Søndag 28/02/2016 kl 1630 til mandag 29/02/2016 kl 1629

18:30 Vi spiser aftensmad og bruger resten af aftenen på at se lidt fjernsyn. De viser ”Call the Midwife”, en dramaserie, der handler om en gruppe jordmødre, der arbejdede i 1960’erne i Poplar, en lille forstad til London.  Lois er vild med denne serie, men for mit vedkommende holder jeg mig ikke ret meget om den, så jeg læser et par sider af min danske roman, ”Klinkevals”.

21:00 Lois sender en email til Josie, vores 9-årige barnebarn i København. Vi vil gratulere hende med hendes holds sejr i lørdags, da de deltog i et svømmestævne i Gladsaxe-Svømmehallen.

Alison, vores ældste datter – Josies mor - har ikke haft det ret godt i et par dage. Han har haft en dårlig hoste og har haft lidt feber – du godeste, stakkels Alison. God bedring, kære datter!

21:30 Vi ser en sitcom, ”Cuckoo”, en morsom sitcom, på BBC iPlayer.

  

Det er lidt af et chok, at se en ny britisk sitcom, der egentligt er morsom og velspillet – du godeste! For det meste ser vi nu til dags kun amerikanske sitcoms, der får os til at grine!

Sitcommens handling udspiller sig i Lichfield, en lille by i Midtengland. Greg Davies spiller Ken, en midaldrene ægtemand, der lyver for sin kone, Lorna (Helen Baxendale), om at have haft en vasektomi, hvilket resulterer i en uplanlagt graviditet.

Men Lorna tager hævn, efter babyen er født. Hun bliver forfremmet til chef, og det er Ken, der skal tage fædreorlov og passe på babyen, også stå op om natten, hvis babyen begynder at græde – du godeste, stakkels Ken!!!

Laura bliver forfremmet til chef, og det er Ken, der skal passe på babyen og stå op, hvis den græder om natten – du godeste, synd for Ken, hurra for Laura !!!!!

22:00 Vi går i seng – zzzzzz!!!!

04:00 Jeg står tidligt op og kigger lidt på internettet.

09:00 Vi går hen til vores naboers hus. Vi har i 6 uger passet på Stephen og Frances’s hus, mens de har været på rejse i New Zealand. Vi har hentet posten og vandet de indendørs blomster og grøntsagerne i drivhuset osv. 

Vi tjekker på huset, for at være sikre på, at alt er i orden. De kommer tilbage i formiddag – endelig skal vi ikke længere huske at smutte derind – hurra!

Vi smutter ind hos den lokale lægeklinik. Jeg beder om at få ordineret 16 ugers blodtryk-piller i stedet for de sædvanlige 8 ugers pakke, så jeg ikke løber tør af dem, når vi er i Australien.

10:00 Jeg går i gang med at skrive 100 engelske sætninger, jeg vil få vores danske gruppes medlemmer til at oversætte til dansk på gruppens næste møde, der finder sted den 10. marts hos os– jeg er så krævende ha ha ha!

Lois fortsætter med at gøre lidt forskning om sit familietræ. Hun håber at blive færdig i denne uge med at skrive sin historie om familien Cox (sin mors familie), så hun kan tage en kopi med til Australien, når vi besøger vores yngste datter, Sarah, samt hendes mand, Francis, og deres 2,5-årige tvillinger, Lily og Jessica.

12:30 Vi spiser frokost og bagefter går jeg i seng og tager mig en lang lur – zzzzzz!!!!

15:00 Jeg står op og vi slapper af med en kop te på sofaen.

English translation

18:30 We have dinner and spend the rest of the evening watching TV. They show "Call the Midwife," a drama series, which is about a group of midwives who worked in the 1960s in Poplar, a small suburb of London. Lois loves this series, but for my part I do not care for it that much, so I read a few pages of my Danish novel, "Klinkevals".

21:00 Lois sends an email to Josie, our 9-year-old grandchild in Copenhagen. We want to congratulate her on her team's victory on Saturday when they took part in a swimming event in Gladsaxe swimming pool.

Alison, our oldest daughter - Josie's mother - has not been that well for a few days. She has had a bad cough and a little fever - my goodness, poor Alison. Get well soon, dear daughter!

21:30 We see a sitcom, "Cuckoo", a hilarious sitcom on BBC iPlayer.

It's a bit of a shock to see a new British sitcom that actually is funny and well played - my goodness! For the most part we see nowadays only American sitcoms that make us laugh!

The sitcom's action unfolds in Lichfield, a small town in central England. Greg Davies plays Ken, a middle-aged husband who lies to his wife, Lorna (Helen Baxendale), about having had a vasectomy, which results in an unplanned pregnancy.

But Lorna takes revenge after the baby is born. She gets promoted to chief and it is Ken who must take paternity leave and look after the baby, also get up at night if the baby starts crying - my goodness, poor Ken !!!

Laura gets promoted to chief and it is Ken who must take care of the baby and get up if it cries at night - my goodness, a pity for Ken, but hurrah for Laura !!!!!

22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzz !!!!

04:00 I get up early and take a look at the internet.

09:00 We go to our neighbors' house. For 6 weeks we have looked after Stephen and Frances's house while they have been traveling in New Zealand. We have picked up the mail and watered the indoor flowers, and the vegetables in the greenhouse and so on. 

We check on the house, to be sure that everything is in order. They are coming back this morning - finally, we no longer have to remember to pop in there - hurrah!

We pop into the local medical clinic. I ask to be prescribed 16 weeks of blood pressure pills instead of the usual 8-week package, so I do not run out of them when we are in Australia.

10:00 I start writing 100 English sentences, which I will get our Danish group members to translate into Danish at the group's next meeting, which will take place on March 10 at our place - I'm so demanding ha ha ha!

Lois continues to do a little research on her family tree. She hopes to be finished this week with her story about the family Cox (her mother's family) so she can take a copy with her to Australia when we visit our youngest daughter, Sarah, and her husband, Francis, and their 2 and a half-year-old twins, Lily and Jessica.

12:30 We eat lunch and afterwards I go to bed and take a long nap - zzzzzz !!!!

15:00 I get up and we relax with a cup of tea on the sofa.

Lørdag 27/02/2016 kl 1630 til søndag 28/02/2016 kl 1629

17:00 Jeg kigger på Facebook, og jeg ser at vores ældste barnebarn i København, Josie sammen med hendes hold har lige vundet den svømning relæ i Gladsaxe-svømmehallen – hurra! Vores svigersøn, Ed, siger at Josies rolle var det afgørende element i holdets sejr – hurra, kom så, Josie!

18:00 Vi spiser aftensmad og derefter bruger aftenen på at se lidt fjernsyn, og lytter til radio.

De viser to interessante dokumentarfilm på BBC4. Den første handler om en tur gennem det sydlige Frankrig, som et ægtepar, Timothy West og Prunella Scales, de berømte skuespillere, tager på den berømte Canal du Midi med pram. Denne kanal var verdens første (og blev bygget næsten et århundrede før de første kanaler i Storbritannien). De franske myndigheder ville få både og små skibe til at kunne rejse mellem Middelhavet og Atlanterhavet, uden at blive angrebet af de sørøvere, der holdt til i Gibraltarstrædet – du godeste, sikke en verden!

Den anden dokumentarfilm handler om landsbyer i grevskabet Aberdeenshire, i Nordvestskotland. Programmets værtinde er Penelope Keith, den berømte skuespillerinde.

21:00 De viser de 5. og 6. afsnit af ”Trapped”, den mørke nordiske krimiserie, men det bryder Lois sig ikke ret meget om, så jeg optager den på vhs, og vi lytter til radio i stedet; gamle komedier fra 1990’erne. Vi glider over i søvnen – zzzzz! Vi bliver gamle – det er der ikke nogen tvivl om!!!

22:00 Vi vågner op og går i seng – zzzz!!!

04:00 Jeg står tidligt op og kigger lidt på internettet. Jeg ser, at Sarah, vores yngste datter, Francis, hendes mand, og deres 2,5-årige tvillinger, fortsætter deres biltur langs kysten nord for Perth. De kørte gennem en ørken til byen Denham (befolkning på 607 beboere!), der ligger i Shark Bay (Haj Bugt) – du godeste! Pas på, når du svømmer i havet, folkens!!!!

Udsigten fra den campingsplads, hvor Sarahs familie opholder sig

06:00 Jeg har ondt i lænden i dag – pokkers! Jeg spiser to stykke toast og tager to Ibuprofen tabletter.

08:00 Jeg spiser morgenmad og begynder at se den 5. afsnit af ”Trapped”, den mørke nordiske krimi-serie. Dramaet er endnu mørkere, end normalt, fordi lavinen har medført en strømafbrydelse i den isolerede islandske by – uha!  Det er endnu sværere at identificere figurerne og skelne alle de mænd der går med skæg – du godeste! Også virker beboernes mobiltelefoner ikke længere – uha (igen)!

Sigurdhurs far, der med vilje brugte en eksplosion for at skabe en lavine på en kontrollet måde, dør af skader fra den.

Sigurdhurs far dør af skader fra den lavine, han startede – uha!

Nogen (måske hans kone, som han misbruger) rammer borgmesteren (Hrofn) i hovedet med en skovl, låser ham i hans skur, og sætter ild til det.

Metallisk klang!!! Nogen rammer borgmesteren (Hrofn) i hovedet med en skovl i hans skur, mens han arbejder ved sit skrivebord !!!! Men hvem er angriberen – hans kone måske????

den mystiske angriber sætter ild til borgmesterens skur – uha!!!! Farvel og tillykke, hr borgmester!!!

Byens teenagere holder en vild fest i det offentlige svømmebassin.

Byens teenagere holder en vild fest i det mørke svømmebassin – sikke en redelighed!

Færgens danske kaptajn og hans første officer forsøger at generobre de to afrikanske søstre, som den afdøde litauiske menneskerssmugler, Jonas, medbragte til Island på sin varevogns bagsæde – uha! Sikke et rod !!!!

Det er interessant at se, at islandske mennesker for de meste ikke ligner ret meget de typiske skandinaviske mennesker, man ser i Norge, Sverige og Danmark.  I mange tilfælde er de ikke ret høj og de har tendens til at være mere mørkhårede. Jeg har læst, at de har en masse keltisk blod i deres familietræer. Vikingerne havde for vane at kidnappe keltiske kvinder og medbringe dem til Island – uha, stakkels kvinder!!!!

09:00 Lois står op, men hun har et problem med synet – et stribet plet foran øjnene. Hun sætter sig på sofaen og prøver at slappe af. Problemet forsvinder efter 30 minutter, men hun beslutter, at det ville være farligt at køre til Tewkesbury i dag for at deltage i sin kirkes 2 gudstjenester. Hun beslutter at se sin Pride & Prejudice dvd i stedet – en klog beslutning!

Du godeste, vi er to gamle vrag i dag – det er der ikke nogen tvivl om !!!!

13:00 Vi spiser frokost og derefter går jeg i seng og tager mig en lang lur – zzzzz!!!!!

15:00 Jeg står op og vi slapper af med en kop te på sofaen.

16:00 Jeg læser nogle sider af min danske roman, ”Klinkevals”.  Simon er blevet frigivet fra det lokale sindssygehospital, hvor han i nogle år boede, og er i gang med at vænne sig til at bo hjemme igen. Han beskæftiger sig med de huslige opgaver, mens hans kone, Juliane,  går ud på arbejde hver dag. Det er Juliane, der kalder skud i dette ægteskab – det er der ikke nogen tvivl om !!!! I dag får Simon besøg af sin tidligere chef, ”Thomsen”, der opfordrer ham til at genoptage sit job på trykkeriet.

Simon, den tidligere sindssyge (Lars Simonsen), med hans dominerende kone, Juliane (Mette Lisby) i den berømte 1999 film 

English translation

Saturday, 02.27.2016 at 1630 till Sunday, 02.28.2016 at 1629

17:00 I'm looking at Facebook and I see that our eldest granddaughter in Copenhagen, Josie, together with her team have just won the swimming relay in Gladsaxe-swimming pool - hurrah! Our son-in-law, Ed, says that Josie's role was a crucial element in the team's victory - hurrah, go Josie!

18:00 We have dinner and then spend the evening watching TV and listening to the radio.

They show two interesting documentaries on BBC4. The first is about a trip through the south of France, which a married couple, Timothy West and Prunella Scales, the famous actors, take on the famous Canal du Midi by barge. This canal was the world's first (and was built almost a century before the first canals in the UK). The French authorities wanted to get boats and small ships to travel between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic without being attacked by the pirates who lived in the Straits of Gibraltar - my goodness, what a world!

The second documentary is about the villages in the county of Aberdeenshire, in north-west Scotland. The program's presenter is Penelope Keith, the famous actress.

21:00 They show the 5th and 6th episodes of "Trapped", the dark Scandinavian crime series, but Lois does not care for it that much, so I record it on vhs, and we listen to the radio instead; old comedies from the 1990s. We drift into sleep - zzzz! We are growing old - of that, there is no doubt !!!

 22:00 We wake up and go to bed - zzzz (again) !!!

4:00 I get up early and take a look at the internet. I see that Sarah, our youngest daughter, Francis, her husband, and their 2 and a half year old twins, continue their road trip along the coast north of Perth. They drove through the desert to the city of Denham (population of 607 residents!), located in Shark Bay (Shark Bay) - my goodness! Be careful when you swim in the ocean, folks !!!!

view from the campsite where Sarah is staying

06:00 I have a painful lower back today - darn! I eat two pieces of toast and take two ibuprofen tablets.

8:00 I eat breakfast and start seeing the 5th episode of "Trapped", the dark Scandinavian crime fiction series. The drama is even darker than normal because the avalanche has caused a power outage in the isolated Icelandic town - oh dear! It is even harder to identify the characters and distinguish all the men who wear beards - my goodness! Also the residents' mobile phones no longer work - bummer (again) ! Sigurdhur's father, who intentionally used an explosion to create an avalanche in a controlled manner, dies of injuries from it! Oh dear!

Sigurdhurs father, dies of injuries from the avalanche he started - oh dear!

Someone (perhaps his wife, whom he abuses) hits Mayor Hrofn in the head with a shovel, locks him in his shed, and sets fire to it.

Clannnnggggg !!! Someone hits Mayor Hrofn in the head with a shovel in his shed while he works at his desk !!!! But who is the attacker - his wife maybe ????

the mysterious attacker sets fire to the mayor's shed - oh dear!!!! Farewell and good-luck, Mr. Mayor !!!

The town's teenagers hold a wild party in the public swimming pool.

city teenagers hold a wild party in the dark swimming pool - such goings-on!

The ferry's Danish captain and his first officer try to recapture the two African sisters whom the deceased Lithuanian people-smuggler, Jonas, brought to Iceland on his van's back seat - oh dear! What a mess !!!!

It is interesting to see that the Icelandic people for the most part do not look very much like the typical Scandinavian people you see in Norway, Sweden and Denmark. In many cases, they are not very tall and they tend to be more dark-haired. I have read that they have a lot of Celtic blood in their family trees. The Vikings had the habit of kidnapping Celtic women and bringing them to Iceland - oh, poor women !!!!

09:00 Lois gets up, but she has a problem with her sight - a striped spot in front of her eyes. She sits on the sofa and tries to relax. The problem disappears after 30 minutes, but she decides that it would be dangerous to drive to Tewkesbury today to attend her church's two services. She decides to see her Pride & Prejudice DVD instead - a wise decision!

My goodness, we are two old wrecks today - there is no doubt !!!!

13:00 We eat lunch and then I go to bed and take a long nap - zzzzz !!!!!

15:00 I get up and we relax with a cup of tea on the sofa.

16:00 I read some pages of my Danish novel, "Klinkevals". Simon has been released from the local mental hospital, where he lived for some years, and he is starting to get used to living at home again. He deals with the chores while his wife, Juliane, goes out to work every day. It's Juliane who calls the shots in this marriage - of that, there is no doubt !!!! Today Simon is visited by his former boss, "Thomsen", who urges him to resume his job at the printing works.

Simon, the ex-lunatic, (Lars Simonsen), with his masterful wife, Juliane (Mette Lisby) in the 1999 film 

Fredag 26/02/2016 kl 1630 til lørdag 27/02/2016 kl 1629

18:00 Lois har desværre en dårlig mave for tiden, men vi spiser aftensmad som sædvanligt.

Vi begynder at se lidt fjernsyn. De viser den brite Eurovision Melodi Grand Prix. der er afholdt hvert år for at finde Storbritanniens repræsentant til Eurovisionens Melodi Grand Prix. Værten er Mel Giedroyc, som vi godt kan lide, men det er snart klart, at publikummet er uretmæssigt exciteret og reagerer lidt fanatisk til alt, Mel siger. Opvarmeren har gjort et godt stykke arbejde – det er der ikke nogen tvivl om !!!

  

Vi kan godt lide Mel, men vi kan ikke holder publikummet ud, så vi beslutter at lytte til radio i stedet:  en koncert sendt direkte fra Nottinghams kongelige koncerthus. Vi bliver gamle – det er både sikkert og vist !!!!!

  

 

22:00 Vi går i seng – zzzzzz!!!

03:15 Jeg står tidligt op og kigger lidt på internettet.

09:00 Vi skal af sted. Vi kører til det lokale Sainsburys-supermarked for at købe ind. På vej smutter vi ind hos Waghornes, den lokale slagter, for at købe kød og brød.

10:30 Vi kommer hjem og slapper af med en kop kaffe på sofaen. Vi har rykket to af vores fire lænestole fra dagligstuen ind i spisestuen, der i det meste af dagen får solens stråler, når det ikke er overskyet. Der har vi det lidt varmere – hurra! Og vi kan sidde ved karnapvinduet og se verden gå forbi. Vi bliver gamle – det er der ikke nogen tvivl om!!!

11:00 Vi går en kort tur i nabolaget. Vi tilbagelægger 1,5 miles, 38 minutter, 137 kalorier, og stien stiger sammenlagt 33 fods. Vores rute: Prestburyvej, New Barn Lane, og tilbage igen via Welland Lodgevej.

Klokken er 11 og vi går en kort tur i nabolaget

På vej hjem går vi forbi den tidligere Starvehall Gård og den store mark, hvor heste engang stod hele dagen. Vi er triste ved tanken om, at denne mark om nogle måneder vil være fyldt med grimme moderne huse – øv!

Vi tager billeder af hinanden ved siden af den store mark, der om nogle måneder vil være fyldt med grimme moderne huse – øv !!!!

12:30 Vi spiser frokost og derefter går jeg i seng og tager mig en lang lur – zzzzz!!!!

15:00 Jeg står op og vi slapper af med en kop te på sofaen.

16:00 Vi kigger på Facebook. Vi ser, at Josie, én af vores tre børnebørn i København, deltager i et svømmestævne i dag i Gladsaxe-Svømmehallen.  Ed, vores svigersøn, har lagt et foto op på sin Facebook-side, der viser svømmehallen og sine 2 andre børne, Rosalind og Isaac. Kom så, Josie!

2 af vores 3 børnebørn i København: Isaac (5 år) og Rosalind (7 år) i Gladsaxe-svømmehallen, hvor deres storsøster, Josie (9 år) i dag deltager i et svømmestævne. Kom så, Josie!!!!

English translation

Friday, 02/26/2016 at 1630 on Saturday, 02.27.2016 at 1629

18:00 Lois unfortunately has a bad stomach for the moment, but we eat dinner as usual.

We start to watch a little television. They show the British Eurovision Song Contest. which is held every year to find Britain's representative to the Eurovision Song Contest. The host is Mel Giedroyc, whom we like, but it is soon clear that the audience is unduly excited and reacts a little fanatically to everything Mel says. The warm-up guy has done a good job - of that, there is no doubt !!!

We like Mel, but we cannot stand the audience, so we decide to listen to the radio instead: a concert broadcast directly from Nottingham's Royal Concert Hall. We are growing old - that is both certain and sure!!!!!

22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzz !!!

03:15 I get up early and take a look at the internet.

09:00 We have to be off. We drive to the local Sainsbury's supermarket to do the shopping. On the way we pop in at Waghornes, the local butcher, to buy meat and bread.

10:30 We get home and relax with a cup of coffee on the couch. We've moved two of our four armchairs from the living room into the dining room, which most of the day gets the sun's rays when it is not cloudy. There we are a little warmer - hurrah! And we can sit by the bay window and watch the world go by. We are growing old - of that, there is no doubt !!!

11:00 We go for a short walk in the neighborhood. We notch up 1.5 miles, 38 minutes, 137 calories, and the path rises altogether 33 feet. Our route: Prestburyvej, New Barn Lane, and back again via Welland Lodgevej.

It is 11am and we go for a short walk in the neighborhood

On the way home we walk past the former Starvehall Farm and the large field where horses once stood all day. We are sad at the thought that in a few months this field will be filled with ugly modern houses - boo!

We take pictures of each other at the side of the large field, which in a few months will be filled with ugly modern houses - bummer !!!!

12:30 We eat lunch and then I go to bed and take a long nap - zzzzz !!!!

15:00 I get up and we relax with a cup of tea on the sofa.

16:00 We look at Facebook. We see that Josie, one of our three grandchildren in Copenhagen, is taking part in a swimming event today at Gladsaxe-swimming baths. Ed, our son-in-law, put a photo on his Facebook page, showing the swimming pool and his two other children, Rosalind and Isaac. Go Josie!

two of our three grandchildren in Copenhagen, Isaac (5 years) and Rosalind (7 years) in Gladsaxe-pool hall, where their big sister, Josie (9 years) is currently taking part in a swimming event. Go Josie!

Torsdag 25/02/2016 kl 1630 til torsdag 26/02/2016 kl 1629

17:00 Vi har ikke hørt ret meget fra vores yngste datter, Sarah, i de seneste nogle dage, og vi vidste ikke, om det var fordi hun og hendes mand, Francis, havde meget travlt. Men jeg logger ind på Facebook, og jeg ser, at de for et par dage siden besluttede at køre en tur i bilen (samt trailer) ud langs kysten, nord for Perth. Turen har hidtil været meget spændende: den første dag oplevede de en skovbrand, den anden dag et fladt batteri på bilen i et øde sted, den 3. dag skulle de skynde sig på skadestuen med Lily, én af deres 2,5-årige tvillinger (denne ”skadestue” bestod af en hytte – du godeste!), men Lily har det godt nu, gudskelov. Du godeste (igen) – sikke en ferie!

  

familiens Land Rover og trailer

18:30 Vi spiser aftensmad og derefter lytter vi til radio. Vi hører et interessant radioprogram, der handler om Jimmy Savile-sagen.

Den nu afdøde Jimmy Savile er mistænkt for at have begået hundreder af forbrydelser, også mange mange voldtægter. Tv-veteranen Savile var i en årrække programleder for de populære tv-shows "Top of the Pops" og "Jim'll Fix It". Han døde I 2011 som 84-årig. Over 80 procent af ofrene var mindreårige piger.

Det er underligt at tænke på, at han slippede for straf og dyrkede gennem så mange år et image som en religiøs idealist, der var dedikeret til velfærd af de unge og de syge. De fleste mennesker vidste ikke noget om hans forbrydelser, og de få mennesker, der vidste eller mistænkte, var bange for at anmelde ham, af frygt for, at ingen ville tro dem. Derudover mente nogle af hans mandlige kollegaer i 1960’erne, 1970’erne, at det var okay at opføre sig sådan.

19:00 Vi ser lidt fjernsyn. De viser ”Ugly House to Lovely House”. Lois og jeg finder det morsomt, at se moderne arkitekter “opgradere” gammeldags husene. Deres arbejde resulterer i enorme vinduer (dvs mangel på privatliv), en mangel på indvendige vægge, lange lavryggede sofaer mod væggene osv, så huset begynder at ligne en miniature-kontorbygning – du godeste!  Arkitekten i dette afsnit, Greg Blee, holder meget af ”shards” , dvs bygninger der ligner enorme fragmenter – uha! – formet som The Shard i London, en 95-etager høj skyskraber), så han beslutter at designe en udestue i form af et enormt fragment og husets ejere få den tilbygget. Unødvendigt at sige, at udestuen ser forfærdelig ud!!! Efter vores mening skal programmet hellere hedde ”Lovely House to Ugly House” – du godeste!

 

Unødvendigt at sige, at den nye udestue ser forfærdelig ud!!!

22:00 Vi går i seng. Jeg læser 6 sider af min sengetidbog, ”William Pitt den Yngre” af William Hague, inden jeg glider over i søvnen – zzzzz !!!!!

03:45 Jeg står tidligt op og kigger lidt på internettet.

09:30 Vi skal af sted. Vi kører med bus ind til centrum for at købe et par ting: billige fødselsdagskort i Marks & Spencer, yoghurtpulver i Holland & Barrett, en tesi og en vasksi i Wilkinsons. Vi smutter ind i Drukkers og drikker en kop kaffe og spiser et stykke kage – uhm!!!!!!

Vi kigger rundt omkring i Brewery-indkøbscentret, som er i færd med at blive bygget, udviklet og udvidet mellem Højgade (Lower High Street) og Swindonvej.

The Brewery-indkøbscentret på Højgade (Lower High Street): arbejdet går fremad!

The Brewery-indkøbscentret – arkitektens vision

11:30 Vi tager bussen hjem.

til sidst har Stagecoach opsat elektroniske skærme ved selskabets busstopsteder i byen – hurra! Vi ser dem i dag for første gang.

12:30 Vi spiser frokost. Bagefter går jeg i seng og tager mig en lang lur – zzzzzz!!!!

15:00 Jeg står op og vi slapper af med en kop te på sofaen.

English translation

Thursday, 02/25/2016 at 1630 till Thursday, 02.26.2016 at 1629

17:00 We have not heard much from our youngest daughter, Sarah, in the last few days and we did not know if it was because she and her husband, Francis, were very busy. But I log into Facebook and I see that a few days ago they decided to take a ride in the car (plus trailer) out along the coast, north of Perth. The trip so far has been very exciting: the first day they experienced a forest fire, the second day a flat battery on the car in a deserted place, the third day they had to rush to the emergency room with Lily, one of their 2 and a half year old twins (this "emergency room" consisted of a cabin - my God!), but Lily is doing well now, thank God. My God (again) - what a holiday!

the family's Land Rover and trailer

18:30 We have dinner and then we listen to radio. We hear an interesting radio program about the Jimmy Savile affair.

The late Jimmy Savile is suspected of having committed hundreds of crimes, including many many rapes. Television veteran Savile was for a number of years the program presenter for the popular TV shows "Top of the Pops" and "Jim'll Fix It". He died in 2011 aged 84. Over 80 percent of the victims were underage girls.

It's strange to think that he escaped punishment and for so many years cultivated an image of a religious idealist who was dedicated to the welfare of the young and the sick. Most people did not know about his crimes, and the few people who knew or suspected, were afraid to report him, for fear that no one would believe them. In addition, some of his male colleagues in the 1960s, the 1970s, thought that it was okay to behave like that.

19:00 We see a little television. They show "Ugly House to Lovely House". Lois and I find it amusing to see modern architects "upgrade" old-fashioned houses. Their work results in enormous windows (ie lack of privacy), a lack of interior walls, long low-back sofas against the walls, etc., so the house starts to look like a miniature office-building - my goodness! The architect in this episode, Greg Blee, is very fond of "shards", ie buildings that look like huge fragments - oh dear! - shaped like The Shard in London, a 95-storey skyscraper), so he decides to design a conservatory in the form of a huge fragment and the house owners get it built on. Needless to say that the conservatory looks horrible!!! In our view, the program should rather be called "Lovely House to Ugly House" - my goodness!

Needless to say the new conservatory looks horrible !!!

22:00 We go to bed. I read six pages of my bedtime book, "William Pitt the Younger" by William Hague, before I drift into dreamland - zzzzz !!!!!

3:45 I get up early and take a look at the internet.

09:30 We have to be off. We take a bus into the city center to buy a few things: cheap birthday cards in Marks & Spencer, yoghurt powder in Holland & Barrett, a tea strainer and a sink strainer in Wilkinsons. We pop into Drukkers and drink a cup of coffee and eat a piece of cake - yummy!!!!!!

We look around the Brewery Mall, which is currently being built, developed and expanded between Højgade (Lower High Street) and Swindonvej.

The Brewery Mall at Højgade (Lower High Street): work progresses!

The Brewery Mall - the architect's vision

 11:30 We take the bus home.

at last Stagecoach have set up electronic screens at the company's bus stops in the city - hurray! We see them today for the first time.

 12:30 We eat lunch. Afterwards I go to bed and take a long nap - zzzzzz !!!!

15:00 I get up and we relax with a cup of tea on the sofa.