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bv
I am so happy to be at home for this 17. mai celebration, even if the pandemic is making it hard to celebrate like we use to do, normally with school children parading the streets, and school brass bands performing in the parades, with our flag in red, white and blue colors, as the first green leaves are showing up on the trees, following a long winter.

Today has been wet wet wet, lots of rain in the south, while the west and north of Norway has been having great sunshine. We were out this morning before 10am where I live in Asker, as the crown prince family live here, and they had a pop-up surprise drive by appearance in their A-3 car. Unfortunately the rain prevented an appearance with their cabriolet, like they did last year in this area.

We do have grandchildren in one of the local school brass bands, and they have been parading in the rain all day. Three out of seven 17. mai since 2015 Ijavascript:editor_tools_handle_smiley() have spent on Stones tour - Los Angeles 2015, Dublin 2018 and Chicago 2019. Then two years now with pandemic style 17. mai. Next year I hope there will be a normal 17. mai celebration!

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Per-Arne
Gratulerer med dagen!
After a breakfast with my mother I`m back home and spending the rest of the day in front of my stereo, looking at the "rain fall down" outside.
Nice day here in Norway.

Per Arne

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dmay
Happy your day in Norway. So, for a few of us from elsewhere, would you fill us in what this celebration is all about? Outside of a Norwegian great uncle (my great aunt's 5th husband...don't ask), most of what I know about Norway comes from assorted readings; the Vikings movie with Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis (terrible movie); hearing about lutefisk on the PBS Lydia's Kitchen cooking show; references to Norway on the Shetland television show; what has appeared here; etc. Thanks.