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  • Lilleteigen,  Norway,  Summerhouse,  Uncategorised

    Corona summer – update #1

    12/10/2020 / 2 Comments

    An update from a summer now gone

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    12th September 2019

    13/09/2019

    Pea Soup and technical challenges

    29/10/2019

    End of summer

    15/10/2019
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    Famagusta once more

    19/10/2019 / No Comments

    After the Robbos lefte, we have gone very easy, hardly no contact with any one at all. There was a need of rest after some hectic days. Wednesday we had a drive into Girne for shopping, with just a lunch at Los Amigos. Stopped at Little Stones on our way back and had a long chat with David. Rest of the day was spent doing nothing and had a meal at home. Thursday, Tove and I took a trip to Famagusta again and the beach. Weather was just lovely. Imagine it’s mid October and the temperature in sea is still some 27-28 degrees. However, the beach was far from crowded.…

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    The table

    Fab evening meal at BarB with Anja, Laila, Jan Tore and Tove

    10/09/2019

    Karpaz Gate Marina Beach Club

    11/09/2019

    Northern Cyprus at it’s best and a lemon on steroids

    18/02/2020
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    Spice Garden, Little Stones and The dark side

    26/09/2019 / No Comments

    On Tuesday, there were some need of repairs in the apartment, the main fly screen were falling off, and also a general tidying up before cleaners arrives tomorrow. After finishing my work early evening, i texted my good friend Khalid, who is running Spice Garden together with his brother Sajid, to have a table reserved. Actually not necessary, as I ‘m promised by Khalid to allways have a table no matter what. Spice Garden is one of my favourite restaurant over here. Big was my surprise when we drove off, just to find Khalid in the middle of a road crossing, walking about, with his car crashed. He had driven…

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    WordPress

    10/10/2019
    Extension to our terrace

    Official opening of our extended roof terrace

    18/09/2019

    It’s cold

    31/01/2021
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    30th August 2019

    30/08/2019 / No Comments

    Today we’ve been packing the suitcases for our travel to Cyprus. Believe it or not, but we’re struggling to meet the limit of 30 kgs per person. In the afternoon we had the joy of being part of the audience on the premiere of Annie. Quite special to have both son and grandchildren performing on stage. All did very well, congratulations to Espen, Elise and Estelle.

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    Extension to our terrace

    Official opening of our extended roof terrace

    18/09/2019

    Pea Soup and technical challenges

    29/10/2019

    Cabana time today at Lord’s Palace

    09/09/2019
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    28th August 2019

    28/08/2019 / No Comments

    After a few days with increasing back problems, it was time to give the chiropractor a visit. One visit and the difference is unbelievable.

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    Cyprus stay over for this time

    10/05/2022
    Caterpillars

    I’ve got my mojo back

    03/04/2022

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    10/10/2019
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    Hello all

    28/08/2019 / No Comments

    My server is finally up and running again. Server base is Ubuntu 18.04. This is a LAMP server (LINUX, Apache, MySql and Perl/PHP/Python). UFW (Uncomplicated FireWall) is set up to handle unwanted communication. As this was not enough, a lot of automated attacks is shown on the log, Fail2Ban is installed and running to block the attacker. So far, so good, strong random passwords also has its value.

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    Little Havanna

    29/11/2019
    Extension to our terrace

    Official opening of our extended roof terrace

    18/09/2019

    While waiting for Phil …

    13/11/2019

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This is the blog of the every day life of a humble, reasonably happy elderly, retired man, also known as a grumpy old git.

The blog was started for 2 reasons.  First, my missus claims I’m starting to be forgetful.  Keeping a blog will make it easier to remember.  Second, as I keep the blog on my own server, it will help me staying closer to my old profession.

The blog will be updated at random, sometimes daily, sometimes not, just when I feel for it.

After a long time of considerations, I have abandoned the idea of having a multi language blog.  This simply takes to much time and effort.  Translation is now based on Google translate, not foolproof, but will give you an idea of what it’s all about.   The blog is mainly meant for my English speaking friends, and therefore the posts are written in English.  However, feel free to comment in any language

 

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