Reading up on Iceland at lunchtime, I followed a few links and found myself at the story of Mark Tanner’s expedition to Greenland. It’s very long, but packed with fantastic images, the most striking being his description of the houses that until very recently many locals lived in during the winter. Because Greenland is so remote and barren much of its food is brought in from Denmark. In the winter that becomes far more difficult so the locals would be forced to move to rich hunting grounds to catch their own food. Once they arrived, they would either build a house, or use one that remained there from the previous year:

The houses wouldn’t have been larger than 10m x 5m and would be entered from a small doorway built lower than the rest of the house as not to let out the heat. Spanning the back wall of the house would be a long ledge about 2m in width, divided every couple of metres by seal skin, hung from the ceiling, acting as walls. Each of these 2m x 2m booths would house a family on average of 5 kids and mum and dad. Up to 35 people would be in the small houses with their sled dogs for the 8 dark and cold months of winter, with only the men leaving to hunt for more food.

I’m not sure whether the following unsolicited advice is useful or scary:

A fun show this evening. Had some very nice callers and although we did a full half-hour on the phones we only got through three, plus a couple of emails. It’s nice sometimes to be able to chat about things in more depth. I think one caller who was going to sell her

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