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you can see on the maps (click on KORT = chart(s) or card(s))
where I was yesterday

the big trafikkort = route maps
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home by bus

and I came out of the cabbage king's doorway to the bus stop opposite

Note the fine lettering beginning SUPER . . .

and the french bus stop with the city's arms of three towers - now a logo.

I snapped this bus and jumped on board

room for two big prams


But it was the wrong route OOPS !

ending up here

where Tuborgvej meets Tagensvej

all the blue paint is to help cyclists survive

the intersection.

Here the cycle path is broader than the pavement.

low sun means it is wise to drive with dipped headlights on at all times - now required by law.

the bus driver at work

Hellerip s-tog station has a new bus terminal

when you get on you clip and time stamp your ticket klipkort in the yellow box attached to the middle pole.

if you are quick you can use it as a return ticket too.

the bus I just got off.










I wrote.-
and some more nice snaps WAITING to be uploaded

I could put them on another server but it feels better if it was a pure blogger thinng. I WILL REBOOT AND SEE IF THAT HELPS.
not necessary user error - I found a hanging dialog box at the back.

cabbage king

On my diet I am eating a very lean evening meal of chopped up cabbage, with a carrot and one medium onion all steamed with a pint of water for 5 or so minutes in the pressure cooker.

Half a stock cube - I cannot afford meat this week and need to cut down on salt and drink the cabbage water - very tasty.

I do eat one portion of fish a day and skimmed milk ad lib..

I think this guy sells the best cabbages in town, so my private name for him is the cabbage king

The shop is not under railway arches but a spacious concrete post and beam structure

bearing two S-tog tracks and platforms.

In fact this shop is much more of a market with nearly everything you need for good food.

This is the main door.

by train and bus

and a comfy double deck bus number 15 from Trianglen, Østerbro, Copenhagen












Ryparken station at about 18:00
6 00 pm














large comfortable S-tog carriages
older but refitted

I got off at Nørrebro station
and the shadows are getting longer

this is called the højbane
the high railway
at about third floor height

The fruit and vegetable shop I am going to is under my feet.

I love this train shed
like a toy from the 1930ies
but wooden scandinavian style
when in england it would be of iron
The limitation of the camera is all too clear
I could see more detail in the shadow peeking down at the street
before taking the lift.

the upload photo button seemed to be broken
or is there a quota for space?
mysterious? in the BAY ?

and the answer was user error
the posting window was at the back - argh!!!

my excellent doctor

You can see who lives on what floor
and danes all put their name on their letter box, or front door

my own reflection.




thank goodness a nice elegant lift, elevator

inspected and certified about every three years.

the third, fourth and fifth floors are private residents.

Two doctors share the second floor.




An attractive modern staircase,
which a young man ran down quicker than the lift bearing me down.

a year or so before I run down, let alone up these stairs again.









My doctor's secretary is a fully qualifed nurse and does the usual tests and so on.

I give her my medical card which she wipes through her card reader.

Hint to Tony Blair not id-cards but medical cards is what we need in UK, and the same database listing names and addresses for medical insurance, taxation and voting rights AND EVEN AS A LIBRARY TICKET.
SEE CPR number


I only went by to get weighed
177 kg 800 grams
up about 1 lb

Kristin Øhrn (kvinde)
(born in Norway ) 1956
Østerbrogade 45,
2. tv
2100 København Ø
Telefon 35 26 50 00
Tidsbestilling kl. 8-13, (phone to book appointments
onsdag dog 16-18 open surgery
Netværkspraksis
Sekretær i praksis

Uddanner læger (she trains young doctors for general practice after their hospital studies are completed)

on my way to the doctor

This SIGN is on the gable of blok D at the Østerbrogade 57 entrance to Brumleby

the red lines are blocks - the darker ones represent the gardens.

Blocks:-
A - E - J - K

B - F - L - M

C - G - P - O

D - H - P - Q

- - - - - R - S

My own one place study of Brumleby
AKA Københavns Lægeforeningens Boliger



This was a bathhouse.

Behind that on the other side of the street are two copper clad spires on the corners of a side street.

Ornamental towers and spires are very much a feature of older Copenhagen buildings, and because, in general, no houses are over five floors, they can be seen from afar with the church towers above the walls like a medieval town.











long stemmed roses







turning right towards my doctor, or Copenhagen centre.
note the street furniture,
the town's standard bench with cast iron ends and wooden seat and a new design of litter bin with a hinged lid.
(used by fly-posters here)

The combination of concrete slabs and cobble stone lines (strictly speaking granite setts) means that when a cable is to be laid or renewed the pavement is merely lifted and afterwards relaid on new sea sand by the paviours or brolægger.






A traffic warden in summer uniform.

Notice the broad cycle path to his right, he is in fact close to the edge of the pavement.







The doorway to the apartement block where my doctor has a surgery on the second floor.

I am reflected in the left hand glass panel

outside my door

This is at the corner of the gable of block F in Brumlæby







The last of the wild roses - now they make rosehips.




These were planted for good luck outside viking homes - and the juiced berries are a good source of vitamin C. Name?
Hyld, elderberry, Sambucus nigra.
and thanks to Hedvig
see Paghat's Garden: Black Elderberry Myths












My neighbours children may play freely in front of the old wash house for block G, no more coppers, but now home to modern washing machines and tumbler driers - and some parked bicycles.







These dogs are sensible sitting in the shade

A great drying day and a neighbour sitting out and enjoying the sunshine - with enough breeze to keep cool.







This rose needs dead-heading.

I learned to break off the fertilised and fading flowers to stop rose hips and seeds forming - thus the rose blooms and buds until frost starts.




I prefer to stay indoors and cool too in this weather.

A1000 from 2004

MOTOCODER� - MOTOCODER Home and download Motorola Desktop Suite
even A1000 Beta SDK

The Symbian SDK and sample code For C++: can be accessed by following this link: Symbian: Developer: home

HULLOMOTO

Motorola Mobile Phones and Phone Accessories and thanks to FERNANDO B AND Panagiotis G AND THE on-line support center
AND SOME EXPERIMENTS
with installing, uninstalling, reinstalling the updated desktop suite for A1000, I have backed up my A925 phone (the CVD softyware never really worked well)

and found these photos and downloaded them
and blogged them here.

The worst problem was finding the paths on the phone,
once on and connecteed by USB
on the phone screen
you have to :-

(1) click top right corner the little box icon
(2) click desk top suite
(3) click Connect
(4) click done

ON the computer
the mRouter icon changes from two dashes to a zig zag

(5) click desktop suite or
(6) click Motorola Desk Top Suite

(7) click file browser

and yes you see an icon Internal Memory

(8) do NOT click from here in but:-

SELECT Internal Memory icon (disk C in the Symbion OS)
then hit RETURN KEY

(9) SELECT documents icon then hit RETURN KEY

(10) SELECT media files icon then hit RETURN KEY

(11) SELECT image icon then hit RETURN KEY


(12) SELECT unfiled icon then hit RETURN KEY

(13) then I drag and dropped the jpg into a dated folder on my desktop and browsed them with IrfanView

then I blogged them here in the usual way PHEW
(took 10 days to get sorted)

and here are the pictures:-

June 19 2005 08:03 am and I am sitting on the bench under the chestnut tree at Østerbrogade at about number 57
looking towards old Copenhagen and the south.



Øster- = eastern - this street started at the old east gate (Østerport or Kastellet) of Copenhagen
-bro- even some danes get this wrong, short for brolægt = cobbled by a brolægger

-gade = street or road
also in York England Butcher Gate
which word is a surival from the danish kingdom of York (JARVIK) and (KNUD) Canute's rule of England and the Danelaw

This street goes south into Store Kongensgade which was cobbled in 1663
see:-
1663 fik Oberst Ruse Befaling om at brolægge Store Kongensgade
(Del V, bog I, kap. IV) O. Nielsen: Københavns Historie og Beskrivelse.



looking towards the north
(and NETTO)
June 19 2005 08:03 am from the bench under the chestnut tree at Østerbrogade at Sankt Jakobs church - note the wall of the church yard.

Towards Strandvey the beach-way towards the ferry to Sweden and Norway.






and June 24 2005 15.50
(3 30 pm CET)
visiting Gry for a lunch in honour of Kenneth's birthday, with her mother and her daughter Freja.




I forgot to photograph Kennneth
- maybe cause he looked tired, or I because was very tired.
Out in the mid day sun

testing testing

Television Graphics Around the World: "16:9 version of the Philips PM5644 test pattern "

as used by Swedish tv 2 with many octaves of test tones fromm inaudible rumble to dog whistle.

But I would like a frequency list
helps anyone?






Danish cable tv
TDC
showing

11 stations
then switching for 11 more





Danmarks Radio
channel 1

public service tv
financed by licence on the BBC model.







not so good of a newspaper and shadow of phone



The Test Card Gallery






the kitchen from where I sit at my 'puter.

roses and shopping

Whenever I come out
I see these roses I planted 10 years ago.

THIS WAS taken a few days ago, BUT
only now I am getting used to photo-blogging.




I am not certain of the names of the varieties of the roses.

by LEJA
Netherlands from Netto
Red Peace Herzdame (Queen of Hearts)
hybrid tea rose with large red blooms

and a red
Floribunda Rose
Bergfuer

The aim was to stop cars parking on the lawn
but some football playing boys killed the nearest rose, also a Golden Rain bush.







A burned out photo of the yellow bush rose


There was also a white Karen Blixen rose, a Queen Elizabeth rose
and a yellow and pink Zigeuner - killed by over pruning by a neighbour.











Manja's bicycle outside her home.

Note the vine
growing well and setting grapes.

A neighbour has a good red rose climbing high.









Two more roses, big sister Gry and her daughter Freja





Last week went by the head office of KRAK the maker of vejviser since Hans Holck in 1770 published the first Vejviseren over København.
A directory of about 20000 people, if all were included
They have a private museum which we could not see.

I want to get them to publish a historical selection on the web, say every 10 years.

In UK we have our Digital Library of Historical Directoriesorganised by the University of Leicester

AND TODAY
I walked out of Brumleby at Østerbogade 57 turning left - - -

and past Skt. Jakobs:
Østerbrogade 59,

2100 Copenhagen

from Kirker i Danmark - en billeddatabase
thanks to DIS-Danmark for the picture

Park Bio - Østerbros eneste biograf Østerbrogade 79
from 1926

and into the local Netto to the right up the same steps.
Østerbrogade 79, 2100 København Ø




4 litres of skimmed milk for a week

and some very fresh vegetables, including the best and freshest cauliflower I have ever bought


BUT disaster out at the check out
I ran out of money and had to give back the chicken "thighs" and some other stuff
- well that should help the diet!

Nettos hjemmeside





the greenish light from the tubes
fools the eye but not the camera.

by the Jewish Museum

The Jewish Museum in London
this link posted by accident here

so I took bus number 15 to Slotsholm
and Det Kongelige Bibliotek - the Danish National Library
and walked through the garden and past this Copenhagen Jewish museum designed by Daniel Libeskind.



Daniel Libeskind - Danish Jewish Museum




typical Denmark
closed when
the tourists are
HERE








the granite door was SHUT







Det Kongelige Bibliotek - Orientalsk og Judaistisk Afdeling

ManusIntro: "Cod. Heb. 37 is beyond any doubt the most famous of the almost 300 Hebrew manuscripts in the collections of The Royal Library. Also known as 'The Copenhagen Maimonides', the manuscript was written and illuminated in Catalonia in the years 1347-1348, and is one of the finest examples of the illumination traditions of this part of Spain in this era."


And this is the original entrance to the victorian Royal Library
with many happy memories of when, new in Copenhagen, I studied danish composers,
and borrowed orchestral music,



and admired the many beautiful post-grad girls writing their theses.

These gardens are a good picnic spot for lunch with the old Royal Library, now offices, behind and two mooring rings for tying up ships, because this was the naval harbour, instead of a lawn and fountain. The Royal Arsenal now the Armoury museum to the left and the provisioning warehouse to the right, now the Danish National Archive.



This old lion commorated the battle of Isted in 1850 when the Danes defeated the Prussian invaders for the last time.

After WW II it was discovered that the Isted Lion, a Danish war monument from the war of 1848-1850, was in Berlin.

The conquering Germans had removed it from the Flensburg cemetery and taken it to Berlin. US army Colonel Barney Oldfield helped get it back in 1945.

After finding a rare book in the library which I plan to digitize , and of whom to ask permission thereto, I began my journey home by sea.







Havnebus linie 902
Det Kongelige Bibliotek

- Knippelsbro - Nyhavn (stop closed) - Holmen Syd - Holmen Nord

- Nordre Toldbod
ending up here unloading - - -








drawing away


ARRIVA Rederi
the shipping line - boats, trains and buses


the bus stop is close by the new Polish ferry

Two hot sausages gave me my energy back and
I walked past the Little Mermaid and the yacht basin to Langelinie and ice cream.

and taking bus 28 jumped off here




all thumbs

I liked the lettering
if NOT the design of the gateway to
the danish National Gallery of
fine art.

One bus more and I next took a zigzag route home walking through Fælled Park past the lake and amongst the beech trees.

I arrived in Brumleby quite exhausted.

Battling with Blogger

yes I need Blogger Help
these little squibs via the blog this button are easy to do.
Blogger Help : All about Blogger's post editor but a wysiwyg editor it is not when pictures and templates meet.

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sunday stroll

I was asked to collect Manja's bicycle from the baker's shop where she works.
It had been forgotten
in the rush to get
to Roskilde festival.
TEXT AND PICTURES CENSORED BY REQUEST


this is Jill from Hayes near London UK,
an expat neighbour in Copenhagen














and this dog illustrates how wrong you can be
when you first come to a country and can't read the language


I thought this memorial was for a faithful dog which was not allowed to be buried with its master
in the church yard behind.

no way
the memorial is for one LAURITZ SMITH

Dyrerettighedernes filosof



who taught a sense of responsibilty and an ethical duty towards animals, and as a priest in 1791 first proposed the protection of animals by law.

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, RSPA was founded in 1824.
1857 lov om dyremishandling
1875 Foreningen til Dyrenes Beskyttelse i Danmark..

This SMITH surname may be of a norwegian and scottish connection.

He is buried behind the memorial in the corner of the church yard




You can see this fine little camera is not quite good enough for recording memorial inscriptions.























After getting the bicycle I sat down in the shade by Fredensbro.
Manja has longer legs than me so I could not ride it home.
I have not been on a bike for 20 years and need to reach the ground
for safety's sake.

Tha bakers shop was just closing so nothing much to photograph and it was in a bad light too. I need to go back at 7 or 8:00 am one morning.







This is a typical yellow brick appartment house from about 1900. Yellow clay and chalk under Copenhagen, just like London, so very hard water too.

The red bricks were glazed and caught my eye.

the shadow side is toward the lake and 5 floors is the maximum allowed in the old Copenhagen by-laws.


The dramatic sky over the bird island seems to herald a coming warm front, and made the bike pushing easier by shutting off much of the suns warmth - and ending the thermals which created the fair weather cumulus.





the curve of the lake's shore is quite like that in this painting from 1852 on my friends web site.

but not one building remains from the old painting.

I snapped this one because of the bedclothes hanging out of the window to be aired.

Five floors and a shop down in the half cellar.
Lofts getting to be converted too, i estimate about 1880ish.

On the wall of the power station in Øster Allée opposite the ice kiosk

(yes I slipped and had a Brumle )

This inscription really moved me when I first came to Copenhagen

Hans Henrik Gottschalch died fighting for his country the 11 March 1945

Hans-Henrik Gottschalch var medlem af "Gruppe 1944".

Den gruppe der tirsdag den 17. april 1945 tømte Det Tyske Handelskammer for papirer, herunder Carl Mogensens korrespondance med Det tyske Handelskammer.

Copenhagen town centre Denmark

On Thursday I went into Copenhagen center, I missed snapping a tourist guide in high hat and purple tails but peeped over his flock into the classical Domkirke






- the neo-classical cathedral was built to replace the medieval gothic one destroyed by the British Navy.



















The bishop's palace above still has some english cannon balls cemented into the wall above the port (gateway to the yard)

Nelson's gunners must have aimed at the town's church towers and spires.

Next door is the Atheneum bookshop
atheneum international boghandel
where I have an account to settle for some dictionaries.



A typical early nineteenth century house wooden framed with brick facing, three floors and with steps down to the cellar or up to the first (ground) floor.






Note the angled corner (by law of the town council) to give better sight lines for drivers of horse drawn traffic and reduce traffic accidents. Only the oldest houses from before the fires have square corners.




















bit of camera shake here



heading in
past philosophy towards the english department,







where Sidsel from Norway is queen.
My goodness - now 70 years of Penguin books and it seems like the sixtieth anniversary was only a couple of years ago.



















out on the walking street
STRØGET a human statue of a cowboy.






A Dannebrog (the Danish flag) hangs as a banner above
Amagertorv
where the farmers from the island of Amager used to sell their wares

learning to photo blog

well up at 5:00 am with first light
switched on the tv

and voila on ARD
TRAINS
my favourite cult tv programme:-

Die schönsten Bahnstrecken Deutschlands
Führerstands-Mitfahrten

this time Sachsen-Anhalt towards
aus Oschersleben
then Halberstadt which was was one of the last three big centers of steam in Germany. More than 10 steam locomotives were here in daily use until the middle of the 80's. So it's no wonder why that Halberstadt was the place where the last regular steam trains in Germany were running. But in autumn 1988 the show was over... - - halberstadt bahnhof

my first walk this year round the lake in Copenhagen

and another look in morning light
at the rose bearing trellis first seen below.
My first look at a texture, also seen below













and the old shops in a better light.















I was struck by the dappled shadows as I walked out of Brumleby towards Østerbrogade

I have to sit down every few hundred yards even after walking slowly at about 72 steps a minute (a military slow march tempo)

This footpath is nicknamed the Wedding Path because in the nineteenth century young people met each other on sundays when out walking here, and many house maids met their grooms here.








The lake is being cleaned up with pike set out to reduce the population of carp and these beds of reeds will naturally clean the water.
















and at the next bench this young lady was busy texting,
the swan is bottom up feeding, and the "crooked" concrete slab as a statue that intrigues - or appalls.

The first ducklings I saw this year,

I think this camera deals with water well.













this new bird island suffered from cormorants nesting with their dirty habits.







and a little man learning to feed ducks and pigeons, and not chase them





I really wanted to photograph the flag - a red maltese cross on white ,
of the swedish freemasons on the danish main lodge building.

which was damaged by the nazis in WWII and now is well restored.

But the flag is so small that it looks like a storm flag.


I recycled some empty beer bottles I found by the lake into skimmed milk at Netto




finally at the ice kiosk in Øster Allée
a forbidden ice cream,
freshly baked waffle
and three scoops with lemon sorbet, and strawberry.

sitting on the doorstep

my daughter Manja lives on the left with her mother.

the sky colour is an artifact

she had to finish packing
so I sat on the door step to wait

This is a climbing rose over an improvised rustic trellis which I helped design and build.
















Granite cobble stones are still popular in Copenhagen
often mixed with concrete paving stones.





The grill is cold today, but danes love charcoal grilled food, and every summer the evening air is thick with the fumes of burning fat.








strange colours again

and the higher block used to house a pioneering co-operative grocer's shop, a dairy and a butcher.

manja and bus number 3

changing to bus number 3 at Trianglen.












and the mobile phone finalises the meeting

an accidental effect with the sun

Only 7:00 pm and she is already tired out - after working from 6:00 am to 11:00 am at the baker's shop












waiting for her two friends to pick her up for the drive to Roskilde

by sankt hans torv

These are the old Copenhagen County court house
and Københavns amtråd (former council offices),
now the Black Museum (police)
Politimuseet, Fælledvej 20, 2200 København N
and I am going to sit down at that bus stop
















A Harley-Davidson driving past the county jail
Blegdamsvej fangsel.


At the bus stop I got the sun in my eyes
and the camera.
















I took my glasses off to try and see the little screen.
The phone has a little shiny convex button by the lens,
which acts as a reverse view finder


















Skt. Johannes kirke
- the church by Sankt Hans Torv


















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off to Roskilde

Roskilde Festival 30 June - 3 July 2005,

my daughter Manja phoned for help with her extra baggage - a heavy bag of food - they go early to get a really good camping site.

I paused at the door

quite a different light to the blog below

and many more roses in bloom.



my other roses on the left are hardly visible.

why another blog?

- because this is a photo blog about my daily walks.

I have a couple of mobile phones which I am using to snap things seen.

Also the theme is less is more by taking mini photos with fixed focus like the old box camera days and using the resources at hand and learning their limitations.
So expect examples of bad photos too like this one of the view from the kitchen doorway
taken 21 June 2005.

The f 1:2.8 33mm camera in the Sony Ericsson T610 was set to night shot
OOPS
- which is why the whites and yellows are burnt out.