Wednesday 8 May 2019

10:30 The children are in school again today. It is raining heavily, so our elder daughter Alison drives us over to the Squires / Secretts garden centre in the small town of Milford near Godalming. We look around the garden centre shop and buy a few things, and afterwards we have lunch in the cafe.

we have   lunch in the garden centre café

15:00 We drive to the local primary school and pick up Rosalind and Isaac at the end of the school day. Then we all go into the town centre and have  a piece of cake at Hemingways café.

We have  a piece of cake in Hemingways café in the middle of Haslemere

16:00 We come home again. When Lois and I came to Haslemere from Cheltenham on Tuesday, we brought with us Alison's old flute, which she used to play when she was a teenager. Rosalind (10) has said she wants to learn how to play the instrument, so Alison gives her some tips on how best to produce the right sound, which is not particularly easy, to put it mildly. It looks simple, but it took Alison several months as a teenager to master the instrument.

Alison gives Rosalind some tips on how to learn  to play her old flute

18:00 We have dinner and afterwards see a little television, "the Chase", a fun game show. But the kids prefer to turn on their i-pads to check out the latest score in a football game, Ajax vs Tottenham - they are all three enthusiastic supporters of Tottenham.

We see a little television, "The Chase" game show

the kids prefer to turn their i-pads  on to check

the latest score in a football game, Ajax vs Tottenham

20:30 The children go to bed - it doesn't look very good for Tottenham - the current score is Ajax 2 Tottenham 0.

22:00 The game ends. It's hard to believe, but Tottenham have just scored 3 goals, the last one being in the last minute of extra-time, which is a bit of a surprise to put it mildly. Tottenham will now play against Liverpool in the European Champions League final in Madrid. The children will be thrilled tomorrow when they wake up and discover the result - I have no doubts about that.

10 pm - The Ajax players are exhausted  and deeply depressed 
after their epic struggle - good grief, I don't blame them!

My god - what a crazy world we live in !!!!!

We go to bed - zzzzzzzz !!!!!

Danish translation

10:30 Børnene er i skole i dag. Det regner kraftigt, så vores ældste datter Alison kører os over til Squires/Secretts-havecentret i den lille by Milford i nærheden af Godalming. Vi kigger rundt i havecentrets butik og køber et par ting og bagefter spiser vi frokost i caféen.

vi spiser frokost i havecentrets café

15:00 Vi kører over til den lokale folkeskole og afhenter Rosalind og Isaac ved slutningen af skoledagen. Så går vi alle hen ind i bymidten og spiser et stykke kage på Hemingways-caféen.

vi spiser et stykke kage på Hemingways-caféen midt i byen Haslemere

16:00 Vi kommer hjem igen. Da Lois og jeg i tirsdag kørte over til Haslemere fra Cheltenham, medbragte vi Alison gamle fløjte, som hun plejede at spille da hun var teenager. Rosalind (10) har sagt, hun har lyst til at lære at spille instrumentet, så giver Alison hende nogle tips til hvordan man bedst kan producere den rigtige lyd, hvilket er ikke ret nemt, for at sige mildt. Det ser simpelt ud, men det tog Alison flere måneder som teenager at mestre instrumentet.

Alison give Rosalind nogle tips til at lære at spille sin gamle fløjte

18:00 Vi spiser frokost og bagefter ser lidt fjernsyn, ”the Chase”, et morsomt gameshow. Men børnene foretrækker at tænde deres ipads for at tjekke den seneste score i en fodboldkamp, Ajax  vs Tottenham – de er alle tre entusiastiske tilhængere af Tottenham.

Vi ser lidt fjernsyn, ”The Chase”-gameshowet

børnene foretrækker at tænde deres ipads for at tjekke

den seneste score i en fodboldkamp, Ajax vs Tottenham

20:30 Børnene går i seng – det ser ikke ret godt ud for Tottenham – den nuværende score er Ajax 2 Tottenham 0.

22:00 Kampen slutter. Det er svært at tro, men Tottenham har scoret 3 mål, med det seneste på den seneste minut af ekstra-tid, hvilket er lidt af en overraskelse, for at sige mildt. Tottenham vil nu spille mod Liverpool i den europæiske Champions League-finale i Madrid. Børnene vil være henrykket i morgen, når de vågner op og opdage resulatet – det har jeg ikke nogen tvivl om. 

Spillerne er udmattede efter deres episke kamp - ingen overraskelse der !!!

Vi går i seng – zzzzzzzz!!!!!