17:00 Jeg
hopper op på min kondicykel og jeg cykler 6 miles (10km). Hurra! Nu ved jeg,
jeg kan blive rask igen! Men jeg kigger tilbage på min blog, og jeg ser, at jeg
har cyklet en afstand af 6 miles kun 4 gange i 2016 – pokkers! Jeg bliver doven
– det er der ikke nogen tvivl om! Selvom det er sandt, at vi var i Australien i
3 måneder, og derovre kunne jeg selvfølgelig slet ikke cykle. Jeg må ikke være
for hård ved mig selv!
18:00 Vi spiser
aftensmad og derefter bruger vi aftenen på at se lidt fjernsyn.
De viser Grand
Designs, en tv-serie, hvor (for det meste) triste, neurotiske,
perfektionistiske mænd (og deres partnere), besatte af en fiks idé, 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 aften
planlægger en mand ved navn Clinton et enormt hus, der ligner en lille
lufthavn-terminal. Huset er så stor som 7 normale huse. Det store rum
(stue-område, køkken-område, spisestue-område) er gigantisk: hans sofa er 5
meter lang – du godeste! Sikke en skør verden vi lever i !!!
Det nye hus ligner en lokal lufthavn-terminal
Ejeren bor alene. Hvorfor har han brug for et enormt spiserbord og 4
liggestole?
Hvorfor har han brug for en 5m lang sofa?
Hvorfor har han brug for en enorm dobbeltseng?
Det synes at
Clinton er en skilt mand med fire eller fem børn, men for det meste bor han alene.
Jeg formoder, at børnene bor sammen med deres mor. Hvorfor har han brug for
sådan et enormt hus? Der er slet ikke nogen rod i hele huset, så hvad
beskaftiger han sig med, når han er hjemme? Svaret ligger i selve huset: han
har sin egen privat svømmepøl, sit eget
privat gym, sin egen privat spa, og et enormt fjernsyn. Unødvendigt at sige
mere!!!!
21:00 Vi
fortsætter med at se lidt fjernsyn. De
viser en interessant dokumentarfilm, der handler om Holkam Hall i Norfolk, hvor
Jarl af Leicester bor.
Holkham Hall
Jeg må indrømme, at vi sjælden ser på dette slags
program, men vi beslutter at se det fordi værten er Phil Spencer, der ser sig
om i slottet ikke som en historiker, men ligesom en ukultiveret ejendomsmægler
– du godeste, sikke en skør verden vi lever i !
Lois og jeg holdt ferie i Norfolk for 2 år siden, og vi
forsøgte at besøge Holkam Hall, men da vi dukkede op, fandt vi ud af, at
slotter var lukket – du godeste, sikke en redelighed!
22:00 Vi går i seng – zzzzz!!!!!
05:00 Jeg står
tidligt op og laver én af mine rutinemæssige danske ordforrådtester. Bagefter
laver jeg to kopper te og bringer dem op på vores soveværelse. Vi ligger inde i
sengen og drikker teen. Vi står op og spiser morgenmad.
09:30 Vi skal
af sted. Vi kører over til Maggies hus. Maggie er en ven, der har til hensigt
at sælge sit hus i Leckhampton og flytte ind i et plejehjem i Birmingham. Hun
har en lille skabe, hun opbevarer sin musikbøger i, og hun vil videregive
skabet til os. Vi henter skabet og drikker en kop te i Maggies stue. Bagefter
kører vi over til Cookshop i Leckhampton og køber tre færdigretter. Vi kan
bruge disse færdigretter nå vi er godt trætte og ikke har lyst til at lave mad – hurra!
11:30 Vi
kommer hjem og spiser frokost. Bagefter går jeg i seng og tager mig en lang lur
– zzzzz!!!!!
15:00 Jeg står
op og jeg kigger lidt på mine angel-saksiske grammatikker. Jeg er medlem af en
U3A gruppe (gruppens navn er ”The Making of English”), der beskæftiger sig med
det engelske sprogs historie, og holder månedlige møder. Gruppens næste møde
finder sted på fredag.
Jeg er lidt
vred på gruppens leder, Lynda, fordi hun ventede til i går med at afsende
detaljer til gruppens medlemmer om hvad vi skal diskutere på fredag. Hun har
valgt en tekst, der er meget lang og
svær at forstå. Du godeste!
Ælfric – hvor lang tid siden levede han – ingen tvivl om det!
Jeg blader
mine grammatiker og skriver de vigtigste punkter på en enkelt side papir –
hurra! Nu kan jeg prøve at forstå teksten, der er et uddrag fra Ælfrics ”De Temporibus Anni”, der handler om skabelsen af verden. Ælfric skrev teksten
i 993. Du godeste – hvor lang tid siden var det!
English translation
17:00 I jump up on my exercise bike and I ride 6 miles
(10km). Hooray! Now I know I can get well again! But I look back on my blog,
and I see that I have cycled a distance of 6 miles only 4 times in 2016 - darn!
I'm being lazy - there is no doubt! Although it is true that we were in
Australia for 3 months, and over there I could not of course do cycling. I
should not be too hard on myself!
18:00 We have dinner and then we spend the evening watching
TV.
They show Grand Designs, a TV series, where (mostly) sad, neurotic,
perfectionist men (and their partners), occupied by a whim, 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 have no historical sense.
Tonight a man named Clinton plans a huge house that looks
like a small airport terminal. The house is as large as 7 normal houses. The
great room (living area, kitchen area, dining area) is gigantic: his sofa is 5
meters long - my goodness! What a crazy world we live in !!!
The new house looks like a local
airport terminal
the owner lives alone. Why does he need
a huge table and 4 sun loungers?
Why does he need a 5m long sofa?
Why does he need a huge double bed?
It seems that Clinton is a divorced man with four or five
children, but mostly he lives alone. I suspect that the children live with
their mother. Why does he need such a huge house? There is no clutter anywhere
throughout the house, so what does he occupy himself with when he's at home?
The answer lies in the house itself: he has his own private pool, its own
private gym, its own private spa, and a huge television. Need I say more !!!!
21:00 We continue to watch TV. They show an interesting
documentary that is about Holkam Hall in Norfolk, where the Earl of Leicester
lives.
Holkham Hall
I must admit that we rarely see in this kind of program,
but we decide to watch it because the host is Phil Spencer, who looks around the
palace not as a historian but like an uncultured realtor - my goodness, what a
crazy world we live in !
Lois and I holidayed in Norfolk 2 years ago and we tried
to visit Holkam Hall, but when we showed up, we found out that the castle was
closed - my goodness, what a mix-up!
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzz !!!!!
05:00 I get up early and do one of my routine Danish
vocabulary tests. Afterwards, I make two cups of tea and bring them up to our
bedroom. We lie in bed and drink the tea. We get up and eat breakfast.
09:30 We have to be off. We drive over to Maggie's house.
Maggie is a friend who intends to sell her house in Leckhampton and move into a
nursing home in Birmingham. She has a small cupboard that she keeps her music
books in, and she wants to pass the cupboard on to us. We pick up the cupboard
and drink a cup of tea in Maggie's living-room. Afterwards, we head over to the
Cook Shop in Leckhampton and buy three ready meals. We can use these ready
meals when we are very tired and do not feel like cooking - hooray!
11:30 We get home and eat lunch. Afterwards I go to bed
and take a long nap - zzzzz !!!!!
15:00 I get up and I look a little at my Anglo-Saxon
grammars. I am a member of a U3A group (group name is "The Making of
English"), which deals with the history of the English language, and holds
monthly meetings. The Group's next meeting will take place on Friday.
I'm a
little angry at the group's leader, Lynda, because she waited until yesterday
to send the details to members of the group about what we are discussing on
Friday. She has chosen a text that is very long and difficult to understand. My
Goodness!
I flip through my grammar-books and write the main points on a single
page of paper - hurray! Now I can try to understand the text, which is an
excerpt from Ælfrics "De Temporibus Anni" which is about the creation
of the world.
Ælfric – what a long time ago he lived –
no doubt about that!
Ælfric wrote the text in the 993. My goodness! What a long time ago it was!
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