SnakkeMail 5 - Catch PipPip

SnakkeMail 5 - Catch PipPip

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Further to my dad's gorgeous snow video, here's one I took earlier. As you can see Brighton is a bit sunnier, and warmer, and today we had lunch in the sun outside the city library. Helene got very excited by a group of pigeons, and wanted to feed then her biscuits and then to catch them. Norwegian word of the day: Pipip (birdie) cross-posted at a doll's house and SnakkeMail

SnakkeMail 4 - Oslo covered in Snow

SnakkeMail 4 - Oslo covered in Snow

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This is from my dad, who is a bit of a wannabe videoblogger, and it's shot outside his house (my old home) in Oslo (you might recognise it from my visiting oslo video just before Christmas!) The video is gorgeous, capturing the insanity of driving in Oslo in winter. Or rather, it describes the *impossibility* of driving in Oslo in winter. Not because of the snow, per se, but because the minute you've spent HOURS digging your car out, some cheeky bastard will come along and steal *your* spot!! Hence, most people leave their cars at home and use public transport instead. Maybe that's not such a bad thing...? Anyway, I won't add subtitles as I feel it spoils the immediacy of the clip, but for those interested, the narrative is pretty much explained above. Plus some incessant swearing - I think my dad is looking forward to spring!! Thanks Pappa!! (cross-posted at a doll's house and SnakkeMail

SnakkeMail 3

SnakkeMail 3

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Today we spotted the first spring flowers in the park. Lovely yellow and just peeking their heads above the grass..

Snakkemail 2

Snakkemail 2

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My second TalkMail for my mum (again!) and in Norwegian (again, sorry!) - we're down the beach in Hove, enjoying the sunshine...

SnakkeMail

SnakkeMail

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Inspired by "all things Videoblog", and a reply to a message on the Videoblogging yahoogroup by Jay Dedman (thanks Jay!), I am starting to post little video messages to my mother (and mayby others?) on, SnakkeMail (Talk-Mail in Norwegian). This all started as me playing around with sending my mother little videomessages instead of emails, using my phone as camera and just sending them straight off. Jay suggested putting them up on a blog as a way of archiving them, and I like the possibilities for this in terms of creating a narrative over time. My only warning is they're short, boring and in Norwegian, and mainly for my mum, but feel free to have a look...