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  • The Lice of my Life
  • First Swim in the Sea – in November
  • The Placenames of Dublin
  • A Diary for Bella, our Lockdown Lurcher
  • The Yellow Room
  • Happy Families?
  • Courgetti
  • Irish Creatures on Irish Coins
  • Nana’s Gingerbread
  • At Last, Our First Halloween in Ireland
  • The Wren on the Farthing
  • Drizzle and Stone in Monasterboice
  • Jaywalking
  • Gargoyles and Angels in Armagh
  • Evening in Dublin
  • 14 Henrietta Street
  • The Italian Chippers of Ireland
  • Ancient Palermo
  • Besotted by Bassets
  • Good Friday in Toronto
  • Coming home was the hardest move
  • An Irish Mamma abroad
  • Seriously, Lads!
  • The tooth fairy is dead. Long live the tooth fairy.
  • One cup of family baking
  • Cross your arms and eat your pastry
  • A lifetime of needles
  • A Neighbour’s Kiss
  • An Old Dictionary
  • The Red and the Green
  • The view from the roof
  • Back to the schoolroom in Ireland
  • The Irish for Brexit
  • The Child of Prague – Patron Saint of Climate Change?
  • The Beaches of Dublin
  • The Truth about the British Isles
  • With Love for the Women of Ireland
  • Watching the Eurovision back in Ireland
  • Getting back my vote
  • A very Good Friday
  • Time to quit Facebook?
  • We went to the parade… and no-one died
  • Dear Saint Patrick, it’s complicated
  • The pipes, the pipes are frozen
  • Dreams of an Irish Dog
  • “Cause you gotta have turf”
  • Winter in Venice
  • Our First Irish Panto
  • Italy in Winter: Syracuse
  • Two girls in a tree
  • That really wasn’t boring – visiting Florence’s museums with kids
  • Penny Farthings
  • Rollerblading in Florence
  • Pure lykke
  • That wasn’t so boring (part 3) – Ytalia sculpture show at Forte Belvedere
  • There’s something about Elba
  • The day the bomb closed the bus stop
  • That wasn’t so boring (part 2) – Video Renaissance
  • Swimming pools of Florence
  • The (Wet) Stones of Florence
  • Learning on the Land
  • Manhattan in Florence
  • Nothing Phoney about Bologna
  • My Morning Cuppa
  • That wasn’t so boring (part 1) – San Miniato al Monte
  • Wisteria Hysteria
  • These Crazy Celts!
  • Carnival in Fiesole
  • Street art of Florence
  • The meaning of snow
  • Finding Hitchcock
  • Women of Christmas
  • Olive Harvest
  • Windows of Wine
  • 50 years after the Flood
  • Sweet Halloween
  • Doggy bag? Sì, grazie!
  • In the Swing of Things
  • Of mice and murder
  • The Real Scoop on Gelato
  • The Midsummer Saint
  • The Life Domestic
  • The Food is Beautiful
  • Seatbelts optional
  • The Need to Greet
  • Irish – where it all began
  • Watch up Trump, here is coming il Presidente!
  • That’s Amore, amore
  • From Norway to Italy
  • The songs on the bus go round and round
  • Norwenglish 3 – A Word of Welcome
  • Norwenglish 2 – Leave it as you found it
  • The New Yorker and Me
  • ..Work in Progress..
  • The map of languages
  • Norwenglish 1 – Numbers
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I saw this beautiful ivory comb (16th century) at I saw this beautiful ivory comb (16th century) at the Bargello in Florence one afternoon before heading back home to most likely check my kids' hair for nits. Those little creatures have plagued us from country to country, like most parents. Read the full story on the blog. Link in bio.
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Wash my language?

Språkvask is the Norwegian word for proofing text. Literally it means “language wash”; a more poetic way of saying it!

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