Year: 2019
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Something new is coming…
It’s well into 2019 now, and I have to apologise for how bad I’ve been at updating the website lately. I’ve put a lot of time and energy into revamping the Club’s magazine (Klubbnytt) and now that I’ve gotten it to a place where I’m really happy with the dynamic and style, I’m going to…
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Latest from the Club
The new Club Committee has been working hard setting up events and an entirely new-look Klubbnytt since our election at the AGM at the end of February. At the moment, we’ve got several events confirmed including a picnic at Wellington Point Recreational Reserve, our time-honoured syttende mai luncheon at the Sofitel Hotel, and a raft…
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New Year’s Resolution #2: Koselig or Hygge – bringing Scandinavian bliss to Australia
We’re a month into our New Year’s Resolution series… January brought us the concept of a home-made lunch for work every day – and to quickly recap, I think I’m doing pretty well with that resolution. Some days I’ll slip and buy something, but I have REALLY gotten into curried egg open-face sandwiches for work…
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Sami Blood…. the tragedy of inherent racism.
When I first saw that “Sami Blood” was available on streaming service Stan, I didn’t really know what to expect. It was clearly a film about the Sami in Scandinavia – but the caption of this 2016 film didn’t seem to provide much to go on.. A reindeer-breeding sami girl who is exposed to the…
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‘In winter, if you surf for two hours, you can’t feel your fingers’
article sourced from TheLocal.no Far from the sun-kissed beaches of Rio de Janeiro and Ipanema, Brazilian surfer Gil Ferreira plunges into Norway’s icy waters to ride over the dark swells of the Arctic. Swapping shorts for a thick-skinned wetsuit and gloves, Ferreira braved freezing weather, rain and seals in the Lofoten Masters, the only surf competition held…
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New Year’s Resolution #1 – home-made lunch
I don’t know about you, but one of my resolutions this year is to make sure that I bring my own lunch to work every day instead of wasting money on take-away lunches (or drinking enough coffee so I’m just not hungry). Good resolution, yes? According to the below BBC article posted a couple of…
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Happy New Year from the NCQ
Welcome to January! The new year always seems to feel fresh and hold a promise of what’s to come, and for many of us, this week has been the first working week of the year (not for me though… I started back on January 2). So…what does the new year mean to you? Does it…