The Iron Heart Forum Triangle of Terror Type III Trucker Tour 2018 - Updates thread
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It takes an IH world tour to be reminded how mundane your life is. The wife is still finishing off her year at uni and I’m still on playground duty when I’m not at work.
There’s always something going on though. My town has a major NATO base (it was a super secret comms monitoring station during The Cold War) not far away and a major military air base too. As such there are often international military training operations and manouvers going on. At the minute the peace of the Arctic is continually broken by jet fighters and support aircraft overhead.
This pair couldn’t care less though [emoji1]
Tour jacket with some XHSib and wabash…
Oh, and I tidied my closet. Denim currently in rotation:
Heavy shirt rail:
I considered a picture of the vest rail but even with the panorama function the iPhone couldn’t tackle it [emoji6]
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Imagine walking into an estate sale that had a closet like @neph93 Rueben's.
I hope they haggle and take credit cards.
Great updates. I have the Fatboy Chocolates right now and I agree, life is "rinse and repeat", and it's especially glaring when you have to share your day to day over a month. (I take the jeans on a date and my wife is the third wheel).
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It’s been a long old week. The school year is ending with a bang as always. We have a system that involves teachers in the exam process quite heavily so I’ve been writing and assessing all damn week and I’m carrying on next week too.
When I was walking around school the other day I saw a familiar looking fellow on some marketing material, teaching the crap out of some youths while looking badass in a IHSH-62-IND. Also, this was when I weighed about 12kg more than I do now…
Bodø is a funny old place. About 50,000 live here and it is a regional capital, but it is still in the back end of nowhere. It has been boom town the last few years though with an insane amount of development. Still big enough for some street art.
The town was bombed to fekk early in WWII so there are very few pre-war buildings left. There is a lot of late 20th century municipal architecture but some of the 21st century stuff is pretty tidy. It all makes for some interesting contrast.
I do a bread bake once a week to avoid having to buy expensive mass produced stuff that is full of shite. It’s a simple dough but it tastes good and I find the process theraputic. I do the whole thing by hand and get to wear specialist IH gear while I work.
Otherwise I try to cook food from scratch most days. But my local Turkish takeaway does a doner kebab pizza with fries on it so that gets in the way now and again..
June in the north isn’t a summer month, more like early spring in the UK. Some good weather, some cold weather some rain. The small ones do well whatever.
For the really crappy days I take them to the local library…
Last couple of days have been lovely so I got up the cabin. We’ll be entertaining some IH guests here later in the summer…
Eddie found some elk poo...
We went down to the lake..
And got wet…
Hot Ingrid tends to sit around looking hot…
IH and ice cream for life…
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Wow, your bread looks amazing, Reuben. I've recently started making home made bread as well due to the fact that mass produced bread is unhealthy in the long run with all the added chemicals.
I've been trying out different types of bread which is why I'd love to get your full recipe on all types of bread that you bake and would recommend me! I usually try to bake my bread in the easiest way possible with oats/ oat flour, Himalayan salt, water, chia seeds and instant yeast.
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Well now he’s just showing off
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Love the outdoor pics @neph93
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Great pictures Reuben.
I've noticed in your pictures that when you're at the library the shoes are off, does everyone have to take there shoes off before they go in?
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Great pictures Reuben.
I've noticed in your pictures that when you're at the library the shoes are off, does everyone have to take there shoes off before they go in?
Thank you! The children’s section is no shoes. Everyone has to take them off. Norway and Japan share some strict cultural aversions to shoes indoors. Most schools up until age 15 don’t allow them, and everyone has a hallway/annex at home where you take off your shoes before going indoors. The importance of sock game is real [emoji1]
Well now he’s just showing off
These are the highlights mate. Work is a fekkin drag I can promise you [emoji6]
Love the outdoor pics @neph93
Thank you sir. I’m almost done with my leg but I’ll endeavour to get some more out before it is over.
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@doguhanca:
I'd love to get your full recipe on all types of bread that you bake and would recommend me!
Thank you. It is a fairly simple, traditional Norwegian bread using a decent amount of coarsly ground corn types. I have a big family with small children so keeping it simple and healthy is important. I only know the recipe in Norwegian and I don’t know all the translations off the top of my head so I’ll have to look them up. I’ll get back to you.
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@doguhanca:
I'd love to get your full recipe on all types of bread that you bake and would recommend me!
Thank you. It is a fairly simple, traditional Norwegian bread using a decent amount of coarsly ground corn types. I have a big family with small children so keeping it simple and healthy is important. I only know the recipe in Norwegian and I don’t know all the translations off the top of my head so I’ll have to look them up. I’ll get back to you.
Thank you so much for taking the time to get back to me. I'm looking forward to your recipe and to trying it out myself. Unfortunately, so far I haven't been that successful with my trials. I've mostly gotten a sloppy oat consistency on the inside.
Also I showed your baked bread to my (Danish) girlfriend and she approved as well
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Great pictures Reuben.
I've noticed in your pictures that when you're at the library the shoes are off, does everyone have to take there shoes off before they go in?
Kids can go blind from ingesting some of the parasites in dog poop.
Shoes off is the way…
My sister in law is from the Czech republic, wear shoes in her house and she will roast you !!
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We have shoes off in our house but its not a necessity in public places here in the UK, I wish it was though.
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australia. shoes in the house too. whenever i go back to my parents place in singapore, i get fucking yelled at for having them on..
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australia. shoes in the house too.
That’s a fair call I’d say. Never know when you’re going to step on a bloody great spider or snake [emoji16]
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One of the best legs ever, love your pics Reuben!
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My leg is nearing its conclusion and soon the jacket will be making its return across the Atlantic to @scooter. The triangle will be closed and if you know anything about the occult you’ll know that it means shit’s about to get evil [emoji23]
I’ve a couple of updates left in me though. This week I had to travel to Glomfjord about 130km south of Bodø to moderate some oral exams. Happily it is a journey along one of the most beautiful roads in Norway the RV17 coast road. I could have stopped about 50 times but was on a tight schedule. Here’s some iPhone snaps from my 5am start (in case anyone needs reminding, we’re at the point of the year where the sun never sets).
The high school I was moderating at is in a tiny village with an illustrious industrial history. I wish I could have looked around more as it is amazing place but time was at a premium. Suffice to say it is well situated.
If anyone is wondering about some of the green colours in the foiliage, that is entirely natural and I’ve not edited these. This is what happens to planta when growing season is very short but you have 24 hour sunlight.
On the way back home I stopped at a monument that marks the loss of the WWII submarime Uredd (Fearless). It’s a sad story but a beautiful spot.
In other news, my students are finishing and leaving for the summer. I have one more week before my holidays start. I was presented with this laminated sheet of some of my more sweary utterances through the year by my graduation class. Turns out one of them started writing down some of my more choice comments. Apologies in advance to monarchists and ginger people ( @Graham @Megatron1505 ).
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On another note, I feel like this jacket has lived a thousand already. From Alabaman heat to north eastern steel works and now …
…into The White Nights above The Arctic Circle. Great job Reuben!
Pleased to be a part of The Iron Heart Triangle of Terror Type III Trucker Tour.
