Out of the way

Today I got a new visa in my passport to prove that I can stay in Norway for another few months.

It's actually not that useful. I applied for it ages ago, and thought they would write and tell me about it. I never got any news, but last week I left Norway to go to England. At immigration control they just looked it up and said "yes, it was renewed on such-and-such a date. You probably should go to the immigration office and get it put in your passport".

So I did. A whole work-day spent waiting in the office for my number to come up, but then I simply had to present my passport. And a photo. It's one of the worse photos of me around (and the standard wasn't that high to begin with), but it doesn't matter that much to me.

I did get about halfway through the book I am reading - "Krig" by Knut Nærum, about how a war starts between Norway and the Netherlands over an ice-skating incident. I'm also trying to read "Ut og stjæler hester", which is a bit slower. It got rave reviews, and I enjoyed the first chunk of it but it seems to be slowing down a bit. It looks likely to be the third norwegian book I finish, after Krig. (It was the fourth I started, but two of them are going to be even later...)

But now I have a permit to live and work here for a while longer which should give me time to get into them