A good day for our fruit and vegetable department. Our turnips are going mad this year for some reason - they're supposed to wait till later, but they must have enjoyed just the right weather conditions, the little swine! But will they be good enough for this year's "Turnip Prize"? Well, the jury's still out on that one - but see picture of Lois with 2 turnips below, and make up your own mind!
flashback to 2018: award of the first ever "Turnip Prize"
We do a cursory check under our turnips to see if the missing Croatian Prime Minister is there - he's reported to be under one or other turnip pile somewhere (report - source Onion News) - but no dice: in fact no prime ministers at all, would you believe, which is odd!
Also we discover today that we've got quite a few raspberries again, even if they're a bit on the small size.
Lois showcases the first of this year's turnip harvest...
....and some more of our early raspberries
A sunny day, although a bit chilly with a north-easterly wind again. But we brave that to have our morning coffee on the patio. Clouds hide the sun later so we have our lunch indoors, but venture out later for our so-called "pudding".
we brave the north-easterly wind to have a coffee
and a brownie on the patio
...and later we have our pears and ice-cream out there too
16:00 An annoying mishap today - we put 2 brown garden waste recycling bins out for collection this morning, but we find out later that only one of these has been returned to us. We wonder if maybe our next-door neighbour Nikki's mother had taken it by mistake, but this afternoon we find out she hadn't - damn!!!! I can't get through to the borough recycling department by phone: I expect they've all gone home for the day - grrrr!!! So I send them an email. I know you have to report these mishaps fairly promptly, otherwise they dismiss them out of hand - oh dear!
one of the borough council's typical recycling lorries
18:45 Dinner eaten, but another busy evening starts for Lois. A phone call with her friend Marianne, followed by one with Lois's cousin Iris at 7:15, followed by a zoom session: Lois's sect's weekly Bible Class. Oh dear!
Mari-Ann is ringing Lois because she and her husband Alf were supposed to be joining a get-together with Iranian sect-members and their interested friends, at a coffee shop in Gloucester between 5 pm and 7 pm, but both Mari-Ann and Alf have bad colds - could Lois go instead? Lois says not this week - what an awkward time of day - 5 pm till 7 pm! All right for younger people but not for old codgers like us. My god, what madness!
the coffee shop that Lois was invited to go to, but the timing is unattractive
I settle down on the couch and watch a bit of TV, episode 15 of the marathon 20-part Danish crime series "The Killing" (first season).
Nanna, a high-school student, got raped and murdered after a Halloween party at the school. It's been found out that Nanna was a user of online dating apps, and that she slept with a lot of men, including a bunch of local politicians.
In each episode of the series, star detectives Sarah and Jan find a new suspect to focus on, but each one is subsequently killed or otherwise eliminated from the police's enquiries - it's quite a pattern! In the previous episode Sarah and Jan were pursuing young civil servant Olav, and he got deliberately run over by a car, apparently driven by creepy local politician Jens Holck.
In tonight's episode, Holck is cornered and shot dead by police, in a darkened basement - it's one of my beefs about Scandinoir series - i.e. that so many scenes are shot in dark places, so I can't easily see what's going on.
Sarah and Jan's creepy boss, Blix, is pleased about Holck's death and decides to close the case. But Sarah and Jan aren't satisfied, I can tell! I can see they're not convinced that Holck was the real killer. So the saga goes on - my god !!!!! But only 5 more episodes to go now.
Star detective Jan is forced to shoot Holck dead, because he's
threatening detective Sarah and he won't drop his gun - oh dear!
Poor Holck !!!!!!
It's an interesting series because the private lives of all the players are brought into focus, and so we don't just see the police pursuit of their investigation.
It's clear that the parents of the murdered girl have been having issues with each other since the killing, and their marriage has begun to look distinctively rocky, to put it mildly. Tonight Nanna's mother, Pernille, is sitting, looking disorientated in a city hotel bar, where she gets chatted up by a non-Danish businessman (a Norwegian perhaps - it's not clear).
Luckily, Pernille's husband's right-hand-man, Vagn, arrives at the hotel room before anything too irrevocable happens, and there's a comic scene where Vagn tries to pull Pernille's tights back onto her, but eventually he has to give up the struggle and throw them away. What a crazy world we live in !!!!
21:00 Lois emerges from her zoom session, and we watch an old episode of the 1980's sitcom "To The Manor Born".
This sitcom is not really my cup of tea - it's so-called "gentle humour", but to me it's so "gentle" that it's almost impossible to detect it most of the time - oh dear!
Posh Audrey, a member of some aristocratic family, has been forced, due to lack of money, to sell her mansion to Richard, a brash nouveau-riche boss of a supermarket chain, who's of Czech ancestry, so "not even English" in Audrey's words.
If you ask me, the premise of this sitcom was out-of-date 100 years or more before the series was aired, but I'm going to let that one slide for now.
In tonight's episode, Audrey's friend Marjorie is looking at the jobs ads in the local paper, to see if there's anything suitable that might be a possible job for the "impoverished" Audrey.
Enough said!!!!
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzzzz!!!!!
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