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I have recently read a couple of enterntaining books by Ben Elton, English all-around comic and author- both of these are set against the background of reality television programming. Chart Throb (2006) is a satire about the making of mega-popular star search “talent show” ( Read more... )

Uncle Vagn’s birthday party this past weekend was a multi-day affair.

We left home Thursday afternoon.  We took the train to Hørning´, where we spent the night at the Larsen Family home.

Friday morning Aksel and I, along with brother Niels and sister-in-law Gitti, leisurely began the car trip to Thy, Denmark’s north-west coastal region, with ( Read more... )

We had beautiful weather this past weekend, and few obligations, so I enjoyed being a little bit extra lazy and sleeping in a lot. I am sure that it also helped me in getting over the cold I have been nursing recently.

Saturday late afternoon we went into central Copenhagen’s Inner Nørrebro area where we ate dinner with friends Niels and Michael at ( Read more... )

It’s been a few weeks already, but we had taken a “lo-o-o-ng” weekend in England. Unfortunately I brought back an unwanted souvenir-a “bloody” cold. Drat! It started, however, quite well enough. On Friday, Aug. 28 Aksel and I split up at the airport, each flying off in our own direction-- I to Manchester and he to London.

Square dancing in Cheshire
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Summerland (2002) is a novel by Michael Chabon, one of my favourite authors, which Wikipedia describes as being a “fantasy young adult” novel. I have a bit of trouble with this basic attempt at categorising the book- although not the “fantasy” part, that’s fair enough. To me young adults are in the 18-25 year bracket, which this book is certainly ( Read more... )

This past weekend we were visited by friends Horst and Markko from Hamburg, Germany. They arrived late Friday evening. We hung out together at home, chatted, drank red wine and snacked on cheese and meat cubes and crackers until after midnight.

Saturday late morning we went into Copenhagen where we had lunch out-of-doors at Vesuvio across from City ( Read more... )

Last weekend Aksel and I took an old fashioned car trip on Jutland (Jylland), the Danish mainland.

We arrived in Hørning at his parents on Thursday August 13 in time for dinner. We took off early the next morning for the car tour armed with bottles of water, a full gas tank, and our new GPS unit (who has now been officially dubbed Mathilde Amalie ( Read more... )

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988) is Michael Chabon’s debut novel, which was written at the age of 23 while he was attending Univeristy of California, Irvine. He submitted it as his Master’s thesis. The following is a list of Chabon books I have been reading during the past year or two. They are listed in reverse chronological order as I have been ( Read more... )

It’s been a long time since I’ve written a book review ( my last attempt was more like a book listing with blurbs), and even longer since I’ve written a fairly substantial one  (Its been almost a year-and-a-half! Whew!).  I would, however, feel remiss if I didn’t write one for this book-- Wonder Boys (1995), written by Michael Chabon, one of my ( Read more... )

Today we went to the Farmer's Market (Danish language link) in neighboring Taastrup (map), sponsored by our local Environment and Energy Center.  It was a modest affair located at the plaza in front of the old Court Building (police station) that will soon be our main public library in Høje Taastrup municipality.


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