For those who would have been reading me on a somewhat regular basis, here is something I should have done a long time ago: https://everythinginandarounddenmark.wordpress.com/ This is the secret about all the Danish Alps, bears, and other nonsense-if-you-haven’t-read-both-our-blogs thingies… Beeing a pretty-long-posts writer, oneliners are very intriguing people to me… Why aren’t they just…… Continue reading The day we broke WordPress…
I so don’t know how to start this post… I have about 10 thoughts fighting to be layed down. So I guess I’ll start with what inspired my title! Last night a little bird brought me some sweet words directly from California! I had seen USA popping in my stats during the evening, and it…… Continue reading Santa Ana winds and stuff…
I rest my case…
Last time I met with Lucas (made up name, I am tired of “my Danish tutor” or “my Danish teacher”), we talked about Babettes gæstebud, a Danish classic movie. I didn’t know it was also a book, writen by Karen Blixen (Out of Africa… ringing a bell?). Lucas told me it was a very short…… Continue reading Babettes gæstebud…
As a wiseful friend said to me recently, if you have a conversation with someone and don’t even mention the weather, that is a good sign you had a great talk… True, especially here I would say. I remember when I lived in Africa. It seemed Mother Nature visited only twice a year. She probably…… Continue reading Take your pills Mother Nature!
We humans are funny… The turn of a new year, when you think about it, could happen at any second… We just decided that we’d change the page of the calendar (well, the whole calendar for that matter) at the same time. Not exactly true, we have to keep time zones in mind not to…… Continue reading Still pretty new year…
I called the bank today to check on my accounts, and it is pretty sure I won’t buy myself a plane ticket for Copenhagen in the next few days… (I hear the sigh of relief among Danes from here) It is just unfair… There’s gotta be a (better) way. I enjoy tv shows about…… Continue reading How to get to Denmark, the brainstorm…
Tough choice today… There are 2 choices on my « international day » website, and I have trouble choosing between “International Marzipan Day” and “International Poetry At Work Day”. I kind of like both ideas… Marzipan, for those who never tried it, is a more or less compact paste made from grounded almonds, sugar and egg white. In…… Continue reading Marzipan or poetry?
I am stuck in places today. I am using Duolingo for my Danish learning. I have since spending a few hours waiting in front of a bar in Toronto. Remember that guy who took me out of my lethargy and thanks to whom I have exchanged a few words with Jonas? He suggested Duolingo. Every…… Continue reading I am stuck in places…
Only God knows why I have this song in my head tonight… But it seems to be there for a while… In French we have an expression for that; “un ver d’oreille” literally “an ear worm”… When a song or a jinggle won’t let your head rest for hours. I often get “vers d’oreille”.…… Continue reading Are you lonesome tonight…?
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