Could these be the smallest origami cranes ever? Mia has a visiting Chinese lady at school who has been showing them how to do origami and now our house is infested with paper creatures. Mia just can’t stop making origami animals and her latest challenge is how small can she make them? This small apparantly!
Yes, we know that origami is a Japanese art but hey!
On Thursday we went to Aarhus for some free ballet. The Royal Danish Ballet company give free outdoor performances around Denmark at this time of year, heavily sponsored by the biggest danish bank. Since we’d never tried this before we decided to go. The weather was brilliant and it was all very friendly. People had brought their picnic baskets and we got an hour and a quarter of ballet and a very sore backside!
A couple of days ago Gwen’s school was visited by a hypnotist. It took him a long time to get the volunteers ‘under’ and the rest of the audience was starting to get restless but then he started the entertaining part. First he told the victims that they were in a train crossing the Alps in the middle of winter and that it was very cold because the heating system had broken down. And his 10 victims started shivering. One girl apparantly couldn’t speak she was shivering so violently. Then he told them that the heating was back on but had gone haywire so that it was far too hot so then they started wiping sweat off their brows. Then he told them that they were 4 years old and in a kindergarten and that today it was a sandcastle building competition so they all started making movements as though they were building then he went round interviewing them about what they had made. Then he told them that their mother had forgotten to collect them but that he could see her now. At this point he pointed to a member of the audience for each victim and they went bounding off to collect ‘their mother’ and bring her up on stage and sat on her knee. At this point it was time to come out of the trance and as soon as they realised that they were sitting on someone’s knee they jumped off like greased lightning.
OK so this is pretty standard stuff for a hypnotist but maybe it is rather different when you personally know all the victims and could interview them afterwards about what it felt like. So what did it feel like? ‘I knew what was happening but I couldn’t control myself.’
This was entertainment. While the older ones were being hypnotised, the younger ones were being entertained by a magician.
When we got home we found that our neighbour knows the hypnotist and that he’s terrible at handling horses.
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I came home last week to find these mysterious red lines leading up to our garden. What would you think? Luckily Gwen had been walking home as it was being done and she could tell us that it was the electricity company which had put them down. We can only guess that it might mean that we get optic fibre internet access in the near future. I put our name down for it over a year ago without much hope that they would do anything about it as it involves an awful lot of digging at their expense but who knows! They have brought optic fibre net to the new golf resort just down the road so they might think it worthwhile to extend it a kilometre to us?
Summer is busting out all over and as you can see we have a man to do the lawn. Tony got the T-shirt last week when he attended a conference in Aarhus. On the first day he was asked to step in at the last minute with a talk as two speakers had dropped out. So he had 5 hours in which to prepare something worthy of the audience who had come to hear about the effects of climate change on the environment. The next day he thought he might be able to relax but ended up being co-opted as a minibus driver as a trip to a local animal park, Skandinavisk Dyreparken, was arranged through the generosity of the owner who was also attending the conference. So he earned the T-shirt!
Gwen made a facepack mixture out of her collection of herbs and some ordinary household yogurt. It was tested on Mia, then Tony and then Gwen got a taste of her own medicine. This is (yet another) experiment. You may or may not be able to see the video.
If you found out about this at all, it will have been through a ‘and finally… ‘ piece on the news. It is interesting. How would you react?
It looks lovely but could there be a connection between the bright yellow fields that dominate the landscape around us this year and the fact that petrol has breeched the 11 kroner barrier for the first time in living memory?
Here is another picture because let’s face it, it is very photogenic.