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Fire

At the same time as the most recent Saturday afternoon protest rally, 8,000 souls strong, a fire burst out in an abandoned house on my street.

I won't, just don't have the energy, to go into the whole bureaucratic shenanigans surrounding this house in the recent years, like the owner being granted a permit to tear down which the neighborhood cottage society challenged even though the house is infested with little cement beetles because they didn't like the owner's plans to raise the height of the new structure he had approved by the city to the same height as the building next to it so instead it's been an eyesore, all beaten up and tagged, and has been used as a flop and a squat that all the local kids knew about and now its even uglier just when its very likely that the owner will no longer be able to finance teardown and reconstruction and all because some people think anything built pre-WWII has automatic cultural value.

But whatever, I'm not going to go into it.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Maria,
Are icelanders still using Krona in shops? Dollars?
If you could go back in time 3 months or so, what would you have done to better position yourself financially? Krona conversion? Bought gold?

Viszlát Sjáumst said...

Phew... I was so worried you were going to get into it.

No, all sarcasm aside, well said. What do they say? ...

"The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft a-gley"

sjáumst

The Lone Beader® said...

What caused the fire?

Iceland Eyes said...

Arson, and my daughter says the word on the street is they know who did it!