Sea Pottery

                                                           

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Photo and copyright by Helen Edvardsdotter Fatland

Sea Pottery

Playing the Piano ? 

 Either that or eating dinner using the tablecloth as a napkin :)

Summer of 2012: 

My very first Bungee Jump - wohooo!!!

Message in a Bottle

Every now and then bottles with letters and notes float ashore and they're always a great joy to find! This one didn't contain any handwritten letter but a receipt in a foreign language that I don't speak. After a little help from google translation and some detective work on the internet the receipt turned out to be from a restaurant in the Czech Republic. How it traveled all the way from a zoo North East in this landlocked country

in the middle of Europe and ended up on a beach by a Norwegian fjord is a mystery. I suspect that at least the paper has traveled up North in someone's pocket first :) Like the neck cover of the bottle says: 

In vino veritas - In the wine there is the truth. 

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Or in this case: Only the Lemurs know... :)

GASTRO-ZOO

Restaurace U Lemura

ZJEDNODUSENY DANOVY DOKLAD

02.07.2012     13.28.28

*** UCTENKA CISLO 379224 ***

Polévka gulasova

Smazeny kureci rizek

2 x 68.00

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Some Goulash soup and fried chichen cutlets, and wine - yummy!:)

Sea Pottery

The Fiddler

This piece originates from a large cup that dates back from 1870 to 1880 with an image of a wedding ceremony from Sunnmøre in Norway on it. Although the fiddler appears to have only a few strings left on his fiddle (squeek!) at least he's got six fingers on his right hand to make up for it! :) Most likely he is playing the Hardanger Fiddle (hardingfele) which is actually an 8 stringed fiddle and also Norway's national instrument - Sounding like this:

 

Hans Brimi - Smørligråen 

Norway

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If you want to see how a whole cup looks like, similar to the one that ended up in the sea ages ago, here is a link with pictures and more information from Digitalt Museum Norge: 

http://digitaltmuseum.no/things/krus/SM/SM.000786?query=+sunnmøre+krus&search_context=1&count=32&pos=1