Jamie Brammer

15 Sep, 2009

Scotland and Aksel’s first birthday

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We were in Scotland- the west coast, Kintyre for a few days and then over to Edinburgh for Aksel’s birthday and meeting up with his new cousin Ethan.

26 Jul, 2009

Trip to Norway – our ’summer’ holiday

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Ok pros and cons of a trip to Norway in July:

Pros

  • Norway is powered by nature – it’s beautiful scenery whenever you go.
  • It is not very busy – we were the only people on one bus. Even the main road from Oslo to Bergen is a quiet narrow road with few cars on it.
  • Fruit being sold at road-side stalls is only bettered by the wild strawberries and raspberries on the mountains.
  • All the oil money has been spent on good roads and tunnels.
  • Lots of very friendly people helping you out and glad to have you visiting.
  • Sørlandschips
Cons
  • Norway is powered by nature – this basically means it rains all the time.
  • The words ‘Norwegian’ and ‘cuisine’ are used for the first time together in this sentence, any country that devotes 50% of the freezer space in a supermarket to frozen pizza is really struggling.
  • No oil money was spent on tourist information: the offices are staffed by disinterested and unhelpful student workers (one sold us a 50 year old map!) and the leaflets were generally incomprehensible.

Anyway enough grumpy old man stuff… here’s the photos…

05 Jul, 2009

Aksel 10 months

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A few photos from when Aksel was around 10 months.

25 Jun, 2009

Aksel about 9 and a half months…

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Photos from the last few weeks and a visit from mum and Sandy.

01 Jun, 2009

Sunny and warm Edinburgh

Posted by: jamiebrammer In: Family and friends| UK

Just got back from a surprisingly warm weekend in Edinburgh. Well over 20 degrees Friday to Monday and sunny all the time – the city really does look good like that. Thanks to Mum, Dad and everyone else.

21 May, 2009

Aksel – 8.5 months… a trip around town.

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Went for a walk today (Ascension day is a holiday in Denmark); great weather and lots to see. Here’s the photos.

10 May, 2009

Aksel around 8 months and a trip to the zoo

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Well we’ve been to the zoo today and Aksel has had a pretty good time – though he probably enjoyed the children (Copenhagen Zoo on a Sunday has more kids than animals) more. Here’s a few photos from the last couple of weeks.

06 May, 2009

Various photos from the last 4 months…

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These are from the phone so missed the ‘general releases’. A random collection of Aksel, Lene and myself…

26 Apr, 2009

Aksel @ 7.5 months

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Here’s the latest photos… really starting to enjoy himself this week. Lots of ‘creeping’ around the house (not true crawling). Plenty of shouting at inanimate objects (such as his parents). Eating lots of good mushy food and little bits of bread with butter.

So here’s some more updates on the wee man. He’s now just over 7 months and had a very happy day in late March – his ‘naming party’.


  • Dan Carroll: good luck mate
  • Ricardo: i like the point about the freezer space
  • Knut: I can see you caught the essence of Norway. Permanently wrapped Aksel in his raincoat, lots of mountains and old stuff, many hills to climb (coming do

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