Month: August 2024

Otto finally gets close and calm with a cat! Never happened before but we decided to introduce Otto to Scott’s cat who is blind…it worked 🥰

Making a place in Valby/Copenhagen look like a corner of Japan. This is outside my Dojo, the Dojo is called Seidokan Japan Center and the owner is a karate Sensei and master of saké.
Both inside and out feels a bit like being in Japan.
I’m training Aikido, and there is always a bit of banter between the people training karate versus Aikido,  so sometimes a bit of cheeky teasing, but we love it.

Packed up the van dwelling at Maui Waui, drive to Northamptonshire to pick up Otto and see Phillip. Then drive to the Cotswolds to see my friend Margie who was over from Chicago and leaving tomorrow. First time since 2019.

Every year in the last week of august there is a huge exercise running event in the middle of Copenhagen in Fælledparken.
During five days, monday to friday, 150.000 people gather and run 5 kilometers. Both newcomers and experienced runners participate.
It is a company/workplace event, so you go running with your colleagues in a 5 rounds baton run. Afterwards its hygge-time with draftbeer and grill sausages.

Managing to take a group photograph

Lazy, busy sunday; Aikido training in the morning, afterwards meeting up with the Aikido women to plan our up coming Aikido trip to a Dojo in Iwama Japan in a month. Did some laundry and cooked a great Italian meal with tomatsauce, salsiccia and pasta. Enjoyed the rest of an open bottle of french wine called; Le ciel est bleu ( the sky is blue), also the Vibe of the day.
Bonus info; the ceramic Bowl in the background, I have made myself.

Raving in the Royal opera house in Copenhagen.
Raving and sweating with Spleen United, 20 years on since their debut.

Dressed as a sheep for John Cunningham’s 60th birthday

Set up and dressed in my new hat and jacket….Love my pimped camping gear

Haley (60kg) enjoying herself greeting all the guests and getting a pad on the head and a cuddle, and hanging by the pool, at my friend Maria’s boyfriend Christian 50 years + her daughter Laura 20 years birthday party in Greve, my childhood hometown.
Family and friends young and old gathered  to enjoy food and drinks and good company.

Mixing paint for the Boiler Room. We’re building a cruise ship in a tent….the Boiler Room will be for some shenanigans to go on….

Lots of achievement here: getting up early (again) going to work, riding my bike despite the pouring rain and not smoking.

On site at Shambala Festival and first on site yesterday for The Waiting Room team. Venue is directly opposite the Big Wheel this year. Today was spent sorting what we had last year and getting the walls white and the curved bar white.

Getting up early to see the sunrise ( and going to work)

Van all packed up for dressing the Waiting Room at Shambala Festival, being a sheep at Maui Waui and for Otto to stay at my friend’s house in Northamptonshire.

Making fire. Getting this little baby BBQ burning and made homemade spicy deer meatballs to go with a nice crunchy french salad with Big chunks of tomato, cucumber, lettuce, red onion, baked cocktail tomatoes lush olive oil and parmasan.

I’ve been intending to go to Markethall, Devonport, Plymouth for about 3 years now….and today I went for a morning space film.

Busy day with too many invitations and not enough time, managed to fit in an vernissage with the artist Frederik Næblerød and some really nice figures, a summer party at my favourite travel agency De Brede Planker (the wide planks which make a lot of offpiste/touring/catski tours), meeting some old ski friends and then of to meet my high School buddies for tapas and fun and games in Greve ( my old childhood town)
Well didn’t take pictures of any of the above but on my way to things walked through the Kings Garden, where I could enjoy this beautiful perennial bed.
What an achievement, its (one of) the gardner(s) to the right in the picture.

I achieved stopping. I had breakfast, a bath and stayed in bed watching films. The weather was perfect…ly awful!

Foraging delicious sweet and some a bit sour brambleberries from the prickly bushes in the hedgerow at the summerhouse in Udsholt.

Deadline of decorating my kitchen after the wall coming down, putting everything back in place, clearing my sitting room and clearing bathroom of tools and putting plants back there so I could have a soirée before the British Firework Championships which are held in Plymouth every year was at 5pm today. Everyone was late which was perfect and I nailed it. And reeeeelaaaaax 🙃🙌🏼 And then as tourist guide found a perfect spot for everyone to watch the fireworks 🎇🎆🎇🎆

Achiviement; just getting through the day and saying goodnight to the city lights before bed.

Kept painting my kitchen and trying to keep my cool with distractions by others…this was a late steak dinner made for me …

Going to a concert and getting blown away.
Went to see Blonde Redhead at Pumpehuset and this was a pitstop on a windy square on the walk home.

An early morning walk for Otto and swim for me despite pretty grim weather on Fistral Beach, Newquay, Cornwall before a breakfast visit at friends near Redruth

Beautiful buildings transcending times; this twisted chimney was built in 1900 by master mason Beckman on commission from brew master Carl Jacobsen ( the founder of Carlsberg). The Golden circles in the background are from a later period (1969) and made of Gold leaf. Each circle was said to cost the same as a Volkswagen beetle.

We walked from Newquay to Perranporth, then had a swim, a pint, collected my van from a side road and camped.

Getting through a 15 hour work day.
The view and the company helped.

Managed to leave all the jobs at mine and drive to Cornwall to meet Jo while Lila is at Boardmasters.

Stones nicely lined up with dedication, ready to be laid out.