We came home yesterday after a
short holiday in the north of England, so we need to do some shopping. We drive over
to the Tesco supermarket in Bishops Cleeve, 3 miles from here, to go shopping
for food. First we stop by the nearby
greengrocer, and then to the local post office and its associated newsagent’s,
to buy two copies of the "Peter Rabbit" children's magazine, which we
can send to our soon-to-be 6-year-old twin grandchildren, Lily and Jessie, in
Perth, Australia. We come home and relax with a cup of coffee on the sofa.
Jessie (left) and Lily, with our daughter Sarah earlier this month
The weather girl has said that
today will be the hottest day of the year so far - 85F or 30C or thereabouts,
so we prepare the spare double bed in our daughter Sarah's old room, where we
can sleep tonight with open windows. The room overlooks the backyard and there
is no traffic noise, which is nice. And Lois hurries out into our fruit-garden
to pick even more raspberries and gooseberries before the birds can grab them
all – my god, what madness !!!!
It is very quiet in the backyard.
Our neighbour on the one side, Bob, is away from home, on vacation in Scotland.
On the other side of us, both Bill and Mary have now been settled in separate
nursing homes, and their son Neil from the London area, and their daughter
Debbie from New Zealand are living in their parents' home temporarily, so they
can visit them both daily.
I try to install our brand new
printer, which was delivered before our mini-holiday, but without success. Our
desktop says its wifi can't find it - what madness: the printer is right next
to the computer, just 1 inch away! Fortunately, our local IT expert, Mark, has
agreed to stop by here on Tuesday - he will give the desktop a scolding and a
good kick in the arse: he is very good at that, to put it mildly!
Local rumours suggest that it was
Mark who helped White House office staff replace the toner in the building's
printer, after Rumsfeld left his job there without warning and without giving a
proper briefing on his duties to his successor, Robert Gates.
Rumsfeld hit the headlines in
2004 when it was revealed that only he knew how to replace the toner (source:
Onion News).
WASHINGTON, DC: White House
sources reported Monday that Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is the only
cabinet member who can figure out how to replace the toner in the White House
printer. "Let me walk you through it again," said Rumsfeld. "You
lift the toner cartridge lid, then move this switch back and remove the old
cartridge. That goes in "el garbage ".
"Then you remove this tape
here from the new cartridge - now, this is important. If you forget, you will be
printing blank pages all day long. Okay, so you just slide it on in, and you're
done and good to go."
When asked to comment, Rumsfeld
said he didn't mind replacing the toner, but couldn't see what was so difficult
about it.
Rumsfeld, pictured here on the 2nd occasion
he was asked
to help replace the toner in the White
House printer
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 we relax with a cup of tea on the sofa.
16:30 I write an email in
Hungarian to my pen pal in Budapest, Tünde. She recently sent me a quiz: ten photos, some taken in one of the old Chernobyl
buildings in Russia, and some taken in a functioning Hungarian hospital, and
readers had to decide which photos were from Chernobyl and which were from the
hospital in Hungary. I scored 80% on the test, which was satisfying, but more through
luck than judgement, I have to admit.
Were these pictures taken in Chernobyl
or at a Hungarian hospital?
My goodness, what a crazy world
we live in !!!!!!
19:00 We have dinner and spend
the rest of the evening watching a bit of television. An interesting
documentary is on Channel 5, in the series about the River Nile and ancient Egypt. The
programme host is the charming Bettany Hughes.
Lois and I have seen many
documentaries before when Bettany Hughes has been the host of the programme:
mostly documentary films about ancient Greece. Now it seems she's finished educating
us about Greece and is looking for pastures new.
We hear about the great female
pharaoh, Hatshepsut, who was always portrayed in pictures as a man with a
beard. The ancient Egyptians had no word for "queen", it seems.
the ancient Egyptians had no word for
"queen".
Good grief, what madness !!!!
It is believed that Hatshepsut
had a lover, Senemut, the man in charge of building the Queen's great temple: she had secret drawings of him displayed in
the inmost and most sacred parts of the temple.
it’s thought that Senemut, who was
the brains behind the building
of the Queen's temple, was also in fact
her secret lover
According to the rumours, Senemut
was the Queen's secret lover, but perhaps their relationship was not as secret
as was previously thought.
And we see the programme's charming
host, Bettany, climbing a steep hill to enter a cave where some 3,500-year-old
graffiti has recently been discovered, and which was probably produced by one or
other of the construction workers involved in the building of the temple.
The graffiti portrays the Queen
(identified by the black wig which she wore) busy having sex - the man was
perhaps Senemut, the building worker's boss, or perhaps it was the worker
himself, who was depicting his secret fantasy, just imagining he was "living the dream".
My goodness, what a crazy world
we live in !!!! And how little has changed over 3,500 years, as Bettany herself
comments!
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzzzzzz
!!!!!
Danish translation: lørdag den 29 juni 2019
Vi kom hjem i går efter en kort ferie i det nordlige England, så trænger
vi til at købe ind. Vi kører over til Tesco-supermarkedet i Bishops Cleeve, 3
miles herfra, for at gå madindkøb. Først går vi ind hos den nærliggende grønthandleren,
og derefter hos det lokale postkontor og den sammenhængende bladhandlerforretning, for at købe
to eksemplarer af ”Peter Rabbit”-børnemagasinet, som vi kan afsende til vores
snart 6-årige tvillingebørnebørn, Lily og Jessie, i Perth, Australien. Vi
kommer hjem og slapper af med en kop kaffe i sofaen.
Jessie (left) and Lily, with our daughter Sarah
Vejrpigen har sagt, at i dag
vil være årets varmeste dag hidtil – 85F eller 30C eller deromkring, så vi forbereder
vores ekstra dobbeltseng i vores datter Sarahs gamle værelse, hvor vi kan sove
i nat med åbne vinduer. Værelset har udsigt over baghaven, og der er ikke
trafiklarm, hvilket er rart. Og Lois skynder sig ud i vores frugthave for at
plukke endnu flere hindbær og stikkelsbær, før fuglene kan snuppe dem alle – du
godeste, sikke et vanvid!!!!
Her er meget stille i
baghaven. Vores nabo på den ene side, Bob, er væk hjemmefra, på ferie i
Skotland. På den anden side af os er både Bill og Mary nu placeret i adskilte
plejehjem, og deres søn Neil fra London-området, og deres datter Debbie fra New
Zealand bor i deres forældres hus
midlertidligt, så de kan besøge dem begge hver dag.
Jeg prøver at installere
vores spritnye printer, som blev leveret før vores mini-ferie, men uden succés.
Vores desktop siger, at dens wifi ikke kan finde den – sikke et vanvid:
printeren sidder lige ved siden af computeren, kun 1 inch væk! Heldigvis har
vores lokale IT-ekspert, Mark, aftalt at komme på tirsdag hos os – han vil
skælde desktoppen ud og give den et godt los i røven: det er han meget dygtig
til, for at sige mildt !
Lokale rygter foreslår, at
det var Mark, der hjalp det Hvide Hus’ kontorpersonalet med at udskifte toneren
i bygningens printer, efter Rumsfeld først i 2006 forlod sit job derinde uden
varsel og uden at give en ordentlig briefing om sine pligter til sin efterfølger, Robert Gates.
Rumsfeld ramte
overskrifterne først i 2004, da det blev afsløret, at kun han kunne udskifte
toneren (kilde: Onion News).
WASHINGTON, DC: Hvide-Hus-kilder rapporterede mandag, at forsvarsministeren
Donald Rumsfeld er det eneste kabinetsmedlem, der kan finde frem til, hvordan
man udskifter toneren til det hvide hus’ printer. "Lad mig gennemgå det
igen," sagde Rumsfeld. "Du løfter tonerkassettens låg, så flytter du denne
kontakt tilbage og fjerner den gamle patron. Det skal smides i ’el garbage’.
”Dernæst fjerner du dette bånd her fra den nye patron – pas på, det her er vigtigt.
Hvis du glemmer det, kommer du til at udprinte blanke sider hele dagen. Okay,
så du bare glider det ind, og du er færdig og klar til at gå."
Da han blev bedt om at kommentere, sagde Rumsfeld, at han ikke havde noget
imod at udskifte toneren, men så ikke, hvad der var så svært ved det.
Rumsfeld, fotograferet
her den 2. gang, han blev bedt om,
at hjælpe
med at udskifte toneren til det Hvide Hus’ printer
13:00 Vi spiser frokost og bagefter går jeg i seng for at tage en
gigantisk eftermiddagslur. Jeg står op kl 15:30 og vi slapper af med en kop te
i sofaen.
16:30 Jeg skriver en email på ungarsk til min penneveninde i Budapest,
Tünde. Hun sendt mig for nylig en quiz: ti
fotoer, nogle taget i en af Tjernobyl-bygninger i Rusland, og nogle taget i et
ungarsk hospital, og læsere måtte beslutte, hvilket fotoer var fra Tjernobyl og
hvilke var fra hospitalet i Ungarn. Jeg scorede 80%, hvilket var rart, men mere
på grund af lykke, end omdømme, det må jeg indrømme.
Tjernobyl
eller et ungarsk hospital?
Du godeste, sikke en skør verden vi lever i !!!!!!
19:00 Vi spiser aftensmad og bruger resten af aftenen på at se lidt
fjernsyn. De viser en interessant dokumentarfilm i serien om floden Nile og det
gamle Egypten. Programmets vært er den charmerende Bettany Hughes.
Lois og jeg har set mange dokumentarfilm før, når Bettany Hughes har
været programmets vært: for det meste dokumentarfilm, der handlede om det gamle
Grækenland. Nu lader det til, at hun er færdig med at informere os om
Grækenland, og søger nye græsgange.
Vi hører om den store kvindelige farao, Hatshepsut, der altid blev
skildret som en mand med et skæg. De gamle egyptere havde intet ord for ”dronning”,
lader det til.
de gamle
egyptere havde intet ord for ”dronning” –
du godeste,
sikke et vanvid !!!!
Man tror, at Hatshepsut havde en elsker, Senemut, der stod for bygningen
af dronningens store tempel, og hun fik hemmelige tegninge til at blive lavet
om ham i templets inderste og helligste værelser.
man
tror, at Senemut, der var hjernen bag bygningen
af
dronningens tempel, faktisk også var hendes hemmelige elsker
Ifølge rygterne var Senemut dronningens hemmelige elsker, men måske var deres
forhold ikke så hemmeligt, som man før i tiden troede.
Og vi ser programmets charmerende vært, Bettany, klatre op ad en stejl
bakke for at gå ind en hule, hvor nogle 3500 år gamle graffitier for nylig er
blevet opdaget, som sandsynligvis var blevet skrevet af en eller anden
bygningsarbejder, der var involveret i bygningen af templet.
Bettany
klatrer op til en hule for at se nogle for nylig opdagede graffiti
Graffitien skildrer dronningen (identificeret af den sorte paryk, som
dronninger dengang gik med) i gang med at have sex – manden var måske Senemut,
bygningarbejderens chef, eller måske var det selve arbejderen, i færd med at
leve sin fantasi, eller at ”leve drømmen”.
Du godeste, sikke en skør verden vi lever i !!!! Og hvor lidt har ændret sig gennem 3.500 år,
som selve Bettany kommenterer!
22:00 Vi går i seng – zzzzzzzzzz!!!!!
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