Summer has finally come to Bekkelaget. Time for home made icecream and chilling in the pool.

Regn ingen hindring. Hygger oss ute mens mamma er på cruise med jobben

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What you’ll need to serve 6-8:

• 6 lemons
• 2 apples
• 2l chilled quality apple juice
• 1l chilled sparkling water
• 75g caster sugar
• mint leaves

What you’ll do to mix it:

1. Juice the lemons.
2. Stir the lemon juice in a saucepan over low heat until the sugar is dissolved. Then leave it to cool.
3. Cut the apples in small chunks (see picture).
4. Mix the apple juice, freshly made lemon syrup, apples and the mint, then add the sparkling water.
5. Add ice, serve chilled

For better taste I recommend mixing all the ingredients up to #4 except the sparkling water, leaving the mix in the fridge for at least a couple of hours for the flavours to blend smoothly. This allows the mint taste to properly settle. Ideally leave it overnight, then add sparkling water and ice just before serving. Delicious!

PS. While it’s not keeping quite in the tradition of a true Saudi Champagne, rumour has it that it goes fine with a dash of Gin as well..

Enjoy!

Her future so bright she gotta wear shades? Spring finally made it to Norway, being most welcome!

Denne mannen må da virkelig kvalifisere som en ekte svineprest!

The Good

The upside is nothing short of fantastic – I’ve set up my newsfeeds from a mix of local, national, international and technical news feeds so that I get only the news that are relevant to me. Thanks to some clever filters, I’ve completely purged celebrity gossip, sports and trivia from my news. Instead I’ve been introduced to interesting in-depth articles from Time Magazine, commentary from Dagsavisen and drooled over new gadgets from Engadget, none of which I would have found had I stayed with only Aftenposten.

The Bad

Until Friday night, I was in online media nirvana. However, half an hour of watching the Skavlan talkshow on NRK changed that ever so slightly. As mentioned before I’m no sports buff, and have thus nuked everything sports related from my news. So while I knew the Olympics were due some time this winter, I didn’t know they started last night until it was brought up on Skavlan.. There I also learned who won the Norwegian Eurovision Song contest a week ago and heard the song for the first time… Clearly, my closest colleagues and friends must share my likes and dislikes, as these things haven’t come up during lunch or small talk. So much for going from a large company with large cantina to a small start-up..

The Verdict

I’ve kept my paper subscription to Aftenposten during my experiment, and starting today I’ve re-included it in my morning breakfast-and-tea-routine. No matter how good e-Ink gets, it can never replace the feeling of enjoying a real newspaper in front of the fireplace. And more importantly, even though I still have no interest of Eurovision Song Contest or the Olympics, I’m still missing out not knowing anything about them…

As always, the best way forward seems to be the middle path.

Leser om Ludde og Hasses togtur. Full fart forover!

Mens faren leker seg med ny telefon og tester kameraet, leker datteren med emballasjen.