This parasol was used a lot at Boomtown for shade and locating us in a crowd….it was used and abused as we danced…it broke but today I fixed it. Fixing it reminded me of one of my favourite memories of India when I saw a man working quietly in the street fixing umbrellas. Something the west could learn about instead of wasting broken things *****
Long work week and lots of activities during the week, so a very lazy Friday night dinner at the summerhouse; canned food.
Still delicious.
Colposcopy clinic followed by a shady walk in Tamerton Foliet by the estuary *****
My little Japanese universe; my Dojo in Valby, always a good time training.
Oil change, new front tyres, picked up tools from my studio….Otto in the scorched grass of Central Park 2025. A hot summer *****
Work and then home on really hot late summer day, too lazy to cook and a local restaurant had a work day deal, so a normally expensive meal became affordable.
And yes that is delicious caviar on the left of the plate.
Oops….no photographs taken by me today….a day of resting and snuggling Otto. A scorcher of a day…best to lay low 😉 *****
Work, Aikido and then home in time to enjoy the beautiful evening light brightening the city.
Jessie swinging her poi at the artists’ crew bar as the sun was about to wake up….an hour or so later 3 lovely strangers helped me untangle the lights and curlers from my hair in the morning sunshine *****
Work, boxing training and then home and make a delicious cæsar salad.
Just me and Eva Lazarus hanging out watching a brilliant reggae band at Boomtown together 😉 *****
Visiting Hjerk Kirkevej in Jylland, seeing this Big Bird of prey circling above the surrounding fields.
A spontaneous ride on the big wheel. Another funny day of playing, dancing and music. Boomtown is a marathon. Not for the faint hearted!*****
Celebrating my uncle’s 70th birthday in Faldsled, Fyn. Nice to chill and catch up with family.
They have a beautiful garden and are an inspiration to keep nursing my own summerhouse garden.
Mungo Hi Fi and Eva Lazarus on the Adena Stage. So much good music. So many stages…Today Boomtown went up a gear.
The view from work early friday morning.
Take the stairs to the 15th floor 4/5 days.
Dancing to the Subbus, Boomtown.
Busy day in an active week;
Work, Aikido and then home to cook a nice pasta dish with tomatoes, courgette, chili, garlic, onions and coriander flower and seeds.
Met up with the crew at Lidl before heading into my first ever Boomtown. We’re all camping in artist camping, close by but not together as I’m in my van and they’re in a big tent 🥰 *****
Everyday to and from work I bicycle past a small park where this frog is sitting.
Today I stopped and went in to see the frog.
My uncle helped make this frog decades ago and once in a while it gets a little facelift/brush up. It is in Folkets Park ( the People’s Park) in Nørrebro.
Left London and drove past this beautiful lady. Visited my parents for the night and played Scrabble with my Mother. *****
After work bicycled to Amager to get Copenhagens best Brunsviger ( a typical danish birthday cake; Breaddough cake with a sugar coating) for Peters birthday.
Then home to make a nice dinner of cold potato salad and chicken.
This perfect rainbow appeared during dinner and it was hard to take our eyes of it and pictures don’t do it justice.
A solo visit to the Portrait Gallery to see the Jenny Saville exhibition. Then a meet up with Jessie and friends wig shopping for Boomtown. I bought curlers. Then a date with my bass player in a rooftop cocktail bar in Peckham Rye. A good day. *****
Having the day off, starting the Monday with Aikido morning training and coffee afterwards.
This really pretty ikebana is made by one of the Dojo members.
It’s on display below the kamidana. The Kamidana (神棚, lit. ’god/spirit-shelf’) are miniature household altars provided to enshrine a Shinto kami. They are most commonly found in Japan, the home of kamiworship
Stayed in bed chillin’ listening to Junior Delgado all morning after my funny night out. Got up to drive to Greenwich Park for Jessie’s Mother Jo’s 65th birthday party. It was a beautiful day with music in the bandstand, snacks and prosecco. Just as we were leaving the heavens opened and we scurried to get everything packed up. This is a cute but terrible photograph of the birthday girl 🥰
Getting up early on a Sunday to go to work.
Great shift with great colleagues
A very long story but the shorter version is…I got catfished…but had a Plan B so swiveled that bullshit around and had a very funny, successful and highly entertaining evening with a bass player from Junior Delgado including dancing in Canada Water to his band, dinner in Finsbury Park and groovin’ in The Chip Shop, Brixton. Very proud how I turned that dull disappointment around 💪🏼🥰 *****
Weekend shift, so back at Rigshospitalet for a Saturday dayshift. A gloomy and rainy day with cosy thunder and Lightning outside.
A good shift despite being a bit busy.
Drove to my parents in Berkshire to see how they are *****
Morning training at the Dojo, then a day off chilling and meeting up with a friend for mocktails at Langelinie pretending I’m still on holiday.
Passing through this Elephant gate near my home when bicycling to Langelinie.
Yoga time. And this beautiful wild poppy managing to grow out of the pavement as I walked home 🥰 *****
After work, aikido training. It was hot and humid, so after training we had melon sodas and sake.
Walked the Camel Path with Otto to check out where Jo Knight’s house is, as a little expedition. Then drove back to Plymouth stopping at a place that sells vans on the way to check out a couple of slightly larger vans..*****
Mixed weather with sun and rain showers. Had friends over for a light dinner after a nice day at work and a really lovely neck and shoulder stretching and breathing class at the hospital gym.
Took the boat across to Rock and hung out of the beach. After returning to Padstow we did a mini pub crawl ending in dinner.*****
Second day back at work and first day back at the Dojo after the holidays. Being back in Copenhagen means bicycling everywhere.
Drove to Padstow in Cornwall to meet up with Jessie for Sophie’s (her sister) birthday. Good times playing games and eating yum bbq. ****
Woken up by the beaming spotlight sunlight right in my face at 5 in the morning.
First day back at work, not too bad and great to see my colleagues.
It was this lady’s birthday at the weekend and she was sooo good with Otto. She retrained him to jump through a hoop and also to have cheese on his paws without eating it. Something I never predicted was the very special feeling inside when someone is kind to your pet. It literally melts me 🥰 *****
Last day of summer holiday. Letting this grasshopper out in the free before leaving the summerhouse and going back to the city.
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