2006/10/31 9:54
When I moved to Scotland, one of the differences to Denmark I noticed was the lack of adoptive children from other continents. Lots of Danish parents have kids of Korean, African, Chinese or Indian origin, but I never saw any here. I discussed it in the car with Phyllis this morning, and it turns out that it used to be...
2006/10/27 1:09
Léon synes, det er vældig sjovt at dække øjnene med sine hænder, og når man så fortvivlet spørger, hvor han er, fjerner han hænderne, man jubler begejstret, og han ler.Forleden spurgte Charlotte, "Why are you calling him an alien?" Jeg forstod ingenting, men så forklarede Phyllis mig, at "Hvor er Leon?" i skotske øren lyder som "Vo alien?", og "Dér...
2006/10/31 22:28
I really love our new Sony Alpha 100. The resolution is impressive, and the colours are so magnificent. Finally I can take take better photos than I could with my old Minolta SLR. I’ve only just started playing with the white balance and all the other fancy stuff, but it can really do wonderful things. And it’s so fast too – I can take several photos per second, with almost no delay at all.
2006/10/29 23:54
My previous posting made me think about the fact that many people don't realise how far north we are in Europe. If one asks people to mention a European city on the same latitude as New York, they might come up with London or Paris, but the correct answer is Madrid. Scotland and Denmark are so far north that very few people live at these latitudes in areas not heated by the Gulf Stream (Glasgow and Copenhagen are on the...
2006/10/28 10:46
The Guardian had a really alarming article yesterday about the cooling Gulf Stream, which would give Britain a climate more like Canada's. Other researchers have warned for some time that it might be slowing, but new evidence shows it actually stopped completely for ten days two years ago. How long will it stop for next time?
2006/10/26 16:43
I discovered the Atkins diet a year and a half ago, and since then, I've been on it three or four times, every time losing half a stone or so over a fortnight. I've put on a few pounds recently,...
2006/10/26 0:06
Yesterday, I introduced Marcel and Charlotte to the boardgame Broker (das Börsenspiel in German).Normally, Charlotte tends to learn fast, but she didn't really grasp the concept of buying cheap and selling dear. Marcel, on the other hand, very definitely got...
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