07:00 I wake up and see that Lois is not in the bed - she goes to sleep in our daughter Sarah's old bed, when she can't sleep: she can then do a bit of reading, which usually does the trick and gets her asleep again in no time.
I can hear her sleeping soundly so I decide to use my unexpected "alone time" by delving into connections with my mystery relative, BBC journalist David, who'd been adopted soon after his birth. My sister Gill discovered from a DNA database recently that David was a close relative of ours, even though neither of us had never heard of him - strange, or what? Yes it's straaaaaannnnnngggeeeee all right!!!
I find a picture of what I'm pretty sure is David's Welsh mum, and I also see, standing behind her, my only picture of a man that's a possible candidate for being David's dad. David believes that his dad was probably Irish, from the DNA evidence. Assuming that his dad's family were Irish, could it be that his dad really wanted to marry David's (Welsh) mum, but couldn't do so, because his (Irish) wife wouldn't divorce him? I don't know, but I think we should be told. But it's just a theory.
a typical Catholic couple
- divorce "not an option". Poor couple !!!!!
Irish men and Welsh women can interbreed successfully - there is nothing biological that prevents them conceiving - and there are several examples in history, as well in the internet age! The children turn out to be quite normal, strangely enough, and can often learn to be fully bilingual, like this little scamp!
08:00 Lois is awake now, so I go downstairs and make 2 cups of tea, and then we get back into bed. Ha! This is the life!
11:00 Later we go for a walk on the local football field, and have a cup of coffee at the Whiskers Coffee Stand - the Polish girl who's serving customers tells us how hot it is in Poland at the moment. My Hungarian penfriend Tünde has said the same thing. Temperatures of 40C / 105 F and suchlike are not for Lois and me, that's for sure. We'd rather be freezing cold than that, to put it mildly.
we go for a walk
we buy 2 coffees and a flapjack from the Whiskers Coffee Stand,
and chat to the Polish girl who's serving again today
14:30 The fortnightly meeting of our U3A Danish group takes place on Skype. It's a lot of fun but Lois and I feel totally drained when it finishes at 4 pm. The group is reading a Danish crime novel together, but the 90 minutes of these meetings is mostly chit-chat in English - what the Danes call "snik-snak" - rather than actual Danish study, but so what!
"snik-snak", also the name of a Danish chocolate bar - yum yum!
Lois and I have been invited to a 40th wedding anniversary picnic in the park on Saturday. The young folks among the guests will be sitting on blankets spread out on the grass, but Lois and I don't fancy doing that for 2 hours or so, so we were going to go out tomorrow and buy a couple of folding chairs.
We happen to mention this during the Danish group meeting, and hey presto, the group's only genuinely Danish member, Jeanette, offers to lend us a couple of chairs that she and her English partner use, which is nice! And she drops the chairs round to us about 30 minutes after the meeting finishes. Sorted!
Jeanette, our U3A Danish group's only genuine
Danish member
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 couch and watch Episode 2 of the 3rd season of the Danish crime series, "The Killing".
I'm trying desperately to get to grips with who's who in this series.
It's all about a shipping company, Zeeland, that wants to move its operations to the Far East, which would be a big blow to the local economy, so the Prime Minister is trying to bribe them with "sweeteners" to change their mind and stay in Denmark. There is also a General Election campaign going on, and the Zeeland problem has become a big election issue.
Three Zeeland employees have been found murdered, and star detective Sarah Lund is investigating. And now Zeeland's owner's young daughter has been kidnapped by a man, probably the murderer, and taken away in a stolen van belong to a chain of Serbian-owned brothels and sex-clubs.
Inspector Sarah Lund (left) and colleague (name?) visit one
of the Serbian sex-clubs linked to the kidnapping, to talk to the owner
The kidnapper has now asked for a ransom to be paid.
Star detective Inspector Sarah Lund (Sofie Grabol) is tasked with delivering the money to him, but she screws up, and her colleague (name???) is later found hanging from the top of a high building.
I think that's most of it haha!!!! Only another 8 episodes to go haha (again) !!!!
21:15 Lois emerges from her zoom session and, to wind down, we watch an old episode of the pioneering environmental 1970's sitcom "The Good Life".
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzzzz!!!!!!
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