Danskcolin: Saturday 26 May 2018

08:00 After a quiet cup of morning tea lying in bed, Lois and I get up. We have breakfast and then get started choosing even more photos from our recent 2-month stay in Australia and designing even more photo books. The deadline is approaching - the Snapfish website is offering a 40% discount on all their photo products and prices, but the discount "must" end Sunday night - yikes, help !!!!

In the course of the day we manage to design another 7 photo books: each contains 22 photos. Here are the 7 front covers:

Photobook 1: We cross the harbor on the ferry and visit the city's zoo.

(our daughter Sarah, Lois, and the twins)

Photobook 2: We take a cruise on the Swan and Canning Rivers

(Jessie and Lois)

Photobook 3: Lois and I visit Perth's harbor and other towns in the area

photo book 4: We visit Lancelin with Sarah's family - here we see Sarah (left)

climbing up Lancelin's white dunes

photo book 5: Sarah and Francis rent a boat and sail over to Perth and back

Photo Book 6: Easter Sunday: An Easter egg hunt in Sarah's backyard

(Sarah, Lois, Jessie, Lily)

photo book 7: the first photo book of 4 containing pictures taken

in Sarah's house and in the neighborhood

(Jessie, Sarah)

Photobook 6 also contains pictures Lois and I took on a trip to Guildford, a historic small town located a little east from Perth.

One of the drawbacks for Lois and me when we visit Sarah in Australia is that there is not much in the way of historical attractions, but they do in fact exist: you just have to do a little research to identify them.

Guildford was once, in the earliest period of the Western Australia colony, an important transit station for stagecoaches, mail coaches, etc., on the road from Perth to York.

Guildford: an old staging place on the road from Perth to York

Many people in the area (perhaps the majority of the population) were freed prisoners, so law and order was a big priority. Lois and I visited the old police station and the local prison and we also saw the bell next to the police station that used to announce the nightly curfew - yikes, times were tough then, no doubt about that !!!!

A map of the town's old jail and its exercise yard

a cell in the former police station

The bell that used to announce the nightly curfew - yikes!

Lois and I had lunch at a cafe in the backyard of

town's post office (also a garden center)

13:00 We take a break in the middle of the day: I hop up on my exercise bike and cycle 9 miles. We have lunch and take a gigantic afternoon nap.

16:00 We are finally finished with designing the 7 photo books. There are now only 3 left to do, which I will have to cope with tomorrow.

18:30 We have dinner and spend the rest of the evening watching television. An interesting documentary is showing in the series "Great Art". Tonight's episode is about Hieronymus Bosch (about 1450-1516), the famous Dutch painter.

An interesting program. We like this series because the treatment of the subject is serious and the programmers avoid using fashionable gimmicks, concentrating instead on sharing information and opinions through interviews with qualified experts, which is a refreshing change - good grief!

I'm struck again by how much everywhere was crowded in medieval times. You could not get away from it all, no matter how much you tried: this would have been a personal nightmare for me - I hate being among big groups of people.

I also hate parties - (you will always find me in the kitchen at parties). Bosch's "Garden of Earthly Delights", where a garden party is in full swing and people are allegedly having fun, would be my worst nightmare, no doubt about that.

Bosch's "Garden of Earthly Delights"

In the Middle Ages, you could not even go for a quiet peaceful walk out in the country without coming across a rustic brothel where a man is peeing in the yard against the side of the house. Good grief, what madness !!!

it wasn’t even possible to get a quiet walk in the country – oh dear!

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

Danish translation

08:00 Efter en stille kop morgenté liggende inde i sengen, står Lois og jeg op. Vi spiser morgenmad og går så i gang med at valge endnu mere fotos fra vores nylig 2-måneders ophold i Australien og designe endnu flere fotobøger. Fristen nærmer sig – Snapfish-webstedet tilbyder en 40% rabat på alle deres fotoprodukter og priser, men rabatten ”må” ende søndag aften – yikes, hjælp!!!!

I løbet af dagen når vi at designe endnu 7 fotobøger: enhver indeholder 22 fotos. Her er de 7 omslag/forsider:

fotobog 1: vi krydser havnen ved færgen og besøger byens zoologiske have.

(vores datter Sarah, Lois, og tvillingerne)

fotobog 2: vi tager et krydstogt på floderne Swan og Canning

(Jessie og Lois)

fotobog 3: Lois og jeg besøger Perths havnen, og andre byer i området

fotobog 4: Vi besøger Lancelin med Sarahs familie – her ser vi Sarah (til venstre)

klatre op på Lancelins hvide klitter

fotobog 5: Sarah og Francis lejer en båd og sejler over til Perth og tilbage

fotobog 6: påskesøndag: et påskeægsjagt I Sarahs baghave

(Sarah, Lois, Jessie, Lily)

fotobog 7: den første fotobog af 4 der indeholder billleder taget

i Sarahs hus og i nabolaget

(Jessie, med Sarah til højre)

Fotobog 6 indeholder også billeder Lois og jeg tog på en tur til Guildford, en historisk lille by, der ligger lidt øst fra Perth.

En af ulemperne for Lois og mig, når vi besøger Sarah i Australien, er, at der befindes ikke ret meget i retning af historiske attraktioner, men de eksisterer faktisk: man må bare gøre lidt forskning for at identificere dem.

Guildford var engang, i Western Australia-coloniens tidligste periode, en vigtig transit-station til diligencer, postvogne osv, på vejen fra Perth til York.

Guildford på vejen fra Perth til York

Mange mennesker i området (måske flertallet af befolkningen) var løsladte fangere, så derfor var lov og orden en stor prioritet. Lois og jeg besøgte den gamle politistation og den lokale fængsel, og vi så også den klokke ved siden af politistationen, der annoncerede det natlige udgangsforbud – yikes, tiderne var hårde dengang, ingen tvivl om det!!!!

et kort over byens fængsel og dens motionsgård

en celle i politistationen

den klokke, der annoncerede det natlige udgangsforbud – yikes!

Lois og jeg spiste frokost på en café i baghaven af

byens postkontor (også et havecenter)

13:00 Vi tager en pause midt på dagen: jeg hopper op på min kondicykel og cykler 9 miles. Vi spiser frokost og tager en gigantisk eftermiddagslur.

16:00 Vi er færdig med at designe de 7 fotobøger. Der er nu kun 3 tilbage, som jeg må takle i morgen.

18:30 Vi spiser aftensmad og bruger resten af aftenen på at se lidt fjernsyn. De viser en interessant dokumentarfilm i serien ”Stor kunst”. Dette afsnit handler om Hieronymus Bosch (ca. 1450-1516), den berømte hollandske maler.

Et interessant program. Vi kan godt lide denne serie, fordi emnets behandling er alvorlig og programmagerne undgår at bruge moderigtige gimmicks og koncentrerer om at dele oplysning og meninger ved hjælp af interviews med kvalificerede eksperter, hvilket er en forfriskende forandring – du godeste!

Jeg blivet slået igen af, hvor meget overalt var overfyldt i middelaldige tider. Man kunne ikke komme væk fra det hele, lige meget hvad hvor meget man prøvede: dette ville have været et personligt mareridt for mit vedkommende – jeg hader at være blandt store grupper mennesker!

Jeg hader også fester - (du finder mig altid i køkkenet til fester). Bosch’s ”Lysternes have”, hvor en havefest er i fuld gang og folk angiveligt er i gang med at få det sjovt, ville være mit værste mareridt, ingen tvivl om det!!!

Bosch’s ”Lysternes have”

Du finder mig altid i køkkenet til fester.

I middelalderen kunne man ikke engang gå en stille og rolig tur ude på landet, uden at falde over et rustik bordel, hvor en mand er i gang med at tisse i gårspladsen mod siden af huset . Du godeste, sikke et vanvid!!!