Danskcolin: Fredag den 3 februar 2017 kl 16:30 til lørdag den 4. februar 2017 kl 16:29

18:00 Lois og jeg er meget trætte i aften, men vi er glad for, at Ross har renset vores gulvtæpper, sofaen og lænestole. Vi sætter os i stuen, hvor der ikke er nogle møbler, bortset fra sofaen, 2 lænestole og fjernsynet. Gulvtæppet er næsten tørt, og vi er for træt for at tilbringe endnu en aften siddende på spisestuestole.

Vi spiser aftensmad og bruger aftenen på at lytte til radio og se lidt fjernsyn. Vi hører en interessant radioprogram, ”Det sidste ord”.

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.

Margaret Pereira, den berømte kriminaltekniker, er desværre død på 88 år. Jeg har bemærket, at det nu er blevet normen, at kriminalteknikere i tv-dramaer er sexede kvinder, som Sam Ryan (spillet af Amanda Burton) eller Nikki Alexander (Emilia Fox), i BBC-serien ”Tavst vidne”.

Emilia Fox

Nikki Alexander – nu til dags er politiets kriminalteknikere

normalt sexede kvinder – du godeste!

Men da Margaret Pereira startede sin karriere i 1950’erne i London-politiets kriminal laboratorium, var det uden fortilfælde at ansætte en kvinde, og i nogle år ifølge laboratoriums regler var hun ikke tilladt at afgive forklaring i retten – du godeste! Da reglerne ændrede sig endelig og hun for første gang afgav forklaring, insisterede laboratoriet på, at hun bar en hat, som laboratoriet købte til hende. Da en anden kvinde indtrådte i afdelingen, skulle de begge to dele denne ”officielle” hat, når de var i retten. Unødvendigt at sige, at mændene ikke måtte bære hatte! Du godeste – sikke et vanvid!!!!

Hun afgav forklaring faktisk så ofte, at pressen kaldte hende ”Miss Murder” – du godeste! Hun blev involveret i mange berømte straffesager, for eksempel, Lord Lucan, der blev ”dømt” i sit fravær af en ligsyn jury i for mordet af sin families barnepige, Sandra Rivett – han måtte flygte landet og er aldrig blevet fundet. Det var Margaret, der undersøgte et stykke blyrør, der blev fundet i en bil, som Lucan lånte og senere efterlod. Hun fandt ud af, at blyrøren var plettet med barnepigens blod, og dette var den vigtigste element i beviserne.

Hun er mest berømt for at udvikle en ny teknik for at bestemme blodtype ved hjælp af et ubetydeligt beløb af blod. Teknikken hedder den ”Nicholson-Pereira teknik” er den er nu brugt verden over. Før i tiden måtte blodsporene være så stor som en penny – hvis mindre, kunne de ikke blive brugt – uha!

Lois siger, at det var den første sitcom, der viste et ægtepar, der åbenbart var forelsket i hinanden. Før i tiden betragtede man, at det var mere morsomt, hvis parret ikke var følelsesmæssigt tætte til hinanden, og som regel var konen skildret som tomhjernet og useriøst, med indkøb som sin eneste hobby – uha!

Selvfølgeligt var det ikke desto mindre adskilte senge, når Dick og Mary var færdige med dagen, men Lois siger, det var et fremskridt, at sengene var i samme værelse – du godeste, sikke et vanvid!!!!

Dick og Mary var ikke tilladt at dele seng

– sikke et vanvid!!!

22:00 Vi går i seng – zzzzz!!!

04:00 Jeg står tidligt op og laver én af mine rutinemæssige danske ordforrådtest.

Sarah, vores datter i Perth i Australien, har sendt mig to charmerende billeder of sine 3,5-årige tvillinger, Lily og Jessica. Familien flytter i denne uge ind til et nyt hus, der ligger i Leederville, en lille forstad til Perth, ikke ret langt fra Osbourne Park, hvor Sarah arbejder.

Sarah har sendt mig disse 2 billeder af sine 3,5-årige

tvillinger, Lily og Jessica. Vi ser dem lege med sæbebobler.

Hvor er de dog søde!!!!

I mellemtiden er vores ældste datter, Alison, på ferie i Bergen denne weekend sammen med sin mand, Ed, og deres gamle venner, Robin og Emma. Ali og Ed rejste til Bergen i går fra deres hjem i København. De har lagt et charmerende foto op på Instagram.

Fotos taget fra Ali og Eds

altan i deres hotelværelse (Clarion Hotel) i Bergen

Dette foto gør mig at mindes den nat, Lois og jeg tilbragt i Bergen i september 1970, i starten af vores første ferie alene sammen.

Tilbageblik til september 1970:

Lois og jeg overnatter i Bergen, i starten af

vores første ferie alene sammen.

Fotoet var taget kiggende i samme retning som Alis foto,

men påden anden side af havnen.

Man kan se vejen, der fører op ad bakken bag havnen, også

til højre, domkirkens grønne tårn

Lois (på 24 år) ved Mosø (Hardangerfjord) i 1970.

07:30 Jeg skynder mig ind i køkkenet og laver to kopper te. Jeg tager dem med op i soveværelset og kryber under dynen til Lois. Vi drikker teen og står op. Vi spiser morgenmad.

09:30 Vi skal ud. Vi kører over til Leckhampton. Vi køber et par ting hos det lokale Coop supermarked og grønthandleren, også færdigretter hos CookShop. Vi kører hjem og slapper af med en kop kaffe i sofaen.

12:30 Vi spiser frokost og bagefter går jeg i seng for at tage mig en gigantisk eftermiddagslur – zzzzzz!!!

15:00 Jeg står op og kigger lidt på nettet. Jeg ser, at Alison, vores ældste datter, har lagt endnu et charmerende foto op på Instagram, der viser Ed, hendes mand, og deres gamle venner fra England, Robin og Emma. I dag går de to par på et krydstogt på fjorden.

Ed, vores (skæggede) svigersøn, sammen med Robin og Emma, i Bergen

Jeg får en sms fra Sarah, vores datter i Perth i Australien. Hun siger, at hun og Francis, hendes mand, er begyndt at flytte møbler og egendele fra deres nuværende hus i Yanchep ind til deres nye hus i Leederville, også rydde op lidt i det gamle hus og luge lidt i haven. De må efterlade huset i god stand, ellers det kan være, at de fortaber deres depositum – uha!

Jeg kigger lidt på den indflydelserige amerikanske nyhedswebsted, The Onion. Jeg ser, at billetter til morgendagens superbowl vil gå på salg op til én time, før kampen starter. Det lyder som om, stadiet har gjort ekstraordinære forberedelser på at klare den forventede krav til billetter: de har ansat 12 mennesker, der skal sælge de ca. 72.000 billetter. Planlagningen synes at være så god som altid – ingen tvivl om det!

Desværre vil det ikke være muligt at købe billetter med kreditkort. Men stadiets myndigheder har rådt tilskuere til at dukke op mindst 15 minutter, før billetvinduer åbner op, for at være helt sikre på, at få en billet, så jeg formoder, at alt vil gå glat, som altid. Jeg forudseer ikke noget problem, gudskelov!! Jeg vil desvære være faldet i søvn før kampen starter, men jeg ønsker tillykke til begge hold, uanset hvem de er! Kom så, enten hold A og hold B !!!!

Superbowl billetvinduer vil i år åbne sig op til 15 minutter

før kampen starter, for at undgå, at lange køer former sig – hurra!

16:00 Lois og jeg slapper af med en kop te i sofaen.

English translation

18:00 Lois and I are very tired tonight, but we are glad that Ross has cleaned our carpets, sofa and armchairs. We sit in the living room, where there is no furniture except the couch, two armchairs and a television. The carpet is almost dry, and we are too tired to spend another night sitting on the dining room chairs.

We eat dinner and spend the evening listening to the radio or watching TV. We hear an interesting radio program, "The Last Word".

We have a habit of listening to 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 need to panic!). The program's host is the charming Matthew Bannister.

Margaret Pereira, the famous police forensic scientist has unfortunately died at the age of 88. I have noticed that it has now become the norm that forensic technicians in television dramas are sexy women like Sam Ryan (played by Amanda Burton) or Nikki Alexander (Emilia Fox), in the BBC series "Silent witness".

Emilia Fox

Nikki Alexander - nowadays the police forensic technicians

are usually sexy women - my god!

But when Margaret Pereira started her career in the 1950s in the London police crime laboratory, it was unprecedented to hire a woman, and for a few years, according to laboratory rules, she was not allowed to testify in court - my god! When the rules changed and finally she testified for the first time, the lab insisted that she wore a hat which the laboratory bought for her. When another woman joined the department, they both had to share this "official" hat when they were in court. Needless to say that the men did not have to wear hats! My god - what madness !!!!

She testified in fact so often that the press called her "Miss Murder" - my god! She was involved in many famous criminal cases, for example, Lord Lucan, who was "convicted" in his absence by a coroner's jury of the murder of his family's nanny, Sandra Rivett - he had to flee the country and has never been found. It was Margaret who examined a piece of lead piping that was found in a car that Lucan borrowed and later abandoned. She found out that the lead pipe was stained with the nanny's blood, and this was the most important element in the evidence.

She is most famous for developing a new technique to determine blood type from a minute amount of blood. The technique is called the "Nicholson-Pereira technique" and is now used worldwide. In the past, the traces of blood had to be as big as a penny - if smaller, they could not be used – oh dear!

Mary Tyler Moore, the famous American actress, has unfortunately also died at the age of 80. When both Lois and I were teenagers, we saw Mary every week acting in the famous sitcom, the Dick Van Dyke Show, as Dick's wife.

Lois says it was the first sitcom that showed a married couple who were apparently in love with each other. In the past people had thought it was more amusing if the couple were not emotionally close, and usually the wife was portrayed as empty-headed and frivolous, with shopping as her only hobby - oh dear!

Of course, it was nevertheless separate beds whenever Dick and Mary were finished for the day, but Lois says it was a step forward that the beds were in the same room - my god, what madness !!!!

Dick and Mary were not allowed

to share a bed - What madness !!!

22:00 We go to bed - zzzzz !!!

04:00 I get up early and do one of my routine Danish vocabulary tests.

Sarah, our daughter in Perth, Australia, has sent me two charming pictures of her three and a half-year-old twins, Lily and Jessica. The family is moving this week into a new house, located in Leederville, a small suburb of Perth, not far from Osbourne Park, where Sarah works.

Sarah has sent me these two pictures of

her three and a half-year-old twins, Lily and Jessica.

We see them playing with soap bubbles. How cute they are !!!!

Meanwhile, our oldest daughter, Alison, is on holiday in Bergen this weekend with her husband, Ed, and their old friends, Robin and Emma. Ali and Ed traveled to Bergen yesterday from their home in Copenhagen. They have posted a charming photo on Instagram.

Photo taken from Ali and Ed's balcony in their hotel room in Bergen

This photo makes me to remember the night Lois and I spent in Bergen in September 1970 at the start of our first holiday alone together.

Flashback to September 1970: Lois and I spent the night in Bergen

at the beginning of our first holiday alone together.

This photo was taken looking in the same direction as Ali’s photo

but on the other side of the fjord.

You can see the road that leads up the hill behind the harbour, also

on the far right the cathedral’s green tower.

Lois (aged 24) at Lake Mos (Hardanger Fjord) in 1970.

07:30 I hurry into the kitchen and make two cups of tea. I take them up to the bedroom and crawl under the covers with Lois. We drink the tea and get up. We eat breakfast.

09:30 We have to go out. We drive over to Leckhampton. We buy a few things at the local Coop supermarket and greengrocer's, also ready-meals at CookShop. We drive home and relax with a cup of coffee on the sofa.

12:30 We eat lunch and afterwards I go to bed and take a giant nap - zzzzzz !!!

15:00 I get up and take a little look at the web. I see that Alison, our oldest daughter, has posted another charming photo up on Instagram showing Ed, her husband and their old friends from England, Robin and Emma. Today, the two couples are going on a cruise on the fjord.

Ed, our (bearded) son-in-law, along with Robin and Emma, in Bergen

I get a text message from Sarah, our daughter in Perth in Australia. She says she and Francis, her husband, have begun moving furniture and possessions from their current house in Yanchep into their new house in Leederville, also clearing up some of the old house and doing a bit of weeding in the garden. They must leave the house in good condition, otherwise they could forfeit their deposit - oh dear!

I take a little look at the influential US news website, The Onion. I see that the tickets for tomorrow's Super Bowl will go on sale up to one hour before the match starts. It sounds as if the stadium has made extraordinary preparations to cope with the expected demand for tickets: they are employing 12 people to sell the approximately 72,000 tickets. The planning seems to be as good as ever - no doubt about it!

Unfortunately, it will not be possible to buy tickets by credit card. But the stadium authorities have advised spectators to show up at least 15 minutes before the ticket windows open up, to be absolutely sure of getting a ticket, so I suspect that everything will go smoothly, as always. I foresee no problem, thank God! I will unfortunately have fallen asleep before the match starts, but I wish good luck to both teams, whoever they are! Go, either team A or team B!!!!