No, I’m not talking about the ridiculous amount of babies (and twins) being produced in Oslo… I’m talking about something actually being in the water. Yesterday there was a health warning issued by Norwegian authorities to say that the Oslo Department of Water and Sanitation discovered the microscopic Giardia lamblia and cryptosporidium parasites at three locations in the Storo district, an area that along with 80 percent of the capital gets its drinking water from the Oset water treatment plant.

So now, for an undisclosed amount of time, we have to either use bottled water or boil water for three minutes before using it, even for brushing our teeth! Does anyone else suspect someone with shares in a mineral water company is involved here? Or maybe sales of Loperamide are down… In any case, I’m sure all the shareholders are rubbing their little hands together with glee.

Poor Chris went to the opening of a friend’s new ski equipment shop on Tuesday night, and drank quite a bit of complementary champagne… then he came home and, worrying about a potential Wednesday morning hangover, proceeded to down several glasses of water before bed. Hopefully it was just the hangover and not parasites breeding away in his belly, but he was feeling pretty nauseous most of the day.

The news report that I read said that these parasites were discovered in the Bergen tap water in 2004, which caused at least 6000 people to fall ill and 150 still suffer from nausea, pain and digestive problems. Nice.

So we’ll be boiling our water for a while, and trying not to swallow water in the shower… if it were warmer, it might be reminiscent of a holiday in South East Asia. But the forecast for Saturday is saying a top of 2C and sleet. Oh well, maybe it will freeze the little bastards.