17:00 Jeg hoster meget i aften – pokkers! Jeg har haft det meget godt julen
og nytåret over, og jeg havde begyndt at prale af, at jeg har været så rask –
pokkers (igen)! Det er ikke en god idé at prale af ens sundhed osv – uha!
18:00 Lois og jeg spiser aftensmad og derefter bruger vi resten af aftenen
på at se lidt fjernsyn. De viser en interessant dokumentarfilm, der handler om
arkæologiske opdagelser i øen Orkney, der ligger nord for Skotland.
Eksperterne tror nu, at kulturen, der skabte Stonehenge og andre
forhistoriske monumenter i Storbritannien,
startede faktisk på øen Orkney, fordi Orkneys monumenter og bygninger (stencirkler
og stenhuse) er mindst 500 år ældre end de store monumenter i nutidens England,
som for eksempel Stonehenge.
Eksperterne tror nu, at den kultur, der skabte Stonehenge,
faktisk
startede på øen Orkney, der ligger lidt nord for nutidens Skotland
Det er svært at tro, men det ser ud til, at denne fjerne ø var et vigtigt
sted i forhistoriske (neolitiske) tider, måske et slags religiøst center,
respekteret i hele Nord- og Vest-Europa. Eksperterne (arkæologer og
DNA-eksperter) har fundet, at en unik og sjælden art af markmus (mikrotus arvalis orkadensis) blev
transporteret til øen Orkney fra (sandsynligvis) Belgien for mindst 4.600 år
siden, måske for at hjælpe en stor neolitiske befolkning med at etablere en
lokal rævpels industri.
Denne slags markmus findes ikke i resten af Storbritannien, så var de
mysteriøse mennesker, der første transporterede disse markmus, åbenbart ikke
interesserede i andre steder, end Orkney, på en eller anden grund.
Markmus – jeg syntes før i tiden, at markmus var helt kedelige,
men
disse små fyre kan fortælle os meget om vores forhistoriske fortid,
takket
være DNA-studier – du godeste, sikke et
vanvid !!!!
Ja, du godeste, sikke et vanvid! Forhistoriske Storbritannien var proppet
med mysteriøst og intenst drama, og underlige monumenter, vi i dag ikke kan
forstå. Jeg ville dræbe for at kunne rejse i tid og omgås vores forhistoriske
forfadre, men de ville sandsynligvis dræbe mig – så måske ikke min bedste idé
nogensinde! I bedste fald ville de prøve på at finde undskyldninger for ikke at
hænge ud med mig – stakkels mig!!!!
De ville helt sikkert ikke lide mig. Jeg går ikke højt op i mange af
forhistoriske menneskers vigtigste interesser, for eksempel, at bygge
stenmonumenter, jage dyr, dyrke vold, og tænde ild ved hjælp af to pinde. Og
det ville tage mig lang tid at erhverve disse færdigheder – de er helt sikkert
ikke min force. Lois er mere praktisk, end mig, og jeg synes, hun hurtigere
ville mestre disse udfordringer, og måske med tiden ville blive en sand
”kriger-dronning”.
Det er underligt, at der findes så mange forhistoriske monumenter i
Storbritannien, og især på en fjern ø som Orkney. Disse lande ligger i den
ekstrem nordvestlige ende af Europa, der grænser op til det enorme
Atlanter-hav. Vores forfadre troede måske, at deres døde slægtninge levede på
den anden side af dette store hav. Bare min teori!
21:00 Vi fortsætter med at se lidt fjernsyn. De viser en interessant film,
”The Imitation Game”, der handler om den anden verdenskrigs mest kendte
kodebryder, Alan Turing.
Lois og jeg finder begge, at Turings personlighed minder os meget om
Sheldon, den hovedfigur i Big Bang Theory, især den stivere, mere udtryksløs
Sheldon, man ser i seriens tidligste sæsoner. Turing, som spillet af Benedict
Cumberbatch, har ingen humoristisk sans og tolker sine arbejdskollegers ord
bogstaveligt.
Turing var faktisk homoseksuel, men det var han dengang ikke klar over. Han
forsøgte at gøre det heteroseksuelle liv til en succes og blev midlertidigt forlovet
med en kvindelig arbejdskollega, Joan Clarke, en rolle spillet af den charmerende
Keira Knightley i filmen. Denne figur er meget interessant for mig personligt,
fordi jeg midt i 1970’erne lærte den virkelige Joan at kende som arbejdskollega,
da hun var 50 år gammel eller mere, en meget sød person.
22:15 Filmen har endnu en time tilbage, men Lois og jeg er ved at falde i
søvn i sofaen, så slukker vi for fjernsynet, smider tøjet og kollapse i sengen
– zzzzz!!!! Vi skal se resten af filmen en anden dag.
04:15 Jeg står tidligt op og laver én af mine rutinemæssige danske
ordforrådtest. Bagefter skynder jeg mig ind i køkkenet og laver to kopper te.
Jeg tager dem med op i soveværelset og kryber tilbage i sengen. Vi drikker teen
og står op. Vi spiser morgenmad.
10:00 Det er hundekoldt. Vi går hen ind i landsbyen og kigger ind i
Waghornes, den lokale slagter, for at købe kød og brød. På vej hjem smutter vi
ind i det lokale postkontor og afsender to pakker til udlandet: en fitbit, som
Alison, vores datter i Danmark, har bestilt på Amazon, og en bog og en
tegneserietidsskrift til vores
børnebørn, Lily og Jessica, der bor i Perth i Australien. Vi kommer hjem og
slapper af med en varm kop kaffe i sofaen.
13:00 Vi spiser frokost og bagefter lytter vi lidt til radio, et
interessant program (4. del af 5), der handler om de tidlige år af Carl og Emma Jungs
ægteskab, baseret på en bog af Catrine Clay.
Carl er en nygift psykiater på en schweizisk sindssygehospital.
Han specialiserer sig i psykiske eksperimenter involverende ord forening spil
og test. Han gør sin dejlige unge kone, Emma, gravid, tre ganger i træk med kun
korte mellemrum. Emma er en intelligent kvinde, men hun bruger hele dagen på at
passe på parrets unge børn, og om aftenen skal hun derudover udarbejde
notaterne fra Carls eksperimenter. Sikke et liv – stakkels Emma !!!
Carl har mange kvindelige patienter, der har
tendens til at forelske sig i ham. En patient, en rig ung neurotisk kvinde ved
navn Sabina, bliver fuldstændigt besat af ham, og de tilbringer mange timer
alene sammen i hans kabinet. Han er ved at løbe tør af ord forening test, han
kan give hende, og han er blevet fristet til at genbruge dem, håbende, at hun
ikke vil bemærke!
Carl har også en deltidsjob som lektor på Zurich
Universitet, og mange af hans kvindelige studerende forelsker sig i ham også –
mere og mere ord forening test, og stakkels Emma må udarbejde resultaterne –
stakkels Emma!!!!
Problemet er, at mange af disse kvinder, især
Sabine, insisterer på at føde Carls børn. Det hele er lidt af et mareridt for Carl,
for grundlæggende kan han ikke lide børn, synes jeg, og det sidste han ville ønske sig, ville være
hundreder af små børn, der kalder ham far!!!! Du godeste! Men Sabine
vil ikke tage nej for et svar – uha! Denne historie kommer ikke til at ende
godt – det ved jeg med sikkerhed. Jeg synes også, at Emma er ved at løbe tør
for tålmodighed. Hun er ofte i dårligt humør, og jeg ved godt hvorfor!!!!
Jeg har nydt de første 4 afsnit af denne serie, men
jeg må indrømme, at tempoet er lidt langsomt – ingen tvivl om det!!!! Og der er
kun ét afsnit tilbage! Hvis Sabine vil gerne føde Carls baby, ville det være en
god idé at fremskynde processen i første omgang, ved at have sex med ham - det
ved jeg med sikkerhed !!!!
14:30 Jeg går i seng for at tage mig en gigantisk
eftermiddagslur – zzzzzz!!!!!
16:00 Vi slapper af med en kop te på sofaen.
English translation
17:00 I am coughing a lot tonight
- damn! I have been very well over Christmas and New Year and I had begun to
boast about being so fit - damn (again)! It is not a good idea to boast about
one’s health etc – oh dear!
18:00 Lois and I eat supper and
then we spend the rest of the evening watching TV. They show an interesting
documentary about archaeological discoveries in the island of Orkney, north of
Scotland.
Experts now believe that the
culture that created Stonehenge and other ancient monuments in Britain actually started on the island of Orkney, because the Orkney monuments and
buildings (stone circles and stone houses) are at least 500 years older than
the great monuments of contemporary England, such as Stonehenge.
The experts now believe that the culture
that created Stonehenge,
actually started on the island of Orkney,
located just north of present-day Scotland
It's hard to believe, but it
seems that this remote island was an important place in prehistoric (Neolithic)
times, perhaps a kind of religious center, respected throughout Northern and
Western Europe. The experts (archaeologists and DNA experts) have found that a
unique and rare species of vole (mikrotus arvalis orkadensis) was transported
to the island of Orkney from (probably) Belgium at least 4,600 years ago, maybe
to help a large Neolithic population establish a local fox-fur industry.
This kind of vole does not exist
in the rest of the UK, so the mysterious people who first transported these
voles were apparently not interested in places here other than Orkney for some
reason.
Voles - I thought in the past that voles
were quite dull,
but these little guys can tell us a lot
about our prehistoric past,
thanks to DNA studies - my god, what madness
!!!!
Yes, my god, what madness!
Prehistoric Britain was stuffed with mysterious and intense drama, and weird
monuments, which today we cannot understand. I would kill to be able to travel
in time and interact with our prehistoric ancestors, but they would probably
kill me - so maybe not my best idea ever! At best, they would try to find
excuses for not hanging out with me - poor me !!!!
They would certainly not like me.
I am not into many of the prehistoric people's most important interests, for
example, building stone monuments, hunting animals, indulging in violence, and
lighting fires using two sticks. These are definitely not my forte. Lois is more
practical than me, and I think she would quickly master these challenges and
perhaps in time become a true "warrior queen".
It's strange that there are so
many prehistoric monuments in Britain, and especially on a remote island like
Orkney. These lands are located at the extreme north-western end of Europe,
bordering the vast Atlantic Ocean. Our ancestors perhaps believed that their
dead relatives were living on the other side of this vast sea. Just my theory!
21:00 We continue to watch TV.
They show an interesting film, "The Imitation Game" which is about
the Second World War's most famous code-breaker Alan Turing.
Lois and I both feel that
Turing's personality reminds us a lot of Sheldon, the main character in the Big
Bang Theory, especially the stiffer, more expressionless Sheldon you see in the
series' early seasons. Turing, as played by Benedict Cumberbatch, has no sense
of humor and interprets his work colleagues' words literally.
Turing was actually gay, but he
was not then aware of it. He tried to make a success of the heterosexual life
and was temporarily engaged to a female work colleague, Joan Clarke, a role
played by the charming Keira Knightley in the film. This character is very
interesting for me personally because I got to know the real Joan as a work
colleague in the mid 1970s, when she was 50 years old or more, a very
sweet person.
22:15 The film has another hour
left, but Lois and I are about to fall asleep on the sofa, so we turn off the
TV, strip off and collapse into bed - zzzzz !!!! We will have to see the rest
of the film another day.
04:15 I get up early and do one
of my routine Danish vocabulary tests. Afterwards I hurry into the kitchen and
make two cups of tea. I take them up to the bedroom and crawl back in bed. We
drink the tea and get up. We eat breakfast.
10:00 It's freezing. We go into
the village and take a look in Waghornes, the local butcher and buy meat and
bread. On the way home we pop into the local post office and send two packages
abroad: a fitbit, which Alison, our daughter in Denmark, ordered on Amazon, and
a book and a cartoon magazine for our grandchildren, Lily and Jessica, who live
in Perth Australia. We get home and relax with a hot cup of coffee on the sofa.
13:00 We eat lunch and afterwards
we listen a little to the radio, an interesting program (Part 4 of 5) about the
early years of Carl and Emma Jung's marriage, based on a book by Catrine Clay.
Carl is a newly married
psychiatrist at a Swiss mental hospital. He specializes in psychological
experiments involving word association games and tests. He makes his lovely
young wife, Emma, pregnant three times in a row, allowing her only very short intervals.
Emma is an intelligent woman, but she spends all day taking care of the
couple's young children, and in the evenings she also has to write up the notes
from Carl's experiments. What a life - poor Emma !!!
Carl has many female patients who
tend to fall in love with him. One patient, a rich young neurotic woman named
Sabina, becomes completely obsessed with him, and they spend many hours alone
together in his cabinet. He is running out of word association tests he can
give her, and he has become tempted to reuse them, hoping that she will not
notice!
Carl also has a part-time job as
associate professor at Zurich University, and many of his female students fall
in love with him too - more and more word association tests, and poor Emma must
write up all the results - poor Emma !!!!
The problem is that many of these
women, especially Sabine, insist on wanting to have Carl's children. It's all a
bit of a nightmare for Carl, because basically he does not like children, I
think, and the last thing he would wish for would be hundreds of small children all calling him Daddy !!!! My God! But Sabine will not take no for an answer - oh
dear ! This story is not going to end well - I know for sure. I also think that
Emma is running out of patience. She is often in a bad mood, and I know why
!!!!
I have enjoyed the first four
episodes of this series, but I must admit that the pace is a little slow - no
doubt about it !!!! And there is only one episode left! If Sabine wants to have
Carl's baby, it would be a good idea to speed up the process in the first place
by having sex with him - I know that for sure !!!!
14:30 I go to bed and take me a
gigantic afternoon nap - zzzzzz !!!!!
16:00 I get up and we relax with
a cup of tea on the sofa.
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