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I Lillian Vilborg
Managing Editor
WlNNIPEG, MB
Aftemoon coffee was a time of day I
looked forward to in Iceland. As
the light of the day dimmed, a good cup
of coffee and a chat with a friend was a
great pick-me-up. Because real food
and wine were beyond my student
financial resources, it wasn't often that I
couid contemplate a dinner party. But
coffee was do-able. Just run down to
the bakery for a nice assortment of
goodies and put the coffee pot on.
Guests came and stayed for an hour. It
was a social occasion that worked for
my young friends and older relatives,
and which took up a small portion of
Please keep up the good work on
your interesting articles. I thoroughly
enjoyed reading about Evelyn
Thorvaldson's story on the "House with
a Personality," now owned by my sister
and brother-in-law, Carol and Bill
Malcolm. Many thanks to my friend Flo
for the year's subscription to this paper.
Lil Walraven (nee Harris)
Westbank, BC
I really enjoyed getting your little
paper. It brought memories of my
father. He would send us to the Post
Office to see if his beloved
Heimskringla was there. I appreciate
my twin for sending it to me last year.
Gleðilegt nýtt ár,
Ingibjorg Phinney
Keewatin, ON
NOTICE:
Lögberg-Heimskringla
Annual Meeting
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Scandinavian Centre, 764 Erin St.,
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Amendments to by-laws will be con-
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All subscribers and donors are invited
to participate
Coffee will be served
the day.
Perhaps I liked it because it was
familiar. I can remember saying, when I
lived in Edmonton, "When I was a kid
people used to come over for coffee ..."
And they did. Especially on week-
end afternoons. Whole families, mom
and dad and kids would breeze in the
front door, and the grown-ups would
talk politics or religion as they sipped
coffee through their sugar cubes or
from their saucers, whilé the kids
played.
At my grandparent's farm aftemoon
coffee at precisely 3:00 was a time we
all sat down together. There were usual-
ly kleinur, often tvíbökur. I loved them.
I was about eight when I started
drinking coffee. It was more like a pud-
ding by the time I finished, first thor-
ougly soaking tvíbökur in it and then
pouring farm cream over the whole
mess. Then eating it with a spoon.
Delicious.
No wonder I'm hooked on coffee to
We are enjoying the paper very
much. I think it has continuously
improved. I think there should be one
little article, perhaps from Iceland, in
the Icelandic language, in it weekly.
There are some of us who enjoy reading
the language and now there seems to be
an interest among those who have per-
haps fogotten it or never learned it in
their youth. I know papers like this have
helped spark this interest in reading the
language and perhaps travelling to
Iceland in the future. The best part is
that many of these are young people.
Einar Vigfusson
Arborg, MB
I enjoy the paper more than ever
before, especially the editorials, items
relating to Iceland and the langugae.
I like book reviews, good ones, ref-
erences to translations, etc., opinions on
different current books of interest to
those of Icelandic heritage — and oth-
ers, of course.
Mrs. A. Pearce
Nanaimo, BC
Minnist
BETEL
í ERFÐASKRÁM YÐAR
this day.
All meal times, and especially cof-
fee time, were a chance for the grown-
ups to talk, about what they were read-
ing, the news of the world, the state of
the weather, or what was going on in
the neighbourhood. Mostly I just
remember listening.
Undoubtedly the best coffee times
were in the hayfield. The fragrance of
newly mown hay hanging sweetly in
the air, the coffee in the two quart seal-
er wrapped in newspaper and a wool
sock having cooled only slightly since
moming, spikes of grass biting into my
back as I rested on the haystack, the
horses munching nearby, the talk about
haying, grasshoppers jumping, flies laz-
ing about, always some kleinur to dip
into the coffee.
Coffee time was a wonderful time
of day. I think we should bring it back
as a basic social institution. Sometime
between 3 and 4 o'clock. For one hour.
I do enjoy getting the paper. I see a
lot of news from the west where most of
my people live. Get news they forget to
tell me.
Kristrun Gauti
Hamilton, ON
My grandparents were early settlers
in Langmth, MB. I've really enjoyed
my 2001 subscription as I have noticed
some of my own relatives mentioned. I
also have enjoyed the articles about
Iceland. Keep up the good work.
Marianne Roper
North Vancouver, BC
You're doing a fine job — but
always more poems. We're Icelanders
after all and we dry up without poetry!
Don't worry! I'll send you some too. Get
John Sampson to write something for
you. He's a sort of genius.
Bill Holm
Minneota, MN
Congratulations on your 115th
birthday!! Wishing you many more pro-
ductive years.
E. F. Hanson
Port Edward, BC
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