17:00 Jeg mærker, at jeg allerede begynder at føle mig lidt nervøs. I
morgen skal jeg deltage i en fælles frokost sammen med Lois og hendes kirkes
medlemmer, hvor jeg skal være selskabelig og venlig - uha, sikke et mareridt!!!
Maggie, Lois’s veninde, går i kirke for sidste gang i morgen, fordi hun på
tirsdag flytter ind i et plejehjem i Birmingham omegn. Kirken i byen Tewkesbury
har organiseret en farvelfrokost til hende.
Maggie har ikke nogen bil længere, og Lois er ikke tilladt at køre bil for
tiden på grund af grå stær, så derfor vil det være mit ansvar at hente Maggie
og køre de to kvinder over til Tewkesbury.
18:00 Lois og jeg spiser aftensmad. Bagefter sætter jeg mig foran computeren
og udprinte de næste 3 kapitler af ”Gunnlaugs saga ormstungu”, en saga på
oldnorsk, der blev skrevet sidst i 13. århundrede, men udspiller sig under
regeringstid af den engelske konge Ethelred II den Rådvilde (968-1016).
Efter kirkens fælles frokost i morgen kan jeg så krybe ud af kirken, gemme
mig i bilen i parkeringspladsen, kigge
på kunderne, der går ind og ud af den lokale tatoveringsbutik, og læse samtidigt
lidt oldnorsk– hurra! Scillas U3A oldnorske gruppe holder sit næste møde på onsdag i grevskabets bibliotek i bymidten. Sagaen er gruppens seneste projekt.
20:00 Lois og jeg bruger aftenen på at se lidt fjernsyn. De viser en
interessant dokumentarfilm, der handler om en ambitiøse genindspilning af den
berømte ”Dirty Dancing” film, genskabet på den lille skærm af to givne engelske
skuespillere, der kommer fra det nordlige England: Keith Lemon og Paddy
McGuinness.
Keith Lemon
Paddy
McGuinness
Jeg har selv ikke set den oprindelige film, så Lois giver mig en hurtig
resumé. Filmen udspiller sig på et feriested i Catskill Moutains bjerge-området.
Patrick Swayze spiller en danselærer, der har en ung kvinde, Penny (Cynthia
Rhodes), som sin regelmæssige dansepartner. Penny bliver tilsyneladende
desværre gravid efter en engangsknald med en tjener. Du godeste – sikke en skør
verden vi lever i !!!!
Lemon/McGuinness- genindspildningen er ganske succesfuld, men der er også
deler, hvor deres nye version ikke virker ret godt, synes vi. Den mest
bedrøvende tråd i den oprindelige film er måske Pennys graviditet og ulovlig
abort i en snusket baggade.
Lemon og McGuinness tror, at dette tema er lidt for mørkt for britiske
tv-seere, og de genskriver de pågældene scener, så Penny nu har et problem med
forstoppelse i stedet for, at blive gravid. Lois og jeg er ikke helt sikre på,
at denne scenario er så dramatisk, som det oprindelig, men det er ”juryen”
stadig ude om!
I genindspildningen har Penny et problem
med
forstoppelse, i stedet for et uønsket graviditet, men
Lois
og jeg er ikke helt sikre på, at denne nye plotlinje er
så
succesfuld som den oprindelige. Det er juryen stadig ude om!
Derudover er det lidt af en skam, synes vi, at itv-kanalen tillod åbenlys
produktplacering af den værste type, i form af en fokus på en Kelloggs
All-Bran-pakke, hvilket er lidt overraskende.
dette er produktplacering af den værste type,
synes
Lois og jeg. Sikke et vanvid!!!!
Ofcom
(reguleringsmyndigheden for
kommunikationsindustrien – red.),
tag
aktion – og hurtigt!
Det er også lidt uheldigt, at Jake, den rige læge, der til sidst helbreder Pennys
forstoppelse, har en kone (Kelly Bishop i filmen), som i genindspildningen
desværre bliver spillet af en tilsyneladende alkoholisk engelsk spillerinde –
jeg kan ikke huske hendes navn. Det er lidt distraherende, at se nu og da
hendes berusede adfærd (som for eksempel på dansegulvet eller på golfbanen), adfærd,
som har ikke at gøre med plotten.
rollen af den rige læges kone er desværre spillet
af
en tilsyneladende alkoholisk skuespillerinde.
Hendes
berusede adfærd foran tv-kameraerne, adfærd som ikke har noget
at
gøre med plotten, er bare distraherende, synes vi.
22:00 Vi går i seng – zzzzzzz!!!
04:15 Jeg står
tidligt op og laver én af mine rutinemæssige danske ordforrådtest.
08:00 Jeg lunter ud
i køkkenet og laver to kopper te. Jeg tager dem med op i soveværelset og hopper
op i sengen til Lois. Vi drikker téen og går i bad. Vi står op og spiser
morgenmad.
10:00 Jeg går i gang med at udprinte de næste 10 sider af vores danske
novelle, ”Forbandet”, af Gittemie Eriksen. Jeg oversætter de svære ord til
engelsk og printe en ordforrådliste i bunden af hver side. Vores U3A danske
gruppe har gjort denne novelle til vores seneste projekt.
Der har allerede været 10 mordoffre i dette rolige danske landsby – alle ofrene
var ca. 37 år gamle, bortset fra én ældre dame. De gik alle i samme klasse på den lokale skole: deres tidligere lærerinde er også
blevet dræbt. Den lokale landbetjent er i gang med at undersøge disse
mysteriøse drab, og detaljer begynder at dukke frem om forskellige tilfælde af
mobning dengang i klassen – du godeste, spændingen stiger, ingen tvivl om
det!!!!!
forskellige 30-årige tilfælde af skolemobning
begynder at dukke
frem – du godeste,
sikke en skør
verden vi lever i !!!!!
11:30 Vi kører over
til Leckhampton og henter Maggie, Lois’s veninde, og vi kører til Tewkesbury.
Maggie går i kirke her for sidste gang. På tirsdag flytter hun ind til et
plejehjem i Birmingham-område. Kirkens medlemmer har organiseret en
farvelfrokost til Maggie, og derefter holder de den sædvanlige gudstjeneste
(dagens anden – du godeste!).
Personlig glæder jeg
mig ikke til at deltage i disse slags frokoster, fordi jeg skal være selskabelig og venlig - uha, sikke et mareridt!!! Men jeg er heldig
i dag, fordi frokosten er blevet forsinket og der kun er 20 minutter tilbage,
så spiser jeg hurtigt og forsvinder, før eftermiddagens gudstjeneste starter kl
13:45. Ingen tid til snak – hurra!
14:00 Jeg gemmer mig i vores bil i den nærliggende parkeringsplads og læser
den 8. kapitel af den islandske saga, som Scillas U3A oldnorske gruppe har
valgt som dens seneste projekt.
Jeg har parkeret i hjørnet af parkeringsplads, hvor jeg kan observere den
lokale tatoveringsbutik og de underlige kunder, der kommer ind og ud. Men
desværre er butikken lukket af én eller anden grund – pokkers!
Den lokale tatoveringsbutik er desværre lukket –
ingenting
at observere i dag – pokkers!!
Men det var et sidespring - undskyld! Tilbage til vores gamle islandske
saga!
Gunnlaug, sagaens helt, en 18-årig islandsk skjald, har forladt Helga, sin
smukke forlovet, i Island for at se verden – hvilket var meget dumt, fordi Helga
er Islands smukkeste pige, og mændene står og venter i kø for at score hende. Du
dumme Gunnlaug!!!!
hvorfor forlod du hende, Gunnlaug?
Du
dumme dumme Gunnlaug!!!!!
Helga er Islands smukkeste pige, og mændene står
i
kø for at score hende – du dumme dumme Gunnlaug (igen)!!!!
Gunnlaug rejser først til Norge, så til England, hvor han mødes med den angelsaksiske
konge, Ethelred. I den 8. kapitel sejler Gunnlaug til Dublin og derefter
Orkneyøerne: begge steder var dengang regeret af vikinge konger eller jarler,
og til sidst rejser han til Sverige.
de vikingelande
I hvert land han besøger, mødes han med den lokale konge/jarl, og bliver
inviteret til en fest, hvor han fremsiger én af sine digte. Kongerne og
jarlerne har tendens til at være vilde med digtene og giver Gunnlaug en dyr
gave som belønning. Gab gab!!!!
Men jeg tror, at der er mere sex og vold i de følgende kapitler, så må vi
ikke opgivet håbet om at læse noget lidt mere begejstrende ha ha ha.
15:30 Gudstjenesten
er sluttet. Jeg henter Lois og Maggie foran kirken og vi kører tilbage til
Maggies hus i Leckhampton. Hun inviterer os ind i sit hus (nu næsten frit for
møbler – du godeste, stakkels Maggie!). Vi drikker te med Maggie og siger
farvel. Vi kører hjem. Sikke en dag!!!!!
vi drikker
en farvel kop te med Maggie i
hendes næsten
umøbleret hus. Stakkels Maggie!!!!
English translation
17:00 I sense that I'm already
beginning to feel a little nervous. Tomorrow I have to take part in a communal lunch together with Lois and her church's members, where I have to be sociable
and friendly - oh dear, what a nightmare !!!
Maggie, Lois's friend, is going to church for the last time tomorrow because she is moving to a nursing home in
Birmingham on Tuesday. The church in the town of Tewkesbury has organised a
farewell lunch for her.
Maggie has no car any more, and
Lois is not allowed to drive a car due to cataracts, so it's my responsibility
to pick Maggie up and drive the two women over to Tewkesbury.
18:00 Lois and I
eat dinner. Afterwards, I sit myself down in front of the computer and print out
the next 3 chapters of "Gunnlaugs saga ormstungu", a saga in Old
Norse, written in the late 13th century, but set during the reign of the
English king Ethelred II, the Unready (968-1016 ).
After the church's lunch in tomorrow, I will be able to creep out of the church, hide away in the car in the
car park, watch the customers going in and out of the local tattoo shop, and at
the same time read a little Old Norse - hurray! Scilla's U3A Old Norse Group is
holding its next meeting on Wednesday in the county library in the town center, and the saga is our latest project.
20:00 Lois and I spend the
evening watching television. An interesting documentary is on about an
ambitious remake of the famous "Dirty Dancing" movie, to be reproduced on
the small screen by two British actors from the north of England: Keith Lemon
and Paddy McGuinness.
Keith Lemon
Paddy McGuinness
I have not myself seen the
original movie, so Lois gives me a quick summary. The film is set in a resort
in the Catskill Moutains area. Patrick Swayze plays a dance teacher who has a
young woman, Penny (Cynthia Rhodes), as his regular dance partner. Penny
apparently unfortunately becomes pregnant after a one-night-stand with a
waiter. Good grief - what a crazy world we live in !!!!
The Lemon / McGuinness remake is
quite successful, but there are also parts where their new version does not
work well, we think. The most distressing thread in the original movie is
perhaps Penny's pregnancy and illegal abortion in a dingy back-street.
Lemon and McGuinness think this
theme is a bit too dark for British television viewers, and they rewrite the
scenes in question, so Penny now has a constipation problem instead of getting
pregnant. Lois and I are not completely sure that this scenario is as dramatic
as the original one, but the "jury" is still out on that one!
In the remake Penny has a
problem with constipation,
instead of an unwanted pregnancy, but
Lois and I are not quite sure this new plot
line is
as successful as the original one. The jury
is still out on that one!
In addition, it's a bit of a
shame, we think, that the ITV channel allowed obvious product placement of the
worst type, in the form of a focus on a Kellogg's All-Bran packet, which is a
bit surprising.
This is product placement of the
worst type,
Lois and I think. What madness !!!!
Ofcom (Regulatory Authority for the
Communications Industry - Ed),
please take action - and fast!
It's also a bit unfortunate that
Jake, the rich doctor who eventually cures Penny's constipation, has a wife
(Kelly Bishop in the movie) who in the remake is unfortunately played by an
apparently alcoholic English actress - I cannot remember her name. It's a bit
distracting to see her drunk behaviour (eg on the dance-floor or on the golf
course), which has nothing to do with the plot.
The role of the rich doctor's
wife is unfortunately played
by an apparently alcoholic actress.
Her intoxicated behaviour in front of the tv
cameras, which has nothing
to do with the plot, is merely distracting,
we think.
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzzz !!!
04:15 I get up early and do one
of my routine Danish vocabulary tests.
08:00 I amble out to 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 go in the shower. We get up and have breakfast.
10:00 I get started with printing
out the next 10 pages of our Danish short story, "Accursed", by
Gittemie Eriksen. I translate the hard words into English and print a
vocabulary list at the bottom of each page. Our U3A Danish group has chosen
this short story as our latest project.
There have already been 10 murder
victims in this quiet Danish village - all the victims were about 37 years old,
except for one older lady. They all went to the same class at the local school:
their former teacher has also been killed. The local police constable is
investigating these mysterious killings, and details are begining to emerge
about various cases of bullying back then in the class - good grief, the
excitement is mounting, no doubt about that !!!!!
Various 30-year-old cases of
school bullying
are beginning to emerge - good grief,
What a crazy world we live in !!!!!
11:30 We drive over to
Leckhampton and pick up Maggie, Lois's friend, and drive to Tewkesbury. Maggie
is going to church here for the last time. On Tuesday she moves into a nursing
home in the Birmingham area. Church members have organised a farewell lunch for
Maggie, and after that they are holding the usual Sunday service (today's
second - good grief!).
Personally, I do not look forward
to taking part in these kinds of lunches, because I have to be sociable and
friendly - oh dear, what a nightmare !!! But I'm lucky today because the lunch
has been delayed and there's only 20 minutes left for it, so I eat fast and
disappear before the afternoon's service begins at 1:45pm. No time to chat -
hurray!
14:00 I hide in our car in the
nearby parking lot and read the 8th chapter of the Icelandic saga, which
Scilla's U3A Old Norse group has chosen as its latest project.
I have parked in the corner of
the parking lot where I can observe the local tattoo shop and the weird
customers that come in and out. But unfortunately the store is closed for some
reason - damn it!
the local tattoo shop is closed
unfortunately.
Nothing to observe today – damn !!!!
But that was a digression -
sorry! Back to our old Icelandic saga!
Gunnlaug, the hero of the saga,
an 18-year-old Icelandic skjald (bard), has left Helga, his beautiful fiancee,
in Iceland in order to go off and see the world - which was very stupid because
Helga is Iceland's most beautiful girl and the men are waiting in line to score
with her. Stupid Gunnlaug !!!!
Why did you leave her,
Gunnlaug?
You stupid stupid Gunnlaug !!!!!
Helga is Iceland's most beautiful
girl, and the men are waiting
in line to score with her - you stupid
stupid Gunnlaug (again) !!!!
Gunnlaug first travels to Norway,
then to England, where he meets with the Anglo-Saxon king Ethelred. In this 8th
chapter, Gunnlaug then sails to Dublin and afterwards to the Orkney Islands: both places
were ruled by Vikings kings or earls at that time; eventually Gunnlaug travels to
Sweden.
the Viking lands
In each country he visits, he
meets with the local king / earl, and is invited to a feast where he presents
one of his poems. The kings and the earls tend to be crazy about the poems and
give Gunnlaug an expensive gift as a reward. Yawn yawn !!!!
But I believe there is more sex
and violence coming in the next few chapters, so we must not give up hope of
reading something a little more exciting ha ha ha.
15:30 The church service has
finished. I pick up Lois and Maggie in front of the church and we drive back to
Maggie's house in Leckhampton. She invites us into her house (now almost free
of furniture - good grief, poor Maggie!). We drink tea with Maggie and say
goodbye. We drive home. What a day!!!!!
We drink a farewell cup of tea with
Maggie in
her practically unfurnished house. Poor
Maggie !!!!
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