...right?
What's up in the the world of Tjorteland / Conibear and how is the Maudster?
Maud has settled into nursery way better and faster than we had any right to expect. Playing, eating, sleeping and saying goodbye to whoever drops her off in the morning all happens without any fuss and luckily she's always mega happy to see us when pick up time comes around.
Saying that Maud has been a bit ill of late, only to be expected when starting nursery i know but when the Maud smile went AWOL for a week or so recently we knew she was suffering.

Holidays. I'm a slacker, back at work full time for a month and a half and already i'm off on my hols. So 15th September we jet off to Vancouver to visit auntie Sarah for 3 whole weeks, and as is the way, our peaceful break will be shattered when uncle Tim and Grandma gatecrash the trip to join us for the last 2 weeks too. (just kidding grandma)
With a 1.5 hour flight to London and then a 9 hour flight to Vancouver i'm just hoping Maud is in the mood for pushing up some serious Zzzzz's on the way over.

Random highlights and low points from the past month, starting off with Maud pulling her best 'i'm super ill' face.

unblogged

Talkies

At last blogger have developed their very own video upload, 'bout time too. So no more Vimeo or YouTube to be adding to that the very big blogging frustration equation?
Well sadly not, judge for yourselves. here is Bloggers attempt at converting my video and below that Vimeo's effort.

Conker killer

Maud attempts to rid the park of tree rats.
The method.....simple.
Arm yourself with as many conkers as you can carry and run after the pigeons, throw aforementioned conkers at pigeons. Repeat as necessary.

Filming of this activity and indeed the activity itself, was cut short due to the fact of the rather suspicious looking man lurking by the bin. Is it just my super overprotective paternal instincts kicking in or in the last few seconds of the clip does he look like he's about to snatch Maud up and do a runner?




Conker killer from matt and Vimeo.