Language

Readers of my blog will notice I've done a change in to ways: one in terms of layout (I like the wider layout better, a bit more dull, p'haps, stylish for others), but I digress. At the end of the day it's contents that matters(!)
The other change is more profound: I've changed from Danish to English. This is not without reasons or some considerations: A goodish number of my contacts speak and write English (on flickr the lingua franca is English) and the people I know in Denmark all have a fair command of English. That includes my two sons, who both have a strong linguistic instinct (Danish: sprogøre, English: ear for language (I tried to find an expression for the Danish variant, no luck. )). When we're together we frequently lapse into fits of mirth when we pull the stops out and let our fantasy run rampant in our's (and foreign) languages.
I do the change irrespective of the fact, that I never can gain the same command over English as I have over Danish. A number of situations will occur where I cannot express myself as well on a foreign language as on mine, corners will have to be cut and the end-result might not be entirely satisfying, merely usable.
On another note it's also a challenge and I intend to rise to that and give it my very best. I love English, as well as Danish and the glorious, vivacious French language, on which I only have a flimsy grip, alas.
Should any reader of my blog want to comment on the move, feel free to do that in whatever language you master.
:)

Vinter, væde, vejr

Lørdag d. 27 kørte jeg til Thurø for at se til sommerhuset. Årstiden er lidt "risky" mth. højvande. Der havde været højvande dernede, men de ca. 1,30 m. over daglig vande kunne ikke for alvor skræmme. Der stod stadig vand i store, lave damme ud over Revet. Det skriver jeg så med en vis distance vel vidende, at mange klimaeksperter forudser voldsommerer vejr i fremtiden grundet CO2 forureningen. Indtil videre må vi vist se tiden an. Januar måned: på den anden side af 150 mm. vand - du fredsens!! Får vi 200 næste år??
Jeg havde ærinde i den østlige del af Odense, en route til Thurø lagde jeg vejen forbi Åsum lige øst for Odense, hvor vejen går over Odense Å.
Jeg havde kameraet med og begik nogle billeder af de oversvømmede eng-områder ved broen. Det fik mig til at tænke på, om vi overhovedet kan nå at gøre noget ved det løbske klima eller blot skal læne os tilbage og se til? Så mandag en udsendelse (dramadokumentarisk) på DR 2 om udslettelsen af Krakatoa tilbage i 1883 - ganske kataklysmisk begivenhed, der nok kan perspektivere naturens ødelæggelseskraft. Velkommen til fremtiden, venner. Skal vi se at komme ud af Irak og koncentrere os om de virkelige problemer eller hvad?