[Telemarksavisa] – Dad, you have received a letter from the king. You are probably the first in the family who has received it, says daughter Sissel Tveitan Brekke, who adds that the letter is signed Harald R.
– Then you can answer “Thank you, sincerely Ivar T.” , it comes instantly from the jubilant, who almost seems it gets a little too much attention since local press popping up in his apartment over Gulset Centre in Skien.
– How is it to be 100 years?
– I have not thought about it. As long as I feel fresh, so it’s okay, says Ivar Tveitan.
It is an established fact that smoking is risky, but Tveitan makes it clear that he has no plans to stop.
– I have smoked for 85 years. During the war we leave green tobacco leaves on the stove until they were brown, so we smoked it in newsprint. It was the tobacco we had during the war, says Tveitan, which thrives in the apartment at Gulset.
Nine siblings
– There are quiet and calm. I have no better place to stay – here I thrive, says Tveitan.
Among congratulators was obviously little brother Georg William Tveitan as humorous says that big brother is not the only one in the family to get a letter from the king.
– I intend to get a letter like that too, laughs Georg William, who explains that they were nine siblings.
– People had many children before, adding to the jubilant.
Around the World
When asked where he originally comes from, the answer is that he is Gjerpensdalen boy. A home maids who know Tveitan well, reveals that he has countless great stories from around the world, from their time as a sailor in foreign trade.
– Can not you tell when you were outdistanced ? asks one of the guests.
– It happened several times, says Tveitan, which also experienced being imprisoned two months without reason in Hamburg, during WWII.
Much has naturally changed since Tveitan was young, and they would not freeze store and refrigerator.
He says he age of 15 worked to cut blocks of ice, which he drove on a horse and sleigh.
Footballer
– I worked for Jespersen and drove horse. We went to Norsjø and sawn blocks of ice weighing between 70 and 100 kilograms. They let the sled and we went off, telling Tveitan.
– We let the blocks in sawdust in a warehouse, and the blocks held throughout the summer, tells Tveitan, which itself has no definitive answer on how he has achieved the high age.
In youth he played football at Skotfoss AIK (Workers’ sports club) and in 1935 became the circuit masters at Notodden. Tveitan has framed team photo with the names of the players written behind. The team were also two of his brothers.
Dattera Sissel Tveitan Brekke says that his father also rode a lot over the years.
– He rode until he was a few and 90 years and he rode through here (from Gulset) and out to Downtown to shop, she says.
– Anything was better before
Georg William believes that some things were actually better before, although they had not so many material goods as now.
– It was quieter and cozier before, he says.
– It was not the wealth but Now people have got a very prosperity, but they complain too much. And those who complain are usually to blame himself. (ANB)
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