Thursday, 4 February 2016

Onsdag 03/02/2016 kl 1630 til torsdag 04/02/2016 kl 1629

17:00 Vi går en kort tur i nabolaget (1,2 miles, 30 minutter, 116 kalorier). Vores rute: Borgergade, Møllegade og tilbage igen via Højgade og Dybegade. Det bliver mørkt og lidt koldt. Hestene i den store mark mellem Møllegade og Borgergade har deres frakker på - brrrrr!
  

Klokken er 17 og vi går en kort tur i nabolaget.


Klokken er 17:15, og det begynder at blive mørkt. De heste, der hele dagen står i den store mark mellem Borgergade og Møllegade, har deres frakker på – brrrrr!!!

17:30 Vi kommer hjem og spiser aftensmad.

19:30 Lois skal af sted. Hendes kirke holder i aften en bibelklasse hos Maggie. Jeg er alene i huset igen. Der er ikke noget interessant på fjernsyn, så derfor fortsætter jeg med at kopiere mine gamle vhs-bånd til dvd.

Det er nu 1991. Jeg finder på mit vhs-bånd mange sange fra årets Eurovision Melodi Grand Prix, der fandt sted i Rom. Den eufori, der stammede fra Berlinmurens fald var nu forsvundet: der var i konkurrencen langt færre sange, der handlede om fred og international harmoni, gudskelov! Og der var dengang mere og mere spænding i Jugoslavien, selvom borgerkrigen endnu ikke var begyndt. 1991 var det sidste år, at det tidligere Jugoslavien deltog i konkurrencen som ét land. Du godeste!

I denne periode var de fleste sange fortolket på sangerens eget sprog, mens de fleste sange nu til dags bliver sunget på engelsk – sikke en skam!

Jeg hører igen i aften den danske sang, ”Lige der, hvor hjertet slår”, fortolket af Anders Fransen. Sangen var behagelig, men intet mere efter min mening, den svenske sang også, men den svenske sang endede faktisk med at vinde konkurrencen til min overraskelse. Mellem de nordiske sang kunne jeg bedst lide den norske sang,  og den finske sang. Den norske sang var ”Mrs Thompson”, fortolket af ”Just for Fun”, en kvartet-gruppe. Den finske sang var ”Hullu yö”, det betyder ”vanvittig nat”, og den blev fortolket af Kaija Kärkinen.
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 Den norske sang, ”Mrs Thompson”, blev fortolket af ”Just 4 Fun”.

Mine minder fra 1991 er meget få, af én eller anden grund. Jeg ved, at både Alison og Sarah havde tyske udvekslingspartnere fra en højskole i Bad Kreuznach, der i et par uger i 1991 besøgte os i Cheltenham.


Både Alison og Sarah havde tyske udvekslingspartnere fra en tyske højskole i Bad Kreuznach, der besøgte os i 1991.

22:00 Lois kommer hjem og vi går i seng – zzzzz !!!!

03:15 Jeg står tidligt op og kigger lidt på nettet. Jeg ser, at vores ældste datter, Alison, der bor i København sammen med Ed, sin mand, og deres 3 børn, hygger sig meget på skiferie i Norge. I går kørte familien med slædehunde (de skulle styre, bremse hundene osv!) – du godeste, hvor spændende! Alison siger, at træerne ligner de træer man ser på julekager – du godeste! Familien kogte sig også nogle stykker brød over ild – hurra! Det er dejligt at se disse charmerende fotos. Vi har ikke haft hele vinteren én dråbe sne her i Cheltenham!



I går kørte familien med slædehunde – du godeste, hvor spændende!



Alisons familie hygger sig på skiferie i Norge – hurra!

11:00 Vi går en kort tur i nabolaget (1,55 miles, 43 minutter, 149 kalorier). Vores rute: Bouncers Lane, Imjinvej og tilbage via Priorsvej.

 
Vi går en kort tur (1,55 miles) i nabolaget

14:00 Efter frokost kommer vores veninde Gillian, der med jævne mellemrum tuner vores klaver. Vi spørger hende, om det er muligt at installere større hjul på vores klaver, for at gøre klavert lidt højere (3 engelske tommer højere, for at være præcis): der for tiden er ikke god plads til mine knæ under tastaturet – du godeste! For tiden har jeg et problem, fordi jeg er lidt for høj, og jeg har svært ved at bruge klaverets pedaler (pianopedalen og fortepedalen). Men ifølge Gillian er der desværre ikke noget let løsning – pokkers!

15:00 Jeg går i seng og tager mig en kort lur – zzzzz!!!

16:00 Jeg står op og vi slapper af med en kop te og et stykke kage på sofaen – uhm!!!


English translation
Wednesday, 02.03.2016 at 1630 till Thursday, 02.04.2016 at 1629

17:00 We go for a short walk in the neighborhood (1.2 miles, 30 minutes, 116 calories). Our route: Borgergade, Møllegade and back again via Højgade and Deep Street. It is getting dark and a little cold. The horses in the large field between Møllegade and Borgergade have their coats on - brrrrr!

The time is 5pm and we go for a short walk in the neighborhood.

The time is 5:15pm, and it is starting to get dark. The horses that stand all day in the large field between Borgergade and Møllegade have their coats on - brrrrr !!!

17:30 We get home and eat dinner.

19:30 Lois has to be off. Her church is holding a Bible class tonight at Maggie's. I am alone in the house again. There is nothing interesting on TV, so I continue to copy my old VHS tapes to DVD.

It is now 1991. I find on my vhs tapes many songs from the year's Eurovision Song Contest, which took place in Rome. The euphoria that came from the fall of the Berlin Wall had now disappeared: there were far fewer songs in the competition that dealt with peace and international harmony, thank goodness! And there was then more and more tension in Yugoslavia, although the civil war had not yet begun. 1991 was the last year that the former Yugoslavia participated in the competition as one country. My Goodness!

During this period, most songs were interpreted in the singer's native language, while most songs nowadays are sung in English - what a shame!

I hear again tonight the Danish song, "Right there where the heart beats", interpreted by Anders Fransen. The song was pleasant, but nothing more, in my opinion, the Swedish song too, but the Swedish song ended up actually winning the competition, to my surprise. Among the Nordic songs I liked best the Norwegian song and the Finnish song. The Norwegian song was "Mrs. Thompson", interpreted by "Just for Fun", a quartet group. The Finnish song was "Hullu yö", it means "Crazy Night" and was interpreted by Kaija Kärkinen.

The Norwegian song, "Mrs. Thompson" was interpreted by "Just 4 Fun".

My memories of 1991 are very few for one reason or another. I know that both Alison and Sarah had German exchange partners from a high school in Bad Kreuznach, who visited us in Cheltenham for a few weeks in 1991.

Both Alison and Sarah had German exchange partners from a German school in Bad Kreuznach, who visited us in 1991.

22:00 Lois comes home and we go to bed - zzzzz !!!!

03:15 I get up early and take a look on the web. I see that our oldest daughter, Alison, who lives in Copenhagen along with Ed, her husband and their 3 children are enjoying themselves a lot skiing in Norway. Yesterday the family drove with sled dogs (they had to steer, brake the dogs etc!) - My goodness, how exciting! Alison says that the trees look like the trees one sees on Christmas cakes - my goodness! The family cooked up some pieces of bread over the fire - hurray! It's great to see these charming photos. We have not had one drop of snow here in Cheltenham all winter!

Yesterday drove the family drove with sled dogs - my goodness, how exciting!

Alison's family having fun skiing in Norway - hurray!

11:00 We go for a short walk in the neighborhood (1.55 miles, 43 minutes, 149 calories). Our route: Bouncers Lane, Imjinvej and back via Priorsvej.

We go for a short walk (1.55 miles) in the neighborhood

14:00 After lunch, our friend Gillian who regularly tunes our piano, comes. We ask her if it is possible to install larger castors on our piano to make the piano a little higher (3 English inches higher, to be precise), there is currently no room for my knees under the keyboard - my goodness! Currently I have a problem because I'm a little too tall and I have difficulty using the piano pedals (soft pedal and loud pedal). But according to Gillian unfortunately, there is no easy solution - damn!

15:00 I go to bed and take me a short nap - zzzzz !!!

16:00 I get up and we relax with a cup of tea and a slice of cake on the couch - uhm !!!

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