It’s a small world after all

(Sorry if that makes you hum the stupid song for weeks – it’s just a fitting title.)

I don’t know if I mentioned the fact that I started scrapbooking? Well, anyway, while looking for info on scrapbooking I found scrapping.no, a forum for Norwegian scrappers, where I’ve been more or less active since April. When one of the other girls in Oslo suggested a purely social meetup (as opposed to a scrapping workshop) I thought “Why not?” and went along. And boy am I glad I did. It turned out that one of the other forum members is a girl I used to know but lost tough with a few years back. We met while we were both studying undergraduate English – she was studying in Oslo and I was, of course, in Trondheim, but we both went to the Norwegian Study Centre at York for three weeks and hit it off. This was back in 1995 (in the dark ages) and we managed to stay in touch for a while but due to excessive wanderlust on both our parts, keeping up with adresses became too much of a challenge at some point. However, great was the joy of meeting again so fortuitously, and we both vowed tol make more of an effort this time.

Another example of it being a small world is that Donna has suddenly taken up knitting in a big way, apparently because of this book. Which, incidentally, is also on my bookshelf, mainly because it contains a pattern for pippi stockings created by Theresa. Which all struck me as rather funny.