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Travelling with stepchildren

When I travelled to Denmark ten days ago with Amaia, Anna and Léon, nobody asked us any questions (Amaia, Anna and I were using our Danish passports and Léon his British one).However, when we returned last Wednesday, Léon and I were interviewed for a couple of minutes by the border police in Stansted (our relationship, his date of birth, and...

Far til en skolepige

I dag var det første skoledag i East Renfrewshire Kommune, og da Anna blev født i december 2007, skulle hun begynde i P1 (1. klasse).Hun har glædet sig meget, og det var en meget stolt og glad pige, der pilede ind i skolegården. Vi måtte ikke komme med ind og måtte vinke farvel til hende fra lågen.I dag mødte hun...

Putting your kids inside the cage

Stumbling upon a python

Stumbling upon a python, a photo by viralbus on Flickr.

During my recent trip to Denmark with Léon, Anna and Amaia, my mum and I took Léon and Anna to Randers Regnskov (while my dad looked after Amaia, who had got a chest infection).

As always, it was a great experience, so much better than Eden.

If you don’t know the place, the idea is to take a zoo and a greenhouse, and then take the animals out of the zoo and put them and the visitors into the greenhouse together. This means that monkeys, parrots, leaf-cutter ants, pythons and bats might suddenly be sitting on your shoulder (the really dangerous animals, such as rattle snakes and Komodo dragons, are still locked up).

Furthermore, you can help feed the animals at specific times, and Léon loved feeding the bats just as much as Anna enjoyed feeding the manatees.

Apart from the winter months, you can fly directly from Edinburgh to Billund (home to Legoland and the Lion Park), which is about 80 miles south-west of Randers, so it’s really quite easy to get to.

Oh, and in case you’re wondering about the photo — it really is a live python next to Léon!

Fastelavn

People in Denmark (and, I believe, Norway) celebrate carnival like Catholic countries in spite of Denmark being a country with a Lutheran state church.However, Fastelavn is very different from the Brazilian carnival. It's much closer to Hallowe'en: The kids dress us and they go guising from door to door. They also "knock the cat out of the barrel" (although no cat is involved any more) -- you can see Anna taking part on the photo on the right -- and...

ʔ > C igen

Da Léon var lille, skrev jeg her på bloggen flg. om hans udtale:[H]an har problemer med stødte konsonanter, så her udvider han stødet med et homorganisk lukke: and, blomst, seng, ild og nej udtaler han ['ænʔd], ['lʌmʔb], ['hɛŋʔɡ], ['ilʔd] og ['najʔd].Da jeg tilfældigt faldt over dette gamle indlæg, gik det op for mig, at jeg havde glemt at blogge, at...
The parents have to help till the kids turn 25
I've often wondered why tuition fees and bursaries in England are determined by parental income when the students in question are adults and therefore aren't the parents' responsibility any more.However, today I happened to read this article which explains that...
Så blev den mindste to år gammel
Amaia fyldte to år i dag.Vi fejrede hende på sædvanlig manér med fælles morgenmad for os alle syv, fødselsdagslagkage om eftermiddagen, og aftensmad bestående af suppe, pizza og is.Det er altså lidt underligt, når ens yngste fylder år. Mine to...

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