18:00 Lois og jeg spiser aftensmad, og bagefter skal hun ude. Hun ønsker at
deltage i sin kirkes månedlige forretningsmøde, der finder sted i aften i
Tewkesbury. Hun kører med vores ven, Alf.
Jeg har lidt alenetid, og bruger resten af aftenen på at se lidt fjernsyn
og lytte til radio. Jeg tænder for fjernsynet. De viser en interessant
dokumentarfilm, ”New Life in Oz” (sidste del af 6), der handler om britiske
familier, der flytter til Australien og starter et nyt liv derovre.
Lois og jeg har interesseret os meget for at se denne serie, fordi vores
yngste datter, Sarah, flyttede til Perth i Australien i december 2015, sammen
med Francis, sin mand, og deres (dengang) 2,5-årige tvillinger, Lily og
Jessica, især fordi 3 af de 6 dele har fokuseret på familier, der er flyttet
til Perth og omegn.
Men vi har været lidt skuffede over serien. Vi håbede, vi ville se dele af byen Perth, som vi godt lærte at kende, da vi
besøgte familien mellem april og juni 2016. For det meste har seerne set kun
luftfotoer af byen og havnen. Pokkers!
Også, de mennesker,
vi har set i programmerne, har ikke for de meste haft professionelle jobs i
Storbritannien – Sarah, vores datter, er tværtimod statsautoriseret revisor, så
derfor var hendes oplevelse meget anderledes.
Men vi har nydt
mange aspekter af serien. For eksempel, programmagerne springer ikke over den
tristhed, som bedsteforældre oplever, da deres sønner og døtre flytter til den
anden ende af verden.
Programmet springer ikke over bedsteforældrenes tristhed
Aftens afsnit handler
om Steve, en bilmekaniker fra grevskabet Cornwall, hans kone, Sasha, og deres
to unge døtre. Familien flytter til byen Dunsborough, der ligger på Australiens
sydvestlige kyst, 150 miles syd for Perth.
Steve
og Sasha og deres 2 unge døtre
beslutter at flytte
fra Cornwall til Australien.
Jeg fornemmer, at
konen, Sasha, er drivkraften i familien, og programmet sætter fokus på hende og
hendes ambitioner om at starte en vildtreservat til unge opossummer. Jeg har
lidt ondt af manden, Steve. Han bor sammen med en kone og to døtre, og jeg
fornemmer, at hans behov ikke er prioriteten – det kan jeg relatere til.
Stakkels Steve!!!
For det meste er
Sasha kun til opossummer, fornemmer jeg. Om natten opbevarer hun en ung opossum
i sin bh, så den ikke fryser – du godeste! Stakkels Steve (igen) !!!!
Om natten
opbevarer Sasha en ung
opossum i sin bh – du
godeste!
Og mindst i aften
ser vi en by, der hedder Busselton, som vi besøgte i juni 2016 sammen med Sarah
og hendes tvillinger. Byen har den
sydlige halvkugles længste anløbsbro (1,1 miles eller 1,8km).
Steve, Sasha og
familien på Busselton-anløbsbroen
tilbageblik til juni 2016 -
vi besøger
Busselton-anløbsbroen sammen med vores datter, Sarah,
og hendes 3-årige
tvillinger, Lily og Jessica.
21:00 Det er rart at kunne slukke for fjernsynet og lytte lidt til radio,
et interessant radiodrama, der handler om den berømte komponist, Gustav Holst
(1874-1934), der kom fra Cheltenham. Hans mest kendte værk er orkestersuiten:
The Planets, der delvis var inspireret af astrologi – Holst selv var astrolog,
hvilket er lidt af en overraskelse, for at sige mildt!
Dramaets forfatter skildrer Holst som en genert og nervøs mand, der
manglede selvtillid, og som nemt faldt under indflydelsen af andre. Han lod sig
distrahere og blev afledt af andres
gøremålslister, i stedet for at opfylde sine egne ønsker og ambitioner. Det kan
jeg relatere til – du godeste!
Han var fysisk svag siden barndom: problemer med astma, lungerne og én af
armene, og han var ofte på hospitalet.
Til sidst dør han – ingen overraskelse der!!! Stakkels Holst!!! Men jeg interesserer mig
meget for at høre om forskellige begreb om at dø, for det tilfælde, at jeg selv før eller senere skal dø – du godeste! Det
er godt at være forberedt på alle eventualiteter, synes jeg!!!
"Neptun",
”The Planets” sidste bevægelse, slutter med en ordløs kvindelige kor gradvist
vigende, en effekt, som er blevet sammenlignet til "uløste tidløshed, der
aldrig slutter, fordi selve rummet ikke ender, men glider bort til evig
tavshed".
I en tidlig præstation
af orkestersuiten besluttede Holst at skjule sin kvindelige kor for publikummet
ved at placere dem bag teatrets gardiner. Kvinderne holdt øje i dirigenten ved
hjælp af et lille gab i gardinerne – du godeste! Ved slutningen af ”Neptun”, krøb den
kvindelige kor langsomt væk, og deres stemmer blev mere og mere stille.
I radiodramaet,
tænker Holst på dette som en analogi, da han er ved at dø. Han forestiller han,
at han rykker langsomt ad en lang forstue, altid fortsættende fremad, aldrig
kiggende tilbage (ligesom sin kvindelige kor ved slutningen af Neptun), indtil
han når hoveddøren og den strålende solskin udenfor.
Jeg synes, jeg foretrækker
dette begreb om at dø, frem for David Gates og Telly Savalas’s analogi med at
flyve væk hånd i hånd med kæresten, ”når stjernene én efter én går ud” osv osv,
selvom begge har deres gode sider. Beslutninger, beslutninger !!!! Det er godt at forstille sig at sjælen slipper
kroppen og flyver væk, gennem vinduet,
op i luften, befriet fra de sædvanlige smerter og andre irriterende
ting/mennesker osv!!!
Selvom dette i virkeligheden ikke sker, når vi dør, er det imidlertid meget
beroligende at forestille sig det – ingen tvivl om det!!!!
22:00 Lois er ikke
dukket op endnu, men jeg er ikke en natteravn, så jeg går i seng – zzzzz!!! Jeg
vågner ikke, da hun kryber tilbage i sengen.
04:00 Jeg står
tidligt op og laver én af mine rutinemæssige danske ordforrådtest. Stormen ’Doris’
er på vej – yikes!!!!
Jeg kigger lidt på internettet. Jeg ser, at Ed, vores svigersøn i København, er for tiden
på forretningsrejse i Lahti i Finland –
du godeste! Sikke en skør verden vi lever i !!!! Stakkels Ed !!!!!
08:00 Jeg skynder mig ind i køkkenet og laver to kopper te. Jeg tager dem
med op i soveværelset og hopper op i
sengen til Lois. Vi drikker teen og står op. Vi spiser morgenmad.
09:30 Jeg går i gang med at rydde op i stuen, rykke ekstra stole ind i
stuen, og støvsuge overalt, fordi vores U3A danske gruppes næste møde finder
sted i eftermiddag kl 14:30 hos os.
11:30 Lois og jeg sætter os i sofaen og blade igennem de næste 8-9 sider af
den danske kriminovelle, et uddrag fra ”Forbandet” af Gittemie Eriksen, som
gruppen for tiden læser.
13:00 Vi spiser frokost og derefter går jeg i seng for at tage mig en
gigantisk eftermiddagslur.
14:00 Jeg står op og forbereder mig på vores danske gruppes møde.
14:30 Gruppens medlemmer ankommer. Jeg giver dem den danske ordforrådtest,
jeg i går udarbejdede, og derefter skiftes vi at læse højt nogle paragraffer af
novellen, og oversætte dem til engelsk. Jeanette, vores danske veninde, hjælper
os ved at rette vores udtale og oversattelse osv.
Ligtallet er stadig 3, men novellens forfatter er begyndt at foreslå nogle mulige
spor, som vi diskuterer. Vi er friske på at løse forbrydelserne før Janson, vores
venlige lokale landbetjent. Vi er alle af os entusiastiske amatørdetektiver i
denne gruppe – det ved jeg med sikkerhed!!!
16:00 Gruppens medlemmer skal af sted. Lois og jeg slapper af med en kop te
og et stykke brød i sofaen. Vi er meget trætte.
Jeg kigger lidt på internettet. Francis, vores svigersøn i Australien har
fødselsdag i dag, og han har lagt et charmerende foto af tvillingerne på
Facebook. Hans store fødselsdaggave var en udflugt med færgen til byen Perths
zoologiske have - hurra!
Francis, vores svigersøn i Australien, går på udflugt
med
færgen til byen Perths zoologiske have, sammen med familiens tvillinger
-
hvor er de dog søde !!!!
English translation
18:00 Lois and I have dinner, and
then she has to go out. She wants to attend her church's monthly business
meeting taking place tonight in Tewkesbury. She is riding with our friend, Alf.
I have a little alone time, and
spend the rest of the evening watching TV and listening to radio. I turn on the
television. They show an interesting documentary, "New Life in Oz"
(final part of 6), which is about British families who move to Australia to
start a new life over there.
Lois and I have been very interested
to see this series because our youngest daughter, Sarah, moved to Perth in
Australia in December 2015 along with Francis, her husband and their (then)
2 and a half-year-old twins, Lily and Jessica, especially as 3 of the 6 parts have
focused on families who have moved to Perth and the surrounding area.
But we've been a little
disappointed with the series. We hoped we would see parts of the city of Perth
that we got to know well when we visited the family between the April and June
2016. For the most part, viewers have seen only aerial photographs of the city
and harbor. Damn!
Also, the people we've seen in
the programs have not for the most part had professional jobs in the UK -
Sarah, our daughter, is a chartered accountant on the other hand, so her
experience is very different.But we have enjoyed many aspects of the series.
For example, the program-makers do not brush aside the sadness that
grandparents experience when their sons and daughters move to the other side of
the world.
The program does not
brush aside the sadness of grandparents
Tonight's episode is about Steve,
a car mechanic from the county of Cornwall, his wife, Sasha, and their two
young daughters. The family moved to the town of Dunsborough, situated on
Australia's southwest coast, 150 miles south of Perth.
Steve and Sasha and their 2
young daughters
decide to move from Cornwall to Australia.
I sense that the wife, Sasha, is
the driving force in the family, and the program focuses on her and her
ambition to start a wildlife sanctuary for young possums. I feel a little sorry
for the husband, Steve. He lives with a wife and two daughters, and I sense that
his needs are not the priority - that is something I can relate to. Poor Steve
!!!
For the most part, Sasha is only
into possums, I sense. At night she keeps a young possum in her bra, so it does
not freeze - my god! Poor Steve (again) !!!!
At night Sasha keeps a young
possum in her bra - my god!
And at least tonight we see a
town called Busselton which we visited in June 2016 along with Sarah and her
twins. The city has the southern hemisphere's longest jetty (1.1 miles or
1.8km).
Steve, Sasha and family on Busselton Jetty
flashback to June 2016 -
we visit Busselton Jetty along with our
daughter, Sarah,
and her 3-year-old twins, Lily and Jessica.
21:00 It's nice to be able to
turn off the TV and listen to some radio, an interesting radio drama about the
famous composer Gustav Holst (1874-1934), who came from Cheltenham. His best
known work is the orchestral suite, The Planets, which was partly inspired by
astrology - Holst himself was an astrologer, which is a bit of a surprise, to
put it mildly!
The drama's writer portrays Holst
as a shy and nervous man who lacked self-confidence, and easily fell under the
influence of others. He was easily distracted and sidetracked by other people's to-do-lists, instead of
fulfilling his own desires and ambitions. That is something I can relate to -
my god!
He was physically weak from
childhood: problems with asthma, lungs and one of his arms, and he was often in
the hospital.
Eventually he dies - no surprise
there !!! Poor Holst !!! But I'm very interested to hear about different
concepts of dying, in case I myself die sooner or later - my god! It's good to
be prepared for all eventualities, I think !!!
"Neptune", the Planets'
last movement, ends with a wordless female chorus gradually receding, an effect
that has been compared to "unresolved timelessness that never ends,
because space itself does not end, slipping
away into eternal silence" .
In an early performance of the
orchestral suite Holst decided to hide his female choir from the audience by
positioning them behind the curtains. The women kept an eye on the conductor
through a small gap - my god! At the end of "Neptune", the female choir
crept slowly away, and their voices became more and more quiet.
In the radio drama, Holst thinks
about this as an analogy when he is dying. He imagines that he is moving slowly
down a long hallway, always pressing on forward, never looking back (like his
female chorus at the end of Neptune), until he reaches the front door and the
bright sunshine outside.
I think I prefer this concept of
dying, rather than David Gates and Telly Savalas's analogy with flying away
hand in hand with the girlfriend, when "one by one the stars all go
out", etc., etc., although both have their good points. Decisions,
decisions !!!! It is good to imagine that the soul escapes from the body and
flies away through the window, into the air, freed from the usual aches and
other annoying things / people etc !!!
Although this does not really
happen when we die, it is very comforting to imagine it - no doubt about it
!!!!
22:00 Lois has not shown up yet,
but I am not a night owl, so I go to bed - zzzzz !!! I do not wake up when she
crawls into bed.
04:00 I get up early and do one
of my routine Danish vocabulary tests. Storm 'Doris' is on the way - yikes !!!!
I take a little look at the web.
I see that Ed, our son-in-law in Copenhagen, is currently on a business trip to
Lahti Finland - my god! What a crazy world we live in !!!! Poor Ed !!!!
08:00 I hurry into the kitchen
and make two cups of tea. I take them up to the bedroom and hop into bed with
Lois. We drink the tea and get up. We eat breakfast.
9:30 I begin to clear up in the
living room, move extra chairs into the room, and vacuum everywhere, because
our U3A Danish group's next meeting is taking place here this afternoon at
2.30pm.
11:30 Lois and I sit on the sofa
and browse through the next 8-9 pages of a Danish crime fiction short story, an
excerpt from "Cursed" by Gittemie Eriksen, which the group is
currently reading.
13:00 We eat lunch and then I go
to bed and take a gigantic afternoon nap.
14:00 I get up and prepare for
our Danish group's meeting.
14:30 The group members arrive. I
give them the Danish vocabulary test I drew up yesterday, and then we take
turns to read aloud a few paragraphs of the story, and translate them into
English. Jeanette, our Danish friend, helps us by correcting our pronunciation
and translations etc.
The body-count is still 3, but
the story's author has begun to suggest some possible clues that we discuss. We
are keen to solve the crimes before Janson, our friendly local village
constable. We are all of us enthusiastic amateur detectives in this group - I
know that for sure !!!
16:00 The group's members have to
go. Lois and I relax with a cup of tea and a piece of bread on the sofa. We are
very tired.
I take a little look at the
Internet. Francis, our son-in-law in Australia, has a birthday today, and he has
posted a charming photo of the twins on Facebook. His big birthday present was
a trip by ferry to the Perth Zoo - hurrah!
Francis, our son-in-law in Australia, goes on an outing
by ferry to Perth Zoo, along with the
family's twins
- How cute they are !!!!
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