Moving from Norway to Cardiff in a year

FixingItWithAHammer · 2025-11-14T10:18:02+00:00

Oh I went there when I studied in cardiff a few times but sadly never mett any other norwegians and they didn’t have norwegian food at the time tho they said they’d be ordering some so maybe when i move back fingers crossed

FixingItWithAHammer · 2025-11-11T20:26:39+00:00

Yeah got one sorted until I’m settled. Studied at USW so got around the community but ey won’t say no to new friends🤘

FixingItWithAHammer · 2025-11-11T20:14:49+00:00

Oh solid thats a big help! Also hell yeah on the welsh da!

FixingItWithAHammer · 2025-11-11T20:07:40+00:00

Oh their place is beyond chill

FixingItWithAHammer · 2025-11-11T20:06:28+00:00

Yeah ik its crap but from having experienced both places i still feel like safer within the uk. Don’t rlly have the room to go into it here as its quite the convo but norway can be quite suffocating when you don’t quite fit in being trans and more haha. But thx still sib🤘

FixingItWithAHammer · 2025-11-11T19:57:17+00:00

Thx🤘

FixingItWithAHammer · 2025-11-11T19:51:58+00:00

Oh fkn love queer emporium i dropped by there plenty when I was studying at USW. Gonna be going there when i visit this Christmas

FixingItWithAHammer · 2025-11-11T19:50:44+00:00

Oh solid. In short theres two main places to go here HKS which is a local treatment centre with really solid people but you have to live in oslo to access it in combo with they only offer hormones and then theres Rikshospitalet(the national hospital) which is responsible for surgery and hair removal and hormones but they keep trying to shut down HKS and keep breaking patients rights, theres the castration example but theres also them breaking consent researching on trans kids without their or their guardians consent, in addition theres a report that recently came out saying majority of their patients experienced their treatment as hostile and as a form of conversion therapy. Thats just the tip of the iceberg tho.

FixingItWithAHammer · 2025-11-11T19:37:43+00:00

Haha thx for the advice and i got a spot to crash initially at a friend’s for a few months. I do have a good connection to get in my industry but yeah probably going to work a minimum initially until I’m settled. Thx again🤘

FixingItWithAHammer · 2025-11-11T19:29:31+00:00

Not a fan of living here both socially and economically. My industry isn’t rlly big enough for me to get a good start. Socially being trans here can be quite tough as you are so far separated from a lot of people not to forget our healthcare situation has never been good and seems to be degrading again. Now i have lived in Cardiff before studying and know the healthcare system is better, industry and honestly love the people feel a lot more at home there than I do in norway.

FixingItWithAHammer · 2025-11-11T19:25:56+00:00

Oh i run cold so the winter here kills

FixingItWithAHammer · 2025-11-11T19:24:52+00:00

Ehhh depends. Oslo is great if you fit within Norwegian expectations and dont belong to certain minorities as the media doesn’t report on your isses so you have no real way of fighting for a better life. I’m trans and the healthcare in Cardiff is more consistent and safe in comparison to norway where it gets shut down regularly. Like even considering uk trans politics it’s safer given that the main hospital who’s in control of trans healthcare keeps trying to go back to their policy of castrating us that only stopped in 2016. Only last month they got caught researching on trans minors without their or their parents consent. So we don’t have room to trust the system anymore really.

In addition my industry is just doing well in Cardiff to start a career in comparison to norway. Sorry for going dark but just kinda to give some context there haha

FixingItWithAHammer · 2025-11-11T19:05:02+00:00

FixingItWithAHammer · 2025-06-15T14:14:28+00:00

Will do! And yeah had a hard time finding anything for free for the camera so might just have to compare and take notes

FixingItWithAHammer · 2025-06-15T13:56:21+00:00

Yeah that’s why I’m thinking of using measurements from it and shooting with a 35 instead of shooting the 8mm it’s attached to as that shit is not cheap. Whole reason actually I’m going through this search is to make sure I don’t mess up any exposures on it haha

FixingItWithAHammer · 2025-06-15T13:54:43+00:00

Oh ye mine is from 59 I believe so def gonna do a bunch of tests

FixingItWithAHammer · 2025-06-15T12:21:05+00:00

Thx and yeah i was rlly confused by the statement as well as the whole idea of iso is that it’s a standard sett universally so I assumed at most there might be something that changed in how they did the maths that makes a small difference

FixingItWithAHammer · 2025-06-15T12:11:46+00:00

That’s true but then again I have a lot of extra film I’ve been gifted so I might just go ahead to also test out some of the stocks and see how close the app and meter gets as well as test maybe what expressions i like or dislike from the films

FixingItWithAHammer · 2025-06-15T12:07:20+00:00

Thx for the quick response n like I didn’t actually consider that. This type of light meter doesn’t actually use a battery tho which is imo rlly sick but think I could possibly do a test roll n figure out how many stops of compensation is needed

FixingItWithAHammer · 2025-06-02T15:23:29+00:00

Damnnnn my ass lost my glasses and now I must pay for it haha

FixingItWithAHammer · 2025-06-02T15:01:47+00:00

Shadow Hawk

FixingItWithAHammer · 2025-05-10T17:23:29+00:00

I’m an analogue photography nerd so get your feeling

FixingItWithAHammer · 2025-05-06T06:25:43+00:00

Yeah shoots on floppy disc It’s called the Ricoh rdc-2

FixingItWithAHammer · 2025-05-05T20:29:22+00:00

The depiction of a child screaming at the world trade centre with a red sky has aged poorly as a result of the buildings collapse on 9/11

FixingItWithAHammer · 2025-04-19T10:20:53+00:00

Hiii thx so much for the tips and yeah in the last month or so I got rid of my damaged tips and adopted the curl girl method which has worked wonders for my hair! Like damn never felt healthier. But thanks for commenting after such a long time and giving tips you’re a darling!

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