16:30 Jeg
hopper op på min kondicykel og cykler 7 miles (12 km?) – hurra! Jeg ved nu
endelig, at alle mine problemer hermed er løst – hurra (igen) !
18:00 Vi
spiser aftensmad og bruger aftenen på at se lidt fjernsyn. De viser ”Victoria”,
der handler om den unge dronning i hendes tidlige år på tronen.
I slutningen
af aftenens afsnit ser vi Victoria og Alberts bryllup, og det tidspunkt, de går
i seng med hinanden. På trods af Jenna Colemans ”Downton Abbey”-stemme, er serien
er meget overbevisende, når det kommer til at skildre parrets gensidige
forelskelse, Victorias lidenskabelige personlighed, Alberts seriøse
personlighed osv.
Det er
interessant at se det britiske parlaments holdning over for Albert: mange kunne ikke lide ham, fordi han var tysker,
også mange MF’er mistænkte ham for at være
katolik – hans far, Belgiens Kong Leopold, var konverteret til katolicisme på
upersonlige grunde, da han blev bedt om at acceptere tronen i det der katolske
land – uha! Sikke et vanvid!
Serien viser, at Victoria
var en energisk, egensindig og beslutsom kvinde. Hun lavede mange forandringer
i traditionelle vaner: forandringer, der
varede. Hun besluttede, at Buckingham Palace var landets mest passende
kongelige slot og flyttede derind. Hun startede mange vedvarende trends: en
hvid bryllupskjole, bryllup om morgenen,
i stedet for i aften osv. Tidligere monarkers brylluper fandt sted om aftenen,
og parret blev lige med det samme lagt i seng af tjenestefolk – du godeste,
hvor pinligt!
Det britiske samfund blev
stærkt præget af parrets anstændighed, respektabilitet og gensidig troskab, og
senere af imagen af den tilsyneladende ”perfekte” familie.
Seriens ”tjenestefolk”-scener
er meget kedelige, men jeg læste, at ITV-netværket blev tvunget til at
indeholde dem, så de senere kunne sælge serien til USA – sikke en skør verden
vi lever i !!!!
22:00 Vi går i seng –
zzzz!!!
04:30 Jeg står tidligt op
og laver en rutinemæssig dansk ordforrådtest. Bagefter laver jeg 2 kopper te og
bringer dem op på vores soveværelse. Jeg kryber tilbage i sengen og vi drikker
teen. Vi står op og spiser morgenmad.
10:00 Jeg går i gang med at
udtænke 100 engelske sætninger, jeg vil have vores U3A danske gruppes medlemmer
til at oversætte til dansk på torsdag når gruppen skal samles – jeg er så
krævende ha ha ha!
12:00 Det regner lidt, men
vi beslutter at gå en kort tur i nabolaget. Vores rute: Dybegade, Højgade,
Møllegade og tilbage igen via Borgergade. På vej tager vi et hurtigt smut ind
på posthuset. Vi afsender tegneserier til to af vores børnebørn i København: en
Octonauts tegneserie til Isaac, og en Star Wars tegneserie til Josie.
Vi går en kort
tur i nabolaget. På vej tager vi et smut ind på posthuset.
I posthuset beklager vi os
over, at en pakke, vi for en måned siden sendte til Sarahs hus i Australien,
endnu ikke er ankommet – uha! Ekspeditricen giver os en kravformular.
Sarah er vores yngste datter,
der bor i Perth, Australien, sammen med Francis, sin mand, og deres 3-årige
tvillinger, Lily og Jessica. Pakken indeholdt 2 fotobøger til tvillingerne:
fotos vi tog mens vi besøgte familien mellem april og juni.
Dette er ikke den første
gang, vi har haft problemer med posten til Sarah i Australien. Vi bemærkede
under vores besøg, at Sarah og Francis næsten aldrig tjekker familiens
postkasse foran huset. Vi fandt den engang meget overfyldt – uha!
12:30 Vi kommer hjem igen
og spiser frokost. Derefter går jeg i seng og tager mig en gigantisk
eftermiddagslur – zzzzzz !!!!
15:00 Jeg sætter mig foran
min bærebare og skriver 50 engelske ord, jeg vil have min ven, ”Magyar” Mike,
til at oversætte til ungarsk i morgen formiddag, når han besøger mig for at
deltage i vores ”ungarske time”. Jeg er så krævende ha ha ha (igen)!
15:30 Vi slapper af med en
kop te på sofaen.
English translation
16:30 I jump up on my exercise bike and bicycle 7 miles
(12 km?) - Hurrah! I know now, finally, that all my problems are herewith eliminated - hurrah (again)!
18:00 We have dinner and spend the evening watching a
little television. They show "Victoria", which is about the young
queen in her early years on the throne.
At the end of tonight's episode we see Victoria and
Albert's wedding, and the moment they go to bed with each other. Despite Jenna
Coleman's "Downton Abbey" -voice, the series is very convincing when
it comes to portraying the couple's mutual infatuation, Victoria's passionate
personality, Albert’s serious personality etc.
It is interesting to see the British parliament's
attitude towards Albert: many did not like him because he was German, also many
Members of Parliament suspected him of being a Catholic - his father, Belgium's
King Leopold, had converted to Catholicism for non-personal reasons when he was
asked to accept the throne in that Catholic country - oh dear! What madness!
The series shows that Victoria was an energetic,
headstrong and determined woman. She made many changes in traditional habits:
changes that lasted. She decided that Buckingham Palace was the country's most
appropriate royal palace and moved there. She started many persistent trends: a
white wedding dress, wedding in the morning instead of the evening, etc.
Earlier monarchs' weddings took place in the evening, and the couple were
immediately put to bed by servants - my God, how embarrassing!
British society was strongly influenced by the couple's
decency, respectability and mutual fidelity, and later by the image of the apparently
"perfect" family.
The series' "servant-scenes" are very boring, but I read that the ITV network was forced to include them so they could later sell the series to the United States - what a crazy world we live in !!!!
22:00 We go to bed – zzzzz!!!!!
04:30 I get up early and do a routine Danish vocabulary
test. Afterwards I make 2 cups of tea and bring them up to our bedroom. I crawl
back into bed and we drink the tea. We get up and eat breakfast.
10:00 I begin to devise 100 English sentences I want our
U3A Danish group members to translate into Danish on Thursday when the group is
to assemble - I'm so demanding ha ha ha!
12:00 It's raining a little, but we decide to take a
short walk in the neighborhood. Our itinerary: Dybegade, Højgade, Møllegade and
back again via Borgergade. On the way, we make a quick stop in at the post
office. We send off comics for two of our grandchildren in Copenhagen: an
Octonauts comic to Isaac, and a Star Wars comic to Josie.
We go for a short walk in the
neighborhood. On the way, we pop into the post office.
In the post office we complain that a parcel we sent to
Sarah's house in Australia a month ago has not yet arrived - oh dear! The
assistant gives us a claim form.
Sarah is our youngest daughter, who lives in Perth,
Australia, along with Francis, her husband and their 3-year-old twins, Lily and
Jessica. The parcel included two photo books for the twins: photos we took
while we were visiting the family between April and June.
This is not the first time we have had problems with the
mail to Sarah in Australia. We noticed during our visit that Sarah and Francis
almost never check the family's mailbox in front of the house. We found it once
very overfull - oh dear!
12:30 We come back home and eat lunch. Then I go to bed
and take a gigantic afternoon nap - zzzzzz!!!!
15:00 I sit in front of my laptop and write 50 English
words I want my friend, "Magyar" Mike, to translate into Hungarian tomorrow
morning when he visits me to take part in our "Hungarian hour". I am
so demanding ha ha ha (again)!
15:30 We relax with a cup of tea on the sofa.
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