Hiding from the virus ( or: Hurray for the countryside)

Like millions of others, these days,  we are living with little or no contact with other people.
In the morning we are checking out news about the coronavirus, how many cases and how many deaths there has been for the latest hours. I’ ve had phonecalls with my mother and my grown up kids, which all are doing well.

On Monday our prime minister held a press conference for children about the Covid-19. I was at work, but the man in the house was at home and told that our kids was watching with interest. I think this was a wise thing to do from our governement. https://globalnews.ca/news/6701272/coronavirus-norway-kids-press-conference/



I should have been at work, but because of the curretly strict rules, that one cannot be at work, with even mild symptoms of cold, I had to stay at home, because I started to get a bit snotty on Tuesday.

An average Norwegian has about 3 colds a year, and with work in a kindergarten, you often have more, since we are a little extra exposed, so this is often my normal condition in winter. - So now I am at home, feeling quite fine, but cant go to work, before the symptoms has been gone for at least a day.

We spend the days with home schooling, housework, tidying up our house, cooking, some outdoor activities ( a lot of snow shoveling) and my better half is at home all the time.

The teenager had to find our shed and the siblings made snowmen/ snow sculptures. 

Nowadays, it is the same things that make people not want to live in the countryside, the same things that make us quite comfortable.
 Things like:
 -There is poor public transportation, so almost everyone have our own car, and doesn’t have to share it with other than the persons you are living with.
- Not that many people, so we have a lot of space outdoors and  could go out whenever we’d like.
- Most of us lives in detached houses, and dont have to meet anyone in the staircase or in the elevator.
- We dont really have shops, cafes, restaurants or cinemas, so we are used to managing without for a while.

I have done some skiing at our land, with the two youngest. This is from saturday, with the four year old. 

It probably also helps to be Norwegian, we tend to like things that many will find both long-winded and a bit meaningless. Like crosscountry skiing or hiking  up to a mountaintop, take look at the view, while having a slike of bread and then go home again.

 - I guess this was the main reason, we went viking back in those days. Who else, than a scandinavian, would have bothered to travel around most of the world in longboats.

An example on this is that almost everyone likes to go hiking, and phenomenom « slow TV»  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_television A couple of days ago, a lot of people was delighted that the Norwegian channel, NRK sent some parts of « Hurtigruten minute by minute»  ( read about that and things like «the international knitting eve» in the Wikipedia link)

To emphasize this, I have a long piece of music for you.