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Saturday, February 29, 2020

Corona Street, Funen

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Denmark is quite a big little country. Until Thursday it was doing OK on the Corona virus front with not a single case. We could see from ho...
Monday, February 24, 2020

Kilts

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Here are my boys in their kilts - Léon in the informal one for a primary school leavers' dance when he was 11 and Marcel in the ...

Scaled

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A final comparison that I thought would be interesting is a map of my Scottish house and garden versus my Danish one shown to the same scale...
Sunday, February 23, 2020

A walk through the history of our new home

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A wonderful thing about Denmark, is that they seem to have photo-documented it from the sky in a significant amount of detail, as far back a...
Thursday, February 06, 2020

100

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It was my birthday on Tuesday. Today I am 52 years and 2 days old. It is Thomas's birthday on Saturday. Today he is 47 years, 363 day...
Friday, January 31, 2020

Bereft

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Don't even speak to me today! There are no words to explain how utterly bereft this whole pantomime is making me. Tonight at midnight ...
Thursday, January 30, 2020

Aldi, Newton Mearns

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Wee heads-up to my Newton Mearns mates: be careful if you're out shopping down in Greenlaw village. Someone opened my mum's handbag...
Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Shitty new passports

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The girls's new passports just turned up. Ten days to go till the lunatics finally take over the asylum and still, they have decided to ...
Monday, January 20, 2020

All my little uprisings

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When I lived in Italy in '86 one of my flatmates was in a fairly unhappy relationship at home, so took her summer school in Perugia as a...
Sunday, January 19, 2020

Need a name

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Léon is very sweet. He's fully taken to his new life and is trying very hard to embrace everything as a true Dane. Last week he bou...
Saturday, January 18, 2020

Days 2 thru' 4

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Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Just keeping a picture diary here of progress with the ' annex '. 
Friday, January 17, 2020

Still love a typo

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Saw this in Ikea last night - please someone pay me to proofread stuff, you know you want to!
Thursday, January 16, 2020

Winter lighting

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Aha! I was right. My theory from back in November turns out to have been spot-on. There are two separate things here in Danish culture - th...
Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Day One

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Today marks day one of the great conversion. When we moved in here we had not only a 70-odd m2 garage but also a further garage and tool roo...
Thursday, January 09, 2020

Ten year challenge

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I saw lots of people at new year uploading 'ten year challenge' photos, because we'd changed decade. I decided against that. I d...
Sunday, January 05, 2020

Passport renewal in Brexitville

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The girls have been registered as Danish nationals since they were eligible - that is to say Anna became a Danish citizen upon our marriage ...
Thursday, January 02, 2020

Passport renewal

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In my house we have twelve passports. That could go up to thirteen if Thomas manages to regain his German one (which his dad signed away w...
Saturday, December 21, 2019

Nice surprise

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I noticed from day one there was a loft hatch in my garage but I hadn't bothered venturing up. I'm not sure why I didn't, prob...

December 20 2019

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For fun on the last day of school, given there are no uniforms, so you can't have a dress as you please day, Léon's class decided ...
Friday, December 13, 2019

#GE2019

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England has lost its mind, its heart and its soul. And although Scotland has voted against everything England has championed, I suspect once...
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