Iceland is a wonderful place and Iceland Review is a never-ending source of the sweet and the quaint.  Take today’s lead article, for example:

Knitting has rarely been as hot among Icelanders as now, as co-authors of a knew knitwear recipe book Prjónaperlur – prjónad frá grasrótinni (“Knitwear Pearls – knitting from the grassroots”), Erla Sigurlaug Sigurdardóttir and Halldóra Skarphédinsdóttir, have discovered.

“There is such growth in knitting in Iceland and we were curious about finding out what people were knitting. So we contacted knitters who we knew weren’t following conventional recipes but rather knitting and crocheting from their own heads,” Sigurdardóttir told Morgunbladid.

[I didn't want to correct the "knew" above and "recipes" is classic. ]

Now come on, stressed commuters – what could be better than sitting out on the verandah of your hut in the middle of a lava field, gazing out over the volcanic rock and knitting?

Far from the madding crowd

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