At this morning’s “Coffee and Culture” we had a look at the local newspapers. We started off with the Grindsted Ugeavisen, which led with a front page story on a women opening a hairdressing salon in her own home and a man on call to clean out sewers. Yes, it really wa...
In Lego House spring has sprung and the (lego) daffodils are out in force. Meanwhile in the real world...
...signs of spring are a bit thin on the ground and my daffodils have, lulled into a false sense of security by a few days without sub-zero temperatures, only just...
This week the saga of Peter Madsen, the aptly named mad scientist who built his own submarine and the mysterious disappearance of the Swedish journalist Kim Wall who went to interview him was back in the news. The murder trial has started and the tabloids were revellin...
It was supposed to be the the official start of spring in Denmark last week. (Most places spring officially starts on the equinox, but ever optimistic, the Danes chose the 1st March instead). The weather was not cooperating and decided scenes from a Christmas card woul...
This image of the week has got to be this one, which looks like what would happen if you crossed the British Prime Minister Teresa May with Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson. An alarming thought!
Actually, the picture is of a Danish comedian who has a new satirical radio...
We held our Chinese New Year Banquet last Friday evening, just over 30 Billundites turned out on a frosty evening to come and celebrate with us and eat some of Winnie Tango's amazing food!
Although the preparations for such a big event were started weeks ago, the final...
This morning we talked about who the little creature on the front page of the newspaper was (and the various names for them in different languages, although no one was sure precisely what they were), the budget cuts coming to Billund Kommune under new funding rules (an...
***HISTORY***
FASTELAVN is a very old tradition in Denmark. More than 500 years ago, people used to fast for 40 days before Easter to remember the death of Jesus and his resurrection. Fastelavn was the last feast before the fast: a farewell to meat. Later, when people...
