Once upon a time, there lived three brothers. Two of them wereclever, but the third, called Yemelya, was thought to be a fool. One day,Yemelya’s brothers decided to go to town to purchase some wares.“While we’re away you must listen to our wives and obey their everycommand. If you do as you’re told, we’ll buy […]
Photo Jumble No.3
Introduction As mentioned in the other ‘jumble of photos’, this is a jumble of photos without thematic cohesion, or chronological order. Nevertheless, the photos are taken around the 1970s to the 1990s. I can present some kind of thematic order here, as the pictures are shown in the PowerPoint: Nina’s niece, Keena, junior football tournament […]
Pictures photos copied from diaries late 1970s
In the late 1970s / early 1980s, when I was living in Oslo, and was about 30 years old, I kept a number of diaries. These were composed in quite a haphazard way, and included drawings of where I happened to be, and drawings of friends and girlfriends (they also included contributions from them). Sometimes, […]
Slides Oslo Norway 1970s 80s komprimert
Here are more than 100 photos from the 1970s and 1980s in Oslo. Many of the photos are taken at Sogn student town. I wasn’t a student, but rented various rooms from students at a reasonable cost. The rooms were very small, and you had to share a kitchen and bathroom with six others. But […]
1970/80s Home Movie
This home movie starts by showing my brother Alistair playing the guitar, when he visited me in Oslo, Norway, around 1980, when I was living at Stølsvegen 18. It then shows a Scottish piper in Karl Johan Gate – the main central street in Oslo. Comically, he doesn’t seem to be a very skilled player! […]
Kindergartens in Norway
Around 1980, I worked in a number of kindergartens in Oslo, Norway. I was a so-called assistant – in other words, I had no qualifications. I was also interested in so-called Super 8 film – that is film with sound. However, the movies I post here are without sound, because I have scanned the movies […]