Lois stays in bed for a couple of
hours. She still has a very bad cold, and I am just about to cancel our plans
to drive to Leckhampton this morning, when she shows up in the dining room and
says she is ready to "go for it", which is a little surprising: she
think the exercise and the fresh air will actually help her. Let’s hope so.
10:00 We drive to Leckhampton and
donate our unwanted old LP records and cassette tapes to the local Red Cross
charity shop. Afterwards we slip into the local post office and its associated newsagents-stationers
to buy some folders. Finally, we swing by CookShop and buy some low-fat ready
meals. We come home again and relax with a cup of coffee on the sofa.
Charities and fundraisers are in
the news a lot nowadays, and celebrities get very much involved in the business,
now more than ever, which is nice. The famous pop star Lada Gaga hit the
headlines a few years ago when she attended a typical local fundraiser event
(source: Onion News).
GOTHAM CITY - Supervillain Lady Gaga brazenly abducted Commissioner James Gordon from a charity
fundraiser Tuesday, leaving police baffled and Gotham citizens fearing for
their safety.
The criminal madwoman, known for her outlandish costumes and geometric
polygonal hair, made a daring escape from Arkham Asylum last week and has been
taunting the authorities by interrupting
television broadcasts ever since.
"If you ever want to see Commissioner
Gordon again, you will do exactly as I say," Lady Gaga said from her
secret lair, adjusting her yellow, angled Tyvek and spandex dress, as henchmen
danced menacingly around the bound
commissioner.
Although the kidnapping took place at stately Wayne Manor, home
to playboy jet-setter Bruce Wayne, the eccentric billionaire has so far not
been available for comment.
My goodness, what a crazy world
we live in. But it is nice to see celebrities getting involved in charities,
even though it sometimes seems to be more about the publicity, and more about hitting
the headlines than anything else, I have to admit.
11:30 I start mowing the rest of
our lawns - it's hot and I soon get tired and a little sweaty. I myself have a
cold, but I’m not sure whether it’s not fully developed yet, or if I have come
down with a milder version - the jury is still out on that one.
13:00 We have lunch and afterwards I go to bed and take a gigantic afternoon nap. I get up at
3:30 pm and find that Lois is still labelling, and sorting into our brand new folders,
all our piles of outdated tourist brochures, and our tons of souvenirs of our 2
daughters’ school work when they were students in an American school 1982-1985.
These are all sheets of paper I came
across the other day in our attic, the attic I’d like to get into order, and in
the long run to empty - something which is the most important element in our
current downsizing mini-project.
Lois comes across a composition that
our daughter Sarah, then at the age of 7, wrote about me - "My Dad",
which I find incredibly touching to put it mildly.
Flashback to 1984: a school composition
our 7-year-old daughter Sarah wrote about me
me and Sarah in 1984 - riding in a
horse and buggy past the fields
outside Quebec City, where General Wolfe fought the French
in 1859
(Battle of the Plains of Abraham)
1984 autumn: Sarah's 5 cent cold drinks-stand
in front of our house in Columbia Md
1984: all of us on vacation in
the Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia
1984: with Lois' parents (right) in the
living-room of our house in Columbia
1984: Alison (left) and Sarah with my
sister Kathy, outside our house
Happy times !!!!
17:00 We walk round to the
neighbouring house two doors away to water the vegetables and flower beds,
while Stephen and Frances are on holiday in Canada. On top of having a bad
cold, Lois has unfortunately strained her back, so today it is me who is doing
the watering, under her guidance.
18:00 We have dinner and spend
the rest of the evening watching a bit of television - the E4 channel has decided
to devote the whole evening to the very
last episode of the very last season of the Big Bang Theory sitcom, which is
nice.
Lois and I started to watch this
sitcom from its second season, approx. 11 years ago and it was a programme we
always looked forward to seeing every Thursday night. We also got into the
habit of watching re-runs at 6 pm and
6.30 pm every evening, when we used to sit down in the living room to eat dinner on trays.
It has been a refreshing change
to see a sitcom revolving around intelligent people, for once, and many of the
sitcom's funniest scenes and most iconic episodes have imprinted themselves on
us for life, I have to say.
Initially tonight, we see
"Leonard" (Johnny Galecki) and "Penny" (Kaley Cuoco) giving
a nostalgic review of the show's 12 seasons, a review that is surprisingly
touching - this finale is the end of an era for the show's entire cast as well
as for us, no doubt about that.
Afterwards we see the very last
double episode where Sheldon and Amy win the Nobel Prize and travel to Sweden
to attend the ceremony, along with all their friends from the show.
In the opening scenes of the
episode, when Sheldon and Amy are sitting at home waiting for a phone call from
Sweden to tell them whether they have won the physics prize or not, it is nice
to see one of our favourite characters from the show, Barry Kripke, popping up
on the screen again with a scam call to the couple.
When Sheldon is writing his acceptance
speech, he plans to lambast many figures from his past, including school
teachers, university colleagues, etc., all the people in his life who had told
him that he would never succeed. He wants them all to "rue the day".
Amy tries to discourage him, however.
We're going to miss this show, that’s
for sure. Now we have nothing to look forward to on Thursday nights – sob sob!
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzzzzz
!!!!!
Danish translation
Lois bliver liggende inde i sengen i et par timer. Hun er stadig meget
meget forkølet, og jeg skal lige til at aflyse vores planer om at køre i
formiddag til Leckhampton, da hun dukker op i spisestuen og siger, hun er klar
for at ”gå for det”, hvilket er lidt
overraskende: hun mener, motionen og den friske luft faktisk vil hjælpe hende.
10:00 Vi kører over til Leckhampton og donere vores uønskede lp-plader
og kassettebånd til den lokale Røde Kors velgørenhedsbutik. Bagefter smutter vi
ind i det lokale postkontor og dets sammenhængende bladhandlerforretning, for at købe nogle chartekker. Til sidste kigger vi ind i CookShop og køber
nogle fedtfattige færdigretter. Vi kommer hjem igen og slapper af med en kop
kaffe i sofaen.
Velgørenheder og fundraisere fylder vist nok utrolig meget i nyhederne
for tiden, og kendisser er meget involveret i processen, nu mere, end
nogensinde, hvilket er rart. Den berømte popstjerne ramte overskrifterne for et
par år siden, da hun deltog i en typisk lokal fundraiser-begivenhed (kilde:
Onion News).
GOTHAM CITY - Superskurken Lady Gaga kidnappede
kommissær James Gordon skamløst fra en velgørenheds fundraiser tirsdag,
hvorefter politiet blev forvirret og borgerne fra Gotham frygtede for deres
sikkerhed.
Den kriminelle galning, kendt for hendes fremmedartede
kostumer og geometriske polygonale hår, efter en dristig flugt fra
Arkham-sindssygeanstalten i sidste uge har hånet myndighederne ved at afbryde
tv-udsendelser lige siden. "Hvis du har lyst nogensinde til at se
kommissær Gordon igen, vil du gøre præcis som jeg siger," sagde Lady Gaga
fra hendes hemmelige skjul og justerede sin gule, vinkeldannede tyvek og
spandex-kjole, da håndværterne dansede truende om den bundne kommissær. Selvom
kidnappingen fandt sted på den statelige Wayne Manor, hjemsted for playboy
jet-setter Bruce Wayne, har den excentriske milliardær hidtil ikke tilgængelig
til kommentarer.
Du godeste, sikke en skør verden vi lever i. Men det er rart at se
kendisser involverer sig i velgørenheder, selvom det virker nogle gange, at
dreje sig mere om publicitet, og dét, at ramme overskrifterne, end noget andet
– det må jeg indrømme!
11:30 Jeg går i gang med at slå resten af vores græsplæner – det er
varmt og jeg bliver snart træt og lidt svedig. Jeg er selv forkølet, men enten
min forkølelse er ikke fuldt udviklet endnu, eller jeg har smittet en mildere
version – det er juryen stadig ude om.
13:00 Vi spiser frokost og bagefter går jeg i seng for at tage en
gigantisk eftermiddagslur. Jeg står op kl 15:30 og finder, at Lois stadig er i
gang med at etikettere, og sortere i vores spritnye chartekker, de bunker af
uddaterede turistbrochurer, også tonsvis af souvenirs af vores 2 døtres
skolearbejde, da de var elever i en amerikansk skole 1982-1985.
Alt de der papirark faldt jeg over forleden i vores loft, som jeg gerne
vil ordne og i det lange løb tømme, som den vigtigste del af vores nuværende
downsize mini-projektet.
Lois støder på en stil, som vores datter Sarah, dengang 7 år gammel,
skrev om mig – ”Min far”, som jeg finder meget rørende, for at sige mildt.
Tilbageblik
til 1984: en skolestil min dengang 7-årige datter Sarah skrev om mig
mig og Sarah
i 1984 – vi kører i en klapvogn forbi den kamp udenfor Quebec City,
hvor General
Wolfe kæmpede mod franskmændene i 1859
(slaget ved
Abrahamsletterne)
1984 efteråret:
Sarahs drikstand foran vores hus i Columbia Md
1984: Hele vores
familie på ferie i Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia
1984: sammen
med Lois’ forældre i vores hus i Columbia
1984: Alison
(til venstre) og Sarah sammen med min søster Kathy
Lykkelige tider!!!!
17:00 Vi går rundt til et nabohus
to døre væk for at vande grøntsagerne og blomsterbedene, mens Stephen og
Frances er i på ferie i Canada. Udover dét, at hun er meget forkølet, har Lois
desværre anstrængt ryggen, så i dag er det mig, der vander, under hendes
vejledning.
18:00 Vi spiser aftensmad og bruger resten af aftenen på at se lidt
fjernsyn – E4-kanalen har besluttet at hengive hele aftenen til det allersidste
afsnit af den allersidste sæson af Big Bang Theory-sitcommen, hvilket er rart.
Lois og jeg begyndte at se denne sitcom fra den 2. sæson, for ca. 11 år
siden, og det var et program, vi altid glædte os til at se hver torsdag aften.
Vi kom også i vanen med at se genudsendelser kl 18, da vi satte os i stuen for
at spise aftensmad på bakker. Det har været en forfriskende forandring at se en
sitcom, der kredser om intelligente mennesker, for en gangs skyld, og mange af
sitcommens morsomste scener og afsnit har præget os for livstid – det må jeg
nok sige.
Til at begynde med, ser vi ”Leonard” and ”Penny” give en nostalgisk
gennemgang af showets 12 sæsoner, der er overraskende rørende – denne finale er
enden på en æra for showets hele rollebesætning, ingen tvivl om det.
Bagefter ser vi den allersidste dobbelt-episode, hvor Sheldon og Amy
vinde nobel-pris og rejser til Sverige for at deltage i ceremoniet, sammen med
alle deres venner fra showet.
I episodens åbnende scener, hvor Sheldon og Amy sidder hjemme og venter
på et telefonopkald fra Sverige, der vil fortælle dem, om de har vundet eller
ej, er det rart at se en af vores yndlingsfigurer fra showet, Barry Kripke,
poppe op på skarmen igen med et fup-opkad til parret.
Da Sheldon er i gang med at skrive sin takketale, planlægge han at
skælde ud mange figure fra sin fortid, inklusive skolelærere,
universitetskollegaer osv, der havde fortalt ham, at han aldrig vil være
succésfuld, så de alle ville ”sørge over dagen”. Amy forsøge at fraråde ham
det.
Vi kommer til at savne dette show, det ved jeg med sikkerhed. Nu har vi
ikke noget at glæde os til hver torsdag aften – hulk hulk!
22:00 Vi går i seng – zzzzzzzzz!!!!!
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