Uddannelse er uendelig - Education is Infinite

En gang tog man en uddannelse, og så arbejdede man med det hele samme hele sit liv. Det duer ikke mere. Vi skal blive ved med at uddanne os på alle fronter. Vi skal uddanne os i ny teknik, ny IT, nye sprog, nye måder at leve på. Kun med en god gang nysgerrighed og konstant indsats kan vi blive ved med at 'hænge på'. Verden snurrer hurtigt, og vi ikke ønsker at føle os fremmedgjorte, må vi snurre med. Men det er nu også lidt fedt at lære nye ting. Det vanskelige er at erkende, at man først skal være dårlig til noget, før man kan blive god. Det er let for et barn. Vanskeligt jo ældre man bliver. Men fantastisk når man endelig får knækket koden til en ny lærdom.

Klog tekst på coachfirmaet Sirius's vinduer

Wise text on the windows of the coach company Sirius

CFO ask his CEO: What happens if we invest in developing our people, and they leave the company?

CEO answers: What happens if we don't and they stay?

Once you took an education, and then you worked with the same thing all your life. That doesn't work anymore. We have to continue educating ourselves. New technique, new IT, new languages, new ways to live. Only a healthy bit of curiosity and ongoing effort can make us 'hang on' to a fast spinning world. If we don't want to alienate ourselves, we have to spin with it. But it is actually cool to learn new things. The difficulty is to acknowledge that you have to be bad at it at first, before you can become good. That is easy for a child, and it get more and more difficult with age. But it is fantastic when you finally break the code to new learning.

En halv Ironman - Half an Ironman

Selvom vejret ikke var fanastisk i dag, har jeg tilbragt det meste af dagen udendørs. Jeg var hos venner i Rødvig og så en hel masse mennesker i forskellig kondition svømme, cykle og løbe for at gennemføre en halv Ironman. Der blev svømmet - i hav - 1,9 km. Bicycle for 90 km og løbet 21 km. Helt almindelige mennesker - og helt ualmindelige mennesker. Nemlig mennesker, der havde sat sig for at udfordre og overgå sig selv. Jeg har klappet mine hænder glødende! Imponerende! Respekt!

Det så truende ud -

The weather was quite unstable

Naturlige svømmere og dykkere -

Natural born svimmers and divers

Den tynde linie i baggrunden er over 400 svømmere -

The thin line in the background is more than 400 swimmers

Nogle af de mest trænede deltagere -

Some of the more trained participants

Even if the weather wasn't at it's best today, I have spent most of the day outside. I was with friends in Rødvig, South of Sealand, and saw a lot of people in difference conditions swim, cycling and run Half an Ironman. They swam 1,9 km in the sea, rode their bikes for 90 km, and ran 21 km. Quite ordinary people - and quite extraordinary people. People who had made up their minds to challenge and exceed themselves. I clapped my hands glowing hot! Impressive! Respect!

Metroen - The Metro

Jeg synes, at det er fantastisk, at metroen udbygges. Ingen tvivl om det. Samtidig forstår jeg godt, at de forretninger og mennesker, der bor tæt ved byggeriet, bliver belastet af opgravninger, støj og støv. Og jeg længes også efter, at de bliver færdige. De gør, hvad de kan, for at skjule det med forskellige kunsteriske tiltag, men det er grimt lige nu. Jeg glæder mig til at se Kongens Nytorv re-etableret ... en gang med tiden. Sådan så det ud engang!

Før - Before

Hegnet - the fence

Nu - med det Kgl. Teater i baggrunden

 Now - with the Royal Theater in the background

Men hvis man vender ryggen til, kan man se en gammel charmerende detalje og næsten glemme det andet

But if you turn your back at it, you can see an old charming detail, and almost forget the rest

I think that it is fantastic that the metro is being expanded. No doubts about that. At the same time I totally understand all the shops and people, who live in the neighborhood, are bothered by the digging, the noise, and the dirt. And I long for the work to finish, too. They are making an effort to make things nicer with all sorts of artistic measures, but it is so ugly now. I am looking forward to seeing The King's New Square re-established ... some time in the future.

Elvis, arbejde og mig - Elvis, The Work, and I

Så har jeg været ude for alvor. Måtte tage en pause (en latte) og købe lidt 'vitaminer' (se billede) og er nu der, hvor lysten til at komme tilbage til skrivebordet begynder at indfinde sig igen. Så sammen med min lille undulat Elvis, som er i bur, fordi altandøren står åben ... og fordi han er en elendig flyver, der kamikaze-flyver ind i alt ... sidder jeg og suger energi ind igen.

God beskrivelse for chokolade!

Good description for chocolate!

Mon en kamera-rem er spiselig?

Wonder if a camera strap is edible?

Now I have been seriously outdoors today. Had to take a break (the latte) and buy a bit of 'vitamins' (see photo), and is now back, and the feel for going back to the work desk is sneaking in on me again. So together with my little budgie, Elvis, who is in his cage, because the balcony door is open ... and because he is a lousy flyer who bumps into everything ... I am sitting here gaining energy again.

Sct. Hans aften - Sct. Hans Evening

I går var det, som alle danskere ved, Sct. Hans aften, og vi her ved hovedstaden var heldige med vejret. Jeg deltog dog ikke særlig meget, fordi jeg har været syg - og dermed fraværende fra bloggen også. En sommer-influenza er ikke sådan til at spøge med. Så jeg var ikke med til at grille, men jeg var med til at synge midsommervisen og fik taget lidt billeder. Jeg forventer at komme i gang igen stille og roligt.

Yesterday it was midsummer night, Sct. Hans Evening as we call it. Here close to the Capital the weather was good, but I didn't participate much, because I have had a 'summer'-flu. No fun, I can tell you. So I didn't participate in most of the outdoor activities, but I was there to sing the midsummer song and take some photos. I expect to get back on my feet in a couple of days. By the way, for those of you interested, read the story about Sct. Hans here.

Rock og/eller klassisk? - Rock and/or Classical Music?

I går skippede jeg det dejlige vejr og gjorde noget, jeg ikke så ofte gør. Jeg tog til kammerkor-koncert. Kammerkoret Pegasus, læs mere her, gav koncert i Sankt Jakobs Kirke på Østerbro, og jeg må sige, at selvom jeg ikke er nogen kender af kammermusik, var det en stor oplevelse. Ikke kun musikken, men også at se så mange mennesker gå 'all in' på så højt et niveau. Det bliver ikke sidste gang for mig. Jeg elsker de gamle rock-klassikere, men det udelukker jo ikke de gamle klassiske klassikere!

Yesterday I skipped being out in the great summer weather and did something, I don't often do. I went to a chamber music choir concert. The chamber music choir, Pegasus, read more here her (it is in Danish only, but still ...!) held a concert in Saint Jakob's Church in Copenhagen, and I must say that even if I don't know much about chamber music, it was a great experience. Not only the music, but also the choir members who went 'all in' on a very high level. It is not going to be the last time I go. I love the old rock classics, but it doesn't exclude the the old classic classics!

Ommøblering kl. 23! - Rearranging Furniture at 11 pm

Ingen tid er så god til at flytte rundt på møbler som efter kl. 11 om aftenen! Jeg ved ikke, hvorfor det altid sker for mig, men lige pludselig skal det bare være nu, og så er det altid om aftenen. Jeg blev voldsomt inspireret af en artikel i Bo Bedre med modemanden Uffe Buchard og billederne fra hans hjem, ses her. Hold da op, hvor er det dejligt at se et smukt hjem, som man også kan leve i. Så efter at have kigget på de billeder i en uges tid, blev jeg enig med mig selv om, at vores hjem egentlig ikke lignede hinanden - overhovedet. Fair nok! Men han havde gjort noget, som jeg så gjorde ved mit hjem i går. Jeg fjernede nogle ting. Jeg havde et par ekstra små møbler. En lille hvid kiste og en stor fodskammel. Kisten indeholdt symaskine og dertil hørende ting, og fodskamlen blev kun brugt til at lægge ting på! Så væk med dem. Resultatet var, at jeg kunne flytte min sofa væk fra vinduet, så der atter blev lys og luft. Nu kan jeg se mine flotte Nagel stager! Jeg lavede alle de tunge thing i går og gjorde resten her i eftermiddag, og så var det kage-tid!

After 11 o'clock p.m. is the best time to move furniture around! At least for me. I don't know why it always becomes that way, but all of a sudden it is NOW, and that is always at night. I really got inspired by an article and some photos from the home of our fashion guru No. 1, Uffe Buchard, in the design magazine Bo Bedre, look here. My-my, how is it great to see a beautiful home, which you also can live in. So after having looked at theses photos for a week or so, I totally knew that it didn't look like my home at all. That's ok! But he had done something, which I did to my home yesterday. I removed things. I had a couple of extra small pieces of furniture. A small white chest and a big footstool. The chest contained my sewing machine, thread, needles etc, and the footstool was mainly used to put things on! So away they went. The result was that I could move my sofa away from the window, so it became much more airy. Now I can see my fantastic Nagel-candlestick holders! I did all the heavy work yesterday, and the finishing touch now, and then it was cake-time!

Copenhagen Photo Festival 2014

Vi var heldige med det skønne vejr her i aften. 'Vi' er medlemmer af den fotoklub, som jeg går i. Det var vores afslutningsaften før sommerferien, og vi benyttede lejligheden til at se lidt på alle de stakitter, der er i byen omkring diverse metro- og andre byggerier. Stakitterne er blevet udstillingsareal for graffiti og fotos. Jeg blev mest optaget af graffitien. Så vi gik fra Enghave plads ned gemmen hele Istedgade, hvor der er så meget dejlig liv og sluttede af med øl, latte og en enkelt kage - til mig!

Jep, det er snyd - noget af det!

Yes, it is fake - some of it!

Fuglesang - tja, måske

Fuglesang means birds' singing - well, perhaps

We were lucky with the wonderful weather tonight. 'We' are members of the photo club, where I am a member. It was our end of season night before the summer holidays, and we took the opportunity to look at all the fences in the city hiding all the metro- and other kinds of roadwork. The fences have been made exhibition areas for graffiti and photos, and I was mostly fascinated by the graffiti. So we went a long stretch through an old part Copenhagen, which once was a red light district, but now has become a real hipster area. Lots of life and people in the cafes, and we also stopped in one of them for a beer, a latte, and a single cake - for me! 

At bo i en smuk spøgelsesby - To Live in a Beautiful Ghost Town

Som de fleste elsker jeg fridage. Når det er dårligt vejr, er det oplagt at hygge sig hjemme med en god bog eller en film, men når solen skinner, er jeg nødt til at tage afsted. Et eller andet sted hen. Lige meget hvor. Bare ud. Jeg får en indre uro, der ikke vil forsvinde. Jeg bor i en kommune 10 km fra Københavns centrum. Vi har dejligt grønne områder og skønne steder, men når det er helligdag eller weekend, dør byen. Der er ikke et øje, bogstaveligt! Det bliver en spøgelsesby. Så i dag, da vejret viste sig fra sine skønneste side, tog jeg afsted. Vi var i Botanisk Have sammen med en masse mennesker og nød hele dagen. Efter sådan en dag er det ok at komme retur til stilheden.

It is holiday in Denmark today, and like most people I love days off. When the weather is bad, it is natural to grab a good book or watch a movie, but when the sun shines, I have to go. Somewhere. Anywhere. Just out. I get this inner turmoil, which will not go away. I live a municipality 10 km from Copenhagen center. Here we have wonderful green areas, parks, ponds, but when it is holiday or weekend, the city dies. You will not meet a living soul, literally! It becomes a ghost town. So today, when the weather was absolutely wonderful, I had to go. We went to The Botanical Garden and joined a lot of other people and enjoyed the day. After a day like this, it is ok to back to the quiet.

Gadekæret - The City Pond

Fem minutters gang fra hvor jeg bor, ligger der et lille stråtækt hus ved et gadekær. Kirken og en lille park ligger lige ved siden af. Det er meget idyllisk - så hvorfor vil nogen smide plasticposer og dåser i vandet?

Five minutes walk from where I live there is a small thatched house by a pond. The church and a small park is right beside. It is so idyllic - so why will anybody want to throw plastic bags and beer cans into the pond?

Skuffende fredagsslik - Disappointing Friday Candy

Malaco, det er ikke godt nok! Jeg købte en ikke særlig stor pose slik til en pæn pris, som skulle nydes her i aften, når vi skulle slappe af. Det var en skuffelse! Man kan godt nok ikke rigtig se, hvad der er i posen, selvom det er afbildet udenpå. Men fordelingen af de forskellige ting svarer overhovedet ikke til indholdet. Det her er simpelthen for ringe. Ikke mere Malaco til mig.

Her er der allerede blevet spist 3 af de røde vingummier

Here 3 pieces of the red wine gummies have been eaten already

Malaco, this isn't ok. I bought a small bag of candy for quite a price. Candy, which we should have enjoyed tonight. You cannot really see what's in the bag, even thought it is printed on the outside. But the contents do not live op to the picture at all. That is just not good enough. No more Malaco for me.

Facon-ændring? - Shapeshifter?

Jeg vejer hverken mere eller mindre end sidste år ved denne tid - eller rettere jeg vejer faktisk 2 kilo mindre! Alligevel var der flere af mine t-shirts, der ikke så ud, som om de var mine! De sad ikke godt mere. Så jeg har været ude og finde fem nye. Ikke dyre. Enten ret billige eller på tilbud. Så nu har jeg vasket og strøget dem, og jeg elsker at lægge en pæn stak ind i mit skab, der dufter af nystrøget tøj. De gamle? Ja, det ved I. De går til en secondhand shop.

I weigh not more nor less than last year at this time of year - actually I weigh 2 kilos less! Still there were several of my t-shirts, which didn't look as if they were mine. They didn't fit anymore for some reason. So I have been shopping five new ones. Nothing expensive. Either rather cheap or on sale. So now I have washed and ironed them, and I love to put a nice stack into the wardrobe, which smells wonderfully clean and looks crisp. The old t-shirts? Yes, you know. They have gone to the second hand shop.

Sælge eller give væk - Sell or Give Away

Jeg har haft nogle ting til salg på Den Blå Avis, som er et udmærket sted at sælge ting. Ingen kritik af bladet. Kritikken kommer af, at folk, der spørger til varer, er totalt useriøse. Jeg har prøvet det før, og jeg synes, at det bliver mere og mere udpræget. Jeg havde flere ubrugte varer til salg og skrev frem og tilbage med potentielle købere. Der gik mange, mange mails mellem os, og efter lang tid kom der helt uanstændige prisforslag! Da jeg ikke accepterede, men bød en lidt lavere pris (det kaldes forhandling) kom der ingen tilbagemeldinger.

Så jeg gentænkte, som jeg har gjort tidligere. Jeg lukkede annoncerne og afleverede alle tingene til Røde Kors på Fælledvej i København. Så nu kan I, mine 'potentielle' købere, gå derind, og så må vi se, om I har samvittighed til at byde samme vildt uanstændige priser, når pengene går til et godt formål!

Min belønning var en virkelig god cafe latte på Illums tagterasse

I rewarded myself with af caffee latte at the roof terrace at Illum (big store)

I have tried to sell some things at The Blue Newspaper (Danish version of E-Bay). It is a very good paper, no criticism here. The bad feeling comes when certain persons, who ask about details, are not serious, just passing time, and this becomes more and more usual. I had some unused items for sale, and wrote back and forth a lot of times with potential buyers. Many, many mails, and after a long time I received totally ridiculous offers. When I didn't accept, but offered a lower price than the start price (which is called negotiation!) no answer.

So I re-thought, as I have done earlier. I closed all my ads and gave all of the items to a Red Cross shop in Copenhagen center. So now you, my 'potential' buyers, can go there, and then we will see, if you have the audacity to bid the same wildly low prices, when the money goes to a good purpose!

Underholdning og motion - Entertainment and Exercise

I går var jeg i Tivoli-Revyen til forpremiere på Tam-Tam. Supergodt team, der får gammeldags revy til at blive moderne. Den kan bestemt anbefales. Glassalen i Tivoli er så smuk og ånder historie.

I dag var også livlig, men på anden måde. Motionscykel-løbet Herlev Rundt løb af stablen kl. 9 nede i midtbyen. Så samles gamle og unge, hurtige og langsomme, men det er altid festligt. Nogle holder pitstop for hver 2 km (for hyggens skyld), andre kører alle 25 km igennem i et stræk. Men det er lidt en Herlev-folkefest, og mange af holdene samles bagefter. Vejret har været solrigt og lidt køligt, men der er gang i mange grill-fester i aften.

En af de smukke lysekroner i Glassalen 

One of the beautiful Chandeliers in The Hall of Glass

Startlinie - Herlev Rundt

Stating Line - Around Herlev Bike 'Race'

Yesterday I was in The Glass Hall Theater in Tivoli watching a show. It is a mix of oldfashioned and new entertainment meeting. Highly recommendable. The Glass Hall Theater is so beautiful and filled with history.

Today was also entertaining, but in another way. The bike race Around Herlev started at 9 down midtown. Old people, young people, fast people, and the slow ones get together, and it is always fun. Some take a pit stop for every 2 km purely for being together, others take all 25 km in one strech. But it is a bit of a Herlev festival, and lots of the teams get together afterwards. The weather today was perfect, sunny and not too hot, so there are a lot of barbecue parties going on tonight.

Den perfekte sandwich - The perfect Sandwich

Det var været en dejlig dag i dag. Ikke så varmt, blæsende - men solrigt. Det har også være en huslig dag. Jeg har fået ordnet en masse småting herhjemme, som ikke ses. Men det kan føles. Jeg lige kommet hjem fra en hyggelig aften i fotoklubben, og jeg skal have lidt at spise, før jeg skal i seng. Sov godt!

 Starten til den perfekte sandwich - The Start of the perfect Sandwich

:-)

NU er det den perfekte sandwich! - NOW it is the perfect sandwich!

:-)

It has been a good day today. Not so hot, windy - but sunny. It has also been a 'domestic' day. I have been doing a lot of things here at home that cannot be seen. But I can feel it. And now I have just come home from a nice meeting at the photo club, and I am going to have a bite to eat before bedtime. Sleep well!

Skal børn i børnehave eller passes hjemme? - Should Children be taken care of at home, or go to Kindergarden?

På min vej rundt på diverse legepladser med min yngste favoritperson møder jeg mange mennesker. Fortrinsvis fædre og mødre. Her forleden mødte jeg en mor med sin datter. En dejlig lille pige. Vi kom i snak, og jeg spurgte, om hun havde sin datter i dagpleje eller vuggestue. Hun fortalte, at hun selv passede hende. Jeg spurgte, om det ikke var ensomt en gang imellem. Det svarede hun ja til, men at der er et netværk i København på ca. 200 forældre, der passer deres børn hjemme, deler erfaringer, mødes på kryds og tværs og laver legeaftaler. Det lød virkelig sympatisk, og samtidig kunne jeg ikke undlade at lægge mærke til, hvor forsigtig og en lille smule skræmt denne søde lille pige var. De andre børn, allesammen 'institutionsbørn' drønede rundt, og de store tog pænt hensyn til de små. Jeg kunne ikke lade være med at tænke om, om vi ruster børn til den store verden ved at sende dem ud blandt andre, eller om det er bedre at beskytte dem så længe som muligt. Vi ønsker, at de skal lære at færdes 'derude', og samtidig vil vi gerne beskytte dem mod alt ondt. Det er et stort spørgsmål.

On my way around various public playgrounds with my youngest favorite person I meet a lot of people. Mostly parents. The other day I met a mother with her daughter. A lovely girl. We started talking, and I asked if the little one was in daycare or in kindergarten. She told that she took care of her herself all day.I asked if it wasn't lonely once in a while. She said yes, but that there is a network in Copenhagen of approx. 200 parents, who do this, sharing experiences and meeting to make play-dates. It sounded really sympathetic, and at the same time I noticed how the little girl hesitated interacting with the other kids. She looked a little scared and overwhelmed. The other kids, all in daycare and kindergarten, was running around, and the big ones took good care of the small ones. It made me think about, if we train our children to enter the big world the best by sending them out between others, or if it is better to protect them as long as possible. We want them to be able to maneuver around 'out there', and at the same time we want to shield them against all bad. It is the big question.

Min Y-stol - My Wishbone Chair

Nu er den endelig ankommet. Jeg har sparet op, lagt ordren og ventet i 6 uger, og nu er jeg ejer af en special edition Y-stol af Hans J. Wegner. Ikke en kopi, men den ægte vare. Danish design lavet i Danmark. Special edition betyder i denne sammenhæng, at hvis man bestilte en stol inden 2. april, ville den få indgraveret Wegner's signature og datoen for hans 100 år. Jeg er så glad. Jeg ved godt, at jeg kunne have købt en brugt. Men jeg har ikke lyst til at have andres patina (læs: pletter) på mine ting. Dem skal jeg lave selv! Min patinering! Den er en mesterværk.

Now it has arrived. I have saved the money, made the order, and waited for another 6 weeks, and now I am the owner of a special edition Wishbone chair by Hans J. Wegner. Not a copy
, but the real thing. Danish design produced in Denmark. Special edition means here that if you ordered a chair before April 2nd, it would be engraved with Wegner's signature, and the date for his 100 years. I am so happy. I know that I could have bought a second hand chair cheaper, but I didn't feel like living with other people's patina (read: spots) on my things. I can make those myself! My patina! It is a masterpiece.

Langelinie, København - Langelinie, Copenhagen

Jeg flexede ud hele eftermiddagen og tog en tur på Langelinie. Vejret var fantastisk, folk var glade, en flok unge mænd udfordrede hinanden til at hoppe i de (endnu) kolde bølger. Hunde af alle racer blev luftet, og der var tykt af turister. Total feriestemning i København.

 Et foto fra Amaliehaven mod operaen

A photo from Amaliehaven - the park beside the Royal Palace - facing the Opera House

Tid til lidt hvidvin og noget afslapning - og reparation af neglelakken på fødderne!

Time for a sip of  white wine and some relaxation and a repair of the nailpolish on the toe nails!

I flexed out all afternoon and went for Langelinie, see here. The weather was fantastic, people were happy, a group of young men was challenging each other to jump into the (yet) cold water. Dogs of all races were being walked, and there were a lot of tourists. Total holiday mood in Copenhagen.