Anders Lervold

Summertime

2009-07-02T18:27:00.003+01:00

Much has happend since I last wrote in this blogg.
and I have no intention to write about this as I would take to much time and space for one published story.

Eline Natalie is now 1 year and 3 months. She walked useing here trolley at 9 months, but didn't really let go before she turned 1 year. And now we have a full time keeping up.
Watching here grow up, turning into a girl from being a baby is fantastic, even if it's harder to sit down and just cuddle, she hardly sit still for 10 sec :-)

This picture is taken in the garden at Château de Versailles during our trip to Paris. We went to Paris the first weekend of May and stayed for 5 days, too little to see it all, but more than enough to know that we want to go back some day soon.

These past days we have had fantastic weather with close to 30 degree celcius, almost to hot but we shouldn't complain about the temperature when we struggle with close to 9 months of winter. I have filled the pool and the local beach is only 10 minuttes walk away. We didn't spend any time at the beach last year since Eline was too small, but this summer we will make sure to use it more.

Autumn in Fevik

2008-09-28T19:02:00.004+01:00

My wife, Ellen, with Preben and Amanda at the beach where we live in Fevik.

Young artists

2008-09-28T18:42:00.003+01:00

Two young artists.
We have visitors from Gjøvik My brother Kristian is here with his wife Lene, their two children Preben and Amanda, and a Border Collie named Oliver.
Preben and Amanda have been busy painting these two past days and the result is remarkable.

My lone island

2008-08-25T13:12:00.002+01:00

Sondre has planted his flag on my island :-)

Strange as it may seem, this island became very popular with my little nephew age 5.

A new member of Fjelde Martinsen

2008-08-25T12:57:00.002+01:00

My sister in law gave bith to a beautiful girl, and our two nephews got a babysister.

Two proud big brothers!

Sound of Music

2008-08-25T12:51:00.003+01:00

The summer here in Arendal and Grimstad is packed with concerts and festivals. We tried to catch some of it bringing with us our 4 month old babygirl who love music.

The headphones kept the volume at a moderate level and made the music experience for her the very best.

Thank you Clas Ohlson :-)

Time flies

2008-06-21T22:48:00.004+01:00

Much have happend since my last publish. I have been to Austria and Schweiz twice and one tripp to Poland. Our little girl has just turn 3 months, and today we passed a very special milestone. Our little girl laught for the first time, and I don't mean a little giggeling, she was really laughting.

The new boss

2008-04-29T20:27:00.002+01:00

One happy family!
Our little princess has now grown to a total of 52,5 cm, weighing 4500 g.
Figures are not official, but approx, measurements, made by the proud father on the bathroom floor.
Giving her birth measurements of 49 cm and 3040 g, this seems a lot after just 5 weeks.
Up till now she has treated us nice. We often have to wake her during night to feed her, and there are hardly any noice, nothing worth mentioning anyway.
Let's hope this continue!

Vår lille sopran

2008-04-02T17:56:00.004+01:00

Vår lille sopran så dagens lys 26.03.2008 kl. 06:53

Eline Natalie var 49 cm lang og veide 3040 g da hun ble født.

Österreich - die land des alpens -or something...

2008-03-10T21:39:00.008+01:00

I guess my teacher from German class would be most disappointed if he where to read this blogg. I went to Austria and hardly talked a German word. The first week was spent in Nenzing, a small place next to the Swiss border, and even closer to Liechtenstein. I took the plane to Zurich and drove about 1,5 hours to Nenzing. As always the job took so much of my time I didn't have time to look around. The week after I also arrived in Zurich and droveto Nenzing for a short meeting, the next day I drove to Seekirchen a small town next to Salzburg. The drive took 3,5 hours and I went by all the famous ski-resorts, St.Anton, St.Moritz, Innsbruck and more and didn't have time for a quick look, not to speak about trying out the slopes :-(

Maybe next time.

The travelling was a bit of a chanse to take considering Ellens pregnancy, but luckily nothing happend and I am well at home and still waiting for the big thing.

Danish wedding

2008-02-12T13:31:00.000+01:00

My mother in law has met her man!

We spent the weekend in Sæby, a small town near Fredrikshavn in Denmark, where Oddrun and Ove, the newly wedds, live together.
It's only a few hours away by ferry boat and car. Today the ferry takes about 4,5 hours, but when the new ferries are set in service the trip will decres to approximately 2,5 hours.
The ferry departure from Kristiansand (N) and arrives in Hirtshals (Dk). From Hirtshals there is about 45 min by car to Sæby.
Ove has two married daughters and 5 grandchildren so our family has grown quite a bit over the weekend :-)

Fuel

2008-02-04T09:12:00.001+01:00

As promissed to my english readers I will continue writing some stories in English. This happend on Saturday. It was a wonderful day, the sun stood
high and bright and Ellen and I wanted to have a picknic with her
sister Berit, her husband Jarle and their two lovely boys,
Sondre (4,5) and Simon(1,5). Jarle had to drive me to work where I last night had left my car.
On my way home I made a short stop to tank some gas.
Hughe mistake!!
After just 10 meters my car started to "cough" and then stoped.
I could not understand what was wrong, I tried to start it again
but got no response. I thought the fuelpump of my car had broken and didn't pump fuel to the engine. So I called for help from
a local rescue car and sat waiting in my car. After a while I got
bored and got out. I then noticed two other cars standing at a bus
stop just a few yards away and thought I'd go ask if they had problems as well. It turned out they had experienced the same as I had. It was clear the problem was the fuel and not the cars. I called the local supervicor of the unmanned Statoil station and asked him to come up and shut down the station and to check the tanks. I also started to tell all that arrived at the station that they should go somewhere else to get fuel. After a while the supervisor arrived and we had my suspicion confirmed. there was diesel in the petrol tank and vica versa. I was promissed to be contacted to sort out how I could get compensation and get refund for any expences needed to fix my car. My car was then towed to the nearest car repair and was picked up by Jarle, who had driven me to work in the first place to get my car.

The story is found in several norwegian newspapers of today.
http://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/artikkel.php?artid=515832
http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/distrikt/sorlandet/1.4712624

Happy New Year

2008-01-16T12:05:00.000+01:00

Ultralyd

2007-11-02T17:48:00.000+01:00

Her er siste bilde av vårt ufødte barn.
Dette er tatt i uke 18 så nå begynner det for alvor å vise seg på Ellen også.
I skrivende stund er vi kommet til uke 19. Vi har fått termin 27 mars 2008 så det er ca 21 uker igjen med forberedelser.
Vi gleder oss!

Working in Moscow

2007-10-06T12:14:00.000+01:00

I have just returned from a week of work in Moscow. I have been working for the newly merged company StatoilHydro and also managed to make a quick stop at both the Hydro Aluminium and Hydro Polymers office. But the main reason for the trip was to help the former Hydro employees with the new common tools used by StatoilHydro. The week contained of quite long working hours so I didn't have a chance to really look around in Moscow, but my hotel, the Golden Ring was right down the center so I had a walk down to Kremlin, the red square and all the other famous buildings. Moscow is considered the biggest town in Europe with more than 12 million citizens.
More information is yet to come.....

Bergenstur

2007-09-25T20:22:00.000+01:00

I helgen var vi tilbake til vårt kjære Bergen. Planen var å pusse opp stue og soverom, men når jeg først startet ble jobben noe mer omfattende enn først tenkt. Grunnarbeidet gjort av tidligere eiere gjorde at jeg måtte konsentrere meg om stua. Jeg fikk heldigvis god hjelp av både Kjell og Norvald, mens Ellen og Silje var ute og shoppet. Vi brukte en god del tid på å være sosiale også slik at jeg må ta turen over om ikke lenge for å gjøre ting ferdig. Sannsynligvis blir jeg nødt til å ordne det slik at jeg kan jobbe i Bergen en ukes tid og så pusse opp på kveldstid.

To my english readers

2007-09-04T11:17:00.000+01:00

Hi all English speaking friends.
I was recently told that I had visitors from America looking at my blogg, so I thought I should write a few words in English as well.
As most I use my blogg to tell about all the special and not so special things in my life. This year has been quite an adventurous one. Ellen and I bought a house and moved from Bergen to Fevik, a small village down south in Norway. A big change living in a 70 square meter flat in Bergen to a 253 square meter house with garage, big backyard and outdoor swimming-pool.
Ellen had to get a new job, while I continued in my old job only to change office location. I am currently working as a consultant for Norsk Hydro a huge aluminium (US. aluminum) company with factories all over the world. This work took me to Kurri Kurri in Australia for some weeks this spring. Earlier work has brought me to several places in Norway, Denmark, Finland, England and Belgium, and I will possibly go on a new trip somewhere in the world during this autumn as well.
Ellen who is a educated singer has started as singing educator in a kindergarten in our local community, she also have some students coming to our house for lessons and do some jobs as freelance artist. Keeps her really busy.
Aug. 4. 2007 we got married!
The evening before the wedding we invited all our guests to a sailing trip with a nice old sailingboat among the skerries. It was a three hour idyllic trip where we served white vine and fresh shrimps from a local fisherman. The next day was the wedding and the wedding reception and festivities at the local hotel.
As for the latest of all good things in my life we are now expecting a child. It's jet to early to say much about this, with only 3 months in the pregnancy, but we are incredible proud and happy.

A short and hasty written story about Ellen and me and the last and most important events in our lives this year.

Det første bildet av barnet vårt

2007-08-17T11:32:00.001+01:00

Kvaliteten på bildet er vel ikke så mye å skryte av, men det viser helt tydelig en aktiv liten krabat på ca 23mm. I følge legen var alt veldig flott og vi er super stolte :-)

Bryllup

2007-08-13T09:21:00.001+01:00

Endelig kom den store dagen!
Og selvsagt var vi heldige med været også i dag. Ikke like varmt som i går heldigvis, men en god temperatur. Og selvsagt kom det noen få regndråper akkurat i det Ellen gikk fra bilen og inn i kirken som tegn på god lykke. bedre kunne det ikke bli.

Ellen var vakrere enn noen gang, og vielsen var fantastisk!

Bilen for dagen var leid inn, en Cheverolet 1926.
Denne tok oss fra kirken og rundt der vi skulle ta bilder før vi ble kjørt til Fevik Strand Hotel der festen skulle fortsette. Også dette ble knall suksess, med flotte taler og masse gode opptredener av familie og venner utover hele kvelden.
En fantastisk fest!

Tusen takk til alle som bidro.

Seiltur i sommersol

2007-08-13T09:12:00.000+01:00

Fredagen før bryllupet inviterte vi alle gjestene med på en seiltur i sjkærgården utenfor Grimstad med skonnerten Solrik. For de som følger med i media så er dette den båten der masten knakk og en gutt ble hard skadd for noen uker siden. Han er nå heldigvis skrevet ut og har også vært å sett båten etter ulykken så alt skal vistnok gå bra med han. Med en mast for lite ble det dårlig med seiling, men båten går også bra med motor. Vi hadde en strålende tur med reker og drikkevarer til alle. Ellen kunne dessverre ikke være med oss på turen da hun ikke følte seg bra og måtte spare krefter til den store dagen etter.

Svømmebassenget fylles

2007-06-27T12:52:00.000+01:00

Et lenge etterlengtet øyeblikk, bassenget fylles med vann. Det har nå stått i snart 2 døgn og nå kl 13:55 gjenstår bare ca 5 cm før vi kan starte pumpene. Vi håper på mange varme dager framover slik at vi kan nyte sommeren og en dukkert like utenfor stuedøren. Og bare 15 minutters gange unna finner vi også noen av Norges flotteste strender så nå kan sommeren komme.

Australias hjerteknuser(e)

2007-06-27T12:26:00.000+01:00

Jobbingen i Australia har ikke gitt mye tid til sightseeing, men et lite besøk på en lokal familiegård der de kunne vise fram de fleste av australias litt spesielle dyr fikk jeg tid til. Og fikk stiftet nærmere bekjentskap med den ultimate teddybjørn. Koalaen sover ca 18 timer hvert døgn. I følge eieren pga av en særs lite næringsrik diett bestående av eukalyptusblader. I tillegg er bladene giftige slik at Koalaen må spare ytterligere energi for å bryte ned giftstoffene. "Makan til dumt dyr". Med så mye mat å velge fra i Australia så velger den eukalyptusblader som inneholder svært lite næringsstoffer og samtidig er giftig.

Pasha Bulker

2007-06-20T09:57:00.000+01:00

Som nevnt i forrige post, var det en båt som strandet i uværet her i Newcastle denne fredagen. STRANDET er virkelig et passende ord i denne sammenheng. Skipet er blåst godt opp på en av de flotteste strendene i Newcastle, Nobbys Beach.

NSW flooded

2007-06-20T09:38:00.000+01:00

Torsdagen etter at jeg kom ned til Australia og Kurri Kurri kom regnet. Da hadde det nesten ikke regnet på 7-8 år mange steder i distriktet, men nå kom det i all mass. Regnet fortsatte med enda større intensitet fredag. Selv satt jeg på jobb til ganske sent uvitende om det som skjedde utenfor. Jeg hadde riktignok fått med meg at en båt hadde gått på grunn utenfor Newcastle, byen der jeg bor, men ikke at byen stod i fare for å bli oversvømt. Da jeg dro fra jobb rund kl 19:00 lokal tid regnet det så kraftig at jeg knapt så forran bilen, men jeg sneglet meg framover sammen med resten av køen på veien. Da jeg nærmet meg byen fikk jeg virkelig se hva regn og vinsd kan gjøre. Veiene var oversvømt flere steder og trær hadde falt ned, jeg klarte likevel å komme meg videre og nærmere hotellet før det brått ble stopp bare et par kilometer fra hotellet. Veien var totalt oversvømt, en elv hadde funnet et nytt løp over veien og det stod sikkert 10 biler med vann til over panseret lenger framme. Dagen etter kan jeg lese i avisene at eieren av en av bilene hadde blitt ført bort av strømmen i sitt forsøk på flukt fra vannet og omkommet. Selv stoppet jeg i god tid, men var fullstendig rådvill, jeg viste jo ikke om andre veier til hotellet og ikke hadde jeg kart eller GPS. Jeg tok en sjans og fulgte etter en bil som kjørt opp på siden av meg og gjorde helomvending. Til alt hell viser det seg at denne bilen tar meg med til gaten der hotellet ligger gjennom masse side gater og utenom alle sperringer. Litt flaks skal man ha. Hotellet har også sine problemer. Deler av taket som nattenfør raste ned på min veranda er selvsagt ikke fikset i uværet så nå er flere rom i 4 etg fått inn vann gjennom lekasjer på taket. Jeg som bor i 1 er heldigvis ikke berørt. Litt flaks skal man ha :-)

Kurri Kurri

2007-06-07T04:47:00.001+01:00

Australia er laaaangt vekke!
Jeg dro hjemme fra mandag 4 august kl 10:00 og var framme i Newcastle, Australia tirsdag 5 august kl 23:00. Med 8 timers forskjell skulle det bli en total reisetid på 32 timer, hvorav ca 24 ble tilbragt sittende i et flysete.
Litt kjipt å reise så langt når det er sommer og sol i Norge og vinter og regn her i Australia. Men jeg er her for å jobbe så da blir det lettere å konsentrere seg om det.