17:45 Vi beslutter, at vi ikke har brug for at spise en normal aftensmad i
aften – vi nød tidligere på dagen en dejlig frokost med dessert på et lokalt
værtshus, The Royal William i Cranham, i
anledning (2 dage sent) af min fødselsdag. Vi vil nøjes med bare en snack i
aften.
18:15 Vi skal ud. Lois ønsker at deltage i et bibelseminar, der finder sted
i aften i Brockworth, og hun er ikke tilladt til at køre bil om aftenen på
grund af grå stær. Hun har en tid hos en specialist på det lokale hospital, men
hun må vente til den 31. maj – stakkels Lois!!! Hun kørte os begge hjem tidligere på dagen
efter vores frokost på værtshuset, men hun sagde dengang til mig, at hun
begyndte at tænke, at hun selv ved dagslys har svært ved at se så klart som
før, når det kommer til at bemærke biler i det fjerne – uha!
Jeg sætter hende af
foran Mari-Ann og Alfs hus. De vil køre hende over til Brockworth. Jeg kører
hjem.
På vej hjem kører
jeg forbi Sarahs gamle hus i Leckhampton. Sarah, vores yngste datter, flyttede
for 16 mdr siden til Australien sammen med Francis, sin mand, og deres
(dengang) 2,5 årige tvillinger. Tidligere på dagen smuttede Lois ind hos
naboerne (Stephen og Frances) for at forhøre sig, om de ville kunne passe på
vores hus, hvis vi beslutter at besøge Sarah igen i efteråret. Efteråret er en
bedre tid, end foråret, synes vi, fordi haven ikke bliver til en jungle i vores
fravær – uha!
Måske er de næste 2
år den bedste tid til at besøge dem, før tvillingerne starte i skole, men det
er vi ikke helt sikre på. Også, vi er godt oppe i årene, og det kan være, at
rejsen vil blive for svær for os om nogle års tid – uha!!!!
20:00 Jeg har lidt
alenetid, og jeg lytter lidt til radio, en interessant program, hvor en førende
neurolog, Prof. Russell Foster, taler om søvnens fordele for kroppen og sindet.
Dette program er meget interessant for mig, fordi jeg har tendens til at
lide af mangel på søvn. Det er fængslende at høre om vores naturlige kropsur,
der har udviklet sig over 3 millioner år. Endda mikroskopiske bakterier har et
kropsur – jeg formoder, at de vågner om morgenen og mindes, at det er tid at stå
op og begynde at inficere os, og kl 22 om aftenen beslutter de at tage en velfortjent
pause og gå i seng.
Prof. Russell Foster tale om søvnens
fordeler
for kroppen og sindet
Det mest skræmmende ting, som Prof. Foster siger, er, at det er under søvn,
at hjernen behandler og opbevarer vores positive tanker og gode minder. Hvis
hjernen ikke har nok tid til at foretage denne vigtige opgaven, kan vi i det
lange løb huske kun vores negative tanker og dårlige minder – du godeste! Det
ville være tragisk, hvis jeg på mit dødsleje kun kan huske mine dårlige
oplevelser, for eksempel dage, hvor mit bredbånd er nede – sikke et
mareridt!!!!!
22:00 Lois kommer tilbage og jeg går i seng. Lois trænger til at slappe af
og geare ned efter aftenens stimulerende bibelseminar, så hun ser lidt fjernsyn
først. Jeg vågner ikke, da hun kl 23 kryber under dynen til mig. Zzzzzzz!!!!!
06:00 Jeg står tidligt op og kigger lidt på nettet.
08:00 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 Jeg afsender via mail de næste 11 sider af vores danske gruppes
novelle, ”Forbandet” af Gittemie Eriksen, til gruppens medlemmer, med adskilte
ordforrådlister printede i bunden af hver side.
11:00 Jeg går i gang med at forberede mig på Scillas U3A oldnorske gruppes
næste møde, der finder sted kl 14 i eftermiddag på byens bibliotek. Jeg blader
igennem kapitler 3 og 4 og den korte oldnorske grammatik, som Scilla har givet
os noter om.
12:15 Vi spiser frokost og bagefter går jeg i seng for at tage mig en kort
eftermiddagslur – zzzzzz!!!!!
13:30 Jeg står op og kører ind i byen.
14:00 Scillas U3A oldnorske gruppes møde starter på biblioteket. Vi
fortsætter med at læse Gunnlaugssaga, der blev nedskrevet i sidste tredjedel af
1200-tallet. Sagaen handler om en kærlighedstrekant mellem to digtere, Gunnlaug
og Hrafn, og en smuk islandsk pige,
Helga, en bondemands datter.
Kærlighedstrekanten og det dødlige slagsmål mellem de to kærlighedsrivaler ligger
ikke desto mindre stadig i den fjerne fremtid – vi er for tiden lige i
begyndelsen af historien.
Vi læser i den 3. kapitel om Helgas fødsel – og hun bliver snart berømt for
sin smukhed, endda på 6 år. Hun er stadig lidt mere, end et barn på 12 år, og
allerede den smukkeste pige i hele Island, da Gunnlaug, hendes 12-årige kommende
kæreste, går i gang med at spille skak med hende med jævne mellemrum, mens han midlertidigt
bor hos Helgas far, Thorsteinn. Helga havde dejligt lyst hår, og hendes hår var
så stor, at det dækkede hele hendes kroppen – du godeste!
Gunnlaug swarm of Helga and he
wants to be engaged to her, so the couple can go to bed together. Thorsteinn,
Helga's father is apparently not very fresh on the engagement, and it is not
clear whether the engagement in this case is legal or not. It seems to be that
no one is quite sure of it. We'll
see !!!!
16:00 Mødet slutter og jeg kører hjem. Lois og jeg slapper af med en kop te
i sofaen.
English translation
17:45 We decide that we do not
need to eat a normal dinner this evening - we enjoyed a nice lunch with dessert
earlier in the day at a local pub, The Royal William i Cranham, on the occasion
(two days late) of my birthday. We will settle for just a snack tonight.
18:15 We have to go out. Lois
wants to participate in a Bible seminar taking place tonight in Brockworth and
she is not allowed to drive at night because of cataracts. She has an
appointment with a specialist at the local hospital, but she has to wait until
31 May - poor Lois !!! She drove us both home earlier in the day after our
lunch at the tavern, but she said to me then that she was beginning to think
that even in daylight she is finding it hard to see as clearly as before when
it comes to noticing cars the distance - oh dear!
I drop her off in front of
Mari-Ann and Alf's house. They will drive her over to Brockworth. I drive home.
On the way home I drive past
Sarah's old house in Leckhampton. 16 months ago Sarah, our youngest daughter,
moved to Australia with Francis, her husband and their (then) 2 and a half year
old twins. Earlier in the day Lois popped in at the neighbors (Stephen and
Frances) to inquire whether they would be able to take care of our house if we
decide to visit Sarah again in the fall. Autumn is a better time than spring,
we think, because the garden does not turn into a jungle in our absence - oh
dear!
Perhaps the next 2 years are the
best time to visit them before the twins start school, but we are not quite
sure. Also, we are getting well on in years, and it may be that the journey
will become too difficult for us in a few years' time - oh dear!!!!
20:00 I have a little alone time,
and I listen a little to the radio, an interesting program in which a leading
neurologist Professor Russell Foster, talks about sleep's benefits for body and
mind.
This program is very interesting
for me because I tend to suffer from lack of sleep. It is fascinating to hear
about our natural body clock, which has evolved over 3 million years. Even
microscopic bacteria have a body clock - I suspect that they wake up in the
morning and remember that it is time to get up and begin to infect us, and at
10pm in the evening they decide to take a break and go to bed.
Prof. Russell Foster talks about sleep
benefits
for the body and the mind
The scariest thing that Prof.
Foster says, is that it is during sleep that the brain processes and stores our
positive thoughts and good memories. If the brain does not have enough time to
undertake this important task, we will in the long run be able to remember only
our negative thoughts and bad memories - my goodness! It would be tragic if I'm
on my deathbed and can only remember my bad experiences, for instance days when
my broadband is down - what a nightmare !!!!!
22:00 Lois comes back and I go to
bed. Lois need to relax and unwind after the evening's stimulating Bible
seminar, so she looks at a little television first. I do not wake up when she
crawls under the covers with me at 11pm. Zzzzzzz !!!!!
06:00 I get up early and take a
look on the web.
08:00 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 I send off by email the
next 11 pages of our Danish group's short story, "Cursed" by Gittemie
Eriksen, to the group's members, with separate vocabulary lists printed on the
bottom of each page.
11:00 I begin to prepare for
Scilla's U3A Old Norse group's next meeting, which will take place at 2pm this
afternoon at the town's library. I flip through chapters 3 and 4 and the short
Old Norse grammar that Scilla has given us notes on.
12:15 We have lunch and
afterwards I go to bed and take a short nap - zzzzzz !!!!!
13:30 I get up and drive into
town.
14:00 Scilla's U3A Old Norse
group meeting starts at the library. We continue to read Gunnlaugs saga,
written in the last third of the 1200s. The saga is about a love triangle
between two poets, Gunnlaug and Hrafn, and a beautiful Icelandic girl, Helga, a
peasant's daughter.
The love triangle and the deadly
brawl between the two love rivals are nevertheless still in the distant future
- we are presently just at the beginning of the story.
We read in the third chapter
about Helga's birth - and she soon becomes famous for her beauty, even at 6
years old. She is still little more than a child of 12 years old and already
the prettiest girl in the whole of Iceland, when Gunnlaug, her 12-year-old
future boyfriend, begin to play chess with her regularly while he was living
temporarily with Helga's father, Thorsteinn. Helga had very blonde hair, and
her hair was so big that it covered her whole body - my goodness!
Gunnlaug fancies Helga and he
wants to be engaged to her, so the couple can go to bed together. Thorsteinn,
Helga's father is apparently not very keen on the engagement, and it is not
clear whether the engagement in this case is legal or not. It seems to be that
no one is quite sure of it. We'll see !!!!
16:00 The meeting ends and I
drive home. Lois and I relax with a cup of tea on the sofa.
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