17:30 Jeg bliver pludselig klar over, at jeg har glemt at hoppe op på
kondicykel igen. Jeg skynder mig op i Sarahs gamle værelse og hoppe op, men jeg
har kun tid til at cykle 4, 5 miles (7,5 km) før Lois kalder mig ned til
aftensmad. I går holdt hun en fest og havde forberedt mad til 12 personer, men
kun 7 dukkede op, så der er en masse mad tilbage – hun har lige opvarmet resten
af én af gårsdagens hovedretter – hyrdens pie. Nam nam!
Før jeg hopper op på kondicyklen, tænder jeg for min smartphone. Hver gang
jeg cykler, har jeg for vane at vælge et eller andet år og ser på årets bedste
sange på YouTube i ”Willtopsmusic”-serien. Og hver gang jeg cykler, stiller jeg
året tilbage med ét år: 1982, 1981... I dag søger jeg 1980s bedste sange i
”Willtopsmusic”-serien, men uden succes – jeg må finde en anden serie. Pokkers!
Jeg beslutter at se på ”steveh31s” videocompilation, ”Storbritanniens 100
bedstsælgende singler af 1980” i stedet. Efter at rode rundt så meget, er det
ikke overraskende, at jeg kun har tid til at cykle 4,5 miles – pokkers! Endnu
en dag spildt i min søgen efter at blive rask igen!!!!
Mens
jeg cykler, ser jeg på Storbritanniens 100 bedstsælgende singler af 1980.
Men
præcis hvem er kaptajnen i ”The Captain and Tennille”, og præcis hvad er han
kaptajn på???
Parret
var giftet, så det var ok at de ”endnu en gang” går til den, som det lyder i
sangen,
selvom
jeg for nylig læste, at de for 3 år siden blev skilt efter 39 års ægteskab – du
godeste, stakkels Captain, Tennille er stadig en lækker kvinde – det har jeg
ikke nogen tvivl om !!!!
Jeg har en dårlig vane med at google fortidens berømtheder og læse den
pågældende Wikipedia-artikel. Så ofte havde disse gamle berømtheder, som jeg
kan huske fra 1980’erne, 1970’erne osv, desværre en trist eller tragisk
alderdom, præget af sygdom og lidelse, demens osv – du godeste! Det får mig til
at spekulere om, hvad der er i vente for mig og Lois – yikes!!!!
Lois med Sarah(2) og Alison (4 år) først i 1980
Mig med Alison og Sarah
18:00 Lois og jeg spiser gårsdagens opvarmede ”hyrdens pie”, og bagefter
skal hun ud. Hun ønsker at deltage i en bibelklasse, der finder sted i aften i
Tewkesbury. Hun kører med vores ven, Alf – han kører kl 19:15 forbi os for at
afhente hende.
Jeg har lidt alenetid, så jeg bruger aftenen på at se lidt fjernsyn og
lytte til radio. Jeg tænder for fjernsynet og ser de første ca. 30 minutter af
en dansk film, ”Jagten”, med Mads Mikkelsen i hovedrollen. Filmen handler om en
lille dansk landsby omkring jul og følger en mand, der
bliver mål for massehysteri efter fejlagtigt at være beskyldt for at have seksuelt misbrugt et barn.
Her er den 40-årige Lucas (Mads
Mikkelsen) igen ved at få styr på sit liv efter en hård skilsmisse. Han har fået en ny kæreste
(en rumæner eller lignende, og de taler engelsk sammen – hurra!), og fået et nyt arbejde på den lokale børnehave.
Men efter ca 30 minutter føler jeg en ukontrollabel lyst til at slukke for
fjernsynet. Filmen skildrer Lucas som en meget følsom og romantisk mand, lidt
genert, meget god omkring børn, men som er ansvarlig og helt normal: han hygger
sig og går på druk med landsbyens mænd og vi ser ham have sex med sin nye
kæreste, der er vild med ham og forfører ham.
Men jeg ved, hvad filmen har i vente for ham, det massehysteri osv, og jeg
synes, jeg ikke kan tåle at se det. Jeg er sådan en slapsvans – ingen tvivl om
det!!!
Vi
ser Lucas have sex med sin udenlandske kæreste, Nadja,
efter
at parret har lukket Lucas’s hund, Fanny, ude fra værelset – uha,
men
Fanny bliver ved med at pive, mens parret går til den – stakkels Fanny!!!!
Vores ældste datter, Alison, bor i København, og hun og Ed, hendes mand, så
Mads Mikkelsen for 2 måneder siden på en restaurant, hvor de spiste. Alison tog
et foto af ham i smug.
Alison,
vores datter, tog dette foto af Mads i smug,
da
hun og Ed spiste på en restaurant i København.
Nogle af Alisons venner kritiserede hende for at have taget fotoet i smug,
i stedet for at bede Mads om, at være i en selfie med hende, men jeg er enig
med hende – verdenskendte filmstjerner har også retten at spise i fred og ro,
når de går i byen.
21:45 Lois kommer hjem igen og jeg går i seng – zzzz! Men Lois trænger til
at slappe af og geare ned efter aftenens stimulerende bibelseminar. Stakkels Lois!!!!!
Som sædvanligt anbefaler jeg et par tv-programmer, der efter min mening er
egnede til formålet, to gamle sitcoms fra 1980’erne: ”Yes Prime Minister”, og
”Allo Allo”.
Jeg vågner ikke, da Lois lidt senere kryber ind i sengen til mig.
04:00 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 soveværelset og hopper op i sengen til Lois. Vi drikker teen og går i
bad. Vi står op og spiser morgenmad.
09:30 Lois skal ud. Hun har en tid hos ”Billy Shears”, den lokale
damefrisør. Da hun kommer tilbage igen, slapper vi af med en kop kaffe.
Bagefter sætter vi os ned ved spisebordet og læse de næste 10 sider af den
danske kriminovelle, vores U3A danske gruppes medlemmer er i gang med at læse.
Gruppens næste møde finder sted kl 14:30 hos os.
På den 17. side stiger novellens ligtal til 4 – hurra! Farvel Jakob
Mattesen! Du er morderens seneste offer! Din Opel ligger krøllet sammen under
et vejtræ få minutters kørsel fra landsbyen. Ulykke, selvmord eller mord?
Novellens helt, landsbetjent Per Janson, har set nogle interessante
chatbeskeder på Mattesens computer. Og det bliver klart, at Mattesen læste den
sidste besked lige før han kørte ud ved 22-tiden den forgående aften og døde minutter
senere i sin grønne Opel. Mere og mere mysteriøst!
12:00 Vi spiser frokost og bagefter går jeg i seng for at tage mig en
gigantisk eftermiddagslur – zzzzz!!!!
13:30 Jeg står op og forbereder mig på vores danske gruppes møde.
14:30 Gruppens medlemmer ankommer og vi lærer dansk i to timer, 30 minutter
mere end normalt, men Lois og jeg finder det svært med at overtale medlemmer
til at lade være med at snakke – uha! Scilla taler lidt om sin U3A oldnorske
gruppe, der starter igen på onsdag efter 6 måneders pause. Vi skal prøve at læse
en anden islandsk saga.
16:25 Mødet slutter endelig, og gruppens medlemmer skal af sted. Lois og
jeg slapper af med en kop te i sofaen. Vi er udmattede!!!!
English translation
17:30 I suddenly realise that I
have forgotten to jump up on the exercise bike again. I hurry up to Sarah's old
room and jump up, but I only have time to cycle 4, 5 miles (7.5 km) before Lois
calls me down to dinner. Yesterday she held a party and had prepared food for
12 people, but only 7 showed up, so there is a lot of food left - she has just
heated up the rest of one of yesterday's main dishes - shepherd's pie. Yum yum!
Before I jump up on the exercise
bike, I turn on my smartphone. Every time I cycle, I have the habit of choosing
one or other year and looks at that year's best songs on YouTube in the
"Will Top Music" series. And every time I cycle, I put the year back
by one : 1982, 1981 etc... Today, I am looking for 1980's best songs in the
"Will Top Music" series, but without success - I have to find another
series. Damn!
I decide to look at
"steveh31s" videocompilation, "Britain's 100 best-selling
singles of 1980" instead. After messing around so much, it's not
surprising that I only have time to cycle 4.5 miles - damn! Another day wasted
in my quest to become healthy again !!!!
While I cycle, I look at the UK's 100
best-selling singles of the 1980.
But exactly who is the captain in "The
Captain and Tennille" and exactly what he is captain of ???
The couple were married, so it was ok that
they do it "once again" as it says in the song,
although I recently read that they divorced
3 years ago after 39 years of marriage - my goodness, poor Captain, Tennille's
still a gorgeous woman - I have no doubts about that !!!!
I have a bad habit of googling
past celebrities and reading the relevant Wikipedia article. So often these old
celebrities that I can remember from the 1980s, 1970s and so on, unfortunately
had a sad or tragic old age, marked by disease and suffering, dementia, etc. - my
goodness! It makes me wonder what is in store for me and Lois - yikes !!!!
Lois with Sarah (2) og Alison (4) in early 1980
Me with Alison (left) and Sarah (right)
18:00 Lois and I eat yesterday's
heated up "shepherd's pie", and then she has to go out. She wants to
attend a Bible class taking place tonight in Tewkesbury. She is riding with our
friend Alf - he drops by at 7.15pm to pick her up.
I have a little alone time , so I
spend the evening watching TV and listening to the radio. I turn on the
television and see the first approximately 30 minutes of a Danish film,
"The Hunt" with Mads Mikkelsen in the lead role. The film is about a
small Danish village around Christmas time and follows a man who becomes the
target of mass hysteria after falsely being accused of having sexually abused a
child.
The 40-year-old Lucas (Mads
Mikkelsen) is trying to take control of his life again after a tough divorce.
He has a new girlfriend (a Romanian or the like, and they speak English
together - hurrah!) and has got a new job at the local kindergarten.
But after about 30 minutes I feel
an uncontrollable urge to turn off the TV. The film portrays Lucas as a very
sensitive and romantic man, a little shy, very good around children, but as a
responsible and completely normal man: he has fun and goes out drinking with
the village men and we see him having sex with his new girlfriend, who is crazy
about him and who seduces him.
But I know what the movie has in
store for him, the mass hysteria, etc., and I think I cannot bear to see it.
I'm such a wimp - no doubt about it !!!
We see Lucas having sex with his foreign
girlfriend, Nadja,
after the couple have shut Lucas's dog,
Fanny, outside the room - oh dear,
but Fanny keeps whining while the couple go
to it - poor Fanny !!!!
Our oldest daughter, Alison, lives
in Copenhagen, and she and Ed, her husband, saw Mads Mikkelsen 2 months ago at
a restaurant where they were eating. Alison took a photo of him on the sly.
Alison, our daughter took this photo of Mads
secretly,
when she and Ed were eating at a restaurant
in Copenhagen.
Some of Alison's friends
criticised her for having taken the photo on the sly, instead of asking Mads to
be in a selfie with her, but I agree with her - world famous film stars also
have the right to eat in peace and quiet when they go out to town.
21:45 Lois comes home and I go to
bed - zzzz! But Lois needs to relax and unwind after the evening's stimulating
Bible seminar. Poor Lois !!!!!
As usual, I recommend a couple of
television programs that I think are suitable for the purpose, two old sitcoms
from the 1980s: "Yes Prime Minister" and "Allo Allo".
I do not wake up, when later Lois
creeps into bed with me.
04:00 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 take them up to the bedroom and jump into bed with
Lois. We drink the tea and take a shower. We get up and eat breakfast.
09:30 Lois has to go out. She has
an appointment with "Billy Shears", the local hairdresser. When she
comes back again, we relax with a cup of coffee. Afterwards, we sit down at the
table and read the next 10 pages of the Danish crime novel that our U3A Danish
group's members are in the process of reading. The Group's next meeting will
take place here at 2.30pm.
On the 17th page the story's body
count rises to 4 - hurrah! Goodbye Jacob Mattesen! You are the killer's latest
victim! Your Opel is found crumpled up under a roadside tree a few minutes
drive from the village. Accident, suicide or murder? The story's hero, village
constable Per Janson, has seen some interesting chat messages on Mattesen's
computer. And it becomes clear that Mattesen read the last message just before
he drove off at 10 o'clock the previous evening and died minutes later in his
green Opel. More and more mysterious!
12:00 We eat lunch and afterwards
I go to bed and take a gigantic afternoon nap - zzzzz !!!!
13:30 I get up and prepare for
our Danish group's meeting.
14:30 Group members arrive and we
study Danish for two hours, 30 minutes more than normal, but Lois and I find it
difficult to persuade members to leave off chatting - oh dear! Scilla says a
little about her U3A Old Norse group that starts again on Wednesday after a 6
month break. We are to try and read another Icelandic saga.
16:25 The meeting ends, finally,
and the group members have to go. Lois and I relax with a cup of tea on the
sofa. We are exhausted!!!!
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