Friday, 18 July 2008

Death is not my neighbour...


I have been camping for a few days. Hard to believe, as it's not really the sort of thing I am associated with, but it was great fun. I return to the usual stack of bills, final demands and discount vouchers for fast food also to discover the latest in a long line of oppressive laws to come out of Norway.

In addition to penalising people who support Jewish people, running Eco-Friendly prisons and issuing licenses for VCRs and DVD players, now it's illegal to die in the Norwegian community of Longyearbyen in the Svalbard Islands.

Should you break the law and actually pop your misplaced clogs, nobody will bury you here.

At least I now know what I have to do to avoid spending time in a rainy field with nobody else around...

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