11:00 This morning was supposed to be the start of my new exercise regime, where Lois bullies me into taking a daily walk, but an hour-long phone call from Rose, one of Lois's former work colleagues at the local Church of England Retirement Home, puts paid to that.
the retirement home, where Lois worked 1993-2006
Rose rings Lois to give vent to her feelings. She is annoyed because her grandson and his fiancée in Gloucester are getting two dogs.
Getting a dog has become a big craze ever since the start of the first lockwon, so much so, that dog rescue charities have pretty much run out of them - what madness! Rose's grandson and his partner live in a top-floor flat and both of them have two jobs at the moment. Why would anybody think it was a good idea to get a dog in those circumstances?
What a crazy world we live in !!!!
12:30 Lois and I have lunch and then, despite the perilous imminence of nap-time, we venture out and go for a walk on the local football field. There is hardly anyone about - no surprise there, given that it's lunchtime, and it's always refreshing to the soul to see the 1000 ft high Cleeve Hill in the distance.
we go for a walk on the local football field
17:00 We have a look at the news. Trump is behaving more and more like a Bond villain. But which one? Is it Trumpfeld? Or Trumpfinger perhaps? I think we should be told haha!
17:30 I spend some time working on my new companion blog OldnorseColin, that celebrates mine and Lois's Viking personas, but I haven't got the formatting quite right yet, there's no doubt about that! It's not even close! I'll just have to put in some additional time this coming week - damn!!
mine and...
....Lois's Viking personas
The critics are already on to me, unfortunately. They say the blog's so-called "saga" lacks action, and that's true - the main "event" in "Kenneth's Saga" (my father's), is that his brother Eric gives him some books on golf and Kenneth sells them to buy some land in Iceland on the peninsular just beyond Rejkjavik near the international airport and rock'n'roll museum. I'll have to try and beef the plot up somehow, that's for sure!
20:00 Lois disappears into the dining-room to take part in her sect's weekly Bible Class on zoom. I settle down on the sofa and watch part 6 of the new Danish crime drama, "DNA".
Currently I'm still hanging onto the plot by the skin of my teeth. I know that some Polish nuns, who run a maternity unit for teenage mothers, seem to be also involved in an international kidnapping and child-trafficking ring, but apart from that, I'm getting quite confused.
The nuns claim falsely that a lot of the babies being born in the maternity unit are stillborn, and the mothers never see their babies again. But it's all a racket. It appears that a proportion of the new-borns are transported to a convent in the country. And the convent is actually an adoption centre, where the babies are kept in anticipation of international customers eager to buy them.
One of the teenage mothers, Julita, who was told her baby was stillborn, is nevertheless suspicious. She drives out to the convent in the country, and, in order to investigate further, pretends she is a novice nurse who wants to work there. She steals some nun's clothes from a washing line in the grounds, and puts them on - it's an old trick but it might just work haha!
But unfortunately it doesn't quite work out for Julita. She locates her own baby but too late to stop it being taken away for adoption early next morning. And there's another exciting wrestling match where a bunch of nuns try to overpower Julita in the corridor.
a bunch of nuns try to wrestle Julita into a room where she can be locked up
Flashback to episode 5: a similar, earlier, confrontation in the actual maternity centre where Julita has just given birth.
Tremendous fun!!!!
Tonight, Rolf, the Danish detective on the case, who also just happens to be a victim of a similar kidnapping ring - could it be the same one?, he wonders. Rolf's baby was snatched away from him on a ferry a few years ago.
But in this episode Rolf has a piece of luck. He seems to find a little girl he thinks is his daughter: a girl, who has red hair and blue eyes like Rolf's partner, has been adopted by a couple who own a fertility clinic in Paris, a clinic which also seem to be involved with the Polish nuns.
While nobody much is around in the clinic's foyer, Rolf sneaks a DNA test on the little girl, but the incident is captured on security cameras. Rolf is now in big trouble over the incident, for mixing his private suspicions with the case he is supposed to be working on.
Rolf surreptitiously gives a little girl a DNA test, but it's caught on security cameras - oh dear!
Poor Rolf !!!!!
21:00 Lois emerges from her Bible Class and we relax with a retrospective on the so-called "British invasion" of British rock groups who flooded America in the 1960's. It's nostalgic to see all those guys again.
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzzzz!!!!
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