10:00 Lois and I each take our own blood pressure readings, which we started doing recently - I've got my annual review at our doctor's next week, where the nurse is going to give me a blood test and also take my blood pressure reading. I've learnt by experience that my blood-pressure always goes up when I'm in the nurse's room, so I'm going to go armed with 10 days of my own readings, so that they don't start prescribing blood pressure pills for me, thank you very much !!!
I think it's what they call "white coat syndrome" haha !!!
"white coat syndrome"
11:00 I do the daily exercises (Sheet 2) that my NHS physiotherapist, Connor, has prescribed for me. I have a telephone appointment with Connor in a week's time, and I realised today that I haven't yet increased my numbers of "repetitions": he asked me to do that last time I spoke to him, and he's not going to be pleased if I say I'm still doing the rock bottom minimum of these - my god, I'm so lazy haha!!!
I don't want to make him cross next week, so I start today by adding 3 reps to the minimum numbers I have been doing - so if he's said do 6-12 repetitions (I've of course taken that as meaning "6"), so today I do 9 - well, it's a start haha!
the Danish crime novel, Anna Grue's "Dybt at falde" ("The Further You Fall"),
which is our U3A group's current project
As always there seem to be technical issues:
Another gripping episode, with a very real feel to it., just concentrating on the painstaking police work going on over a period of months after the killing. The writers have deliberately avoided putting the colourful defendant, Peter Madsen, on screen, making it entirely different from all fictional crime series, to put it mildly.
(a) Scilla the group's Old Norse expert can't join us - she's staying with her son Ben in Hove, and if Ben isn't around, she can't work his computer - that's a pretty typical problem for us "silver surfers": oh dear!
(b) Jeanette, the group's one and only genuinely Danish member, must have something wrong with her computer's camera. We can all see her in a "vague" way, but she appears to have grown 3 heads and gives the appearance of sitting behind some very thin Venetian blinds - what madness!!! Luckily we can hear her just fine.
Jeanette, our group's only genuine Danish member -
today she's mysteriously grown 3 heads,
and appears on screen behind thin Venetian blinds - what madness !!!!!
Most of the 90 minutes we're just chatting of course - typical older people's chat: mainly about grandchildren and the after-effects of our recent COVID vaccinations. My god!
16:00 The meeting ends - Lois and I are exhausted, and we feel stiff as boards, with back pains galore. What madness !!!! We unwind with a cup of Tea Pig Extra Strong Earl Grey Tea, and a piece of bread with Lois's delicious home-made gooseberry jam - yum yum! We're getting old, no doubt about that.
20:00 We settle down on the couch and watch a bit of TV, the fifth episode of the new Danish crime series, "The Investigation", which centres on the real-life sex-murder of a Swedish journalist, Kim Wall, by a Danish billionaire, Peter Madsen, on board his private submarine in 2017.
Kim's torso was washed up on the beach some weeks back. And police divers later recovered her head, legs and clothing stuffed into a bag found on the seabed. In this episode police divers make 3 more discoveries - one arm, followed a few days later by the other arm, and then the saw used to dismember Kim's body.
The saw is important because Madsen had brought it on board for his trip with Kim, which suggests that what he did was premeditated. Otherwise police are a still hampered in bringing a case against Madsen, because Kim's body parts show no sign of any injury.
Also Madsen has a new explanation for what happened on board - he says that her death was caused by a lack of oxygen: asphyxiation or carbon-monoxide poisoning, due to engine problems. A vacuum prevented him from opening the hatch, but when he finally managed it, he went down and found that she was dead. He admits that he cut her body up because she was too heavy to carry up the submarine's tower. Police find this story hard to believe for many reasons, including the fact that the episode left no traces on her body.
A study of Madsen's computer finds that shortly before Kim's death, he had done a google search using the English words "beheaded" "agony" (misspelt) and "girl": the search came up with some animated films showing decapitation in a sexual context, and a real video, which Madsen had watched 18 hours before Kim's death.
On the night of the killing, Madsen had contacted 3 women he knew, inviting each to take a trip on board the submarine with him, but all 3 had declined. Then by chance he received a call from Kim odut of the blue, requesting an interview, and he invited her to come sailing with him.
A pretty grim episode, but all true apparently. We see both the detectives and the police divers visibly moved, and/or revolted, by the horrific details of the case, as they uncover them. They have to watch the awful video clips that Madsen watched, for example.
However, we suspect that the writers have probably invented a background story about Jens, the chief detective on the case - the widowed Jens is seen having to cope with a rift in his private life between himself and his daughter Cecilie. She is refusing to speak to him after years of having to take second place to his police work.
Lois and I think that this invention, if it is an invention as we assume, is justified as a reminder that detectives working on these extremely difficult and upsetting high-profile cases also have private lives, and that these may not all be running smoothly. That's what we think anyway!
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzzzz!!!!!!
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