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Thursday, March 25, 2021

Where to blog?

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As I have now started blogging differences between Scotland/the UK and Denmark on my dedicated blog 'Contemplating Denmark',  I am w...
Tuesday, March 23, 2021

Vissenbjerg bageri

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Like most people these days, we generally pick up the likes of cakes at the bakery counter in the supermarket, or did until we heard that th...
Monday, March 22, 2021

Velkommen tilbage!

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I drove past Anna and Léon's school at the weekend. It's the first time I've passed it since they were allowed back in last Mond...
Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Contemplating Denmark

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I'm not sure why it has taken me 18 months to come up with this idea, but it suddenly occurred to me last week that rather than mixing m...
Saturday, February 20, 2021

More winter photos

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I think I have also managed to take the best shot of my house so far, though I'm not sure whether I prefer the first one, taken during a...

Another frozen sea walk

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Last Saturday we went for a second walk at the coast. Temperatures had been hitting -10 all week with a windchill of -19, but even I was ama...
Tuesday, February 09, 2021

An immigrant life

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Denmark is a country of contradictions. It is both a welcoming country and a rather exclusive one. Since I moved here in 2019, I have found ...

Two school systems

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I happened to upload a photo today of Amaia taking her sledge to school. Maybe I'm just getting too Danish to notice but of course, I wa...

Back to school

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Late last week we got notice from the Danish government that class 0 - class 4  (equivalent of p1-p6 in Scotland) would be allowed back to s...

Frozen seas

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I've lived the majority of my life less than an hour from the sea. The sea is my favourite place. Now I'm even closer - just under t...
Monday, February 01, 2021

There's been an incident

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What is it with boys? Or my younger one at least?  He's been stir-crazy for a month with this lockdown, so we suggested some fresh air i...

Some kind of hawk thing

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This little chap has taken to hanging about the neighbour's lake. Hopefully next time I seen him, I will have time to dig out my tripod ...
Wednesday, January 27, 2021

What a sight!

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Hahaha - you see the funniest sights sometimes! Léon's 'furloughed' from his dishwasher job at the local restaurant at the momen...

Thomas's haggis

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  Last year we brought haggis back from Scotland at New Year for our Burns supper, but between Covid banning us from travel and Brexit banni...
Thursday, January 07, 2021

Finally a plus

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Charlotte is of course loving getting to be in Madrid for a year but it isn't how she would have chosen it to be. She wanted to travel r...

Brexit propaganda

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  So this hideous little thing just dropped into my letterbox. Apparently getting this flimsy black piece of shit was worth billions in red ...
Wednesday, January 06, 2021

Corona masks and snow

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Denmark was one of the last countries to adopt masks. We didn't require them in shops, schools or elsewhere during our first, and by Eur...

Birthday tree

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I remember growing up in Glasgow - my gran was quite a superstitious woman... aka mad as a brush. Many traumatic Hogmanays were spent on our...
Monday, January 04, 2021

21 today! (Aka the millennium baby turns 21)

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Just to prove that things never turn out quite as you may have imagined them, and yet they work out fine for all that! If you'd told me ...
Saturday, January 02, 2021

Brexit

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I wasn't sure whether I was going to blog about Brexit. But I figure that if I don't write about it this week, I am not sure I will ...
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