17:30 Lois kommer tilbage igen. Hun smuttede ind hos naboerne (Bill og
Mary) kl 15:30 for at snakke lidt med Mary, der lider af en form for mild
demens.
Lois er så varmhjertet! Hun er meget træt – hun brugte formiddagen på at
hjælpe med at bemande sin kirkes pop-up shop, og i aften skal hun udfærdige
næste uges tidsplan, der viser hvem har indvilliget i at dække hvilke halv dags
tidsrum osv, og så skal hun afsende tidsplanen via email til kirkemedlemmerne.
Hun skal også opdatere shoppens hjemmeside – du godeste, stakkels Lois!!!!
18:45 Vi spiser aftensmad. Bagefter går Lois ind i spisestuen og sætter sig
foran computeren for at udfærdige næste uges pop-up shop tidsplan.
Jeg har lidt alenetid og ser lidt fjernsyn. De viser finalen i kvindernes
XV VM 2017, hvor 12 nationer har kæmpet i 3 indledende
puljer i Dublin, hvorefter der spilledes semifinaler og nu i aften finalen i
Belfast. Aftenens finalekamp er mellem New Zealand og England. New Zealand
vinder med 41-32.
Jeg smækker benene op foran fjernsynet og svælger i kampens første halvdel.
Jeg forventer, at New Zealand smadrer England, men jeg bliver lidt overrasket
over, at stillingen ved halvtid er 17-10 til England. Du godeste, sikke et
vanvid!!!
jeg forventer at NZ smadrer England, men jeg bliver lidt overrasket over,
at
stillingen ved halvtid er 17-10 til England (i hvid). Du godeste, sikke et
vanvid!!!!
20:30 Dommeren blåser og det er halvtid. ITV-kanalens eksperter går i gang
med at snakke om kampens første halvdel. Alle tre synes, at England har en god
chance for at vinde og holde pokalen, som de vandt for 4 år siden.
Pludselig kalder Lois mig ind i spisestuen. Hun beder mig om, at hjælpe
hende med at opdatere pop-up shoppens hjemmeside. Jeg kommer hurtigt til den
konklusion, at hun faktisk er for træt og bliver forvirret – hun blænder
forskellige filer sammen for eksempel. Endelig lykkes os til at opdatere
hjemmeside, og vi sende den opdaterede tidsplan via email til kirkemedlemmerne
– hurra!
uddrag fra pop-ups shoppens opdaterede hjemmeside
21:15 Lois beslutter at gå i seng tidligere, end normalt, for at genoplade
sine batterier. Jeg træder tilbage ind i stuen for at se de sidste 10 minutter
af kampen mellem New Zealand og England. Jeg får lidt af et chok, da jeg ser
den nuværende stilling – 41-25 til New Zealand. Du godeste, jeg burde ikke at
have holdt op med at se kampen – det engelske hold savnede åbenbart min støtte,
mens jeg var i gang med at hjælpe Lois med hendes opdatering. Pokkers!
jeg kommer 30 minutter senere tilbage i stuen og
stillingen
er blevet helt anderledes. Der er nu 41-25 til New Zealand.
Du
godeste, hvad er der sket, mens jeg hjalp Lois med hendes computerarbejde???
Kampen ender med 41-32 til New Zealand, og jeg er helt sikker på, at det
bedste hold vandt. Det new zealanske hold har så mange store stærke maorier –
jeg ville ikke mødes med en af dem i en mørk gyde: det ved jeg med sikkerhed.
Men en af holdets håndfuld af magre blondiner, Kendra Cocksedge, er en lille
dynamo også – du godeste, New Zealand dominerer verdens rugby, både mændenes og
kvindernes versioner. Jeg forstår ikke præcist, hvorfor.
Kendra Cocksedge, en af holdets håndfuld af magre blondiner,
er en lille dynamo
også – det ved jeg med sikkerhed!!!
22:00 Jeg går i seng – zzzzzzz!!!!!
04:00 Jeg står tidlig op og laver en af mine rutinemæssige danske
ordforrådtest.
Jeg går i gang med at læse resten af kapitel 11 af Gunnlaugs saga. en
1000-årig islandsk saga, fordi Scilla U3A oldnorske gruppe holder dens næste
møde på onsdag på biblioteket i bymidten.
Jeg læser om duellen mellem to islandske skjalde, Gunnlaug og Hrafn. De har
aftalt at kæmpe en duel for at beslutte, hvem der få retten til at have Helga,
Islands smukkeste kvinde. Helga er for tiden giftet med Hrafn, men det er
Gunnlaug, hun er forelsket i, og hun afviser stadig at have sex med Hrafn på
grund af sine følelser for Gunnlaug. Hvor spændende livet var i Island i det
11. århundrede - ingen tvivl om det!
Gunnlaug og Hrafn, to islandske skjalde, kæmper en duel,
for
at beslutte, hvem af dem får retten til at have Helga, Islands smukkeste kvinde
Til sidst mødes de og starter duellen. Hver mand har ca. 5 venner med, der
vil blive ved med slågsmålet og kæmpe dueller med medlemmer af det andet hold,
så bliver det til et stort slag, ingen tvivl om det! Gunnlaug sårer Hrafn
”mildt” (han skærer Hrafns ben af !!!!) og tilbyder at stoppe kampen, men Hrafn
insisterer på at blive ved med at slås – men han beder Gunnlaug om hente ham et
glas vand først. Gunnlaug kan ikke finde noget glas så derfor henter han vandet
i sin hjelm.
Men da Gunnlaug rækker Hrafn vandet, slår Hrafn ham med sit sværd og sårer
ham frygteligt – du godeste. Han spiller ikke ærligt spil – ingen tvivl om
det. Hrafn indrømmer, at han holdt sig
ikke til reglerne, man han undskylder sig med, at Gunnlaug i det daglige nyder
Helgas kram og kys, mens Helga viser ham, sin mand, en kold skulder, hvilket må
have været meget irriterende, for at sige mildt!!!
I kapitlens sidste få sider lykker det de to skjalde at dræbe hinanden, så
nu er både Helgas ægtemand og hendes elsker døde. Du godeste – stakkels Helga!!!!
Slagsmålet ender op med at Helgas ægtemand (Hrafn) og hendes
elsker
(Gunnlaug) dræber hinanden – uha! Stakkels Helga!!!!
08:00 Jeg hopper op i sengen til Lois og vi drikker vores morgenté. Vi går
i bad og står op. Vi spiser morgenmad.
11:15 Vi taler lidt med Sarah, vores datter i Perth, Australien, med
Francis, Sarahs mand, og deres 4-årige tvillinger, Lily og Jessica.
Tvillingerne fyldte 4 år den 26. juli, men deres fødselsdagsfest er blevet
forsinket til i dag. Den fandt sted i Fairy Shop i Joondalup, en lille forstad
til Perth, hvor tvillingerne og deres små venner klædte sig ud som feer. Lois
og jeg lærte Joondalup meget godt at kende, da vi besøgte Sarah og hendes
familie sidste år.
Fairy Shop i Joondalup, en lille forstad til Perth
12:00 Vi spiser frokost og bagefter skal vi ud. Lois vil gerne deltage i en
gudstjeneste, der finder sted i dag i byen Tewkesbury, og hun er ikke tilladt
at køre bil for tiden på grund af grå stær. Jeg kører hende over til byen og
sætter hende af overfor byens bibliotek.
14:00 Jeg kører over til det lokale Morrisons supermarked for at købe nogle
ting. Bagefter smutter jeg ind i supermarkedets café. Jeg drikker en kop kaffe
og spiser et stykke kage. Jeg læser nogle sider af ”Sir Orfeo”, et middlengelsk
digt, fordi Lyndas U3A ”Making of English” gruppe holder dens månedlige møde på
fredag. ”Sir Orfeo” er gruppens seneste projekt.
Sir Orfeo var en engelsk konge, hvis kone, Heurodis, bliver bortført af
kongen af feerne, hvilket dengang altid var lidt af en risiko, især hvis din
kone var smuk. Kongen af feerne kunne vælge og vrage, og han havde tendens til
at springe over de grimme – du godeste, sikke en skør verden vi lever i !!!!
Kongen
af feerne bortfører Sir Orfeos kone, den frække stodder!!!!
15:00 Gudstjenesten slutter og jeg henter Lois i byens største
parkeringsplads. Vi kører hjem og slapper af med en kop te på terrassen.
Sikke en dag!!!! Formiddagen gik til spilde. Det var meget rart at snakke med Sarah og hendes
familie, men vi havde aftalt at tale kl 10 (kl 17 west-australske tid), og vi
fik ingen svar, da vi ringede til dem. Til sidst kom de hjem igen og vi kunne
starte Skype-opkaldet. Eftermiddagen gik en lille smule til spilde også, men
jeg kan ikke gøre for det – indtil Lois har sin øjenoperation, vil jeg måtte
køre hende her og der, når hun har aftaler osv. Stakkels mig!!!!!
English translation
17:30 Lois comes back again. She
popped into the neighbours' (Bill and Mary) at 3.30 pm to talk a little with
Mary, who suffers from a form of mild dementia.
Lois is so warmhearted! She is
very tired - she spent the morning helping to staff her church's pop-up shop,
and tonight she has to prepare next week's schedule showing who has agreed to
cover what half-day's time slots in the shop etc, and then she has to send the schedule out
by email to church members. She also has to update the shop's website - my god,
poor Lois !!!!
18:45 We have dinner. Afterwards
Lois goes in the dining room and sits down in front of the computer to draw up
next week's pop-up shop schedule.
I have a little alone time and
watch a bit of television. The women's Rugby Union World Cup 2017 final is on,
in which 12 nations have competed in 3 opening pools in Dublin, after which there were
semifinals and tonight the final in Belfast. This evening's final is between
New Zealand and England. New Zealand wins 41-32.
I stick my feet up in front of
the television and wallow in the match's first half. I expect New Zealand to
smash England, but I'm a little surprised that the position at half-time is
17-10 to England. Good grief, what madness !!!
I expect NZ to smash England (in
white), but I'm a little surprised,
that the position at half time is 17-10 to
England. My god, what madness !!!!
20:30 The referee blows her
whistle and it's half time. The ITV channel's experts begin to chat about the
first half of the match. All three think England have a good chance of winning
and keeping the cup they won 4 years ago.
Suddenly Lois calls me into the
dining room. She asks me to help her update the pop-up shop's website. I
quickly come to the conclusion that she is actually too tired and is getting
confused - she is mixing up different files for example. Finally, we succeed in
updating the website and we send the updated schedule out by email to the
church members - hurrah!
excerpt from the pop-up shop's
updated website
21:15 Lois decides to go to bed
earlier than usual to recharge her batteries. I step back into the living room
to see the last 10 minutes of the match between New Zealand and England.
I get a bit of a shock when I see
the current state of play - 41-25 to New Zealand. My god, I should not have
stopped watching the match - the English team obviously missed my support while
I was helping Lois with her update. Damn!
I get back in the living room 30
minutes later and
the position is now completely different.
It's now 41-25 to New Zealand.
My god, what happened while I was helping
Lois with her computer work ???
The match ends 41-32 to New
Zealand, and I'm sure the best team won. The New Zealand team has so many big
strong maories - I would not like to meet any of them in a dark alley: I know
that for sure. But one of the team's handful of skinny blondes, Kendra
Cocksedge, is a little dynamo too - my god, New Zealand dominates world rugby,
both the men's and women's game. I do not understand exactly why.
Kendra Cocksedge, one of
the team's handful of skinny blondes,
is a little dynamo too - I know that for
sure !!!
22:00 I go to bed – zzzzzz!!!!!
04:00 I get up early and do one
of my routine Danish vocabulary tests.
I get going with reading the rest
of chapter 11 of Gunnlaugs saga, a 1000-year Icelandic saga, because Scilla's U3A Old Norse group is holding its next meeting on Wednesday at the library in
the town center.
I read about the duel between two
Icelandic bards, Gunnlaug and Raven. They have agreed to fight a duel to decide
who will have the right to have Helga, Iceland's most beautiful woman. Helga is
currently married to Hrafn, but it is Gunnlaug, she is in love with, and she
still refuses to have sex with Hrafn because of her feelings for Gunnlaug. How
exciting life was in Iceland in the 11th century - no doubt about that!
Gunnlaug and Raven, two
Icelandic bards, fight a duel,
to decide who gets the right to have Helga,
the most beautiful woman in Iceland
Eventually they meet and start
the duel. Each man has about 5 friends who want to join in the brawl and fight
duels with members of the opposing team - it is turning into a big battle, no
doubt about that! Gunnlaug injures Raven "slightly" (he cuts Hrafn's
leg off !!!!) and offers to stop the fight, but Hrafn insists on fighting on -
but he asks Gunnlaug to pick him up a glass of water first. Gunnlaug
cannot find any glasses, so he brings the water in his helmet.
But when Gunnlaug hands Hrafn the
water, Hrafn hits him with his sword and injures him grievously - my god. He is
not playing the game for sure. Hrafn admits that he was breaking the rules, but
he excuses himself on the grounds that Gunnlaug is enjoying Helga's hugging and
kissing on a daily basis while Helga is giving him, Hrafn, her husband, the
cold shoulder, which must have been very annoying, to put it mildly !!!
In the last few pages of the
chapter, the two bards manage to kill each other, so both Helga’s husband and
her lover are now dead. My goodness – poor Helga !!!!
The battle ends with Helga’s husband
(Raven) and her
lover (Gunnlaug) killing each other – oh
dear! Poor Helga !!!!
08:00 I hop into bed with Lois
and we drink our morning tea. We go in the shower and get up. We eat breakfast.
11:00 We talk a little with
Sarah, our daughter in Perth, Australia, and with Francis, Sarah’s husband, and
with their 4-year-old twins, Lily and Jessica.
The twins turned 4 years of age
on July 26, but their birthday party has been delayed until today. It took
place in the Fairy Shop in Joondalup, a small suburb of Perth, where the twins and
their little friends dressed up as fairies. Lois and I got to know Joondalup
very well when we were visiting Sarah and her family last year.
the Fairy Shop in Joondalup, a
little suburb of Perth
12:00 We have lunch and
afterwards we go out. Lois wants to attend a church service taking place in
Tewkesbury today, and she is not allowed to drive a car at the moment due to
cataracts. I drive her over to the town and drop her off opposite the city's
library.
14:00 I drive to the local
Morrisons supermarket to buy a few things. Afterwards I pop into the supermarket's
café. I have a cup of coffee and a piece of cake. I read some pages of
"Sir Orfeo", a Middle English poem, because Lynda's U3A "Making
of English" group is holding its monthly meeting on Friday. "Sir
Orfeo" is the group's latest project.
Sir Orfeo was an English king
whose wife, Heurodis, was abducted by the king of the fairies, which at that
time was always a bit of a risk, especially if your wife was beautiful. The
king of the fairies could pick and choose, and he tended to pass on the ugly
ones - good grief, what a crazy world we live in !!!!
The Fairy King abducts Sir Orfeo’s wife, the
cheeky bugger!!!
15:00 The service ends and I pick
Lois up in the town's largest parking lot. We drive home and relax with a cup
of tea on the terrace.
What a day!!!! The morning went
to waste. It was very nice to talk to Sarah and her family, but we had agreed
to talk at 10 o'clock (5pm Western Australian time) and we did not get any
answer when we called them. Eventually they arrived home and we could start the
Skype call. The afternoon went a little bit to waste too, but I cannot do
anything about that - until Lois has her eye surgery, I will have to drive her
here and there whenever she has appointments etc. Poor me !!!!!
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