10:00 Lois
skal af sted. Hendes veninde, Mari-Ann, kører hende i dag til Bimingham, så de
kan spise frokost og snakke lidt med Maggie, et gammelt medlem til deres kirke,
der tidligere på året flyttede ind i et plejehjem derovre.
Jeg går i gang
med at reparere håndtaget til en af vores indvendige døre, den, der fører til
stuen. Bagefter beslutter jeg at skifter vores anti-virus program fra Kaspersky
til Norton. Vi har haft en masse problemer med vores største computer, siden vi
startede at bruge Kaspersky for nogle måneder siden. Jeg overvejer også at
droppe Carbonite-programmet og bruge Norton til at tage backup af vores filer –
der har også været problemer med Carbonite for nylig. Du godeste, hvor meget
tid vi spilder på at diagnosticere problemer i vores computerprogrammer og på
at vælge og vrager mellem forskellige produkter. Yikes!!!!
11:00 Jeg
ringer til den lokale Thomas Cook-rejsebureau, der har til huse i det lokale
Waitrose-supermarked. Jeg får en aftale hos dem i morgen kl 10 for at diskutere
vores planer om at besøge i marts-april for 2. gang Sarah, vores datter i
Australien og hendes familie.
Jeg logger ind
på Emirates-websiten og printer ud, hvor mange air-miles vi fik, da vi besøgte
hende for 1. gang i 2016: det viser sig, at vi hver har ca 28.500 miles,
hvilket lyder en masse, men jeg har ikke den fjerneste anelse om, hvor stor
rabatten er, som vi kan beder om. Jeg er helt naiv, når det kommer til
flyrejser – yikes (igen) !!!!!
13:00 Jeg
spiser frokost – svinekarry med ris og ærter, nam nam ! Jeg tager mig en kort
eftermiddagslur og hopper så op på min kondicykel. Jeg cykler 9 miles (15km).
Mens jeg
cykler, ser jeg en interessant interview/debat på YouTube mellem den
evolutionaristiske forsker Richard Dawkins og en kreationist, hvor den, der
uploadede det, har lagt sine egne kommentarer op på skærmen, mens debatten er i
gang – du godeste, sikke et vanvid! Jeg var før i tiden ikke klar over, hvad
slags stærke reaktioner Dawkins får fra kreationister, men det er der bunkevis af beviser på, når man
kigger på YouTube, ingen tvivl om det! Men det modsatte er også sandt, at man
ser meget stærke reaktioner fra evolutionister. Du godeste, sikke et vanvid!!!!
Den,
der uploadede videoen lægger sine egne kommentarer
op
på skærmen – du godeste, sikke et vanvid!!!!
To kan spille det
spil, bro!!!
Det er
interessant, at Dawkins giver kreationister og evangeliske kristne et enormt
kompliment, da han siger, at de har ret i, at hævde, at evolutionsteorien er en
stor trussel om deres tro, mens de konventionelle kristne er forkerte på, at
tage teorien i stiv arm, og indarbejde den i deres verdensbillede. Du godeste,
sikke en skør verden vi lever i !!!!!
15:30 Lois
kommer tilbage fra Birmingham og vi slapper af med en kop te.
18:00 Vi
spiser aftensmad og ser lidt fjernsyn. De viser en morsom ny sitcom, Moderland,
der handler om Julia, en nogle-og-30 mor til 2 børn, der har svært med at
jonglere sit job med sine pligter som mor – hendes egen mor har holdt op med at
hjælpe til med børnepleje, og hendes mand virker aldrig at være til rådighed
til at dele ansvaret – stakkels Julia!
Det er rart at
se en britisk sitcom, der får os til at hulke af grin: i årevis de eneste
sitcoms, der har fået os til at falde om af grin, har været amerikanske. Jeg
ser, at Graham Linehan er en af forfatterne: han skrev også Father Ted i 1990’erne:
det er rart at se, at det ikke har gået tilbage for ham.
Da vores
datter Alisons børn var små, blev Lois og jeg klar over, at byens caféer om
formiddagen var propfyldt af unge mødre med deres meget unge babyer og børn og
deres enorme moderne barnevogne. Det hele var en ny verden for min og Lois’
vedkommende.
I ”Moderland”
ser vi en anderledes slags café, hvor mødrene er lidt ældre: deres børn er for
det meste i skole. Det er morsomt, at der er forskellige bord i caféen og et
slags hierarki mellem bordene: der er det ”fedte” bord, hvor Amanda og de andre
”fedte” mødre sidder og drikker kaffe.
Og der er de
andre bord, også det bord, hvor sitcommens heltinde, Julia, sidder med sine ”ufedte”
venner, Liz, den enlige og arbejdsløse mor, og ufedte Kevin, en svensk stil ”pappaledig” eller ”latte papa”: Amanda kalder Julias bord, ”toiletbordet”, fordi det står tæt
på cafeens toilet. Du godeste, sikke et vanvid!!!
Kevin er ikke
fedt og må sidde på Julias ”ufedte” bord, men hidtil har han kunnet nyde sin
status som kaféens mest fremtrædende ”pappa latte”. I dette afsnit bliver hans
status truet af en ny pappa latte, James, en af Amandas eks-kærester, der driver
en online selskab og er gift med en lækker kvinde, der er også er veninder med
Amanda. Du godeste, sikke et vanvid!!!!!
”Tea Bags”, en café, hvor de lokale mødre til børn i skolealderen mødes
I dag viser James sig for første gang, en ny ”pappa latte” der af en eller
anden grund
er tilladt til at sidde på det ”store” bord,
hvor alle de fedte mødre sidder –
hvilket
truer Kevins status som gruppens fremtrædende ”P.L” eller ”SAD”
(stay-at-home
Dad)
Kevin præsenterer sig for James,
men
der er spænding i stemningen
der er et strengt hierarki mellem caféens borde.
Du
godeste, sikke et vanvid!!!!
21:00 Vi
fortsætter med at se lidt fjernsyn. De viser en interessant dokumentarfilm
”Digging for Britain” (1. del af 4), en serie, der giver en oversigt af hvad
landets arkæologer har afdækket i 2017. Dette afsnit handler om udgravninger i centrale
og vestlige England. Programmets vært er den charmerende Alice Roberts.
Arkæologer har
i de sidste få måneder fundt spor af en vikingehærlejr i nærheden af byen
Repton, i baghaven af et lokalt hus – du godeste, sikke et vanvid! Vikingehæren
tilbragte vinteren 873-4 her, efter at have besejret den angel-saksiske hær i et
stor slag det forgående år. De brugte deres tid i lejren på at reparere våben
osv – der er beviser om metalarbejde osv – og forberede sig på det følgende års
felttog.
De har også
fundet en nærliggende mausoleum, hvor mange vikinge krigere (både mandlige og
kvindelige) blev begravet: karbondateringen viser, at de døde i det 2. halvdel
af det 9. århundrede, og isotoper fra deres tænder viser, at de kom fra det
centrale Skandinavien. Det hele bekræfter, hvad vi ved fra den eneste forrige
kilde: en islandsk saga, der blev skrevet 300 år senere – du godeste, sikke en
skør verden vi lever i !!!!
før i tiden var de eneste beviser om et slag ved Repton i en islandsk sage,
der
blev skrevet 300 år senere!!!!
det viser sig, at nogen i Repton har en gammel vikingehærleje
i
deres baghave. Du godeste, sikke et vanvid!!!!
vikingehæren brugte vinteren på at reparere
deres
våben og forberder sig på den følgende årets felttog
lejren ligger ikke ret langt fra et mausoleum,
hvor
hundredvis af krigere (mandlige og kvindelige) blev begravet.
22:00 Vi går i
seng – zzzzzz!!!!!
English
translation
10:00 Lois has to go out. Her friend, Mari-Ann, is
driving her to Bimingham today so they can have lunch and a little chat with
Maggie, an old member of their church, who moved to a nursing home over there
earlier in the year.
I get started repairing the handle to one of our internal
doors, the one that leads to the living room. Afterwards, I decide to switch
our anti-virus program from Kaspersky to Norton. We've had a lot of trouble
with our biggest computer since we started using Kaspersky a few months ago.
I'm also considering dropping the Carbonite program and using Norton to back up
our files - there have also been issues with Carbonite recently. Good grief,
how much time we waste on diagnosing problems in our computer programs and
picking and choosing between different products. Yikes !!!!
11:00 I call the
local Thomas Cook travel agency that's housed in the local Waitrose
supermarket. I get an appointment with them tomorrow at 10am to discuss our
plans to visit Sarah, our daughter in Australia and her family, for the second
time in March-April.
I log on to the Emirates website and print out how many
air miles we got when we visited her for the first time in 2016: it turns out
that we each have about 28,500 miles, which sounds a lot, but I haven’t the
slightest idea about how much the discount is that we can ask for. I am
completely naive when it comes to air-travel – yikes!!!!
13:00 I have lunch - pork curry with rice and peas, yum
yum! I take a short afternoon afternoon and then jump on my exercise bike. I cycle
9 miles (15km).
While I'm cycling, I look at an interesting YouTube
debate / interview between evolutionary scientist Richard Dawkins and a
creationist where the uploader has posted his own comments on the screen while
the debate is in progress - good grief, what madness! I was unaware of what
strong reactions Dawkins gets from creationists, but there is a bunch of
evidence of it from watching YouTube, no doubt about that! But the opposite is
also true, in that you also see very strong reactions from evolutionists. My god,
what madness !!!!
The uploader has also uploaded his own
comments
up onto the screen - good grief, what
madness !!!!
Two can play that game, bro !!!
It is interesting that Dawkins pays a great compliment to
creationists and evangelical Christians when he says they are right in claiming
that the theory of evolution is a major threat to their faith, while the
conventional Christians are wrong to take the theory in their stride, and
incorporate it into their worldview. My god, what a crazy world we live in
!!!!!
15:30 Lois comes back from Birmingham and we relax with a
cup of tea.
18:00 We have dinner and watch television. They show a
fun new sitcom, Motherland, all about Julia, a 30-something mother to 2
children who struggles to juggle her job with her duties as a mother - her own
mother has stopped helping with child care, and her husband never seems to be
available to share responsibility - poor Julia!
It's nice to see a British sitcom that makes us laugh :
for years the only sitcoms that made us fall down laughing have been American.
I see that Graham Linehan is one of the writers: he also wrote Father Ted in
the 1990s: it's nice to see that he has not lost his touch.
When our daughter Alison's children were small, Lois and
I came to realise that in the mornings the local cafés were all crowded with
young mothers with their very young babies and children and their huge modern
buggies. It was a new world for me and Lois.
In "Motherland" we see a different kind of café
where the mothers are a little older: their children are mostly in school. It
is amusing that there are various tables in the cafe and a kind of hierarchy
between the tables: there is the "cool" table where Amanda and the
other "cool" mothers sit and drink coffee.
And there are the other tables, including the table where
the sitcom''s heroine, Julia, sits with her "uncool" friends, Liz,
the single and unemployed mother, and uncool Kevin, a Swedish style
"papaledig" or "latte pappa": Amanda calls Julia's table
"the toilet table" because it is next to the cafe's toilet. My god,
what madness !!!
Kevin is not cool and has to sit at Julia's
"uncool" table, but up till now he has enjoyed his status as the most
prominent "pappa latte" in the cafe. In this episode, his status is
threatened by a new pappa latte, James, one of Amanda's ex-boyfriendswho runs
an online company and is married to a lovely woman, who are also friens with
Amanda. My god, what madness !!!!!
"Tea Bags", a cafe where the
local mothers of school-aged children meet
Today James makes an appearance, a new
"pappa latte" who for some reason
is allowed to sit on the "cool"
table where all the cool mothers sit -
this threatens Kevin's status as the group's
prominent "P.L" or "SAD"
(stay-at-home Dad)
Kevin introduces himself to James,
but there is tension in the atmosphere
there is a strict hierarchy between the
cafe's tables.
My god, what madness !!!!
21:00 We continue to watch television. An interesting
documentary is on, "Digging for Britain" (1st part of 4), a series
that gives an overview of what the country's archaeologists have uncovered in
2017. This episode is about excavations in Central and Western England. The
host of the program is the charming Alice Roberts.
Archaeologists have found traces of a viking army camp
near the tpwn of Repton in the back garden of a local house - my god, what
madness! The Viking Army spent the winter of 873-4 here after defeating the
Anglo-Saxon army in a major battle the previous year. They spent their time in
the camp repairing weapons etc. - there is evidence of metalwork, etc. - and
preparing for the following year's campaigns.
Archaeologists have also found a nearby mausoleum, where
many viking warriors (both male and female) were buried: carbon dating shows
that they died in the 2nd half of the 9th century, and isotopes from their
teeth show that they came from central Scandinavia. It all confirms what we
know from the only previous source: an Icelandic saga written 300 years later -
my god, what a crazy world we live in !!!!
In the past, the only evidence of a
battle at Repton was in an Icelandic saga,
that was written 300 years later !!!!
It appears that someone in Repton has an
old viking army camp
in their back garden. My god, what madness
!!!!
The Viking Army spent the winter
repairing
their weapons and preparing for the
following year's campaign
The camp is not very far from a
mausoleum,
where hundreds of Viking warriors (male and
female) were buried.
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzz !!!!!
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