07:00 You wouldn't believe how many times Lois and I have to tumble out of bed at 7 am, even though we've been retired for 15 years - it's complete and utter madness!!!
Today our reason for not being able to lie abed is Borough Mouse Inspector's visit, which could happen any time this morning from 8:30 am to 1:00 pm. At least we can hope that it'll be the last of his visits. Our gut feeling is that "Mr Mouse" or "Mr and Mrs Mouse" as the case may be, have died or given up on our house and gone somewhere else.
a typical mouse inspector
The Borough Inspector, when he comes, however, reports mixed results - some of the trap bait he put down last week is still untouched, but there's been some new nibbling at other pieces of trap bait over the last 7 days - and Lois and I are able to exclusively assure him it wasn't us doing the nibbling.
So to sum up, the jury's still out on the whole business, which is a bit annoying, to put it mildly. Oh dear!
14:30 Lois and I are both really tired today as well - I think it's all the tension of the last couple of days providing food for June's funeral.
flashback to yesterday - we organise food for the post-funeral
get-together for June
We're gagging to spend the whole afternoon in bed, but unfortunately we run a local U3A Danish group - the only one of its kind in the UK, and it's our fortnightly meeting this afternoon. Damn (again) !!!!
As soon as we get into it, though, we start having fun with the other members, which is nice. And there's lots of fun over the text of our Danish crime story, "Dybt at falde" ("The Further You Fall") by Anna Grue.
Danish crime-writer Anna Grue
The story often gives us some interesting insights into Danish society and cultural values, and this afternoon we get a bucket-load of these insights. We learn, for instance, that Curt Loos, who owns and runs a chain of Danish brothels, stopped speaking to his sister Henriette after hearing that she'd become an estate-agent.
We group members this afternoon are pretty much in agreement that British society is organised quite differently - in the UK it would be the estate-agent sibling that would stop speaking to the brothel-chain-owning sibling, as soon as they heard about the business.
But hey, we're all different, aren't we, and there's room for all kinds in the world, that's for sure! After all, Lois and I have never seen a naked man in a blackberry bush here in our local park, but you can't rule out such a sighting in Copenhagen, where police stand ready to cut naked men free from a range of fruit bushes, it appears.
What a crazy world we live in !!!!!
another naked man cut free from blackberry bushes
by Copenhagen police
flashback to September: Lois checks the park bushes for
naked Danes, but thankfully she can give the "all clear" to local residents
20:00 We watch some TV, another chaotic episode of the 1980's sitcom "Chance in a Million", about unlucky Tom Chance and his shy but sexually forward librarian girlfriend Alison.
Impossible to completely follow the plot - it's far more complicated than the above synopsis suggests, but it's nice, anyway, to see Tom and Alison's house suddenly filled with five Portuguese strangers, including a priest from Liverpool and a couple expecting a baby.
All the Portuguese, some of whom are heavily armed, seem to be expecting to be given hotel work, and despite the fact that they've arrived at the wrong address, they soon set to work, cooking meals, waiting on Tom and Alison and their English friends, cleaning etc, which is a bit of a bonus for Tom and Alison, to put it mildly.
Lois and I haven't a clue what's going on, but it's all tremendous fun, that's for sure !!!!
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzzzzz!!!!!
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