18:00 Vi
spiser aftensmad og derefter skal vi af sted. Lois vil gerne deltage i et
bibelseminar i aften, og jeg skal køre hende til Marie-Anns hus i Hatherley.
Marie-Ann og Alf, Marie-Anns mand, skal så køre Lois til Brockworth, hvor
seminaret finder sted. Efter seminaret skal de køre Lois tilbage igen og sætte hende
af ved 22-tiden herhjemme.
18:45 Jeg
komme tilbage. På vej hjem kører jeg forbi Sarahs gamle hus i Leckhampton. Sarah
er vores yngste datter. Hun bor nu i Perth, Australien, sammen med Francis, sin
mand, og deres 3-årige tvillinger, Lily og Jessica. Jeg husker den dag i marts
2015, da en flyttevogn ankom for at transportere familiens møbler til
Australien.
den 3. marts 2015: Flyttevognen
ankommer
for at transportere familiens møbler til Australien – uha!
Familien boede
derefter faktisk hos os i to måneder. De havde planlagt at flyve til Australien
i slutningen af april, men Francis havde taget fejl i forbindelse med de
australske regler om at importere hunde, så de måtte aflyse familiens
flybilletter – du godeste, sikke en redelighed! Fra maj til november boede
familien i et feriehus i Evesham, og fløj til Australien i begyndelsen af
december. Du godeste! Men det betød, at Lois og jeg kunne nyde endnu 6 måneder,
hvor vi kunne have kontakt med dem nu og da – hurra!
Maj 2015: vi besøger familiens hus i Evesham.
Jessica
hjælper mig med at spise frokost
August 2015: jeg holder Lily i hånden,
da
vi og Sarah besøger Evesham Country Park. Lily og jeg leder de andre
tilbage
til parkens banegård i enden af dagens udflugt
19:00 Jeg har
lidt alenetid, og jeg beslutter at lytte lidt til radio: en interessant
program, der handler om Barry Humphries, den australske komiker, og den musik,
han voksede op med på radioen som dreng i Melbourne i 1930’erne.
Det er
interessant at høre, at samfundet, radioen, skolerne osv i Melbourne dengang
var meget optaget med England fremfor Australien. Den unge Humphries kunne uden
besvær identificere og udpege alle Englands større byer på et kort, men han
havde ikke den fjerneste anelse om, hvor Adelaide og Perth lå. Du godeste!
Det er meget
hyggeligt at høre nogle af de charmerende sange, der var populære før, og
under, den anden verdenskrig, herunder mange, som jeg ikke har hørt om. For
eksempel en tyske-(delvis) jødiske sanggruppe Comedian Harmonists. Deres musik
blev forbudt i Tyskland i løbet af 1930’erne og gruppens jødiske medlemmer
undslap til USA. Humphries spiller én af deres mest berømte sange, den gamle
tudesang ”The Way You Look Tonight”. Dejligt!
Det er også
meget interessant at høre Marriott Edgars komiske monolog om slaget ved
Hastings. Jeg er forbløffet, at denne monolog ikke er mere kendt. Jeg dør af
grin – du godeste!
Humphries blev
som dreng fascineret af England og han besluttede, at han ville flytte herover,
da han var vokset op. Han kunne ikke lide Melbourne, fordi der var ”for rent og
pænt”. Han ville gerne bo i et land, der var ”beskidt”, syntes han! Han ankom
til London i 1959.
21:00 Til
sidst tænder jeg for fjernsynet. Det viser en interessant dokumentarfilm, der
handler om Goodwood House i Sussex, hvor Lord March bor.
Jeg må
indromme, at vi sjældent ser på dette slags program, men jeg 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 !!!!
Phil er
åbenbart ikke en uddannet mand, men han
har en meget charmerende personlighed. Derfor irriterer det mig
ikke, at han åbenbart ikke ved forskellen på éns forfadre og éns efterkommere -
du godeste! Sikke en skør verden vi lever i !
Goodwood House
Goodwood House
er et slot, der hører til familien af hertugerne af Richmond. Den første hertug
var Kong Charles IIs ulovlig søn, der
blev født efter kongen gik i seng med en fransk kvinde – du godeste! Slottet er
meget stort. Hestestaldene er så store, at mange tror, de er selve slottet –
uha!
22:00 Lois
kommer hjem og vi går i sengen – zzzzz!!!
05:00 Jeg står
op og laver én af mine rutinemæssige danske ordforrådtester. Jeg laver to
kopper te og bringer dem op på vores soveværelse. Vi ligger inde i seng og
drikker teen. Vi står op og spiser morgenmad.
09:00 Vi går
ud i baghaven og klippe grene af buskerne. Vores have er blevet en sand jungle,
mens vi var i Australien , er jeg sikker på!
11:00 Jeg
lytter lidt til radio, en interessant program (anden del af fem) der handler om
”at have travlt”. Programmets vært er Oliver Burkeman, en journalist fra The
Guardian. Han siger, at vi nu til dags
bedømmer om andre er gode mennesker ved at vurdere deres indsatser fremfor
deres resultater.
Alle
ekspertene er enige i, at mennesker er mere produktive, når de arbejder
hjemmefra, men for nylig droppede Yahoo denne arbejdsmåde, fordi firmaets
ledelse ville gerne se sine medarbejdere tilsyneladende have travlt. Du godeste
– sikke en skør verden vi lever i !!!!
Men det
vigtigste problem er, at vi bringer hjem denne arbejdsstil og lade den invadere
vores privatliv også – uha! Der er noget galt med universet – det ved jeg nu med
sikkerhed!!!!
11:45 Vi går
hen til landsbyen og tager et hurtigt smut ind på posthuset. Vi afsender en bog
om rumrejse til Rosalind, vores 8-årige barnebarn i København. Hun går højt op
i rumrejse og astronomi.
12:30 Vi
kommer hjem og spiser frokost. Derefter går jeg i seng og tager mig en
gigantisk eftermiddagslur – zzzzz!!!!
15:00 Jeg står
op og vi slapper af med en kop te på sofaen.
English translation
18:00 We have dinner and then we leave. Lois would like
to participate in a Bible seminar tonight, and I'll drive her to Marie-Ann’s
house in Hatherley. Marie-Ann and Alf,
Marie-Ann’s husband are to drive Lois to Brockworth, where the seminar takes
place. After the seminar, they are to drive Lois back again and drop her off at
10pm here at home.
18:45 I get back. On the way home I drive past Sarah's
old house in Leckhampton. Sarah is our
youngest daughter. She now lives in Perth, Australia, along with Francis, her
husband and their 3-year-old twins, Lily and Jessica. I remember the day in
March 2015, when a moving truck arrived to transport the family's furniture to
Australia.
3 March 2015:
Removal van arrives to transport the family’s
furniture to Australia - oh dear!
The family then actually lived with us for two months.
They had planned to fly to Australia in late April, but Francis had made a
mistake in relation to the Australian rules on importing dogs, so they had to
cancel the family's flights - my goodness, what a mess! From May to November,
the family lived in a cottage in Evesham, and flew to Australia in early
December. My Goodness! But it meant that Lois and I could enjoy 6 months when
we could have contact with them now and again - hurrah!
May 2015: we visit the family house in
Evesham.
Jessica helps me to eat lunch
August 2015: I hold Lily's hand, when we
and Sarah visit Evesham Country Park -
Lily and I lead the others back to the park’s
railway station at the end of the day’s outing
19:00 I have a little time alone, and I decide to listen
a little to the radio: an interesting program that's about Barry Humphries, the Australian comedian, and the music he grew up with on the radio as a boy in
Melbourne in the 1930s.
It is interesting to hear that society, radio, schools,
etc. in Melbourne at that time were very preoccupied with England rather than with Australia. The young Humphries could effortlessly identify and point out all
England's major cities on a map, but he had not the faintest idea where
Adelaide and Perth lay. My Goodness!
It is very nice to hear some of the charming songs that
were popular before, and during, the Second World War, including many that I
have not heard of. For example, a German - (partly) Jewish singing group
Comedian Harmonists. Their music was banned in Germany during the 1930s and the
group's Jewish members escaped to the United States. Humphries played one of
their most famous songs, the old weepie "The Way You Look Tonight".
Lovely!
It is also very interesting to hear the Marriott Edgar's
comic monologue about the Battle of Hastings. I am amazed that this monologue
is not better known. I almost die laughing - oh my!
Humphries was fascinated by England as a boy and he
decided that he would move over here, when he had grown up. He did not like
Melbourne because it was "too clean and neat" there. He wanted to
live in a country that was "dirty", he thought! He arrived in London
in 1959.
21:00 Finally I turn on the television. It shows an
interesting documentary that is about Goodwood House in Sussex, where Lord
March lives.
I must admit that we rarely see this kind of program, but
I decide to see 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 !!!!
Phil is obviously not an educated man, but he has a very
charming personality. That's why it does not irritate me that he obviously does
not know the difference between one's "ancestors" and one's
"descendants" - my goodness! What a crazy world we live in!
Goodwood House
Goodwood House is a castle that belongs to the family of
the Dukes of Richmond. The first Duke was King Charles II's illegitimate son
who was born after the king went to bed with a Frenchwoman - my goodness! The
castle is very large. Horse stables are so large that many think they are the
castle itself - oh dear!
22:00 Lois comes home and we go to bed - zzzzz !!!
5:00 I get up and do one of my routine Danish vocabulary
tests. 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.
09:00 We go out in the backyard and cut branches off the
bushes. Our garden has become a true jungle while we were in Australia, I am
sure of THAT!
11:00 I listen a little to the radio, an interesting
program (second part of five) which is about "being busy". The
program's host is Oliver Burkeman, a journalist from The Guardian. He says that
we nowadays judge whether others are good people by assessing their efforts
rather than their results.
The experts all agree that people are more productive
when they work from home, but recently Yahoo dropped this way of working,
because the company's management wanted to see their employees being
apparently busy. My goodness - what a crazy world we live in !!!!
But the main problem is that we bring home this working
style and let it invade our private life too - oh dear! There is something wrong
with the universe – now I know for sure !!!!
11:45 We go to the village and pop in at the post office.
We ship a book about space travel to Rosalind, our 8-year-old grandchild in
Copenhagen. She is very into space travel and astronomy.
12:30 We get home and eat lunch. Then I go to bed and
take a giant nap - zzzzz !!!!
15:00 I get up and we relax with a cup of tea on the
sofa.
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