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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,699MI6 Agent
    edited August 2021

    The horrors of having a large garden with a good harvest. Most of the apples and berries will be eaten by birds an worms ... 😩

  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,699MI6 Agent

    Beautiful photos CHB!

    Barbels photo reminds me of how the weather usually is here.

  • caractacus pottscaractacus potts Orbital communicator, level 10Posts: 3,906MI6 Agent

    @CoolHandBond and @Number24

    Both you characters have magnificent views of overlooking salt water right out your front door! I am very jealous!

    That Norwegian fjord reminds me of the coastline of Canada's West Coast where I spent many happy years, though I assume the temperature range and length of daylight is rather different.

  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,699MI6 Agent
    edited August 2021

    I've heard parts of Canada's west coast is together with New Zealand are among the few placed that looks like here.

    I don't know the temperature ranges and daylight hours om Canada's west coast, so I don't know. You don't have the Gulf Stream and if there aren't any comparable warm major sea streams running along the coast I assume it's much colder on the same latitudes.

  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,699MI6 Agent

    I just looked it up. The far south of Norway is about as far north as the furthest north of Canada's west coast. Most of Norway is about as far north as Alaska. Thanks God for the Gulf Stream!

  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff

    All joking aside, beautiful pics, guys, much appreciated.

  • caractacus pottscaractacus potts Orbital communicator, level 10Posts: 3,906MI6 Agent

    it may not be the same Gulf Stream, but the major ocean current in the Pacific functions the same way, I think: a big counterclockwise circle from the equator towards the arctic, so that warm equatorial waters are being pushed north along the west coast of North America .

    Around Vancouver, Victoria, and Seattle, temperatures in winter rarely get as low as zero, and in summer rarely more than 25. Very civilized. Whereas on our Atlantic coast I gather they get winters much worse, because that big circular Atlantic current is pushing cold water south. My friends in Newfoundland said they saw icebergs drifting by in July, whereas in Victoria I would see roses blossoming in January.

  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,699MI6 Agent

    Places like Kristiansand, a big town in the far south, has temperatures much like Vancouver. Innland temperatures, particularely in the north, can get as low as minus 30, 40 and in extreme cases as low as minus 50.

  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 6,030MI6 Agent

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    😂😂😂

    It does rain here too, it’s tipping down and loud thunder - just taken this at 07.30 - but it is already 81F


    Lovely view, N24. We’re very much south of you - approximately 700 miles north of the equator.

    Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,699MI6 Agent
    edited August 2021

    Breaking news: Chuck Norris has caught Covid-19. The virus is now in a one-month quarantine.

  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 6,030MI6 Agent

    I had to go the dentist yesterday, so travelled across the bridge from Mactan into Cebu which is under MECQ rules at the moment. A usually packed mall was very quiet. The number of COVID cases is dropping substantially because of the restrictions so hopefully they may be lifted upon the review on September 7th.


    Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff

    I hope nothing serious at the dentist, CHB. It's beyond time for me to have a check up- the "lockdown" excuse has outlived its use, I fear.

  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 6,030MI6 Agent

    Just a small filling, Barbel. Pain free from start to finish, happy to say 🙂

    Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff

    That's good. 😊

  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,644MI6 Agent

    Is it safe?

    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,699MI6 Agent

    Today Danish health authorities said Covid-19 is no longer a threath to their society! Handshakes, hugs, cinemas, conserts, cinemas ... it's all back! 😊

    People are still encouraged to stay at home if they feel ill, infected must quarantine and the authorities still track the virus. Congratulations, Denmark!

  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff

    That's good news. 😊

  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,699MI6 Agent

    It's been proven by science that the people who experience the highest number of birthdays tend to live longer than the rest of the population.

  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,644MI6 Agent
    edited September 2021
    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,699MI6 Agent

    Science is our guide 😁

  • The Domino EffectThe Domino Effect Posts: 3,631MI6 Agent

    Does that apply to people born in Leap Years?

  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,699MI6 Agent
    edited September 2021

    A few days ago the Taliban found the time to invade the Norwegian embassy in Kabul. There they found the DVD of the animated childrens movie "Kurt becomes cruel". I haven't seen it myself, but the Taliban absolutely HATED it! 🤬


    They also found a pair of skis and they were facinated. Was it beccause the skis had bindings of the Kandahar type, named after a Afghan city? Are they planning to field ski troops or maybe start a ski resort to attract tourists?

  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,644MI6 Agent

    Indeed. Amazing how we all survive really. 😉

    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,699MI6 Agent

    You have scientific mind. You may have found may the exception that proves the rule (that's how scientific science works) .

  • The Domino EffectThe Domino Effect Posts: 3,631MI6 Agent

    Or I could just be a trouble maker!

  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,699MI6 Agent

    You have a trouble-making scientific mind! 🤣

  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,699MI6 Agent

    I'm not going to bore you with politics, but it's midnight on election day an the new PM just did the traditional walk from party HQ to the parliament. The only security I saw was one parked police car and a single bodyguard. Makes me proud! 🇧🇻

  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff

    Boring you with politics, I've been watching a German news channel. My German isn't perfect (Higgins will laugh hard at that one) but I think Norway has elected a left-leaning government, subject to coalition, and will have for the first time about 50/50 woman/men in the parliament. Is that about right, N24?

  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,699MI6 Agent
    edited September 2021

    That's about right, yes. 47% of the new MPs are women, up from 41% in the previous four years. It's also been a tradition since the 80's to fill half the cabinet with women. We don't know yet how many parties will be in the cabinet, but it will be a socialist/agrarian center government. I don't know of any other countries where the agrarian party is leaning to the left. Oher fun facts: the next Labour Prime Minister is the second richest MP in parliament with a mostly inherited fortune of about 6 million dollars. The conservative PM for the last eight years has a much smaller fortune of about 500 000 dollars.

  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff

    Thanks! 😊

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