I've started reading Kabal Mysteriet by Jostein Gaarder. He is extraordinary. This one is meant for youths...("yeut, what's a yeut?") so it's about right for my language level, even though I'm not very far in, I'm definitely hooked. I got hooked on Sophie's World when I read it in English.
It's a nice little story, really.... Sigurd and I were driving through Oslo and suddenly and without warning, next to City Hall (the buildings that look like two large brown cheeses) there were people dressed in chainmail and flame-throwers on stilts. And lots of very well dressed people. Well, who wouldn’t investigate? (This is not an everyday occurence in Norway.) So we park the car, walk up towards the City Hall and join the crowd. And suddenly there’s this guy handing us tickets. Well, who wouldn't accept tickets? (He did look at us a little funny since we didn't really fit in with the crowd.) So we walk into the park, where there's a a big brass band, people everywhere and jugglers on stilts! And they're waving us around the building and into Smuget, a trendy bar across the street. And there's free drinks! Who wouldn't accept free drinks? But by this time we're a bit suspicious that we might be crashing something... quite unknowingly, of course. So we investigate the tickets and it's the world premiere of Sofie's Verden, the film. And After the Garden Party, We will Continue with Punch and Samba at Smuget. We had a marvelous time and it's a marvelous memory. I still haven't seen the movie, but I can definitely recommend the book.


The shawl decided to be Norwegian. I cast on 391 stitches, marked the middle one and knit three rows in garter stitch. Then started on a Pearl-Barred Scallop Pattern from Barbara Walker's Treasury and double decreases at the beginning, single decreases in the middle and end of the rows. Which is based on Knitting in the Nordic Tradition. I'll keep you posted.


Oh, and we watched Mary Poppins dubbed in Norwegian tonight. Skikkelig rart. They even changed Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Why?? But then changing "tuppence" to "two pence" cleared something up for me, so I guess it was worth it. :O)