This week

Monday:
From sun rise to sun set,literally ,we moved cattle. Luckily I also got to drive tractor a lot :) It was a looong day with a lot of work so the whole house was in bed by 10 pm which is quite unusual here.. Hehe :) The country estate were we - that's me and Michael by the way - move cattle is HUGE! House after house is empty and in the master house they only use 1/4 of the rooms. The potential of the estate is enormous and yet it is wasted, it's really frustrating to see. It use to be a theatre school, and if it still was, more people could enjoy the place. Hu! Again, what a waste. The lady that owns it can't really walk and so she is relying on people to be good hearted and help her all the time.

Tuesday:
Wow! I got to sleep until 8! Me and Fiona fixed the fences around the field by the house to start taking the pointers in. A pointer is a horse that do point-to-point racing. We also worked with a horse called Jazz. Jazz is in the middle of being broken in and today was his first time with a bit. Fiona let me have a go with trying to lunging with 2 rains, which did not go to well. Jazz picked up on me not being trained and this and went all silly..

Wednesday
Me and Fiona went to Howard Castle today, I have been wanting to do that for a while but you need a car to get there so Fiona took me. She hadn't been for nearly 20 years so I don't think she minded at all :) The movie " Brideshead Revisited" was filmed here twice - does this ring a bell to anybody, if so it's probably you Janne!?? Anyways, when we arrived I pulled out my camera to take a picture of the whole thing from a distance and I quickly found out that I was out of battery. So I have no pictures from there sadly. Also I made two apple pies today, and they actually looked like on the picture with the recipe, so that was my first English pie (actually it's called tart, but I don't like the sound of that word so pie it is...)!

In England, and I assume the rest of the UK as well, they don't really like to use kilo and gram and meters and such like we do, don't really know how much things are. Instead we have oz and feet and miles (with is NOT 10km per miles) and stones that I don't know anything about. The cake recipes are often a lot like that as well so it takes a longer time for me to find the right way to do things, but of course I manage :) Right, of to bed now!

Tuesday
Well, today me and Fiona was suppose to go on a hunt, but because of many reasons that did not happen. Hunt here is not on mouse but fox, just as I have seen on TV or in a film. Horses, dogs, men with guns and that chase a petrified fox in front... No need to say more. We might do it next week, I hope. Or do I really? I not sure I want to see those foxes in that situation... But then again, that is nature. Or as we would say it in Norwegian, "Man spiser hverandre og ferdig med det!". The family I live with is heavily involved in the hunt so I guess I just have to go along with the whole concept for now. Hehe :)

To day I saw a dead sheep. Still fresh, probably died yesterday I think. I had to check if it was dead or only half dead. It was Dead. This was when we were gathering all our sheep's to get them out of the field. You see, they have girls and we have boys, so I guess everybody then can see the problem... Flowers... Bees... Anyways!!!

Made two birthday cakes today as well because one of the girls is having her birthday in 6 days. Shes turning seven and there are 25 kids coming, exiting? ehe.. It's going to be absolutely crazy, I don't know if I'll ever recover. Only time will show.
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On Friday me and Fiona had a serious shopping day because next Wednesday it's Katrionas birthday, and now the number are 30 kids... It's going to be crazy and noisy, I'm not sure if it's something I'll ever recover from... I went in to York and had a night out with two of the girls from my birthday night.

Today, Saturday, I have done some more looking around York. Still no pictures... I have not decided if I staying to night or going back to the farm, and I haven't decided when to leave the farm..

To be continued..

I'm in love...

York is a beautiful town! I can recommend a stay here to everybody! The weekend is spent in York and it's been lovely. I have been to The National Rail Museum with was okay, not impressing, but okay. I have uploaded more photos to Photobucket for everybody to see. I have also walked parts of the town wall and through the Museum Gardens where there is a lot of squirrels running around.

Thank you Paulile for being so nice to me and opening your home. Looking forward to coming back next weekend.

Wow baby! I have internet AND time!!

Okay, here we go! I'm going to try and give a good update on everything that has happened since last time, but I'll surely not remember everything. New pictures on Photopucket, by the way!

First enumerate my birthday. On the 4th of October I celebrated with the family I'm staying with. On the 5th I went out with three lovely girls called Alex, Clair and Sasha. That night I was just known as the Norwegian girl who was 21. A lot of fun and spirits as you all maybe can see from the photos...

The last week we have been doing all sorts of things on the farm. Including horse training, moving horses in between our fields, selling sheep, moving cattle and painting. I went to the local "big" village to find Internet the other day but that was impossible. That's the reason for the hate everything post earlier... hehe! We still haven't got the horses in (there in the field), so that's a bit sad but there is so much happening anyway that I don't get bored.

I'm in York for the weekend to have a look around and see a friend of the family called Pauline. I'm staying with her tonight and are going back tomorrow.

Missing you all, my dear family and all my friends! Lots of love to my brother!! Ååååå, broren sin ja! Må passe på seg selv.

This wasn't a very good update but I don't remember everything and I haven't been any good with writing every day! I suppose bigger crimes has been committed. Take care everybody! Safe travel, Janne! Looking forwards to update from Italy! Do I smell a Blog with you as well?

Muuuuuuu!

No internett access where I live, hate it!!!
I don't have time to update.. Hate it!!!
No cell phone signal i Huby...... Hate it!!!

Other than that everyting is just great! I know how to drive a tractor :) Hope to post pictures and more on saturday or sunday, have to go to York than..

Take care everybody! And don't loos interest just because I don't update so good in October....!

Love from the traveler

liten oppdatering

My first day 2 October

I arrived last night with a way too heavy backpack and loads of dirty laundry to a family of four. There farm is just
outside a small village called Huby near York as I told you all earlier. Fiona and Michael - and there are two girls Eilleh
and Cathrina who are 5 and 6 years old. There is also 4 dogs here, China, Oscar, Mimi and Bruno. I got a big room
with a double bed and am very satisfied.

My first day working, Tuesday, I helped Michael. We went all the way to the East coast to sell scrap loads of bullshit.
Among the things was a Rover car that was quite difficult to get on the truck, but then again, what can you not do
with a tractor!?? hehe :) In between the excitement, petrol in Michaels eye and introducing myself to new people I
forgot to take pictures of that, what a shame. Anyways! Went to the scrap place and got payed £240 ish. Maybe I
could become a scraper? What do you say dad?

On the way back we stopped at Ian's because Michael was tired. He offered to drive us home and take along the
pony that Michael just had bought from him. So... The pony is not tame YET, but everybody keeps making jokes
about me breaking it in, so the next couple of days will be interesting. But not to interesting I hope.... Good night friends!

My birthday 4 october

Today was my birthday, as I can see that you all knew. Thank you all for thinking of me on Saturday :) Well, this has
for sure been a birthday I won't forget in a while! Me and Michael went to the the horse marked to sell one of the
horses. Darling "Free Willy" had to go because he's not able to race anymore because of his leg. I have added some
pictures from the marked to give you all a idea of how it was, all I can tell you is that is was different from anything I have
ever seen. And exciting!

After tea (that is dinner now folks, quite confusing in the start. we have tea and tea!) Fiona served the most fairytaley
cake I have ever been given with 21 lights and everything. The girls was all excited and help me blow the candles.
Mum: you still make the best cake, of course, this was just a temporary replacement! Hehe :) I also got one birthday
gift, form Michael, mittens at the market right beside the horses!