My Father's Office
..was in the light brown house in the middle, second floor and the store beneath was a saddler. The house didn't look that good around 1956 and there were houses along the street. See this photo - the old Ford is in front of the house.
My father was a barrister by then and the treasurer of the barrister's society. He needed a bill collector so he bought me two suits, shirts, ties and shoes so I looked like a miniature of him, age 12, and I walked all over Reykjavik to collect the membership fee from all the barristers. They are the worst debtors, I had to come back again and again so this job lasted for weeks.
This was my second paid job, my first job I had at seven, laying salted fish on stones to dry. How old am I?
The two pillars are to remind us how Ingo settled in Reykjavik. He threw two "seat of honor posts" in to the sea and said he would settled where they landed.
The steam coming out of them is just to boast about our hot water.
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