Onsdag 09/03/2016 kl 1630 til torsdag 09/03/2016 kl 08:00

18:00 Lois og jeg spiser aftensmad og derefter lytter vi lidt til radio. BBC Radio 3 har valgt Barbara Strozzi som ugens komponist.

Barbara Strozzi var født i 1619 i Venedig. Hun var super-dygtig til at synge, men også til at komponere (både musikken og teksterne er højt beundret). Næsten alt, hun komponerede var sekulære sange, og ikke for det meste religiøse sange. I dette program diskuterer Dr Sara Pecknold Strozzis liv og personlighed. Man sagde dengang, at Strozzi plejede at have et frækt og forelsket blik i øjnene, og hun var en sand skønhed, en ny Venus. Hun havde 4 uægte børn, 3 af dem med Giovanni Paolo Vidman, en berømt lokal kunstmæcen – du godeste!

Barbara Strozzi

21:00 Vi ser lidt fjernsyn. De viser det 2. afsnit af den anden serie af ”Grantchester”, en krimiserie, hvor helten er en anglikansk præst, Sidney Chambers, i en lille landsby, der ligger i nærheden af Cambridge.

Et underholdende tv-program, men det har et problem i, at Sidney og hans ven, Geordie Keating, en lokal politimand, må løse ugens forbrydelse indenfor 60 minutter (faktisk ca 45 minutter, fordi de viser det i ITV, en kommerciel tv-kanal). På grund af mangel på tid bliver gerningsmanden ofte  afsløret kun i programmets sidste to minutter, hvilket er lidt utilfredsstillende – du godeste, sikke en vanvid det er!!!!

22:00 Vi går i seng – zzzzz !!!!

05:00 Jeg står op og kigger lidt på internettet. Vores ældste datter, Alison, bor i København, sammen med sin mand, Ed, og deres tre børn. Alison plejer at tage dagligt familiens hund en tur i den lokale park, altså Bernstorffsparken.

Jeg læste forleden at parken kan få nye regler for løse hunde – uha! For der er problemer med hunde, der generer messer, fester og konferencer på Bernstorff Slot eller de andre brugere af parken, for eksempel ved de nye skolehaver ved Gartneriet. I dag må du have din hund løs på et areal, der svarer til 96 procent af havens samlede areal. Med de nye ændringer vil det blive reduceret til 83 procent af arealet.

I dag læser jeg, at den efterfølgende shitstorm fortsætter – du godeste! Et mødet fandt sted i Kavalergården den 2. marts. En af Alisons naboer siger, at mødet var faktisk pinligt at overvære. Selvom det mange gange blev gentaget, nærmest som en besværgelse, at der skal være plads til alle, blev forslaget om et område, hvor børn kan færdes i sikkerhed nærmest latterliggjort og buhet ud.

Denne nabo synes, at  der er skræmmende mange hundeejere, der ikke har kontrol over deres dyr – eller for den sags skyld deres efterladenskaber, som sætter sig på støvler og hænder og andre ulækre steder hos børn på tur i parken.

Han siger, at hvis ikke hundeejerne respekterer et krav om hund i snor og bliver bedre til at samle deres hundelorte op, bør området ved frugthaverne og omkring Svanedammen helt lukkes for hunde.

Du godeste, sikke en skør verden vi lever i !!!!

08:00 Jeg skal af sted. Mit ”Intensivt Dansk” kursus starter i dag. Når jeg genoptager denne blog i juli måned, vil jeg være meget dygtigere til det skriftlige danske sprog -  det er der ikke nogen tvivl om !!!!!

English translation

Wednesday, 03.09.2016 at 1630 till Thursday, 03.09.2016 at 08:00

18:00 Lois and I eat dinner and then we listen a little to the radio. BBC Radio 3 has chosen Barbara Strozzi as composer of the week.

Barbara Strozzi was born in 1619 in Venice. She was super-talented at singing, but also at composing (both music and lyrics are highly admired). Almost everything she composed was secular songs, and not for the most part religious songs. In this program Dr Sara Pecknold discusses Strozzi's life and personality. It was said at the time that Strozzi used to have a saucy and amorous look in her eyes, and she was a real beauty, a new Venus. She had four illegitimate children, 3 of them with Giovanni Paolo Vidman, a famous local patron of the arts - my goodness!

Barbara Strozzi

21:00 We see little television. They show the second episode of the second series of "Grantchester" a crime series where the hero is an Anglican priest, Sidney Chambers, in a small village, located near Cambridge.

An entertaining TV program, but it has a problem in that Sidney and his friend, Geordie Keating, a local policeman, must solve the week's crime within 60 minutes (actually about 45 minutes because they show it in ITV, a commercial TV channel). Due to lack of time the culprit is often revealed only in the program's final two minutes, which is slightly unsatisfactory - my goodness, what a frenzy it is !!!!

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

5:00 I get up and take a look at the internet. Our eldest daughter, Alison, lives in Copenhagen with her husband, Ed, and their three children. Alison usually takes the family's dog for a daily walk in the local park, i.e. the Bernstorffspark.

I read the other day that the park may get new rules for loose dogs - oh dear! This is because there are problems with dogs that disturb fairs, parties and conferences at Bernstorff Castle or bother the other users of the park, for example at the new school gardens by the nursery. Today you may have your dog loose in an area equivalent to 96 percent of the park's total area. With the new changes this will be reduced to 83 percent of the area.

Today I read that the subsequent "shit storm" continues - my goodness! A meeting took place in Kavalergården on 2 March. One of Alison's neighbors said that the meeting was actually embarrassing to watch. Although it was many times repeated, almost as an incantation, that there must be room for all, the proposal for an area where children can move about in safety was almost ridiculed and booed.

This neighbor thinks that there are frighteningly many dog owners who do not control their animals - or for that matter their droppings, which land on the boots and hands and other unsavory places for children who are walking in the park.

He says that unless the dog owners respect the requirement for dogs to be on a leash and become better at collecting their dog shit up, the area of orchards and around Svanedammen ought to be completely closed to dogs.

My goodness, what a crazy world we live in !!!!

08:00 I have to go. My "Intensive Danish" course starts today. When I resume this blog in July, I will be much better at the written Danish language - of that, there is no doubt !!!!!