18:00 Lois og jeg spiser aftensmad og derefter bruger vi aftenen på at se
lidt fjernsyn. De viser en film, ”The English Patient”, som vi aldrig har set,
selvom vi kender godt filmens musiksoundtrack – det er rart at sætte ansigter
til et lydspor – ingen tvivl om det!
Filmen er ikke virkelig vores slags ting (alt for lang og alt for meget
lidelse!!!), men vi nyder tilbageblikkene til perioden før krigen i Egypten, da
fru Clifton (Kristin Scott Thomas) engager sig i en dampende affære med den
mysteriøse ungareren Greve Lászlo Almásy (Ralph Fiennes), mens hr Clifton
(Colin Firth) er væk på forretning.
Badekarscenerne er især gode, synes vi. Men som ofte, finder Lois
ægtemanden mere attraktiv, end elskeren. Hvor glemmer dog filmselskaberne ofte
denne grundlæggende regel! Det skal skrives med store bogstaver på væggen i
hvert filmselskabs hovedkontor: GRIM ÆGTEMAND, SEXET ELSKER!!!
Vores konklusion: formentlig en bureaukratisk skrivefejl eller en
ups-situation i filmselskabets kontor, når personalet var i gang med at fordele
rollerne - sådanne ting sker oftere end
man lige skulle tro!
”The English Patient”: Lois og jeg trænger til at få nogen lettelse
fra
al den lidelse, al den død, alle de dampende badekarscener!!!
Minx, Alisons kat, går desværre glip af hele filmen.
Hun
sover tungt på Lois’s skød – hun må være
meget
træt, synes vi. Stakkels Minx!!!!
20:30 Filmen er alt for lang, så vi pålægger vores egne 30-minutters pause.
Vi trænger til at få nogen lettelse fra al den lidelse, død, og dampende
badekarscener. Vi hører et interessant radioprogram, ”The Last Word”. Jeg
lytter i stuen, og Lois lytte i køkkenet, så hun kan forberede appelsinerne og
citronerne hun har brug for – i morgen skal hun lave forhåbentlig 10 pund
appelsinmarmelade – nam nam!
Vi har for vane at høre dette program hver uge, fordi vi ønsker at finde ud
af, om nogen i de seneste 1-2 uger døde eller ej (jeg har bemærket, at der i de
fleste uger kun er ca. 5 dødsfald så ingen grund til panik). Programmets vært
er den charmerende Matthew Bannister.
William Peter Blatty døde desværre for nylig (på 89 år), manden bag filmen
”Eksorcisten”, den prisbelønnet amerikansk gyserfilm fra 1973 (Blatty skrev den
oprindelige bog).
Det er morsomt, at Blatty kunne begynde sin karriere ved at vinde en formue
i en radio-quiz, Groucho Marx’s ”You Bet Your Life”, hvor han foregav at være
en saudi-arabisk sheik. Groucho spurgte ham, hvor han kom fra, og han svarede
med en falsk tyk arabisk accent ”Saudi Arabia, I am a Saudi”, hvilket Groucho
misfortolkede som ”Minnesota”.
Blatty var grundlæggende en komedie forfatter, men efter Eksorcistens
succes var han fremover ikke ”tilladt” til at skrive komedie, hvilket af lidt
af en skam. Han havde eksempelvis allerede skrevet drejebogen til ”Shot in the Dark”, den første
(og bedste) Pink Panther film, stjernespækket Peter Sellers. Og på trods at, at
Eksorcisten var en gyserfilm, er der overraskende en række jokes i filmen.
Selve demonen er en komiker og fortæller vittigheder, lader det til !!! Det er
min slags dæmon – det ved jeg med sikkerhed!!!
Eksorcisten:
selve dæmonen fortæller vittigheder
–
du godeste, sikke et vanvid!
I mellemtiden skærer Lois appelsinerne og citronerne i 4 stykker og putter
det hele i to gryder. I morgen skal hun lave forhåbentlig 10 pund
appelsinmarmelade – nam nam!
3 pund appelsiner og 2 citroner....
10
pund appelsinmarmelade på vej - nam nam!
22:00 Vi går i seng – zzzzzz!!!!
05:00 Jeg står tidligt op og kigger lidt på nettet.
07:30 Jeg
skynder mig ind i køkkenet og laver to kopper te. Jeg tager dem med op i
soveværelsen og kryber ind i sengen. Vi drikker teen og står op. Vi spiser
morgenmad.
10:00 Jeg
sætter mig foran computeren og bestiller to eksemplar af endnu 1 fotobog fra
Snapfish. Bogen indeholder fotos, jeg tog da vi var på ferie i juletiden i
Danmark og Sverige, boende hos vores ældste datter Alison og hendes familie.
Bogen indeholder også fotos, som Sarah, vores yngste datter, tog i Perth i
Australien juletid og nytåret over.
Lois går i
gang med at forberede sine 11 krukker hjemmelavet appelsinmarmelade.
Lois går i gang med at forberede
11
pund hjemmelavet appelsinmarmelade – nam nam!
13:00 Jeg
laver frokost til 2 og bagefter går i seng for at tage mig en gigantisk
eftermiddagslur – zzzz!!!
15:00 Lois
kommer ovenpå og smutter op i sengen til mig. Hun er meget træt – hun har brugt
hele dagen på fødderne i køkkenet.
16:30 Vi kommer
ud af sengen og slapper af med en kop te og et stykke brød med hjemmelavet
appelsinmarmelade i sofaen – nam nam!
Vi slapper af med en kop te og et stykke brød med
hjemmelavet
appelsinmarmelade – hurra!
English translation
18:00 Lois and I eat supper and
then we spend the evening watching a little television. They show a film,
"The English Patient", which we have never seen, although we know the
film's soundtrack music well - it's nice to put faces to a music soundtrack -
no doubt about it!
The film is not really our kind
of thing (too long and too much suffering !!!), but we enjoy the flashbacks to
the period before the war in Egypt, when Mrs. Clifton (Kristin Scott Thomas)
engages in a steamy affair with the mysterious Hungarian, Count Lászlo Almásy
(Ralph Fiennes), while Mr Clifton (Colin Firth) is away on business.
The bathtub scenes are especially
good, we think. But as often, Lois finds the husband more attractive than the
lover. How often the film companies forget this basic rule! It should be
written in large letters on the wall of each film company's head office: UGLY
HUSBAND, SEXY LOVER !!!
Our conclusion: probably a
bureaucratic clerical error or oops-situation in the film company's offices
when the staff were in the process of distributing roles - such things happen
more often than you would think!
"The English Patient": Lois and
I need to get some relief
from all the suffering, all the death, all
the steamy bathtub scenes !!!
Minx, Alison's cat, unfortunately misses
the entire movie.
She sleeps heavily on Lois's lap - she must
be
very tired, we think. Poor Minx !!!!
20:30 The movie is far too long,
so we impose our own 30-minute break. We need to get some relief from all the
suffering, death, and steamy bath scenes. We hear an interesting radio program,
"The Last Word". I listen in the living room, and Lois listens in the
kitchen so she can prepare the oranges and the lemons she needs - tomorrow she
will hopefully make 10 pounds of orange marmalade - yum yum!
We are in the habit of hearing this
program every week because we want to find out if anyone in the last 1-2 weeks
has died or not (I have noticed that most weeks there are only about 5 deaths
so no panic). The program's host is the charming Matthew Bannister.
William Peter Blatty sadly passed
away recently (aged 89), the man behind the movie "The Exorcist", the
award-winning American horror film from 1973 (Blatty wrote the original book).
It is amusing that Blatty was
able to begin his career by winning a fortune in a radio quiz, Groucho Marx's
"You Bet Your Life", where he pretended to be a Saudi Arabian sheik.
Groucho asked him where he came from and he replied with a fake thick Arabian
accent "Saudi Arabia, I am a Saudi" which Groucho misinterpreted as
"Minnesota".
Blatty was basically a comedy
writer, but after the success of "The Exorcist" he was henceforward
not "allowed" to write comedy, which of a bit of a shame. He had already written,
for example the script for "Shot in the Dark", the first (and best)
Pink Panther movie, starring Peter Sellers. And despite the fact that the
Exorcist was a horror movie, there are surprisingly a number of jokes in the
film. Even the Demon is a comedian, and tells jokes, it seems !!! That's my
kind of demon - I know that for sure !!!
Exorcist: even the demon tells jokes
- my god, what madness!!
Meanwhile, Lois cuts up the
oranges and the lemons into 4 pieces and puts the lot into two
saucepans. Tomorrow she will hopefully make 10 pounds of orange marmalade - yum
yum!
3 pounds of oranges and two lemons ....
10 pounds of marmelade on the way - yum yum!
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzz !!!!
05:00 I get up early and take a
look at the web.
07:30 I hurry into the kitchen
and make two cups of tea. I bring them up to the bedroom and crawl into bed. We
drink the tea and get out of bed. We eat breakfast.
10:00 I sit at the computer and
order two copies of one more photo-book from Snapfish. The book includes photos
I took when we were on vacation during the Christmas season in Denmark and
Sweden, staying with our oldest daughter Alison and her family. The book also
contains photos that Sarah, our youngest daughter, took in Perth Australia over
Christmas and New Year.
Lois starts preparing her 11 jars
of homemade orange marmalade.
Lois begin to prepare
11 pounds of homemade orange marmalade - yum
yum!
13:00 I make lunch for 2 and then
go to bed and take a gigantic afternoon nap - zzzz !!!
15:00 Lois comes upstairs and
pops into bed with me. She is very tired - she has spent all day on her feet in
the kitchen.
16:30 We get out of bed and relax
with a cup of tea and a piece of bread with homemade orange marmalade on the
sofa - yum yum!
We relax with a cup of tea and a piece
of bread with
homemade orange marmalade - hurrah!
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