Public Address | Cafe | Busytown: Here comes the sun https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address InternationalObserver https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-here-comes-the-sun/?p=21786#post21786 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-here-comes-the-sun/?p=21786#post21786 - visiting a large waterfall with a natural stone bridge across it only to find that it had collapsed a couple of weeks earlier

Ah yes. Did it actually "collapse a couple of weeks earlier" or is that just what they say when you arrive? Similar to arriving at an…

]]> Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:31:48 +1200 Amy Gale https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-here-comes-the-sun/?p=21782#post21782 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-here-comes-the-sun/?p=21782#post21782 > Amy, just spotted your post. You forgot
> horse-horse-sheep-waterfall- GEYSER!!!

Did not.

YouTube

]]> Fri, 29 Jun 2007 02:57:27 +1200 Jolisa https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-here-comes-the-sun/?p=21112#post21112 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-here-comes-the-sun/?p=21112#post21112 Amy, just spotted your post. You forgot horse-horse-sheep-waterfall- GEYSER!!!

Thanks for the additional info, Brent. Watch this space – the tickets have been booked. It is my solemn mission to track down and record every playground within Reykjavik city limits, before we head out for the boondocks...

]]> Tue, 19 Jun 2007 06:27:04 +1200 Brent Jackson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-here-comes-the-sun/?p=20351#post20351 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-here-comes-the-sun/?p=20351#post20351 Hi,

The Youth Hostel we stayed at that organised our Westman Island flight was Fljotsdalur (see YHI Fljotsdalur, Iceland).
I'm sure that if you gave them a call, they could tell you whether it was still possible. The airfield we took off from was about 30km south of there (so quite…

]]> Mon, 11 Jun 2007 00:01:47 +1200 Amy Gale https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-here-comes-the-sun/?p=20320#post20320 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-here-comes-the-sun/?p=20320#post20320 Sun, 10 Jun 2007 13:09:33 +1200 Jolisa https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-here-comes-the-sun/?p=20173#post20173 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-here-comes-the-sun/?p=20173#post20173 Fri, 08 Jun 2007 13:38:40 +1200 Jolisa https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-here-comes-the-sun/?p=20169#post20169 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-here-comes-the-sun/?p=20169#post20169 That's a fantastic list, Brent. We should be so lucky as to find a farmer with a wee plane heading for the volcanic islands.

Mostly we'll be in Rekjavik with a couple of excursions to the exciting hinterland. I'm fascinated to see what it feels like to be in a…

]]> Fri, 08 Jun 2007 13:33:49 +1200 Brent Jackson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-here-comes-the-sun/?p=19934#post19934 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-here-comes-the-sun/?p=19934#post19934 Hi,

I have been to Iceland, and the pizza was probably the cheapest thing on the menu !

We went there for 10 days in 1993. We have been warned of the huge prices, and took instant meals and canned food with us, so we got away with eating out…

]]> Wed, 06 Jun 2007 10:23:45 +1200 sallyr https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-here-comes-the-sun/?p=19932#post19932 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-here-comes-the-sun/?p=19932#post19932 Haven’t been but always wanted to. IcelandAir has just published a list of things to do which makes me want to go even more (and no, I don’t work for them). Some look fun for kids. Many seem to involve drink.

http://www.icelandair.com/70ideas/

Three cheers for Upper Fourth at Malory Towers…

]]> Wed, 06 Jun 2007 10:09:54 +1200 Jolisa https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-here-comes-the-sun/?p=19923#post19923 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-here-comes-the-sun/?p=19923#post19923 OK, so if this Iceland thing comes off, it's a suitcase full of instant noodles and microwave mac-n-cheese. And as much duty free as we can manage. Excellent advice.

I am quailing a bit, though – someone told me that pizza was the cheapest thing on the menu.

It sounds…

]]> Wed, 06 Jun 2007 04:12:56 +1200 Jolisa https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-here-comes-the-sun/?p=19922#post19922 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-here-comes-the-sun/?p=19922#post19922 Haha, David, hibernation, that's a good one. [Wipes tear from eye]

The day I can crawl into a cave and sleep for three months will be ... let me think, about 16.75 years away.

Which is sooner than for you, daddio ;-) [Sits back to watch DH's blog-rate plummet after…

]]> Wed, 06 Jun 2007 04:10:54 +1200 Jolisa https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-here-comes-the-sun/?p=19921#post19921 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-here-comes-the-sun/?p=19921#post19921 As for mangos... I have noticed that the mango splitter works less well on *very* ripe specimens. The traditional way to eat them when they're that ripe is to squeeze them vigorously all over, then cut a hole in one end and suck out the pulp.

That Kensington Pride is…

]]> Wed, 06 Jun 2007 04:01:52 +1200 Jolisa https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-here-comes-the-sun/?p=19920#post19920 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-here-comes-the-sun/?p=19920#post19920 Ooh Malory Towers. Not a place for sissies or anybody feeble.

And yes yes yes to Just William. There is something exhilarating about how free children are in older books. Likewise the piratical works of Margaret Mahy (and I like that the adults in her books have complicated inner lives…

]]> Wed, 06 Jun 2007 03:55:50 +1200 Don Christie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-here-comes-the-sun/?p=19919#post19919 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-here-comes-the-sun/?p=19919#post19919 As a boy I was not overly familiar with Blyton's works. I do profess a passing acquaintance with Noddy jokes (Q. Why did the elephant have big ears? A. Because Noddy wouldn't pay the ransom).

Times change. I am now fighting for access to "In the Fifth at Malory Towers".…

]]> Tue, 05 Jun 2007 23:11:02 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-here-comes-the-sun/?p=19908#post19908 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-here-comes-the-sun/?p=19908#post19908

I've never been to Iceland, but a friend once called from Reykjavík to say that she'd spent €90 on a pizza. The trauma was such that she needed to phone someone in New Zealand for counselling.

And there was probably bloody tinned sweetcorn on it too. That's just wrong.

]]> Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:21:34 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-here-comes-the-sun/?p=19907#post19907 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-here-comes-the-sun/?p=19907#post19907

On the cheering front, there really is nothing more uplifting for me at the moment than a husband getting around to doing long overdue tax paperwork.

Your husband does that? I regard tax as women's work ...

A few years ago, I had the terrible job of trying to shepherd…

]]> Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:19:03 +1200 Jackie Clark https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-here-comes-the-sun/?p=19905#post19905 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-here-comes-the-sun/?p=19905#post19905 Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:07:06 +1200 Muriel Lockheed https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-here-comes-the-sun/?p=19902#post19902 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-here-comes-the-sun/?p=19902#post19902 Tue, 05 Jun 2007 17:33:59 +1200 Aidan https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-here-comes-the-sun/?p=19894#post19894 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-here-comes-the-sun/?p=19894#post19894 Re: The mango splitter

I viewed the demo video and it seems very impressive. However, here in Aus the mangoes can get rather large (big yellow/orange Kensington Mangoes rather than the smaller green ones that seem to be largely from South America). Do you have an idea of the largest…

]]> Tue, 05 Jun 2007 15:18:03 +1200 Anne M https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-here-comes-the-sun/?p=19886#post19886 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-here-comes-the-sun/?p=19886#post19886 Woohoo, you're alive!

On the book front, BusyBoy may enjoy the "William" stories by Richmal Crompton. Though not only will you have to skip over the stuff that jars with modern sensitivities, but you may not want to encourage William as a role-model. Last night's chapter was "William Sells the…

]]> Tue, 05 Jun 2007 14:17:15 +1200 Gabor Toth https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-here-comes-the-sun/?p=19882#post19882 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-here-comes-the-sun/?p=19882#post19882

I have never been to Iceland, but a friend once called from Reykjavík to say that she'd spent €90 on a pizza.

Hot tip – make sure all the adult members of your group take in their maximum duty-free limit of booze. If you don't drink it yourself, you can…

]]> Tue, 05 Jun 2007 12:55:24 +1200 David Haywood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-here-comes-the-sun/?p=19881#post19881 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-here-comes-the-sun/?p=19881#post19881 Jolisa,

It's great to see you emerging from your winter hibernation. Encore!

RE: latest P & P film

I completely agree that McFayden did a much better job than silly old Colin Firth — although I admit to confusion in terms of Donald Sutherland's concept of playing Mr Bennet with a…

]]> Tue, 05 Jun 2007 12:13:28 +1200 Deborah https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-here-comes-the-sun/?p=19872#post19872 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-here-comes-the-sun/?p=19872#post19872 Tue, 05 Jun 2007 07:43:15 +1200 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-here-comes-the-sun/?p=19871#post19871 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-here-comes-the-sun/?p=19871#post19871 Discussion from blog post.

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