Søndag den 12. november 2017

09:45 Lois og jeg taler lidt på whatsapp med Sarah, vores datter i Australien, også med Francis, hendes mand, og deres 4-årige tvillinger, Lily og Jessie. Børnene hygger sig med at vise os nogle af deres nyeste legetøj og at danse for os. Hvor er de dog søde!

Lily og Jessie, vores børnebørn i Australien.

Lily går højt op i rengøring og gulvfejning for tiden

Lois og jeg ved ikke, hvorfor Sarah foretrækker at bruge whatsapp fremfor skype. Det er lidt af en skam, at vi kun kan se tvillngerne på min smartphones lille skærm, men det springer vi over.

Sarah fortæller os, hun skal bestille et tid hos familiens lægeklinik for Francis’s 2. biopsi. Han er blevet diagnosticeret med knuder i skjoldbruskkirtel, men det er ikke klar, om knuderne er godartede, eller ej. Hans første biopsi var ikke 100% succesfuld, så derfor har hans læge anbefalet et andet forsøg.

10:45 Lois skal deltage i sin kirkes to gudstjenester i dag og også være sønddagsskolelærerinde under prædikenen, og hun har ikke lyst til selv at køre bil på grund af smerter i ryggen, så jeg tilbyder at køre hende til byen Tewkesbury, og hente hende senere på dagen for at køre hende tilbage hjem.

12:00 Jeg sætter hende af og kører hjem. Jeg har desværre ikke så meget alenetid som forventet i dag. Måske næste søndag? Jeg spiser frokost og tager mig en kort eftermiddagslur. Jeg står op kl 13:30.

Jeg læser endnu 5 sider af min danske roman, Klinkevals af Jane Aamund, der udspiller sig først i 1900-tallet. Romanens plot begynder at peppe op, ingen tvivl om det! Den pragtfulde Juliane, nu pludselig en nogle-og-30-årig lyshåret enke og enlig mor til to teenagere, har mødt en charmerende yngre sorthåret mand af ungarsk oprindelse, den 21-årige Otto.

Den pragtfulde Mette Lisby, der spiller Juliane i filmen fra 1999.

I går læste jeg, at Otto dukkede op på Julianes arbejdsplads, en lokal slagterforretning, ved slutningen af arbejdsdagen, og parret gik en tur sammen i byens mørkelagte gader. Han kyssede hende vildt under en lygtepæl og hun fornemnede hans hænder gå ned af sin ryg for til sidst at ende med et fast tag om sin bagdel – du godeste, sikke et vanvid!

Senere gik parret op ad trappen til Ottos lille lejlighed, og begejstringen steg. Men netop da kaldte Lois mig ned til aftensmad og jeg måtte droppe det – pokkers!

I dag læser jeg lidt videre. Parret er nu i Ottos lejlighed og først har de lyst til at spise lidt og snakke sammen før de går i seng. Desværre er det her, at det hele begynder at gå galt. Først irriterer Juliane Otto ved at kommentere hvor ren og ryddelig hans lejlighed var – hun antagede, at han ansatte en en stuepige, men faktisk viste det sig at han kun var en ordensmenneske af natur – hans udseende, påklædning, skæg og alt det der er også fejlfri, lader det til.

Bagefter taler de om politik. Dårlig idé! Det viser sig, at Otto er socialist. ”Du og jeg, vi er proletarer,” siger han, og vi må holde sammen mode de rige svin, som udnytter os!”. Han ved ikke, at han pludselig har trykket på knappen til et af Julianes yndlingsemner – hun er en stolt, uafhængig kvinde og kan ikke fordrage tal om socialismen eller proletarer. Hun er åbenbart en konservativ ha ha ha!

Du godeste! Et skænderi bryder ud, og Otto bliver lidt overrumplet af Julianes egensindighed. Jeg begynder at have på fornemmelsen, at Otto i aften ikke kommer til at score hende. Men faktisk gætter jeg forkert, som sædvanligt.

Parret ender ud i sengen, men det er Juliane, der tager kontrol og styrer det hele 100% fra start til slut. Tempoet, hastigheden, stillingskifter, tilbagetrækninger osv: Juliane er den, der bestemmer. Du godeste, sikke en skør verden vi lever i !!!!!

Hun sikrer at hendes orgasme kommer først, hvilket også er lidt af en åbenbaring for Otto, der ”ikke vidste, at kvinder gjorde sådan”. Og hun glemmer helt, at hun har 2 teenagebørn derhjemme – hun og Otto falder endelig i søvn, og kl 1 vågner hun op, mindes pludselig om hendes børn, op og skrider hjem. Sikke et vanvid!!!

Du godeste, sikke en kvinde! Jeg råber til Lois, at hun skal række mig fluks mit lugesalt, men jeg mindes, hun er gået i kirken, og jeg må køre derover og afhente hende.   

Pelle Koppel som Otto, med Mette Lisby som Juliane, i den nylige film

14:30 Jeg kører over til Tewkesbury og afhenter Lois i den store parkeringsplads, der ligger nær byens bibliotek. Vi kører hjem.

18:00 Vi spiser aftensmad og bruger aftenen på at lytte lidt til radio, en interessant diskussion, der handler om chimpansesamfundet, og spørgsmålet om, hvor meget vores evolutionariske fortid påvirker vores politiske adfærd og beslutninger.

Et interessant emne, fordi eksperterne tror, at de tidligste mennesker også boede og rejste rundt i grupper af ca 50, lige som nutidens chimpanser. Jeg vidste ikke, at forskere normalt vil have klassificeret mennesker som værende i samme slægt som chimpanser, men det har de bevidst afholdt sig fra på grund af menneskelige ”overfølsomheder”. Du godeste, sikke et vanvid!

Chimpanseer er meget til politik og stride både indenfor grupper og mellem forskellige grupper, og det hele ligner meget den menneskelige politiske verden.

Mennesker er faktisk så tætte på bonoboer, som på chimpanser, og bonoboerne er faktisk meget mere venlige, end chimpanser. Chimpanser er som regel uvenlige overfor chimpanser fra en anden gruppe. Men den gennemsnitlige bonobo interesserer sig meget for fremmede grupper, og på denne måde ligner han en menneskelig forsker eller en hippie, måske. Bonoboen kan godt lide fremmede bonoboer, og elsker at strigle dem eller have sex med dem. I bonoboers miljø har madkilder altid været mere rigelige, og de kan derfor slappe mere af og nyde livet, tror eksperter.

Der er faktisk den samme genetiske afstand mellem mennesker og chimpanser/bonoboer, som mellem zebraer og æsler.

22:00 Vi går i seng. Jeg snakker lidt med Lois om zebraer og æsler. Jeg fortæller hende om artiklen jeg forleden læste. Det lader til, at du kan få dit billede taget i Mexico ved siden af en æsel, der er blevet malet som en zebra, og det koster kun 30 pesos. Du godeste, sikke en skør verden vi lever i !!!!  Zzzzzzzzzzz!!!!!

English translation

09:45 Lois and I talk a little on whatsapp with Sarah, our daughter in Australia, also with Francis, her husband, and their 4-year-old twins, Lily and Jessie. The children enjoy showing us some of their newest toys and dancing for us. How cute they are!

Lily and Jessie, our grandchildren in Australia.

Lily is at the moment very into cleaning, and sweeping the floor

Lois and I do not know why Sarah prefers to use whatsapp rather than skype. It's a bit of a shame that we can only see the twins on my smartphone's little screen, but we're going to let that one slide.

Sarah tells us she has to book a time at the family's medical clinic for Francis's second biopsy. He has been diagnosed with nodules on the thyroid gland but it is not clear whether the nodes are benign or not. His first biopsy was not 100% conclusive, so his doctor recommended another attempt.

10:45 Lois has to attend her church's two services today and also to be a Sunday school teacher during the sermon. She does not want to drive herself because of back pain, so I offer to drive her to Tewkesbury and pick her up later in the day and drive her back home.

12:00 I drop her off and drive home. Unfortunately I do not have as much alone time as expected today. Maybe next Sunday will be better? I have lunch and take a short afternoon nap. I get up at 1:30pm.

I read another 5 pages of my Danish novel, Klinkevals by Jane Aamund, which is set in the early 1900s. The novel's plot is starting to hot up, no doubt about that!

The gorgeous Juliane, now suddenly a 30-something widow and single mother to two teenagers, has met a charming younger man of Hungarian origin, the 21-year-old Otto.

The gorgeous Mette Lisby, who plays Juliane in the movie from 1999.

Yesterday I read how Otto showed up at Juliane's workplace, a local butcher shop, at the end of the working day, and the couple went for a walk together in the city's darkened streets. He kissed her passionately under a lamp post and she felt his hands going down her back and ending up with a firm grip on her backside - good grief, what madness!

Later the couple went up the stairs to Otto's small apartment, and the excitement mounted. But just then Lois called me down for dinner and I had to stop reading - damn it!

But today I read on a little further. The couple are now in Otto's apartment and they want to eat a little and talk together first, before going to bed. Unfortunately, this is where the whole thing begins to go wrong. 

First, Juliane annoys Otto by commenting on how clean and tidy his apartment was - she assumed that he had a maid, but in fact he was just a tidy man by nature - his appearance, attire, beard and all that, are also flawless, it seems.

Then they start talking about politics. Bad idea! It turns out that Otto is a socialist. "You and I, we are proletarians," he says, "and we must all stand together against the rich pigs exploiting us! ". He does not know that he has suddenly hit the button on one of Juliane's favorite subjects - she is a proud independent woman and cannot stand talk of socialism or proletarians. She is a Conservative apparently ha ha ha!

My goodness! A quarrel breaks out, and Otto is a little taken aback by Juliane's headstrong nature. I'm beginning to feel that Otto is not going to score with her tonight. But in fact, I guess wrong, as usual.

The couple end up in bed, but it's Juliane who takes charge and controls the whole thing 100% from start to finish. Tempo, speed, changes of position, 'withdrawals', etc.: Juliane is the one who calls the shots. Good grief, what a crazy world we live in !!!!!

She makes sure that her own orgasm comes first, which is also a bit of a revelation for Otto who "did not know women had that kind of thing". And she completely forgets that she has 2 teenage children at home - she and Otto finally fall asleep, and at one o'clock she wakes up, suddenly remembers her children, and hurries off home. What madness !!!

Good grief, what a woman! I shout to Lois to pass me my smelling salts quick, but I remember she has gone to church and I now have to drive over there and pick her up.

Pelle Koppel as Otto, with Mette Lisby as Juliane, in the recent movie

14:30 I drive over to Tewkesbury and pick Lois up in the large parking lot near the town's library. We drive home.

18:00 We have dinner and spend the evening listening to a bit of radio, an interesting discussion about chimpanzee society and the question of how much our evolutionary past affects our political behavior and decisions.

An interesting subject because experts believe that the earliest people also lived and traveled around in groups of about 50, just like today's chimpanzees. I did not know it, but researchers would normally have classified people as being in the same genus as chimpanzees, but they have deliberately refrained from doing so because of human "hypersensitivity". Good grief, what madness!

Chimpanzees are very into the politics of dominance and conflict, both within groups and between different groups, and it all looks very much like the human political world.

People are actually as close to bonobos as they are to chimpanzees, and the bonobos are actually much more friendly than chimpanzees. Chimpanzees are usually hostile to chimpanzees from other groups. But the average bonobo is very interested in foreign groups, and in this way he has a bit of a resemblance to a human researcher or a hippie, perhaps. The bonobo positively likes foreign bonobos and loves to groom them or have sex with them. Food sources have always been more plentiful in the bonobos' environment, so bonobos can afford to relax more and enjoy life, experts believe.

There is actually the same genetic distance between humans and chimpanzees / bonobos, as between zebras and donkeys.

22:00 We go to bed. I chat a little to Lois about zebras and donkeys. I tell her about the article I read the other day. It seems that you can get your picture taken in Mexico standing next to a donkey that has been painted like a zebra, and it costs only 30 pesos. My goodness, what a crazy world we live in !!!! 

Zzzzzzzzzzz !!!!!