Today the winter came back, and with it a lot of snow. It looked kind of nice – through the window, but driving through it to work wasn’t exactly a pleasure!
I saw several cars parked along the way. Not because the drivers wanted to park there, but because they lacked the ability to follow the road.
Happy New Year China!
The year of the pig begins February 18.
– I don’t worry anymore! I hired a professional worrier for 2000 dollars a month!
– How can you afford that?
– I don’t know. That’s his problem!
😉
Thankfully, no one has asked me, what the rest of my life will be like.
Else I might have to tell them, that it will probably be work, work and work (oh, did I mention work?) for a lot of years.
If I’m still alive by then, I’ll retire and suddenly get some of the money back that I have paid each month for so long.
… And then I die!
Bloody marvelous!
(Sorry – Perhaps I’m just in a bad mood today)
I went by this place today – on a cold Saturday.
I suddenly came to think, that it looks like an illustration from ‘The Wind in the Willows’. The trees probably aren’t willows (I’m not sure, what they are), and it was in another era I’ve came across that story, so I may remember it all wrong.
“You remember it in great detail, and you remember it all wrong.
All the distances are different, and the landmarks seem to have moved about.”
(George Orwell, “Coming Up For Air”)
I just heard that it was 22 years ago today, the mother of all sing-to-help: “We are the world” was recorded! Every famous musician, and even more musicians not famous enough in their own mind, stood together and sang a song, that would once and for all eliminate hunger in Africa. It’s amazing that they were able to stuff all those artists into one room, because these big stars are like icebergs: you only see about 10% of them. The rest are their huge egos.
I think Prince (yes that was his name in those days) was one of the few musicians who weren’t interested in participating. I’m not sure if it was just to make a statement, or because he couldn’t be bothered with hunger in Africa, or because with a room full of artists and egos there simply just wasn’t room for one more – or because he thought it was a stupid idea that wouldn’t make any difference anyhow. I don’t know. But history now tells us, that it actually had very little – or no – lasting effect. People still die of hunger or war or aids in Africa!
But 22 years ago it really was something! In a way it was bigger than the recent MakePovertyHistory campaign. And it sure as hell is better to sing about the problems, than do what most people do: nothing!
There are two things, I usually don’t do: Travel and make long-term plans (i.e. more than a few months).
Well, okay, I do travel occasionally, and except for recent years I’ve also tried to make plans (that usually never turned out the way I planned it, so I stopped doing that).
But now it seems like I have decided to take another small trip out in the big world. This time I’m going east: to China.
It’s still much too soon to say more about it – it won’t be until august, so I should have plenty of time to get vaccinations and a visa – and a new suitcase – and enough money to pay for it all. 😉
Both photos are taken near the spot, where I also took Home Base photo #1, mainly to show what it looks like in a more normal winter – which we have now. Few minutes after I took the photos, it began to snow again. But it seems like the snow is here on a short visit. Tomorrow it’ll all turn to water, and the precipitation will be in form of rain – and not snowfall.
Today we got the first snow this winter. Until now it has been very warm – for a Danish winter.
I think, the Danish Meteorological Institute is one of the oldest meteorological institutes in the world, and as long as they have measured the weather, there hasn’t been a winter this warm! We’ll get more snow, but with the relatively warm water surrounding the country, there’s not much chance of us getting a long and rough winter – luckily.