17:30 Lois og jeg spiser aftensmad, lidt tidligere, end normalt, fordi vi
skal ud kl 18:15. Lois ønsker at deltage i et bibelseminar, der finder sted i
aften i Brockworth, og hun for tiden er ikke tilladt til at køre bil på grund
af grå stær. Hun har en tid hos specialisten på det lokale hospital, men
aftalen er bestemt til den 31. maj – stadig 10 uger fra nu, stakkels Lois!!!
18:15 Jeg kører Lois over til Mari-Ann og Alfs hus og sætter hende af. Jeg
kører hjem – på vej kører jeg forbi vores datter Sarahs hus i Leckhampton,
hvilket giver mig den sædvanlige nostalgiske reaktion. Jeg mindes dagen i 2015,
hvor en stor flyttevogn fjernede familiens møbler for at transportere dem til
Australien. Hulk, hulk!!!
tilbageblik til 2015: en flyttevogn foran Sarahs gamle hus i Leckhampton
Sarahs mand, Francis, fjerner familiens surfbrætter
ud
af vores garage – uha, og Lois og jeg kommer til
at være helt alene i
verden!!!!!
19:00 Jeg kommer hjem igen og sætter mig ved computeren. Jeg udarbejder en
ungarsk ordforrådtest, som jeg vil have min ven, ”Magyar” Mike, til at afprøve
i morgen formiddag, når han kommer og deltage i vores ”ungarske time”. Jeg er
så krævende ha ha ha.
20:00 Jeg har lidt alenetid, så derfor bruger jeg resten af aftenen på at
se lidt fjernsyn. De viser en interessant dokumentarfilm, der handler om spørgsmålet
”Hvor stort er universet?”. Spoiler alert – det er meget meget meget meget
meget stort (hvis ikke mere!!!!) !!!!!
Jeg har set mange dokumentarfilm om universet, men jeg kan ikke altid huske,
hvad jeg har lært af dem, så det er rart, at blive mindet nu og da.
Før i tiden kunne jeg godt lide idéen, at universet ville en dag holde op
med at udvide sig (gradvist decelererende på grund af al det mørke stof og dets
tyngdekraft) og ville kollapse tilbage igen i et Big Crunch. Jeg formoder, at
Big-Crunchet kunne blive fulgt af endnu ét Big Bang, så vi ville have Big-Bang,
Big-Crunch, Big-Bang, Big-Crunch osv i én uendelighed, men det er jeg ikke helt
sikker på.
Desværre er denne idé nu blevet droppet, fordi universet faktisk udvider
sig hastigere og hastigere på grund af universets ”mørke energi”, som ingen
virkelig forstår. Pokkers!!!
For tiden kan vi allerede se kun én lille del af universet, fordi universet
er kun 14 millioner år gammelt og lyset fra fjernere galakser ikke har haft tid
til at nå til os. Men hvis universet fortsætter med at udvide sig hastigere og
hastigere, formoder jeg, at der vil være færre og færre stjerner og galakser,
som vi kan se – pokkers (igen)!!!
Kort sagt, fik David Gates og Telly Savalas ret, da de sang, ”Én efter én,
ville stjernerne alle gå ud (så ville du og jeg vil simpelthen flyve væk osv). Vi
må fremover ikke nedsable Gates’s indsigter – det ved jeg med sikkerhed!!!!
21:00 Jeg fortsætter med at se lidt fjernsyn. De viser det første afsnit
nogensinde af ”One Foot In The Grave”, da Victor er tvunget af sin arbejdsplads
til at gå på pension. Vi ser den berømte filmsekvens, hvor han har bilproblemer
og er nødt til at køre på 10 miles i timen ned ad gaden – han åbner vinduet og
spørger en pige i en mini-nederdel på fortovet, hvor den nærmeste
servicestation findes. Han er ikke klar over, at han er i byens ludderkvarter.
Resultatet: han bliver anholdt for ”kerb crawling” (det er en forbrydelse, hvis
en bilist kører langsomt for at forsøge at afhente en prostituerede i en luddergade)
– stakkels Victor, i hans første uge som pensionist!!!!
21:30 Lois kommer hjem igen. Hun siger, at hun hørte en bekymrende nyhed i
dag på radio – en mand blev fængslet for at køre bil uden at bære de briller,
han har brug for – og han skadede en fodgænger som resultatet. Lois siger, at
selvom hun er helt sikkert, at han kan køre bil uden problem ved dagslys, er
hun nu bange for, at hun kunne have en trafikulykke endda ved dagslys og
myndighederne kunne finde ud af, at hun har grå stær. Jeg ser hendes punkt, men
vi ved ikke, hvad vi kan gøre ved det, bortset fra, at jeg kører hende overalt
ved dagslys udover om aftenen.
22:00 Jeg går i seng, men Lois trænger til at slappe af og geare ned efter
sin stimulerende aften på bibelseminaret – stakkels Lois!!! Hun beslutter at se
lidt fjernsyn.
23:00 Jeg vågner ikke, da Lois kryber under dynen til mig.
04:00 Jeg står tidligt op og laver én af mine rutinemæssige danske
ordforrådtest.
Jeg kigger lidt på nettet. Jeg ser at den 83-årige skuespillerinde, Joan
Collins, har kritiseret sin 44-årige kollega, Gwynneth Paltrow, for hendes økologiske
diæter, og især den såkaldte trend ”clean eating” (ren spise), at
konsumere éns mad, som naturen har leveret den eller så tæt som muligt.
Joan Collins og Gwynneth
Paltrow
Joan sagde i et interview på byen
Londons LBC-radiostation, at ”grøn te er ulækkert. Det smager af blæk. Jeg vil
hellere have en almindelig god kop the, og om morgenen drikker jeg altid to
kopper god kaffe. Jeg synes, at der er alt for meget af det her 'clean eating'.”
Det er fint nok, selvom jeg er ikke
enig med hende i, at grøn te er ulækkert og smager af blæk. Hver morgen, når
jeg står op, har jeg for vane at drikke en liter grøn te, men teen er
aromatiseret med citron, hvilket efter min mening er hemmeligheden. Derefter
har jeg har en kop normal te, når jeg er tilbage i seng med Lois, og en kop god
kaffe til morgenmad. Simpelt!
Den danske reaktion fra en Paltrow-fan har været hurtig og lidt barsk efter
min mening! ’Plastik padding,
silikone og botox hører IKKE hjemme på og/eller i en normal sund krop,
uanset alder og ”rang”! Gud, hvor ser hun i øvrig grim ud, nok fordi hun ikke
får "grøntsager" nok!!!’
Du godeste – jeg holder mig neutral her, for en
sikkerheds skyld!!!
07:30 Jeg dasker 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.
10:00 Min ven, “Magyar” Mike, kommer, og vi lærer ungarsk i en time. Vores
nuværende lærebog, ”Learn Hungarian”, kom ud i 1960’erne og det er undertiden
meget morsomt at læse dialogerne, på grund af den kommunistiske propaganda, og
også på grund af de skiftende moder og vaner. I den 8. lektion læser vi en
dialog mellem 3 engelske turister og en tjener i byen Budapest. Ved slutningen
af måltidet slapper de tre gæster af ved bordet med en cigaret og en pibe. I
gamle dage var ordene ”cigaret, pibe, at ryge” osv var altid nogle af de første
ord, man lærte i et fremmed sprog – men ikke længere.
de tre engelske turister slapper af med en cigaret og
en
pibe ved bordet ved slutningen af måltidet i en restaurant i Budapest
13:00 Vi spiser frokost og bagefter går i seng i nogle timer.
15:30 Vi vælter ud af sengen og
slapper af med en kop te i sofaen. Vi lytter lidt til radio, en
interessant program, der handler om bedstefædres rolle i nutidens samfund.
Jeg var tiltrukket af de usædvanlige aspekter af dette program.
Bedstefarens rolle bliver for det meste ignoreret!!! Jeg lytter til programmet,
for at finde ud af, om jeg kan blive en bedre bedstefar, men programmet har
ikke nogle ægte svar – ingen overraskelse der!!!!
Det er måske interessant at høre, at kvindernes roller i livet altid har
været at gifte sig, at føde børn, at passe på børn, at passe på børnebørn, og at
dø. Mænds roller gennem livet var – at gifte sig, at arbejde, at gå på pension,
at dø. Du godeste, sikke et vanvid!!!!
I gamle dage var det patriarkens rolle (fx Abraham), at have al magten og
alle pengene, og denne rolle fortsatte op til alderdom og død. Denne rolle
forsvandt på ét eller andet tidspunkt i historien, og bedstefarens rolle blev
kun til at være til ulejlighed for alle – du godeste!!!! – indtil nu, hvor
bedstefaren kan hjælpe med at passe på børnebørn. Lykkelig slutning.
English translation
17:30 Lois and I eat dinner a
little earlier than usual because we have to go out at 6.15pm. Lois wants to
attend a Bible seminar taking place tonight in Brockworth and she is currently not allowed to drive because of cataracts. She has an appointment with the
specialist at the local hospital, but the appointment is fixed for May 31 -
still 10 weeks from now, poor Lois !!!
18:15 I drive Lois over to Mari-Ann and
Alf's house and drop her off. I drive home - on the way, I drive past our
daughter Sarah's house in Leckhampton, which gives me the usual nostalgic
reaction. I remember the day in 2015 when a large moving van took away the
family's furniture for transportation to Australia. Sob sob !!!
flashback to 2015: A moving van
in front of
Sarah's old house in Leckhampton
Sarah's husband, Francis, takes
away the family's surfboards
from our garage - oh dear,
and Lois and I
are going to be all alone in the world !!!!!
19:00 I come home and sit down at
the computer. I work out a Hungarian vocabulary test that I want my friend,
"Magyar" Mike, to try out tomorrow morning, when he comes and
participates in our "Hungarian hour". I am so demanding ha ha ha.
20:00 I have a little alone time,
so I spend the rest of the evening watching TV. An interesting documentary is
airing that deals with the question "How big is the universe?".
Spoiler alert - it's very very very very very large (if not more so !!!!) !!!!!
I have seen many documentaries about
the universe, but I cannot always remember what I have learnt from them, so
it's nice to be reminded now and then.
In the past I liked the idea that
the universe would one day cease to expand (gradually decelerating because of
all the dark matter and its gravitational force) and would collapse again in a
Big Crunch. I suppose the Big-Crunch could be followed by another Big Bang, so
we would have the Big-Bang, Big-Crunch, Big-Bang, Big-Crunch etc. ad infinitum,
but that is something I'm not quite sure about.
Unfortunately, this idea has now
been dropped, because the universe is actually expanding faster and faster
because of the universe's "dark energy", something that nobody really
understands. Damn !!!
Currently we can already see only
one small part of the universe, because the universe is only 14 million years
old and the light from more distant galaxies has not had time to reach us. But
if the universe continues to expand faster and faster, I suspect that there
will be fewer and fewer stars and galaxies that we can see - damn (again) !!!
In short, David Gates and Telly
Savalas got it right when they sang, "One by one, the stars would all go
out (then you and I would simply fly away, etc.). We must henceforth not
badmouth Gates's insights - that's something I know for sure !!!!
21:00 I continue to watch TV, the
first episode ever of "One Foot In The Grave", when Victor is forced
by his workplace to retire. We see the famous film sequence in which he has car
problems and has to drive at 10 miles an hour down the street - he opens the
window and asks a girl in a mini-skirt on the sidewalk where the nearest service-station
is. He is not aware that he is in the town's red light district. The result: he
gets arrested for "curb crawling" (it is an offence if a motorist
drives slowly in an attempt to pick up prostitutes on a red light street) -
poor Victor, in his first week as a pensioner !!!!
21:30 Lois comes home again. She
says she heard a troubling news item today on the radio - a man was jailed for
driving a car without wearing the glasses he needs - and he injured a
pedestrian as a result. Lois says that although she is sure that she can drive
a car without problem by daylight, she is now afraid that she might have an
accident even in daylight and the authorities could find out that she has cataracts.
I see her point, but we do not know what we can do about it, except that I
drive her everywhere in daylight as well as in the evening.
22:00 I go to bed, but Lois needs
to relax and unwind after her stimulating evening at the Bible seminar - poor
Lois !!! She decides to watch TV.
23:00 I do not wake up when Lois
crawls under the covers with me.
04:00 I get up early and do one
of my routine Danish vocabulary tests.
I take a little look at the
web. I see that the 83-year-old actress, Joan Collins, has criticised her
44-year-old colleague, Gwynneth Paltrow for her organic diets, and especially
the so-called "clean eating" trend of consuming one's food the way
nature delivered it or as close as possible.
Joan Collins and Gwynneth
Paltrow
Joan said in an interview on the
city of London's LBC radio station that "green tea is disgusting. It
tastes of ink. I'd rather have a plain cup of tea, and in the morning I always
drink two cups of good coffee. I think there is too much of this 'clean
eating'. "
The Danish reaction from a
Paltrow fan has been swift and a little harsh in my opinion. 'Plastic padding,
silicon and botox do not belong to and / or in a normal healthy body,
regardless of age and "rank"! God, how ugly she looks incidentally,
probably because she does not get enough "vegetables" !!! '
My goodness - I am staying
strictly neutral here, for safety's sake !!!
07:30 I shuffle 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 get up.We eat breakfast.
10:00 My friend,
"Magyar" Mike, comes and we learn Hungarian for an hour. Our current
textbook, "Learn Hungarian", came out in the 1960s and it is
sometimes very amusing to read the dialogues, because of the communist
propaganda, and also because of the changing fashions and habits. In the eighth
lesson we read a dialogue between three British tourists and a waiter in the
city of Budapest. At the end of the meal the three guests relax at the table
with a cigarette and a pipe. In the old days the words "cigarette, pipe,
smoking," etc. were always some of the first words you learnt in a
foreign language - but not anymore.
the three English tourists relax
with a cigarette and
a pipe at the table at the end of the meal
in a restaurant in Budapest
13:00 We have lunch and then go
to bed for a couple of hours.
15:30 We tumble out of bed and
relax with a cup of tea on the sofa. We listen a little to the radio, an
interesting program that is about grandfathers' role in modern society.
I was attracted by the unusual
aspects of this program. The grandfather's role is mostly ignored !!! I listen
to the program to find out if I can become a better grandfather, but the
program does not have any real answers - no surprise there !!!!
It is perhaps interesting to hear
that women's roles in life have always been to marry, bear children, to take
care of children, to care for grandchildren, and to die. Men's roles through
life were - to marry, work, retire, die. My goodness, what madness !!!!
In the old days it was the
patriarch's role (eg Abraham), to have all the power and all the money, and
this role continued up to old age and death, so the grandfather's authority was
not reduced for the rest of his life. This role disappeared at some point in
history, and grandfather's role was only to be a nuisance to everyone - my
goodness! That is, until nowadays, when the grandfather can help take care of grandchildren.
Happy ending.
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