18:00 Lois og jeg spiser aftensmad og bruger aftenen på at se lidt
fjernsyn. Men vi er begge to meget trætte og glider engang imellem over i
søvnen. Jeg synes, at vi føler os lidt overvældede af, at skulle straks arbejde
på salget af Sarahs gamle lejlighed i Cheltenham, hvilket vi ikke forventede.
Vi var ikke klar over, at Sarah havde efterladt en masse dokumenter hos os, de
hun og hendes familie flyttede til Australien, dokumenter som vi har skullet
ordne, læse og forstå – du godeste!
Salget er kompliceret af, at det er en lejlighed, hun sælger, og ikke et
hus. Hendes lejlighed er én del af en kompleks af etageejendomme, og mange
sager er kommunalt organiseret.
Køberen (Christopher) vil så snart som muligt skrive under på
kontrakten, så Lois og jeg føler os under pres. Vi vil ikke have, at det hele
bliver til intet. Vi venter for tiden på Sarahs identitetsdokumenter, som hun
afsendte fra Australien med posten for et par dage siden. Mindst én af os må
være hjemme, når dokumenterne ankommer, fordi vi må underskrive en kvittering,
for at bekræfte, at vi har modtaget dem – du godeste! Sikke
et vanvid !!!
22:00 Vi går i seng – zzzzz
!!!!
03:15 Jeg står tidligt op og
kigger lidt på internettet. Bagefter går jeg i gang med at gøre lidt forskning
om de tidligste germaniske sprog. Jeg er for nylig blevet medlem af en ny U3A
gruppe, ”The Making of English”. Gruppen interesser sig for historien af det
engelske sprog, men vi begyndte på januars møde, med at kigge på det
indo-europæiske sprog, Europas første sprog, som man talte for tusendvis af år
siden. På næste måneds møde, der finder sted den 5. februar, skal vi tale om
det urgermanske sprog, der er efterkommer af det indo-europæiske sprog.
07:00 Jeg sætter mig på vores
computer og går i gang med at scanne endnu 40 sider ind. Jeg må nu have
kopieret hundredvis af dokumenterne i forbindelse med salget of Sarahs gamle
lejlighed. Vi er bange for, at de mister vigtige dokumenter i posten på vej til
Sarahs juridiske repræsentanter – du godeste!
10:00 Bob, vores nabo, fanger
Lois og spørger, hvor meget penge Sarah og Francis, hendes mand, vil sælger
deres Saab på. Jeg sender hende en e-mail og spørger hende. Men jeg er helt
sikker på, at Bob ikke vil tilbyde masser af penge for bilen. Han og hans
familie er meget sparsommelige og kan ikke lide at smide penge omkring sig –
det er jeg ikke i tvivl om !!!!
11:00 Jeg er færdig med at
kopiere alle de dokumenter jeg har brug for. Vi beslutter at afsende alle de
dokumenter i én pakke. Men vi venter stadigvæk på, at Sarahs
identitetsdokumenter ankommer fra Australien, før vi kan afsende vores pakke
til hendes juridiske repræsentanter i Poundbury – du godeste! Sikke en skør
verden vi lever i !!!!
13:00 Vi spiser frokost og derefter går jeg i seng.
Jeg tager mig en lang lur – zzzzzzz!!!
14:00 Terry, den lokale
handyman, ringer til mig. Han kan kommer på tirsdag for at udføre forskellige
reparationsopgaver i huset og i baghaven – hurra!
15:00 Jeg står op. Jeg skynder
mig ud på køkkenet, og jeg ser, at Lois er i gang med at plukke og flå den
fasan, som Bob skød, og bagefter fjerner hun fuglens indvolde – nam nam nam!
Lois har plukket og
flået fasanen, og fjernet dens indvolde – nam nam nam!
16:00 Jeg fortsætter med at
overspille til dvd mine gamle vhs-bånd. Vi er nu i juli 1988, og jeg ser på båndet
en tv-nyhed om Michael Jacksons koncert på Wembley stadion i London. Jeg
mindes, at jeg tog vores ældste datter, Alison, med til denne koncert, da hun
var 13 år gammel. Vi havde gratis billetter, fordi jeg vandt en konkurrence ved
at forslå et navn til Michael Jacksons næste album, dvs ”Hyper-jacktive”.
Lykkelige dage!
1988 - En
meget yngre Martyn Lewis taler om Michael Jackson ankomst i England
Michael Jackson på Wembley Stadion, 1988. Lykkelige
dage!
English translation
Thursday,
01.14.2016 at 1630 till Friday, 01/15/2016 at 1629
18:00 Lois and I eat dinner and spend the evening watching a little television. But we're both very tired and slip sometimes into sleep. I think we feel a bit overwhelmed by having to immediately work on the sale of Sarah's old apartment in Cheltenham, which we did not expect. We were not aware that Sarah had left a lot of documents with us, when she and her family moved to Australia, documents which we have had to organize, read and understand - my goodness!
The sale is complicated by the fact that it is an apartment, she is selling, and not a house. Her apartment is one part of a complex of apartment buildings, and many services are communally organized.
The buyer (Christopher) wants as soon as possible to sign the contract, so Lois and I feel under pressure. We do not want that it all come to nothing. We are waiting at the moment for Sarah's identity documents that she sent from Australia in the mail a few days ago. At least one of us has to be home when the documents arrive, because we have to sign a receipt to confirm that we have received them - my goodness! What madness !!!
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzz !!!!
3:15 I get up early and take a look on the internet. Afterwards, I start to do a little research on the earliest Germanic language. I have recently become a member of a new U3A group, "The Making of English". The group is interested in the history of the English language, but we began at the January meeting, by looking at the Indo-European language, Europe's first language, that was spoken thousands of years ago. At next month's meeting, which will take place on February 5, we are going to talk about the Proto-Germanic language, which is a descendant of the Indo-European language.
18:00 Lois and I eat dinner and spend the evening watching a little television. But we're both very tired and slip sometimes into sleep. I think we feel a bit overwhelmed by having to immediately work on the sale of Sarah's old apartment in Cheltenham, which we did not expect. We were not aware that Sarah had left a lot of documents with us, when she and her family moved to Australia, documents which we have had to organize, read and understand - my goodness!
The sale is complicated by the fact that it is an apartment, she is selling, and not a house. Her apartment is one part of a complex of apartment buildings, and many services are communally organized.
The buyer (Christopher) wants as soon as possible to sign the contract, so Lois and I feel under pressure. We do not want that it all come to nothing. We are waiting at the moment for Sarah's identity documents that she sent from Australia in the mail a few days ago. At least one of us has to be home when the documents arrive, because we have to sign a receipt to confirm that we have received them - my goodness! What madness !!!
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzz !!!!
3:15 I get up early and take a look on the internet. Afterwards, I start to do a little research on the earliest Germanic language. I have recently become a member of a new U3A group, "The Making of English". The group is interested in the history of the English language, but we began at the January meeting, by looking at the Indo-European language, Europe's first language, that was spoken thousands of years ago. At next month's meeting, which will take place on February 5, we are going to talk about the Proto-Germanic language, which is a descendant of the Indo-European language.
07:00 I sit at
our computer and begin to scan another 40 pages in. I must now have copied
hundreds of documents relating to the sale of Sarah's old apartment. We are
afraid that they lose important documents in the mail on the way to Sarah's
legal representatives - my goodness!
10:00 Bob, our neighbor, catches Lois and asks how much money Sarah and Francis, her husband, will sell its Saab for. I send her an email asking her. But I am quite sure that Bob will not offer a lot of money for the car. He and his family are very frugal and do not like to throw money around - of that I am in no doubt !!!!
11:00 I finish copying all the documents I need. We decide to send all the documents in one package. But we are still waiting for Sarah's identity documents to arrive from Australia before we can send our package to her legal representatives in Poundbury - my goodness! What a crazy world we live in !!!!
13:00 We eat lunch and then I go to bed. I take me a long nap - zzzzzzz !!!
14:00 Terry, the local handyman, calls me. He can come on Tuesday to perform various repairs of the house and in the backyard - hurray!
15:00 I get up. I hurry out of the kitchen, and I see that Lois has started to pluck and flay the pheasant that Bob shot, and then she removes the bird's guts - yum yum yum!
10:00 Bob, our neighbor, catches Lois and asks how much money Sarah and Francis, her husband, will sell its Saab for. I send her an email asking her. But I am quite sure that Bob will not offer a lot of money for the car. He and his family are very frugal and do not like to throw money around - of that I am in no doubt !!!!
11:00 I finish copying all the documents I need. We decide to send all the documents in one package. But we are still waiting for Sarah's identity documents to arrive from Australia before we can send our package to her legal representatives in Poundbury - my goodness! What a crazy world we live in !!!!
13:00 We eat lunch and then I go to bed. I take me a long nap - zzzzzzz !!!
14:00 Terry, the local handyman, calls me. He can come on Tuesday to perform various repairs of the house and in the backyard - hurray!
15:00 I get up. I hurry out of the kitchen, and I see that Lois has started to pluck and flay the pheasant that Bob shot, and then she removes the bird's guts - yum yum yum!
Lois
has plucked and skinned the pheasant, and removed its entrails - yum yum yum!
16:00 I continue to dub to DVD my old VHS tapes. We are now in July 1988
and I see on the tape a TV news-item about Michael Jackson's concert at Wembley
stadium in London. I remember that I took our oldest daughter, Alison, with me
to this concert, when she was 13 years old. We had free tickets, because I won
a contest by suggesting a name for Michael Jackson's next album, ie
"Hyper-jacktive". Happy days!
1988 - A much younger
Martyn Lewis talks
about Michael Jackson's
arrival in England
Michael
Jackson at Wembley Stadium, 1988. Happy days!
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