Made a detour so I could visit my father on the way to Northamptonshire. 85 years old and was fixing a fence when I arrived.
Enjoying the baby blue and pink colors of the evening sky.
Relaxing after a busy day and recharging before another workday tomorrow.
Starting to count down the days before I’m off to Japan next friday 😉
I taught my dog, Otto to give hugs with both ‘arms’. Love that! He does it to dogs and humans 🥰
Visiting Peters parents in Hjerk, Jutland. They are living down a gravel road on a big farm. They have help with the grounds and the pill fire, but else are still managing on their own despite their age; Gunhild got a new knee last year, but had to give up the vegetable garden and the greenhouse this year.
The old vine still delivers grapes and Gunhild is still feeding her chickens herself and gathering their eggs.
Peters dad have POD (pulmonary obstructive disease) and needs oxygen, so he is not so mobile anymore, so not going hunting anymore, but still go out plucking berries and fruit in the garden and makes homemade jam and compote.
Achieved a walk with Otto in the park with Dan and Fish (Otto’s best friend) and just general stopping, cooking up what was in the house including the last of the beans I grew.
A seagull visiting my office on the 15th floor at Rigshospitalet. They often come by and look in through the windows, I think people sometimes feed them.
Some of them are quite big and it’s really interesting to see such a big bird so close up.
Had to hurry home after work to go for flash visit (lynvisit) to Jutland.
The only photograph I took today. Back home. Dreamlike. In bed. Telly, food, Otto, stopping.
Tuesday is Aikido training day.
Today I had a great day at work, introducing a new colleague, to tasks in the out-patient clinic. She did brilliantly.
After work, met up with my friend Christina, who I hadn’t seen forever so lots of chatting and catching up.
Then on to evening training at the Dojo, lots of laughing and sweating.
Then home, had easy dinner; openface sandwich (smørrebrød).
Washing the gi, and hanging it to dry in the loft.
After breakfast, steam room, sauna and a fond farewell at the spa hotel…my drive to pick Otto up from one of his favourite hangouts…a walk in the sunshine with the dogs then homeward bound, a parking space right outside my house, unpacked and into bed with a Chinese meal and telly. Lights out before 9! 💕
Wading through and overcoming the water-masses to get to my bike.
Really autumn weather after a weekend of indian summer weather. Adapting to the elements.
Worked until the end taking it all down again. Mucky Weekender 2024. Then instead of driving back we went to the spa hotel we’d stayed at last year for shower and clean and dinner and cosy.
Another hot day at the summerhouse. Had friends over for lunch; dansk smørrebrød og sild og snaps. Afterwards a mandatory walk to the beach and this sunday, also a swim because of the warm weather (27 degrees Celsius).
After the guests left, went to the garden to pluck plums from our really tall plum tree, even with help from the ladder, it was only possible to pick the low hanging fruit.
After plum picking, I had a little perennial, that needed planted. To moist the ground before planting, I filled my Big watering can with water. But then looking down in the watering can, I saw a weird lump of fluffy fur and leatherlike thing.
A little bat, had been hiding in my watering can and was now swimming for its life.
Somehow got the bat out of the can, but it was all wet and shivering. Put it on top of some wood in a quiet part of the garden.
It was still shivering and looked very weak. Left it to give the bat some calm and peace, but when I returned 5-10 minutes later, it was laying completely still and motionless. I thought it was dead, but as a last resort, I breathed on it to warm it and dry the fur and after 1/2 a minute it woke up and quickly spread its wings and a flew away in a flash, so great to see it fly away (too fast for pictures 🙂 )
Mad Hatter’s tea party, Dub Pistols Private party, Mucky Weekender 2024
Spending a nice weekend in the summerhouse. Relaxing and mowing the lawn, also went to the beach for a swim in the unusually sweltering september heat.
When going for a swim we always wear swimming shoes to avoid getting stung by greater weevers which are found at the shores of northern Sealand.
In the evening Peter and I were invited to a surprise party for a good friend with the request that if possible to wear paliettes or something sparkling.
On the way to the party, realised that Peter had forgotten his bathing shoes and swimming goggles at the beach, so I went to the beach in my sparkly dress, found the shoes, went to the party, surprised our friend.
Congo Natty and me backstage at Mucky Weekender 2024 💕
Carl Jacobsen born in 1842; danish brewing master and art collector and patron.
Made his brewery Ny Carlsberg in 1880.
Also founded and made the art museum Ny Carlsberg Glyptoteket with art he collected around Europe and beyond.
Still residing in the same place, where his brewery was located back in 1880.
One of his great feats was building Ny Carlsberg Glyptoteket to make art accessible for the common citizen.
After a hard day at work, meeting up with Peter in the warm summer evening sharing a lovely vegetarian meal outside on a terrace of a nice restaurant ( which is committed to minimize foodwaste and enhance using local produce). Passing Carl on the stroll back home.
Rained all day. Tired. At one point wanted to go home. But stayed, met my friends and turned it all round and went dancing!
So this is me in my Hakama (the blue trouser skirt). First time wearing it at practice in my Dojo.
In Denmark when you earn your 3.kuy grade in Aikido, you also earn the right to wear the hakama (at least in Denmark).
So very proud of this achievement of earning my 3.kuy and hakama and a real achievement that I didn’t fall in the extra fabric in training (it is quite a different feel from just wearing my gi (the White jacket and trousers).
Sail fastening in a tent until they could be hoisted up, tightened and create a beautiful silky puffy ceiling
Early morning breakfast, looking outside the window a bright pink sunrise matching my breakfast of champions in my bowl; kefir, müsli and homemade Wild brambleberry marmalade made from berries picked in the garden at my summerhouse.
Working at Mucky Weekender music festival. This is my painted version of the underneath of a mushroom
Being sensible and going to bed early before 22.00 to be fresh in the morning getting up at 5.30.
Turns out if I find a pigeon in the road and it has been attacked by something and is suffering and dying, I am able to put it out of its suffering with my bare hands.
Day off, so went for a run, 10 km, had a little break halfway playing around at the kids playground in Frederiksberg Have.
A lovely circular walk from Noss Mayo including a stretch of coastline I hadn’t walked before. Which direction do we go now?
Getting through a busy day at work, then catching the train up north and being picked up at the station by this motor cycle gang. Old bikes BMW and Honda running smoothly still.
A perfect snuggle with Otto
Another early morning and another sunrise. Taking the stairs to 15. Floor at my work; Rigshospitalet University Hospital in Copenhagen.
Apples from the Cotswolds, beans and tomatoes that I grew. A general settle back into home day in Plymouth.
Enjoying an after work beer at newly opened bar Åben (which means open) in my neighbour hood. Åben is a microbrewery making delicious beer, even the low alcohol one (2,4%) tastes great.
A walk up to Alexandra Palace and an ice cream before driving all the way home to Plymouth
Another day of getting up early and enjoying the light and the sunrise
Decided to get cracking and paint Scott’s unpainted fence on a lovely sunny day
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovered the x-ray in 1895 and thanks to his invention it’s possible to diagnose and treat broken bones.
So today I found out that my phalangen is broken and I have to wear a tiny shin for 3 weeks.
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.
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