About

Hi. My name is Alda. Some of you may know me as Alda Kalda or YT. I work as a freelance writer, translator and copy editor, and this is my blog.

I currently live in Reykjavík, Iceland, with my husband EPI, my daughter AAH, who is 17, and a cockatiel named Polly. I also have three amazing stepdaughters [ÁE, ÓAE and RE] who are 26, 23 and 18, and live in Reykjavík, New York and Reykjavík, respectively. I have also lived in Canada, Cyprus, the UK and Germany, for longer or shorter periods. I moved back to Iceland as a single mom in 1994, after 22 years away. You can read a bit more of my life story here.

I started this blog in October 2004, which happened to be a particularly slow time in the freelance writing and copyediting business. The title of the blog is a throwback to a daily column I used to co-write for the Iceland Review publishing house when I first moved back to Iceland, the story of which you can read more about here.

For the first three and a half years this blog was hosted on Blogger, but on 18 April 2008 I decided to migrate to WordPress. Unfortunately the comments accompanying the posts were left behind at the old site, which is why you won’t find comments beneath most of the posts before that date.

You can email me at: icelandweatherreport [AT] gmail [DOT] com.

I love getting feedback.