17:00 Jeg hopper op på min kondicykel og cykler 6 miles (10km). Hurra – nu
ved jeg med sikkerhed, at jeg kan blive rask igen. Mens jeg cykler jeg tænder
for mit smartphone og ser 1984s bedste musikvideoer, eller noget lignende.
Tiden flyver, da man har det sjovt – ingen tvivl om det!!!!
18:00 Lois og jeg spiser aftensmad og derefter bruger vi aftenen på at se
lidt fjernsyn. De viser Only Connect, en tv-quiz, og én af de få tv-programmer,
der ikke er egnede til meget dumme mennesker ha ha ha.
Quizzen går ud på, at de to hold skal finde frem til, hvad er forbindelse
mellem fire tilsyneladende tilfældige objekter, personer, udtryk osv. Men ved
slutningen af quizzen gører programmets vært, den charmerende Victoria Coren
Mitchell, en chok-meddelelse om næste ugens show. Hun siger at de to hold
fremover vil blive spurgt at finde den mindst sædvanlige forbindelse mellem fire
fuldstændigt tilfældige ting – du godeste! Jeg håber sandelig, hun spøger kun.
Hun vil få vores hjerner til at implodere – ingen tvivl om det!!!!
”Only Connects” chok nye udfordring: af at finde frem til
den
mindst sædvanlige forbindelse mellem fire fuldstændigt tilfældige
(usammenhængende)
ting – du godeste! Jeg håber sandelig, hun spøger kun!!!!
20:00 Vi fortsætter med at se lidt fjernsyn. De viser ”The Good Old Days”, et
tv-program, der prøvede at genskabe stemningen af det gamle vaudeville-teater.
Programmet blev først udsendt på nytårsaften 1977.
For vores vedkommende er showets højdepunkt de sædvanlige spanske musikere,
Pompoff-Thedy familien, selvom i aften sker der en række alvorlige sår under én
af familiens numre. Klarinettisten bliver stak i halsen af sit egne instrument,
og senere en økse falder på sit hoved. Jeg synes, at der i gamle dage var en slags
inspirerende spontanitet, og en total mangel på bekymring for sundhed og
sikkerhed, hvilket i dag synes så
forfriskende.
Alvorlige sår ødelægger desværre
de
spanske musikeres sidste nummer.
Kom
tilbage, sundhed og sikkerhed – alt er tilgivet!!!!
Efter min mening var klarinettisten mega heldig i, at han ikke døde af
sårene. Vores U3A danske gruppe læser for tiden en dansk kriminovelle, og på
den anden side af historien læser vi, at en ældre lærerinde blev fundet på
skolens kontor med en lang pegepind langt nede i halsen – uha! Selvfølgelig
overlevede hun ikke – hun lå i en sø af blod, staklen!!!!
Showet blev først udsendt på nytårsaften 1977. Jeg synes, det altid er
rørende, at kigge på mennesker, der fester og glæder sig til det nye år, der er
ved at starte, i dette tilfælde fyldte med håber og forventninger om 1978.
Rørende, fordi vi i dag kan tilbagekigge på 1978 og mindes, at det ikke var et
ret godt år – uha!
Showets sangere ender med at
synge
den traditionelle nytårssang, ”Auld Lang Syne”.
Nytårsaften 1977 - en tid for håb, men desværre
var
1978 ikke et ret godt år. Uha!!!!
Showet indeholdt også Janet Brown, der fortolkede en anden traditionel
skotsk sang, ”Lad være med at kilde mig, Jock”. 1978 var ikke et ret godt år i
Storbritannien, men der var lys for enden af tunnelen for Janet Brown (og os
alle), fordi Maggie Thatcher pludselig blev meget populær i meningsmålingerne
og blev i 1979 udpeget som premierminister.
Janet Brown blev Maggies mest berømte imitator, og spillede Maggie i James Bond
filmen, ”Strengt fortroligt”.
Janet Brown synger den traditionel skotsk sang,
”Lad
være med at kilde mig, Jock”
Nogle år senere spillede Janet Brown den britiske premierminister,
Maggie Thatcher, i ”Strengt fortroligt”-filmen
(1981)
(John Wells spillede Denis Thatcher)
Nytårsaften var en fantastisk tid for Lois og mig. Vi havde tilbragt vores
første jul som en familie på 4 – Sarah, vores yngste datter, var kun 6 måneder
gammel. Lykkelige dage!!!!
Lois med Sarah (6 mdr) og Alison (2 år gammel)
jul og nytår 1977-8
22:00 Vi går i seng – zzzzzz!!!!
04:00 Jeg står tidligt op og laver én af mine rutinemæssige danske
ordforrådtest.
Vores svigersøn i Perth i Australien, Francis, Sarahs mand, har sendt mig
billeder af det hus, familien vil flytte ind i om et par uger. Huset ligger i
Leederville, en pæn forstad til Perth. Efter min mening ligner huset lidt et
britisk hus, i sammenligning med familiens nuværende hus, hvilket er
forfriskende!
det nye (britisk stil?) hus, som vores datter Sarah vil flytte
ind
i om et par uger, sammen med sin familie.
07:30 Jeg laver to kopper te og tager dem med op i soveværelset. Jeg hopper
op i sengen til Lois. Efter vi er færdige med at drikke teen, står vi op og
spiser morgenmad.
08:30 Vi taler lidt på Skype med Sarah og hendes 3,5 år gamle tvillingdøtre
i Perth. Det er meget sjovt at snakke med dem om deres liv i Australien, og om
det nye hus, familien skal flytte ind i startende fra den 3. februar.
Vi snakker lidt på Skype med Sarah, vores datter i Perth i Australien,
og
hendes 3,5-årige tvillingdøtre, Lily og Jessica
09:30 Vi skal ud. Vi kører over til den lokale tankstation for at fylde
tanken op. På vej hjem kigger vi ind i Waghornes, den lokale slagterforretning,
for at købe kød og brød. Vi kører hjem og slapper af med en kop kaffe i sofaen.
11:00 Lois går i
gang med at forberede endnu 11 pund hjemmelavet appelsinmarmelade – nam nam!
Lois forbereder endnu 11 pund hjemmelavet
appelsinemarmelade
– nam nam!!!
13:00 Vi spiser frokost og bagefter går jeg i seng for at tage mig en
gigantisk eftermiddagslur – zzzzz!!!
14:30 Lois kommer op i soveværelset og hopper op i sengen. Hun har været på
fødderne i flere timer og er meget træt.
16:00 Vi står op og slapper af med en kop te i sofaen. Jeg ringer til min lillesøster,
Gill, der bor i Cambridge, sammen med sin handicappede mand, Peter, og Lucy, én
af deres 3 døtre. Vi udveksler nyheder om vores familier. Den største
overraskelse er, at Gill og Peter planlægger at holde ferie i maj i Andalusien
i Spanien. Hverken Peter eller Gill er nogensinde rejst på et fly før. De vil
bo på et usædvanligt hotel, der specialiserer sig i modtage handicappede
gæster.
English translation
17:00 I jump up on my exercise
bike and cycle 6 miles (10km). Hoorah - now I know for sure that I can get well
again. While I cycle I switch on my smartphone and watch 1984's best music
videos, or something similar. Time flies when you're having fun - no doubt
about that !!!!
18:00 Lois and I eat supper and
then we spend the evening watching a little television. They show Only Connect,
a TV quiz, and one of the few television programs that are not suitable for
very stupid people ha ha ha.
The idea of the quiz is that the
two teams must find out the connection between four seemingly random objects,
people, expressions etc. But at the end of the quiz, the program's host, the
charming Victoria Coren Mitchell, makes a shock announcement about next week's
show. She says that the two teams will in future be asked to find the least
likely connection between four completely random things - my god! I sure hope
she is just kidding. She will get our brains to implode - no doubt about that
!!!!!!!!
Only Connect's shock new challenge: to
find
the least likely connection between four truly
random
(unrelated) things - my god! I sure hope she
is just kidding !!!!
20:00 We continue to watch TV.
They show "The Good Old Days", a television program that tried to
recreate the atmosphere of the old vaudeville theater. The program was first
broadcast on New Year's Eve 1977.
For our part, the show's
highlight is the usual Spanish musicians, the Pompoff-Thedy family, although
tonight a number of serious injuries happen during one of the family's numbers.
The clarinettist is stabbed in the throat by his own instrument, and later an
ax falls on his head.
I think that in the old days
there was a kind of inspiring spontaneity, and a total lack of concern for
health and safety, which today seems so refreshing.
Severe injuries unfortunately mar the
Spanish musicians' final number.
Come back, health and safety - all is
forgiven !!!!
In my opinion the clarinettist was
mega lucky not to die of his wounds. Our U3A Danish group is currently reading
a Danish crime novel, and on the second page of the story we read that an elderly
woman teacher was found at the school office with a long pointer stuck deep in
her throat - oh dear! Of course, she did not survive, she was lying in a pool
of blood, poor thing !!!!
The show was first broadcast on
New Year's Eve 1977. I think it is always touching to look at people who are
partying and looking forward to the new year which is about to start, in this
case filled with hope and expectations for 1978. Touching, because today we can
look back at 1978 and remember that it was not to be such a good year - oh dear!
The show's singers end by
singing the traditional New Year song,
"Auld Lang Syne".
New Year's Eve 1977 - a time for hope,
but unfortunately
1978 was not to be such a great year. Oh dear!!!!
The show also included Janet
Brown, who performed another traditional Scottish song, "Stop Your
Tickling, Jock." 1978 was not such a good year in the UK, but there was
light at the end of the tunnel for Janet Brown (and us all), because Maggie
Thatcher suddenly became very popular in the polls and in 1979 was appointed
prime minister. Janet Brown was Maggie's most famous impersonator, and she played
Maggie in the James Bond film "For Your Eyes Only".
Janet Brown sings the traditional
Scottish song
"Stop Your Tickling, Jock"
Some years later Janet Brown played
the British Prime Minister,
Maggie Thatcher, in the movie "For Your
Eyes Only” (1981)
(John Wells played Denis Thatcher)
New Year's Eve 1977 was a fantastic
time for Lois and me. We had spent our first Christmas as a family of 4 -
Sarah, our youngest daughter was only 6 months old. Happy days !!!!
Lois with Sarah (6 months) and Alison (2)
Christmas and New Year 1977-8
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzz !!!!
04:00 I get up early and do one
of my routine Danish vocabulary tests.
Our son-in-law in Perth, Francis (Sarah's husband) has sent me pictures of the house the
family are going to move into in a couple of weeks' time. The house is in
Leederville, a nice suburb of Perth. In my view, the house is a bit more like a
British house than the family's current house - that's
refreshing!
the new (British style?) house, that our
daughter Sarah
will move into in a few weeks with her
family.
07:30 I make two cups of tea and
take them up to the bedroom. I jump into bed with Lois. After we have finished
drinking the tea, we get up and eat breakfast.
08:30 We speak a little on Skype
with Sarah and her 3 and a half year old twin daughters in Perth. It is a lot
of fun to talk to them about their lives in Australia, and about the new house
the family is to move into, starting from 3 February.
We talk a little on Skype with Sarah,
our daughter in Perth, Australia,
and her 3 and a half-year-old twin daughters,
Lily and Jessica
09:30 We have to go out. We drive
over to the local gas station to fill up the tank. On the way home we pop into
Waghorne’s, the local butcher’s shop, to buy meat and bread. We drive home and
relax with a cup of coffee on the sofa.
11:00 Lois begins preparing another 11 pounds of
homemade orange marmalade - yum yum!
Lois prepares another 11 pounds of
home-made orange marmalade - yum yum !!!
13:00 We eat lunch and afterwards
I go to bed and take a gigantic afternoon nap - zzzzz !!!
15:00 Lois comes up to the
bedroom and hops into bed. She has been on her feet for several hours and is
very tired.
16:00 We get up and relax with a
cup of tea on the sofa. I call my sister, Gill, who lives in Cambridge with
her disabled husband, Peter, and Lucy, one of their three daughters. We
exchange news about our families. The biggest surprise is that Gill and Peter
are planning to have a holiday in May in Andalusia, Spain. Neither Peter nor Gill has
ever traveled on a plane before. They will stay at an unusual hotel that
specializes in receiving disabled guests.
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