Danskcolin: Monday 28 May 2018

10:00 Lois has recently been busy planting seedlings in small pots. Today we go out into the backyard and put the beanpoles up for this year's runner beans .

11:00 I watch another 15 minutes of the latest episode of the "Bridge", the Danish-Swedish crime series that revolves around crime in Copenhagen and Malmö in Sweden, two cities connected by the famous bridge. The series star is the gorgeous Swedish actress, Sofia Helin.

Saga, the gorgeous Swedish detective has an interesting personality: aspergers / autistic, or something similar. She works mostly in police hq in Malmo, Sweden, but at the moment she has to work on a case with Henrik (Thure Lindhardt), her Danish colleague and sex partner, in Copenhagen's main police station.

I watch Saga now suddenly revealing casually to Henrik that she is pregnant and that she has already started to plan an abortion. Apparently the couple use a copper coil for contraception - and Saga says that's "only" 99% safe. Yikes!

Poor Henrik is taken aback to put it mildly. Unfortunately, he would rather she had the baby - he lost his own two daughters when they disappeared without trace a few years ago. But because of her psychological problems - aspergers, autism or whatever - Saga is reluctant to discuss the question. Poor Henrik !!! But I see nothing but big problems ahead for their relationship, no doubt about that !!!!

Saga casually reveals to Henrik that she is pregnant: what madness !!!

12:30 We have lunch and afterwards I go to bed and take a huge afternoon nap. I get up at 3pm and jump on my exercise bike. I cycle 6 miles.

18:00 We have dinner and listen to a bit of radio, an interesting analysis of French women's reaction to the recent #metoo movement.

There has been talk in the press that France was somehow different from the US and Northern European countries, because both men and women in France thoroughly enjoyed the game of seduction between the sexes and rejected the demands and concerns of the metoo movement. Hundreds of prominent French women, including actress Catherine Deneuve, wrote a long letter to the French newspapers to express their rejection of foreign women's attitudes.

However, according to this evening's radio program, the views of Catherine Deneuve and her buddies are not typical and French women are not that happy about being constantly exposed to sexual harassment, in the streets, on the subway, at work, etc.

A young Frenchwoman who was a student in London for many years tells us on the program that when she returned to Paris, she put away all the short skirts she used to wear without problems in London - it was not worth it in France because of the constant unwanted approaches and obscene comments.

It seems that not much has changed in 50 years. Lois recalls her visit to Paris in the 1960s with a group of other students, mostly female, as part of her librarian course. The young women were constantly being propositioned on the streets, unless one of the male students was accompanying them.

Flashback to the mid-1960s: Lois (bottom right) with some of the

other students on her librarian course, on the ferry to France

What a crazy world we live in !!!! But it seems that French women themselves are beginning to say they have had enough. The DSK affair was perhaps a bit of a milestone.

21:00 I take a little look at my smartphone, and I read a touching poem that Alison, our daughter in Copenhagen, has posted on Facebook. It seems that the family time in Denmark might indeed be coming to an end:

Alison's "poem"

Flashback to 2012, and the "cargo bike" -

when Alison and family had just arrived in Copenhagen

22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzzzzzzz !!!!!

Danish translation

10:00 Lois har for nylig beskædiget sig med at plante sætteplanter i små potter. I dag går vi ud ind i baghaven og sætter et højt stativ op til årets bønner at klatre op af.

11:00 Jeg ser endnu 15 minutter af det seneste afsnit af ”Broen”, den danske-svenske krimiserie, der kredser om kriminalitet i København og Malmø i Sverige, to byer forbundet af den berømte bro. Seriens stjerne er den pragtfulde svenske skuespillerinde, Sofia Helin.

Saga, den pragtfulde svenske detektiv har en interessant personlighed: aspergers / autistisk, eller noget lignende. Hun arbejder for det meste i hovedpolitistationen i Malmø, Sverige, men for tiden er hun nødt til at samarbejde med Henrik (Thure Lindhardt), sin danske kollega og sexpartner, i Københavns hovedpolitistation.

Jeg ser Saga nu pludselig afsløre til Henrik på en afslappet måde, at hun er gravid, og at hun allerede begynder at planlægge en abort. Tilsyneladene plejer parret at bruge en kobberspiral som præventionsmiddel – Saga siger, den ”kun” er 99% sikker. Yikes!

Stakkels Henrik er overrumplet for at sige mildt. Desværre vil han hellere have at hun føder barnet – han mistede sine egne to døtre, da de for nogle år siden forsvandt uden spor. Men på grund af sine psykiske problemer – aspergers, autisme eller whatever – er Saga modvillig til at diskutere spørgsmålet. Stakkels Henrik!!! Men jeg ser kun store problemer forude i deres parforhold, ingen tvivl om det!!!!

Saga afslører på en afslappet måde til Henrik, at hun er gravid:

sikke et vanvid!!!

12:30 Vi spiser frokost og bagefter går jeg i seng og tager en gigantisk eftermiddagslur. Jeg står op kl 15 og hopper op på min kondicykel. Jeg cykler 6 miles.

18:00 Vi spiser aftensmad og lytter lidt til radio, en interessant analyse om franske kvinders reaktion til den nylige #metoo bevægelse.

Der har været tale i pressen om, at Frankrig på en eller anden måde var anderledes, end USA og nordlige europæiske lande, i, at både mænd og kvinder i Frankrig nød spillet af forførelse mellem kønnene, og afviste kravene og bekymringer af metoo-bevægelsen. Hundredvis af fremtrædende franske kvinder, herunder skuespillerinden Catherine Deneuve, skrev et langt brev til de franske aviser for at udtrykke deres afvisning af udenlandske kvinders holdninger.

Men ifølge aftenens radioprogram ser det ud til, at meningerne af Catherine Deneuve og hendes veninder ikke er typiske, og at franske kvinder ikke er glade for, at blive konstant udsat for at blive chikaneret seksuelt, i gaderne, på metroen, i arbejdspladser osv.

En ung franske kvinde, der i mange år var studerende i London, siger, at da hun kom tilbage til Paris, satte hun væk alle de korte nederdele, hun bar uden problemer i London - det var ikke det værdigt i Frankrig, på grund af de konstant uønskede tilnærmelser og frække bemærkninger.

Det ser ud som om ikke meget har forandret i 50 år. Lois mindes om hendes besøg til Paris i 1960’erne sammen med en gruppe af andre studerende, for det meste kvindelige, som en del af deres bibliotekar-kursus. De unge kvinder var konstant udsatte for at få uanstændige tilbud, med mindre en af de mandelige studerende ledsagte dem.

Tilbageblik til midten af 1960'erne: Lois (foran, til højre) med nogle af

de andre studerende fra sit bibliotekarkursus,

på færgen på vej til Frankrig

Sikke en skør verden vi lever i !!!! Men det ser ud som om, franske kvinder selve begynder at sige, at de har fået nok. DSK-affæren var måske lidt af en milepæl.

21:00 Jeg kigger lidt på min smartphone, og jeg læser et rørende digt, at Alison, vores datter i København, har lagt op på Facebook. Det lader til, at familiens tid i Danmark måske er ved at komme til ende: