Day:317, Words:317

Monday afternoons in Øksfjord are known for their range of activities. Well actually there are two. The ladies have their hour of exercise between 6.30 and 7.30 pm. The other option if you are not a female who likes to exercise in the gymnasium is the Øksfjord library, voted the best library in the county of Finnmark. The ladies at the cosy library happily organise coffee, tea and biscuits and are more than willing to order the newest films, books and cds if you ask politely. There is a large selection of English literature, as well as computer games, board games as well as a table stacked with colouring equipment for the smaller customers.

While a steady stream of people of all ages shuffle in, kicking off the snow from their boots and disgarding their winter jackets, up the hill, a bunch of ladies of all fitness levels are being put through their paces by the town physiotherapist. It provides an oppotunity to begin the drizzly, dark week with a spot of physical exhaustion as well as doubling as a social venue for the fairer sex.

It's amazing what ends up on page two of the local 'newspaper'. A film and television company that was established in 2008 in Alta, but was operated from Oslo, has ceased to be. The company, it is reported, never had an income. Is that the business equivalent of the philosophical statement 'if a tree falls and no one hears it, did it make a sound?'

It was a touch blowy at the airport yesterday. A gust of wind was so strong that it blew a SAS Boeing 737 sideways along the ice that covered the runway. The pilots made several unsuccessful attempts to park the jet at the gate, before giving up and changing direction, leaving the plane facing directly into the wind and allowing the passengers to embark and disembark.

 

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