Birthday, again

After celebrating twice already the day finally arrived. 6.
Official cake eating day still to come.

It's hot

Another bonkers hot day here on the sunshine coast, 11:00 in the morning and mid 20's in the shade.
Time to cool those stinky feet.

Endless summer

When the kids are all grown up and reminisce about how the summers were always better when they were kids, sunny everyday and endless, they might even be telling the truth. Summer 2014, the longest, hottest bestest summer there ever was, probably.

Been as busy as ever for us poor old parents though, the kids get to enjoy all the visits as the visitors are actually there to look after them.

G'ma teaching them the way of the religion according to 'pad

Little chump deciding which sand castle to stamp on next.

Lahlum family visit, we exhausted ourselves on the fairly wonderful flekkefjordbanen.

Fishing for crabs, a very popular and addictive pastime, they managed to catch a whole bucket using a bit of old nylon cord found on the beach and a handful of mussels. They would have stayed there all day if they'd had their way.

On the short walk home from the beach we bumped in to Mrs. Hedgehog and three hedgehoglets, she wasn't so keen on having a camera stuck in her snout but one little hoglet was.

A different day, a different beach, same sun, just even hotter. 20 degrees in the sea. Happy days.  All this and i've not even started my holidays yet, one more week of work to go. Then the sun will disappear.

B'day comes early (for real)

Every kids wish come true, when your birthday comes early.
Henny is unlucky / lucky enough to have her bitthday in the summer hols so never gets to invite her friends over for a good old knees up so this year, we had a joint party with her best friend Emilie who has be birthday one month before Henny.

Better than TV

Like i've always said watching the washing machine can be more entertaining than watching most of the crap shown on TV these days, and Paris agrees

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Clog festival

On great thing about Norway is that that there are so few people here :-) so you go to a local festival (in this case one based about the a clog factory) you can pretty much guarantee no huge crowds and the kids get to try everything without queueing for an age

Waiting their turn in the erm 'queue'...

to drive.

Maud, needing a bit more practice.

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The festival just happened to bee not too far from my place of work so we popped in afterwards so i could give them the guided tour, the equipment that most impressed the kids was the fizzy water machine.
Seen one antenna you've seen them all, right?

Otherwise been a magnificent summer already here, flying a kite got Henny laughing like a nutter, which was good.


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And Paris might not like having a bath but showers are good.

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Mixed bag

More teeth have gone missing from Henny's mouth, the tooth fairy is the prime suspect.

Everybody seems happy with Paris, even Paris seems extremely content to now be part of our family

This blog posts special guest spot goes to a beer nut.... not just any old beer nut this one is a special beer nut (his compatriots tasted very good) but this one was spared. It just goes to show you you really should check what you are stuffing down your gullet, you just never know.

And here he is, one happy go lucky beer nut. Religious icon ? you decide (other religions are available).

Second mentions for Paris, butter wouldn't melt in his mouth eh, don't believe a word.

When cats do painting....

All I can tell you is that he is lucky it was water based paint. I have the scratch marks to prove that he doesn't do baths, showers maybe but baths, nope.


Ahh the world cup, gloss over Englands frankly laughable attempt to play football and all is good, PIP FTW as the kids might say, possibly.

Little chumptster and Paris the painter enjoyed the matches anyway.