Dagbók Hrefnu og Finns

Frame-Staining / Confirmation / Spring-y Choir

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[Photos taken 22 April 2025, posted online 8 14 February 2026. Still no precipitation, but it’s freezing cold outside. Brrrr…]

With Easter holiday all done and dusted, it was time for more spring tasks, as the sun kept staying up in the sky for longer and longer.

There were walks, some biking, gymming, a confirmation party, and a lot of wood-staining. I attended a spring-y choral performance, and we went out to dinner with friends.

Tuesday 22 April 2025

The priming and staining of the veggie-box-tops continued. Here are 2 out of the 4, all set up to be stripped of staples and acrylic fabric by helping hands.

Easter Break: Summer House / Feasting / Yard Work

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[Photos taken 17 – 21 April 2025, posted online 07 February 2026. The multi-week draught got temporarily halted yesterday when we finally had a bit of rain, which promptly froze on the freezing ground, and had people slipping all over. The weather systems have been locked in a strange configuration for a while, and the UK and mainland Europe have been getting all the tumultuous weather that usually hammers Iceland in winter…]

The five-day Easter holiday weekend went by in a blur of activity! After an epic printer-battle, we went up to the summer house with some friends, and used the lovely weather to put the trampoline together again, in between lounging and playing games.

Easter day was by-the-book, with easter-egg hunts galore, good food, good company, and social whist. The second day of Easter was spent in the yard, as spring was very much in the air!

Thursday 17 April 2025

Driving to the summer house as the five-day-long Easter weekend began.

HP Confirmation Party / Swedes Leave / Lake Walk-Jog

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[Photos taken 13 – 16 April 2025, posted online 01 February 2026. At this rate I’ll soon end up a whole year “behind” myself…]

We had the pleasure of attending my niece’s Harry Potter themed confirmation party on a lovely afternoon. The Swedes returned to their home a couple of days later, and then it was just “waiting for easter holiday”-time!

Sunday 13 April 2025

The location of the confirmation party, it the community “hall” of the nearby Free Church (Fríkirkjan).

On a Red Light Show/ The Swedes / Family Time

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[Photos taken 08 – 12 April 2025, posted online 31 January 2026. Still almost no precipitation on our shores, while the UK is getting drenched.]

The Swedish contingent arrived for an Easter visit, which was fun for us! I was cultural and went to a show (of the one-woman-kind), and almost peed my pants laughing. Us, the siblings, managed to book ourselves and mom for a lunch, and the weather kept oscillating between spring and winter.

Tuesday 08 April 2025

The National Theater in downtown Reykjavik, where I spent the evening.

Eruption / Security Conference / Summer Housing

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[Photos taken 01 – 07 April 2025, posted online 24 January 2026. Trying to avoid hunkering down into a fetal position as the world news barrage barrages on. January weather keeps being weird, we had two weeks of zero precipitation in freezing temps, and now we’ve lurched into spring time temperatures about two months early.]

Back, in what feels like another world, yet another eruption started a hop and a skip away. It was like the volcano showed up to work for a single 8-hour day only, as the eruption ended the same day.

Finnur was away on a work trip until the Friday, so dinner was my responsibility. Predictably, I dragged out the old classics. My job sent me to attend a local computer security conference, which was mostly fluff, but one really good speaker stood out. My conference stamina keeps being low, with doodling a must.

The summer house got a visit and the shrubs there a trim, before spring hit for real. Then life continued as usual.

Tuesday 01 April 2025

Watching the short-lived eruption, along with the data from the fiber optic cable along the coastline a little ways away.

Spring Weather / Partial Solar-Eclipse / Gatherings

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[Photos taken 26 – 31 March 2025, posted online 27 December 2025. Rarely have I fallen this far behind, but oh well.]

Life as usual reasserted itself with alarming speed after we returned from Tenerife! We were of course greeted with plenty of rain, but the week also included hail, snow, and dryness. Typical spring!

Anna fought with computing equipment and kept her young summer plants alive, Emma and I went on an outing, there were at least four gatherings with people (sewing club, friend dinner, cousin-meetup, ex-coworker dinner), a partial solar-eclipse, and gym-sessions!

Wednesday 26 March 2025

Tenerife South-ish Walk / Back to Iceland

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[Photos taken 24-25 March 2025, posted online 23 27 December 2025. The weather is unseasonably wet and warm, hanging out at 9C/48F. Big rainy-wind-storms have battered us over the Christmas celebration, but zero snow.]

On our third and final full day in Tenerife, we ambled southwards, again utilizing the very handy mobility scooter as needed for those who needed it. The south-side felt less hilly than the northern one.

The following day we flew back to Iceland, which was probably good timing as the Bali-bed reservations were getting very competitive, and I only scored one on our last morning!

Monday 24 March 2025

A toes-y photo from Tenerife. Such photos were infamously blamed for holding up inflation in Iceland!

Tenerife Bali-Bed Chillin’ / Visiting La Caleta

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[Photos taken 22 – 23 March 2025, posted online 22 December 2025. My Christmas present to myself is a two week vacation over the holidays, yay!]

Seemingly having lost the ability to sleep in, I woke up bright and early on our mornings in Tenerife, hauled myself out of bed, and attempted to claim three Bali-beds in the fancy balcony-section. Then it was on to breakfast, followed by some serious lounging!

The first full day was pretty quiet, but on the second full day we acquired a mobility scooter, and went adventuring. We had a lot of fun walking northwards to La Caleta, and then I decided to jog back, which went well most of the way until my Achilles tendon suddenly had enough.

Saturday 22 March 2025

Success! Three bali-beds reserved via towels!

Arrival in Tenerife – Dream’s Jardin Edition

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[Photos taken 21 March 2025, posted online 13 14 December 2025. This has been a week of massive rain and intermittent high winds, but right now it’s snowing which is brightening up the air as we endure the last week of shrinking daylight for a while.]

We decided to tag along with good friends, yet again, to visit Tenerife for a few days. With Finnur having a busy work-travel schedule ahead, we didn’t stay for very long. It was just us and two other couples, much like two years prior.

Friday 21 March 2025

The ‘inside yard’ of our hotel in Tenerife, the “Dreams Jardín Tropical Resort & Spa“. This is my favorite Tenerife hotel out of the three I’ve tried.

Spring Tasks /

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[Photos taken 16 – 20 March 2025, posted online ~~08 Novembe~~r 2025. Snow still lingers after the biggest ever October snowfall in the capital on 28 October. I measured 40 cm /16 inches in our backyard. 07 December 2025. Blog’s taken the metaphorical back seat as life’s been very very busy. Just returned from seeing Radiohead in Copenhagen!]

The temperature reached a convincing 8.5 C / 47 F, and I remembered that the shrubbery needed trimming before they started spring-sprouting.

We went out to dinner with friends, I went on a hike with a new hiking group (that I would miss a lot of hikes with), Emma got a spring-time haircut, and we packed for our upcoming triple-couple-trip to Tenerife!