Month: January 2007

This was a Christmas present, a do-it-yourself Monopoly set. What you see in the picture is the Mayfair/Old Kent Road corner. We have decided that the street where weapons and illegal fireworks were found recently should be the Old Kent Road while naturally Ramtenvej and Lübker Golf  end up in the Mayfair/Park Lane area. Tony went round photographing all the streets of Nimtofte and was in danger of being arrested for loitering with intent as we were otherwise occupied at the time and so he was on his own.

We have played it and yes, you do get that Mayfair feeling whether when hoping you can buy it or hoping you won’t land on it once somebody else has bought it.

Amazing the things that go on when your back is turned. It seems that Nimtofte is becoming a hotbed of criminality with an audacious armed robbery of the local supermarket last week. It happened just as the supermarket was about to close at 7pm and customers caught up in the mayhem did not get back home until 10.30pm. The police caught the robber 30 minutes after it happened even though he had changed clothes to throw them off the scent. But then all the witnesses had to be carted to the local police station to give statements and then had to be seen by psychologists to be counselled and assessed for post traumatic syndrome. That must have been the biggest shock for those lost in the wine section who hadn’t a clue what was going on at the tills.

No Foxes were involved.

Gwen had an appointmnt at a specialist dentist yesterday. Although extensive X-rays had been taken and sent on to the specialist I still thought that this was just an examination and not treatment so we were both shocked to find that he was preparing to take a tooth out. Actually she needs two taken out but he thought it would be unfair to render both sides of her mouth unusable for eating so he did only one.

Gwen thinks it wasn’t as bad as Mia’s extraction a few weeks ago which she witnessed. I don’t know how she can know that. Anyway it was copulsory icecream for dinner as the dentist had said she wasn’t to eat anything hot or hard that evening.

She seems to have recovered very quickly from the ordeal. We just have to remember to have her stitches out next week. The next one? In April I’m afraid.

Just in case you thought that this golf resort thingy was pretty small scale, the picture shows an aerial view of developments up to November of last year. The road between the village and us is somewhere inthe centre of all this devastation.

I’m doing this quickly in case the lights go out again. We are having very strong winds at the moment and have already had one powercut today. This is the third day of storms and hopefully the last.

Happy New Year to all of you. We noticed that Hogmanay was cancelled in Edinburgh because of the stormy weather which we are now enjoying on the first day of 2007. On the stroke of Danish midnight the weather was not so bad so we were able to enjoy other people’s fireworks across the fields. We never use them ourselves because of the thatch. We did however dare to light sparklers and set off party poppers but not in the vicinity of Rosemary out of fear that she might run off screaming down the lane.

Other people had different sorts of fireworks we discovered when reading the local paper. It seems that a Nimtofte resident was carted off by the police, the day after Tony’s bomb scare, for having a hoard of illegal firearms and hand grenades. It was even the same bomb disposal team which ransacked his house and blocked off the centre of Nimtofte while they assessed the extent of the cache. The address rang a bell and when I looked up Mia’s contact list, sure enough, there it was, the address of one of her classmates who had only been in the class three months before mysteriously disappearing last Christmas with her mother and causing Mia great distress into the bargain. Perhaps we now know why. But before they disappeared Mia had been over to play. Nice!