Aksel and I, along with his brother Niels and wife Gitti,
have recently returned from a tour to Bornholm,
Denmark’s island paradise in the Baltic Sea,
after having celebrated my birthday.

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Wednesday, August 4
Niels and Gitte arrived from Jutland, the Danish mainland, to visit on my birthday. We took the train to Bakken, Denmark’s ( Read more... )

Aksel and I just returned from a lovely tour to London on Monday evening, April 5. Well, the weather was typically English for this time of year- rainy, a bit blustery on occassion, cool with the sun peeking out once in a while. Out in the countryside the early spring flowers were blooming. We could have hoped for better weather, but this is what ( Read more... )

As a result of dinner last week I've been asked for the following recipes.

Roasted Pumpkin Soup
I used a Hokkaido pumpkin (or miniature or Japanese pumpkin as it is sometimes known)

Ingredients
1 Hokkaido pumpkin
Butter, margarine or oil to grease baking dishes
Sugar, to taste
Cinnamon, optional
Nutmeg, optional
2 cups chicken broth
Cream or milk
Salt ( Read more... )

The past few weeks have been a bit zanier than usual.  On October 10 I got the news that my mother was to have surgery on Monday, October 12-- I flew to Chicago the next day to see her through her ordeal, and to see that she was well-taken care of so I could get return to my otherwise more-or-less normal day-to-day.

The surgery went well, actually ( Read more... )

I have recently read and enjoyed Andy McDermott’s action-packed fourth novel  The Covenant of Genesis ( my review) so I ordered his first three books in the Dr. Nina Wilde and Eddie Chase series from bibliotek.dk, the Danish public library system. McDermott referred to their previous adventures throughout the novel, and my curiosity was piqued. I ( Read more... )

I have just returned from a fun-filled square dance weekend in Stockholm, where I attended Motiv8’s annual Oktober Festivalen. This year Vic Cedar was caller. Multi-levels sessions began on Thursday evening with C4 dancing, and on Friday evening with A2.   But I didn't arrive in Stockholm until Friday evening.

I arrived by train 9:30 PM at Stockholm ( Read more... )

Gospel Truths (1992) is popular novelist J.G. Sandom’s third novel, and is the first Sandom novel I have read.  It is a gripping religious conspiracy thriller ala Dan Brown’s DaVinci Code, only published 11 years earlier and not nearly so gripping.


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I had a super time this weekend at the annual The Diamond Challenge dance in Aalborg, Denmark. Callers were Ross Howell, Dave Wilson and Bjørn Andersson. Dance levels were C1-C3B. There was a lot of enthusiasm in the three dance rooms. It was great to see so many familiar faces.

My dance partner Lis and I took the train on Friday early afternoon to ( Read more... )

I was looking for a little bit of light reading and excitement on my bookshelf, and found The Covenant of Genesis by Andy McDermott (author's home page).  I hadn’t read a good action book for some time. This book looked like it would fit the bill. It seemed to promise techno-action, plenty of excitement, archeological adventures and a religious ( Read more... )

On Facebook I'm known as square.dansk.  Check it out.

Its the same friendly guy, saying the same things.  Only with less words.

My profile page is at  facebook.com/square.dansk.
 
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