20:00 After dinner Lois and I browse the Danish news media - as you do haha! This is a habit we picked up after our daughter Alison and her family's 6 years in Copenhagen, during which we visited the country several times.
It's very cheering news that veteran Danish politician and former Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, after years in the political wilderness, has been awarded a senior cabinet post - foreign secretary - by the current Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, who is anxious to form a strong central coalition made up of both the centre left (of which she is leader) and the centre right, to which Løkke belongs.
Why can't all countries do that, we ask ourselves - it's hardly rocket science is it haha! After all, with so many extremists about, it pays us moderates to stick together, that's what Lois and I say! Call us what you like haha!!!!
Løkke today: happy to be back in favour as Denmark's
new udenrigsminister (foreign secretary)
flashback to Denmark's general election campaign in June 2015 - Lois (left)
turns her head as Løkke's "posse" of cameramen, supporters, flags
and assorted demonstrators approaches in the distance
Lars Løkke Rasmussen (right) prepares his right hand, and seconds later
he comes across to shake mine and Lois's and Alison's right hands (separately)
in central Copenhagen
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzzzzz!!!!!
07:30 I wake Lois up with a cup of hot water - yuck!!!! And that's all we're getting now - cups of water - till our appointment at 10 am.
At least the car won't be as frosted up as it was yesterday morning, we surmise, when we had to leave the house about 7:30 am and had to spend the previous 15 minute spraying and scraping. But even this conjecture turns out to be overly optimistic - it's even colder today than yesterday, and indeed the temperature doesn't rise above freezing all day. Brrrrrrrr!!!!!
10:00 We arrive at the doctor's surgery and try to calm our nerves by pulling out our book of Times Crosswords, but unfortunately we pick a difficult one, which just makes us feel more stressed - damn!
We have our fasting blood tests and Lois gets her blood pressure checked. Luckily I don't have to have my blood pressure checked because when we came yesterday I was playing around with the self-testing machine, which they call "the pod".
However I hadn't realised that the surgery keeps a record of any results that people get from using the pod - the findings must feed through automatically from the pod into patient records, through the wonders of modern science. So when I'm sitting in the nurse's room today she spots the results on my computer health record, and she says they were all right, and that I don't have to have it measured again. This is lucky as I tend to suffer from "white coat syndrome", which means my blood pressure always shoots up if I'm in the presence of a health professional, which isn't helpful.
11:00 A visit to the short-staffed pharmacy after the appointments delays us further, so we don't get home and have breakfast till 11 am. Yikes !!!!
And then we have to drive over to Upton-on-Severn to go to Warners Supermarket to fill up with petrol and get some presents for Lois's relatives in Oxford. We're hoping to spend a couple of days in Oxford staying with our old friend Jen and her son Daniel, during which time we hope also to visit Lois's relatives and hand over some Christmas presents.
Unfortunately we saw very little that would make suitable gifts, which is a pity!
14:00 What a horrible day, for the second day in a row. We'll just have to write today off, so we have no choice now but to "put the world to rights" by going upstairs for our Friday afternoon nap.
Let's hope tomorrow is a better day and we can have breakfast at a civilised time. With any luck the guy from Hillary's Blinds will come tomorrow afternoon as well, so that we can at last have something covering our windows at the back of the house.
some of the typical "blindless" windows at the back of our house
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