04:00 Jeg står tidligt op og kigger
lidt på nettet. Jeg finder Morten Ingemanns seneste tegneseriestribe. Du
godeste! Jeg får lidt af et chok.
Danske Ingemann er min yndlingstegner
– ingen tvivl om det! Han interesserer sig især for grimme, overvægtige,
midaldrende eller ældre folk, de slags mennesker, som de fleste tegnere
sjældent giver opmærksomhed til.
Danske Morten Ingemann, min yndlingstegner.
Men Ingemann
har også lejlighedsvise indsigtsfulde konklusioner at drage om de unges
verdenssyn. I dag ser vi en midaldrende kvinde, der i gang med at feje sin
baggård. Hun får øje på to små drenge, og spørger dem, hvad de skal lave i
efterårsferien, som alle danske skoler holder den kommende uge.
De to drenge
svarer, at de skal spille noget fodbold på Playstation inde på værelset.
Senere på
dagen, mod aftenen ser hun drengene i haven og hun antager, at de må have
besluttet at spille fodbold ude i haven i stedet for på Playstation inde i værelset, og hun spørger
dem, om de har haft det meget sjovere udendørs.
Jeg synes, at
mange af Ingemanns læsere på dette tidspunkt allerede vil have gættet, at det
ikke viste sig at det havde været muligt at spille i haven, og denne konklusion
bliver bekræftet, når drengene forklarer til kvinden, at lædningen faktisk ikke
kunne nå så langt. Du godeste, sikke et vanvid!!!
08:00 Jeg
hopper tilbage op i sengen til Lois. Vi drikker vores morgenté og går i bad. Vi
står op og spiser morgenmad.
10:30 Vi taler
lidt på whatsapp (et video-opkald) med Sarah, vores datter i Perth, Australien,
og med hendes to 4-årige tvillinger, Lily og Jessica. Det er sjovt men også
lidt trist for Lois og mig, fordi vi, set ud fra tvillingernes synspunkt, kun
er to små ansigter på en lille skærm nu, hvor familien bor i Australien. Da de
var meget små børn, så vi dem i levende live næsten hver dag – hulk, hulk!!!!
Tvillingerne
ser på Lois og mig nu først og fremmest som mysteriøse mennesker, der fra tid
til anden sender dem pakker i posten: legetøj, bøger, børnemagasiner, deres
elskede bløde kaninformede sutteklude (som kun fås i Storbritannien) – du
godeste! Også nu køber vi sommertøj til dem i efteråret, og vintertøj i foråret
(alt på tilbud hos os), fordi alle deres årstider er modsatte overfor vores, på
grund af at de bor i den sydlige halvkugle: du godeste, sikke en skør verden vi
lever i !!!!
12:00 Vi
spiser frokost og bagefter skal vi ud. Lois ønsker at deltage i sin kirkes
gudstjeneste, der finder sted i eftermiddag kl 13:30 i byen Tewkesbury. Jeg
sætter hende af foran Halfords-bildelecentret og kører hjem.
Dette er
hendes første gang i flere uger i kirken, og hun er meget ivrig efter, at kunne
deltage i dagens gudstjeneste. Hun køber en pakke Polo pebermynter på vej til
kirken for det tilfælde, hun får hosteanfald, men hun fortæller mig senere, at
hun slet ikke hostede, i sammenligning til Janet, sin veninde, der hostede
konstant under prædikenen – du godeste, sikke et vanvid!
For mit
vedkommende har jeg har lidt alenetid for første gang i nogle uger, på grund af
Lois’s nylige øjenoperation og derefter hendes stærke forkølelse, som
selvfølgelig gjorde hende mere afhængig af mig, end normalt. Jeg finder, at jeg
kan fungere meget bedre i mit liv, hvis jeg fra tid til anden får lidt
alenetid.
I dag spilder
jeg min alenetid, men i det mindste kan jeg være sikker på, at andre muligheder
vil opstå i overskuelig fremtid.
13:45 Jeg
prøver at organisere lidt vores genbrugsaffald. Vores lokale kommune har
besluttet at skifte deres indsamlingssystem af en eller anden grund. Hidtil har
vi puttet alt vores genbrugsaffald i en stor grøn kasse, med alt blandt sammen
– plastik, glas, blikdåser, papir, karton.
Nu skal vi
putte plastik og blikdåser i den første kasse, papir og glas i den anden kasse,
og karton i en ny blå sæk, som kommunens kontrahenter udleverede for nogle dage
siden. Du godeste, sikke et vanvid, hvad var der galt med det gamle system!!!
kommunen har besluttet at skifte deres
genbrugsaffald
indsamlingssystem – sikke et vanvid !!!!
14:00 Jeg går
en kort tur i nabolaget, kommer hjem igen og går i seng for at tage mig en kort
eftermiddagslur.
15:15 Jeg går
ud i baghaven og fortsætter med vores projekt om at ”lægge haven i sengen for
vinteren”, ved at luge lidt mere i det såkaldte ”kartoffelhave”.
16:00 Lois
kommer tilbage fra Tewkesbury. Hendes veninde, Fran, sætter hende af foran
huset. Vi slapper af med en kop te i sofaen.
16:30 Jeg
læser et par sider af min danske roman, ”Klinkevals”.
Historien udspiller sig i
1900’erne og handler om Juliane, en frodig og egensindig kvinde, giftet med en mand, Simon, hun kalder
for et skvat. Simon er ængstelig og har nu og da forskellige psykiske
problemer. Han tilbragte et par år i en institution. Han har svært med at blive
i et job, og parret har to voksende børn at forsørge.
Mette Lisby,
der spiller Juliane i filmen fra 1999
den frodige Juliane sammen med Simon,
sit ”skvat til
ægtemand”, fra filmen.
En nat, efter en akavet
brydekamp i dobbeltsengen, hvor Juliane og Simon ender op med at forsøge at
kværke hinanden, bliver Simon sendt tilbage til institutionen, men han desværre
dør derinde et par dage senere.
Heldigvis har Juliane nemt
ved at finde selv arbejde – de lokale arbejdsgivere elsker hendes egensindige
temperament og smukke former og drømmer om at gå i seng med hende. De falder
alle over sin egne ben for at ansætte hende. Hun ender op med at få et job hos
en lokal slagter, der hedder Hansen (Juliane kalder ham ”kødhovedet” – du
godeste!).
Slagteren Hansen har ikke
et særlig godt forhold til sin kone – de har ingen børn, og om aftenen taler de
kun sammen lidt om, hvad der stod i avisen. Jeg er helt sikker på, at ”Kødhoved”
forbereder sig på at forsøge sig med at forføre Juliane – spændende!!!
18:00 Vi spiser aftensmad,
og ser lidt fjernsyn. De
viser den 8. og sidste afsnit af den 2. sæson af ”Victoria”, der handler om
Victorias liv som ung dronning (spillet af den pragtfulde Jenna Coleman), og om
hendes ægteskab med Albert, den tyske prins.
Endnu et dramatisk afsnit.
Det lykkes Statsministeren Robert Peel at afskaffe de protektionistiske
kornlove med støtte fra Whig-partiet, men det hele forårsager en splittelse i
Peels eget Tory-parti - uha!
Endelig kan billigere korn
blive importeret fra USA og Canada: fri handel – hurra!!!
Fri handel – hurra!!!
Alberts bror
Ernst prøver at genoptage sit tidligere lidenskabelige forhold til Harriet,
hertuginden af Sutherland nu, hvor hun er enke. Men hans kønssygdommen, han
pådrog sig af en fransk prostituerede, blusser desværre op igen, og han er
tvunget til at dumpe den unge hertuginde – du godeste, stakkels Ernst!!!! Og stakkels Harriet !!!!!
Harriet,
hertuginden af Sutherland, giver Ernst, Alberts bror,
grønt lys til at genoptage
deres tidligere lidenskabelige forhold, nu hvor hun er enke,
men Ernsts
kønssygdom blusser desværre op igen – stakkels Ernst!!
Det får os til
at grine ved slutningen af afsnittet, da annoncøren siger, at showet vender
tilbage i december, med et specielt jule-afsnit. Du godeste, det får det til at
lyde som et game-show ha ha ha.
22:00 Vi går i
seng – zzzzz!! I morgen bliver en stor dag, fordi Lois har en aftale kl 9 på
hospitalet. Specialisten vil undersøge Lois’s øjne efter hendes nylige
øjenoperation for grå stær.
English
translation
04:00 I get up early and look online. I find Morten
Ingemann's latest comic strip. My goodness, I get a bit of a shock!
The Dane, Ingemann, is my favorite cartoonist - no doubt
about that! He is particularly interested in ugly, overweight, middle aged or
older people, the kind of people rarely given attention by most cartoonists.
the Dane Morten Ingemann, my favorite
cartoonist.
But Ingemann also
has occasional insightful conclusions to draw on young people's worldview.
Today we see a middle-aged woman who is sweeping her backyard. She catches
sight of two little boys and asks them what they plan to do during the autumn
break which all Danish schools are holding this coming week.
The two boys answer that they are going to play a bit of
football on the Playstation in their room.
Later in the day, towards evening, she sees them in the
garden and assumes that they must have decided to play football outside in the
garden instead of on the Playstation in their room. She asks them if they had a lot more fun
outdoors.
I think many of Ingemann’s readers will have already
guessed at this point why it may not have been possible for the boys to play football in the
garden, and this conclusion is confirmed when the boys explain to the woman
that the playstation cord would not actually reach that far. My god, what
madness!!!!
08:00 I hop back into bed with Lois. We drink our morning
tea and go in the shower. We get up and have breakfast.
10:30 We talk a bit on whatsapp (a video call) with
Sarah, our daughter in Perth, Australia, and with her two 4-year-old twins, Lily
and Jessica. It's fun but also a little sad for Lois and me because from the
point of view of the twins, we are just two small faces on a small screen now
that the family lives in Australia. When they were very young children, we saw
them in the flesh almost every day - sob, sob!!!!
The twins look on Lois and me now, first and foremost, as
mysterious people who send them packages in the mail: toys, books, children's
magazines, their beloved soft, bunny-shaped security blankets (only available
in the UK) - my god! Also now we buy summer clothes for them in the fall and
winter-wear in the spring (all at sale price with us) because all their seasons
are opposite to ours, just because they live in the southern hemisphere: good
grief, what a crazy world we live in !!!!
12:00 We have lunch and afterwards we have to go out.
Lois wants to attend her church's Sunday service taking place this afternoon at
1:30pm in the town of Tewkesbury. I drop her off in front of the Halfords
automotive parts center and drive home.
This is her first time for several weeks in the church,
and she is very keen to be able to attend today's service. She buys a
pack of Polo Peppermints on her way to the church in case she gets coughing
fits, but she later tells me she did not cough at all, in comparison to
Janet, her friend who was coughing constantly during the sermon - good grief,
what madness !
For my part I have a little alone time for the first time
for weeks, because of Lois's recent eye surgery and then her strong cold, which
of course made her more dependent on me than usual. I find that I can function
a lot better in my life if I occasionally get a little bit of alone time.Today,
I waste my alone time, but at least I can be sure that other opportunities will
arise in the foreseeable future.
13:45 I try to organize our recycling waste a little. Our
local council has decided to change their collection system for some reason.
Until now we have put all our recycling waste in a large green box, with everything
mixed in together - plastic, glass, cans, paper, cardboard.
Now we have to put plastic and cans in the first box,
paper and glass in the second box, and cardboard in a new blue bag which the council’s
contractors delivered a few days ago. Good grief, what madness, what was wrong
with the old system !!!
the council have decided to
change their
collection system for recycling waste – what
madness!!!!
14:00 I go for a short walk in the neighborhood, come
home again and go to bed for a short afternoon nap.
15:15 I go out into the backyard and continue our project
of "putting the garden to bed for the winter" by doing a little more
weeding in the so-called potato patch.
16:00 Lois comes back from Tewkesbury. Her friend Fran,
drops her off in front of the house. We relax with a cup of tea on the sofa.
16:30 I read a few pages of my Danish novel,
"Klinkevals".
The story is set in the 1900s and is about Juliane, a
buxom headstrong woman, married to a man Simon, whom she calls a wimp. Simon is
anxious and now and then has various mental problems. He spent a couple of
years in an institution. He has trouble holding down a job, and the couple
have two growing children to support.
Mette Lisby, who plays Juliane in the film
from 1999
the buxom Juliane with Simon,
her "wimp of a husband", from the
film.
One night, after an awkward wrestling-match in the double
bed, where Juliane and Simon end up trying to strangle each other, Simon is
sent back to the institution, but sadly he dies there a few days later.
Fortunately, Juliane easily finds herself work - the
local employers love her headstrong temperament and beautiful figure and dream
about going to bed with her. They are all falling over themselves to hire her.
She ends up getting a job with a local butcher named Hansen (Juliane calls him
the "meat-head" - my goodness!).
Hansen, the butcher,
does not have a very good relationship with his wife - they have no
children, and in the evenings they only talk a little bit together, just about
what's in the paper. I'm sure that “Meat-head” is getting ready to have a go at
seducing Juliane - exciting !!!
18:00 We have dinner and watch a bit of television. The
8th and last episode of the 2nd season of "Victoria" is on, all about
Victoria's life as a young queen (played by the gorgeous Jenna Coleman) and
about her marriage to Albert, the German prince.
Another dramatic episode. Prime Minister Robert Peel
succeeds in abolishing the protectionist grain laws with support from the Whig
Party, but the whole thing causes a split in Peel's own Tory party - oh
dear!
At last, cheaper grain can be imported from the US and Canada: yes, free trade
- hurrah !!!
Free trade - hurrah !!!
Albert’s brother Ernst tries to resume his former
passionate relationship with Harriet, the duchess of Sutherland now she is a
widow. But the venereal disease he caught off a French prostitute unfortunately
flares up again and he is forced to dump the young duchess - my god, poor Ernst
!!!! And poor Harriet!!!!
Harriet, Duchess of Sutherland,
gives Ernst, Alberts's brother,
the green light to resume their former
passionate relationship now that she is a widow,
but unfortunately Ernst's venereal disease
flares up again - poor Ernst !!!!!
It makes us laugh at the end of the episode when the
announcer says the show is returning in December, for a special Christmas
episode. My god, it makes it sound like a game show ha ha ha.
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzz !! Tomorrow will be a big day
because Lois has an appointment at 9 am at the hospital. The specialist is
going to examine Lois's eyes after her recent eye surgery for cataracts.
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