18:00 Efter en doven dag, da Lois og jeg begge to følte, at vi var ved at
få man-flu (også woman-flu, der selvfølgelig er meget værre!!!), spiser vi
aftensmad og bruger aftenen på at se lidt fjernsyn.
19:00 De viser en speciel skandinavisk version af QI, den komiske tv-quiz.
Det er det andet afsnit, der bliver styret af Sandi Toksvig, den berømte
tv-vært, der er født i Danmark.
Som sædvanligt har den person, der skriver programmets undertekster, svært
ved at forstå og transskribere fremmede sprog. Jeg ved ikke, hvad der er sket
med Englands uddannelsesystem – du godeste!
Den person, der skriver programmets undertekster, har problemer,
når
Sandi begynder at tale danske – uha!
Hvad
lærer de unge nu til dags, spørger jeg mig selv!!!
a2
Sandis gæster bærer alle vikinge hjelme, men jeg formoder,
at
hjelmene må være ganske tunge, og de tager dem snart af – sikke en skam!!!
Menneskers
hoveder er meget svagere, end i tidligere tider – ingen tvivl om det!
20:00 Vi fortsætter med at se lidt
fjernsyn. De viser en dokumentarfilm,
der handler om ankomsten af moderne mennesker i Europe for ca. 40.000 år siden.
Programmets vært er den charmerende Alice Roberts.
Programmet er desværre lidt skuffende og afslører næsten ikke noget, vi
ikke vidste. Alice fortæller os for eksempel, at de moderne mennesker dengang
fik en konkurrencemæssig fordel overfor neandertalerne på grund af deres stærk
sans af delt identitet og kultur (fertilitetsymboler - figurer lavet af sten). Hun
fortalte os også, at de sidste neandertalerne over mange århundreder overlevede
i huler på Gibraltar, også at de fleste europæiske folk har neandertal-dna i
kroppene.
Men det er rart, at hun minder os om, at selv de afgrøder, vi nu til dags
dyrker, også har dna, og man kan spore deres oprindelse tilbage til Tyrkiet for
tusindvis af år siden – er genetisk videnskab ikke vidunderligt? Heldigvis var
neanderthalene ikke særlig interesseret i at dyrke afgrøder, så var der ingen
sammenstød af kulturer i dette område – puh! Sikke en lettelse!!!
21:00 Vi fortsætter med at se lidt fjernsyn. De viser en interessant
dokumentarfilm (tredje del af seks), der handler om Australiens historie.
Programmets vært er Tony Robinson.
Dette afsnit handler om den tidligste periode i historien af New South
Wales, Australiens ældste delstat. Hvis du troede, at de straffefanger, der
blev sendt derover, var lidt ukultiverede, er det interessant at lære, at de første
politimændene og soldaterne, der blev sendt, ofte var meget værre, end de
straffefanger, de bevogtede – du godeste!
Programmets vært, Tony Robinson, giver altid interessante og sjove
beskrivelser, men nogle gange er hans sjove ”rekonstruktioner af historiske
begivenheder” lidt latterlige, som for eksempel da han beder to mænd i et
værtshus i Sydney om at forgive at skyde hinanden. Du godeste, vi er ikke børn,
Tony, vi kan forestiller os sådan en scene uden besvær, er jeg sikker på!!!
én af Tony Robinsons latterlige historiske ”rekonstruktioner” –
vi
er ikke børn, Tony – vi kan forestiller os ting, vil jeg lige ’påpege’ hahaha
!!!!
22:00 Vi beslutter alligevel at gå i seng og ikke at blive sent oppe endnu
en time, som vi oprindeligt planlagde, fordi vi føler os lidt forkølede.
Jeg bliver pludselig klar over, at det er en meget god ting, at mennesker i
West Australia ikke stiller urene frem og tilbage, fordi det er sommeren, der
derovre er på vej, ikke vinteren, så derfor ville de stille urene frem, da vi
stiller dem tilbage og omvendt. Det ville skabe kaos – det her jeg ikke nogen
tvivl om!
Vi går i seng og glider over i søvnen – zzzzz!!!!
04:00 Jeg står tidligere end normalt op (på grund af urene, der er blevet
stillet en time tilbage). Jeg laver én af mine rutinemæssige danske
ordforrådtester. Bagefter skynder jeg mig ind i køkkenet og jeg laver to kopper
te. Jeg bringer dem op på vores soveværelse og kryber tilbage i vores seng. Vi
står op og spiser morgenmad.
09:00 Vi sætter os til rette i sofaen og ringer til Sarah, vores yngste
datter, der for 11 måneder siden flyttede til Australien sammen med Francis,
sin mand, og deres 3-årige døtre, Lily og Jessica. Vi har aftalt med hende sidste
søndag, at ringer kl 9 til hende (en time tidligere end normalt), så vi ikke forstyrrer
familiens aftensmad.
Desværre er der ingen svar. Det kan være, at familien tager på udflugt i
dag. Nogle gange Sarah glemmer, at tænde sin smartphone. Du godeste! Vi
forlader en besked og ringer af.
11:00 Lois skal af sted. Hun vil gerne deltage i to gudstjenester, der
finder sted i dag i Tewkesbury.
Jeg har lidt alenetid, og jeg går i gang med at gøre lidt forskning om et
digt kaldet ”Ormulum”, der blev skrevet i det 12. århundrede i et abbedi i
grevskabet Lincoln. Jeg er medlem af
Lyndas U3A ”Making of English” gruppe, og gruppen holder dens månedlige møde på
fredag. Det var min idé at gruppen kigger lidt på digtet ”Ormulum”, så må jeg før fredag finde ud af,
hvad det handler om – det har jeg ikke nogen tvivl om !!!!
Ormulums forfatter var en munk ved navn Orm, og digtet er skrevet på det
middelengelske sprog, men i en vis grad er det helt moderne, fordi der er en
general mangel på gammeldags bøjningsendelser, bortset fra ”-es” i genitiv
ental (apostrof-s på moderne engelsk) og ”-as” i flertal (”-s” eller ”-es” på moderne engelsk). Vores
moderne engelske sprog kan derfor spores tilbage til Orm – tusind tak, Orm, du holdt os ud af krigen – hurra!
Det er interessant, at der findes kun ét manuskriptet, der indeholder dette
digt, og det er lidt af et mirakel, at Orms digt overlevede til i dag. Vi kan
se Orms oprindelige håndskrift i manuskriptet. Det er klar, at han bad hans
bror til at redigere det og perfektionere det, men dette blev ikke til noget på
én eller anden grund. Stakkels Orm! Han var uheldig at have sådan en doven bror
– det ved jeg med sikkerhed!!!!
Orm kan ses i gang med sit kendte digt –
mens
hans dovne bror slapper af nogle steder!!!
13:00 Jeg spiser frokost og derefter går jeg i seng og tager mig en
gigantisk eftermiddagslur – zzzzzz!!!
15:30 Lois kommer hjem igen og vi
slapper af med en kop te på sofaen.
English translation
18:00 After a lazy day when Lois and I both felt that we were about
to get man-flu (and woman-flu, which of course is much worse!!!!), we eat
dinner and spend the evening watching a little television.
19:00 They show a special
Scandinavian version of QI, the comic television quiz. It is the second episode
led by Sandi Toksvig, the famous TV presenter, who was born in Denmark.
As usual, the person who writes
the program subtitles has trouble understanding and transcribing foreign
languages. I do not know what has happened to Britain's education system - my
god!
The person who writes the program
subtitles has problems
when Sandi begin to speak Danish – oh dear!
What do young people learn nowadays, I ask
myself !!!
Sandi's guests all wear Viking helmets,
but I suppose
that the helmets must be quite heavy, and
they soon take them off - what a shame !!!
Human heads are much weaker than in earlier
times - no doubt about it!
20:00 We continue to watch TV.
They show a documentary about the arrival of modern humans in Europe about
40,000 years ago. The program's host is the charming Alice Roberts.
The program is unfortunately a
little disappointing, revealing almost nothing we did not know. Alice tells us
for example that the modern people at that time had a competitive advantage
over the Neanderthals because of their strong sense of shared identity and
culture (fertility symbols - figures made of stone). She also told us that the
last Neanderthals survived over many centuries in caves in Gibraltar, also that
most European people have Neanderthal DNA in their bodies.
But it's nice that she reminds us
that even the crops we grow nowadays also have DNA, and one can trace their
origins back to Turkey thousands of years ago - is genetic science not
wonderful? Luckily Neanderthals were not very interested in growing crops, so
there was no clash of cultures in this area - whew! What a relief!!!
21:00 We continue to watch TV.
They show an interesting documentary (Part three of six), which is about the
history of Australia. The program's host is Tony Robinson.
This episode is about the
earliest period in the history of New South Wales, Australia's oldest state. If
you thought that the convicts who got sent over were somewhat uncultured, it
is interesting to learn that the first policemen and soldiers that got sent,
were often much worse than the prisoners they guarded - my god!
The program's host, Tony
Robinson, always gives interesting and fun descriptions, but sometimes his fun
"reconstructions of historical events" are a bit ridiculous, as for
example when he asks two men in a pub in Sydney to pretend to shoot each other
with pointed fingers . My god, we are not children, Tony, we can imagine such a
scene without difficulty, I am sure !!!
one of Tony Robinson's ridiculous
historical "reconstructions" -
we are not children, Tony - we can imagine
things, may I ‘point out’ ha ha ha !!!!
22:00 We decide to go to bed
anyway and not to stay up late another hour as we originally planned because we
feel a bit coldy.
I suddenly realize that it is a
very good thing that people in West Australia do not put the clocks back and
forward, because it's summer over there that is coming, not winter, so
therefore they would put the clocks forward when we put them back, and vice
versa. It would create chaos - of this I have no doubt!
We go to bed and drift off to
sleep - zzzzz !!!!
04:00 I get up earlier than usual
(due to the clocks that have been put back one hour). I do one of my routine Danish
vocabulary tests. Afterwards I hurry into the kitchen and I make two cups of
tea. I bring them up to our bedroom and crawl back into our bed. We get up and
eat breakfast.
09:00 We sit ourselves on the
sofa and call Sarah, our youngest daughter, who moved to Australia 11 months
ago with Francis, her husband and their 3-year-old daughters, Lily and Jessica.
We agreed with her last Sunday, to call her at 9am (one hour earlier than
usual), so we do not disturb the family dinner.
Unfortunately there is no answer.
It may be that the family is taking a trip somewhere today. Sometimes Sarah forgets to
turn on her smartphone. My God! We leave a message and ring off.
11:00 Lois has to go off. She
would like to attend two church services taking place today in Tewkesbury.
I have a little time alone, and I
start to do a little research about a poem called "Ormulum" that was
written in the 12th century in an abbey in the county of Lincoln. I am a member
of Lynda's U3A "Making of English" group, and the group is holding
its monthly meeting on Friday. It was my idea that the group take a little look
at the poem "Ormulum" so I must find out what it's about before Friday -
no doubt about THAT !!!!
Ormulum's author was a monk named
Orm, and the poem is written in the Middle English language, but to some extent
it is quite modern, because there is a general lack of old-style inflectional
endings, apart from "-es" in the genitive singular (apostrophe s in
modern English) and "-as" in the plural ( "-s" or "-es"
in modern English). Our modern English language can be traced back to Orm -
thank you, Orm, you kept us out of war - hurrah!
It is interesting that there is
only one manuscript that contains this poem, and it is something of a miracle
that Orm's poem survived until today. We can see Orm's original handwriting in
the manuscript. It is clear that he asked his brother to edit it and perfect
it, but this did not happen for one reason or another. Poor Orm! He was unlucky
to have such a lazy brother - I know THAT for sure !!!!
Orm can be seen working on his famous
poem -
while his lazy brother relaxes somewhere !!!
13:00 I eat lunch and then I go
to bed and take a giant nap - zzzzzz !!!
15:30 Lois comes home again and
we relax with a cup of tea on the sofa.
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