18:00 Vi
spiser aftensmad i dagligstuen.
19:00 Lois
skal af sted. Hendes kirke holder i aften i Tewkesbury en forretningsmøde, hun
vil deltage i. Så derfor har jeg lidt alenetid i aften, så jeg beslutter at se
lidt fjernsyn – ingen overraskelse der!
De viser Grand
Designs, en tv-serie, hvor (for det meste) neurotiske mænd (og deres partnere)
designer og får bygget enorme grimme huse med enorme stuer, ukomfortable
sofaer, enorme tunge spiseborde og enorme vinduer uden gardiner eller
persienner. De er for det meste mennesker uden rigtige hobbyer, mennesker der
elsker at holde middagsselskaber, og at stå og se hele dagen på flotte
udsigter: mennesker, der er ligeglad med, hvad deres naboerne synes: mennesker,
der ikke har noget kendskab til historie,
har ingen historiske sans.
I aftens
program er lidt anderledes, end det sædvanlige. Programmets vært, Kevin
McCloud, der altid roser disse grimme huse til skyerne, kigger tilbage på de 15
år, han har præsenteret serien over, og koncentrerer sig om de huse, der er
blevet bygget ude i landet.
vi ser de sædvanlige grimme moderne huse, der ligner fabrikker eller
avlsbygninger,
der
når at spolere et smukt historisk landskab
Vi ser de
sædvanlige grimme bygninger også indefra, med deres enorme grusomme stuer, der
kombinerer køkken, spisestue og dagligstue, hvor man ikke kan koncentrere sig
eller have fred og ro omkring sig. Vi ser det sædvanlige spild af plads, og de
sædvanlige enorme borde, med for mange stole, stole, der er alt for tunge, og
ukomfortable sofaer, der er alt for lave og dybe og forårsager rygsmerter – du
godeste!
vi ser de sædvanlige grimme stuer med deres grusomme høje lofter og
masser af spildt plads!
de neurotiske mennesker, der får bygget disse grimme huse har ikke nogle
rigtige hobbyer, men elsker at holde hyppige middagselskaber, hvor deres venner
står og snakker – du godeste, har de ingenting i hovedet???!
21:00 Jeg
sætter mig på vores computer og jeg designer mit bryllupsdagkort til Lois. I
morgen er vores 44. bryllupsdag. Jeg beslutter at bruge 4 billeder af os, som
par, som blev taget i 4 forskellige kontinenter:
Japan
(1971)
USA
(1985)
Danmark
(2015)
Australien (2016)
22:30 Lois
kommer sent tilbage og vi går i seng – zzzz!!!!
05:00 Jeg står
tidligt op og laver én af mine rutinemæssige danske ordforrådtester.
08:00 Jeg
skynder mig ind i køkkenet og laver to kopper te. Jeg bringer dem op på vores
soveværelse. Vi ligger inde i sengen og drikker te. I dag er vores 44.
bryllupsdag, så derfor udveksler vi bryllupsdagkort. Vi går i bad.
09:00 Vi står
op og spiser morgenmad.
10:30 Vi kører
over til Hampton-Court-Slottet for at fejre vores bryllupsdag. Slottet ligger
ikke ret langt fra Leominster i nærheden af den engelske/welsh grænse.Vi
smutter ind hos slottets café og spiser frokost. Derefter ser vi os om i
slottets haver, og til sidst tager vi en rundtur for at se slottet indefra.
vi
spiser frokost i slottets café
vi tager en rundtur og ser slottet indefra
15:00 Vi kører
hjem og slapper af med en kop te på sofaen.
English translation
Wednesday, August 24 at 1630 to Thursday, August 25, 2016
at 1629
18:00 We eat dinner in the living room.
19:00 Lois has to go off. Her church is holding a
business meeting tonight in Tewkesbury, which she wants to participate in. So
therefore I have a little time alone tonight, so I decide to watch TV - no
surprise there!
They show Grand Designs, a TV series, where (mostly)
neurotic men (and their partners) design, and get built, huge ugly houses with
huge rooms, uncomfortable sofas, huge heavy dining tables and huge windows
without curtains or blinds. They are mostly people with no real hobbies, people
who love to hold dinner parties, and to stand and look all day at beautiful
views: people who do not care what their neighbors think: people who have no
knowledge of history, and no historical sense.
The evening's program is a little different from the
usual. The program's host, Kevin McCloud, who always praises these ugly houses
to the skies, looks back on the 15 years he has presented the series, and
concentrates on the houses that have been built out in the country.
we see the usual ugly modern houses
that look like factories or farm buildings,
that manage to spoil a beautiful historic
landscape
We see the usual ugly buildings also from inside, with
their huge atrocious living rooms, combining kitchen, dining and living room,
where you cannot concentrate or have peace and quiet around you. We see the
usual waste of space, and the usual huge tables with too many chairs, chairs
that are too heavy, and uncomfortable sofas that are too low and deep and cause
back pain - my goodness!
we see the usual ugly living rooms
with their ghastly high ceilings and lots of wasted space!
the neurotic people who have these
ugly houses built do not have any real hobbies, but love to hold frequent
dinner parties where their friends stand and talk - my goodness, have they
nothing in their heads ???!
21:00 I sit at our computer and I design my wedding card
for Lois. Tomorrow is our 44th wedding anniversary. I decide to use 4 pictures
of us as a couple, which were taken in 4 different continents:
Japan (1971)
USA (1985)
Denmark (2015)
Australia (2016)
22:30 Lois comes back late and we go to bed - zzzz !!!!
05:00 I get up early and do one of my routine Danish
vocabulary tests.
08:00 I hurry into the kitchen and make two cups of tea.
I bring them up to our bedroom. We lie in bed and drink the tea. Today is our
44th wedding anniversary, so we exchange anniversary cards. We take a shower.
09:00 We get up and eat breakfast.
10:30 We drive over to Hampton Court Castle to celebrate
our wedding anniversary. The castle is located not far from Leominster near the
English / Welsh border. We pop in at the castle café and have lunch. Then we
look round the palace gardens, and finally we take a tour to see the castle
from the inside.
we eat lunch in the castle café
we take a tour and see the castle
from the inside
15:00 We go home and relax with a cup of tea on the sofa.
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