SNAPS ONE: July 2006

optician and a sony tv

After the optician

my daughter has perfect eyesight so we went to look for a tv repair shop (her 10 year old sony is worn out) but the business no longer existed when we got there

my daughter snapped me when I stopped to admire this door

faintly me and Manja

Nine Small Homes no more tobacco

the Hotel has no elevator and therefore only two stars, and in the reception at Classensgade there are free Internet access and telefax. .
Hotel 9 Smaa Hjem A/S is very different from other Hotels. It is based on long-term renting with all the facilities needed for that, such as kitchen and laundry facilities. You can also choose to stay in a Hotel Apartment with own kitchen, bathroom and toilet. All the rooms are with direct telephone line and a colour TV.

was there a butcher's shop here ? today they have been nearly all replaced by supermarkets or Halal meats.

minced up tough old milch cow is a favourite danish meat

Italian Wines here and a welcome sit down

GRATIS FUFU what ???

on the other side of the road

cut glass elegance in Kastelsvej

too hot for pizza all parked in the backyard by the kitchen door

even Domino's has only one bike in use

I like this bike

swan elegant cast iron handrails to stop you falling down thesteps to the half-cellar shops

bar 5 with original chrome frame and glass door

english books are prominent for tourists and the nearby US and UK embassy staff

second hand bookshop

Classensgade 5
2100 København Ø
Tlf.: (+45) 35 43 10 30
Web: www.antikvar-classensgade.dk
E-mail: jm@antikvar-classensgade.dk

ÅBNINGSTIDER
OPENING HOURS
Mandag: 12-17.30
Tirsdag-fredag: 10-17.30
Lørdag: Lukket

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Classensgade Antikvariat

the start of Classensgade is by the lakes at Lille Triamgelen
named for Generalmajor Johan Frederik Classen (google image search) 1725 to 1792 a master of theology from Copenhagen University, who became an industrialist, whose fortune still exists as the charity Det Classenske Fideicommis and whose library graces the University library.

a gaggle of cyclists waiting for the green light

Willemosegade is graced by impressive porches
You can imagine sitting on the balcony from lunch to sunset and eating or relaxing

Peter Willemoes 1783-1808 was in the Danish navy After the English captured almost the entire Danish Navy (The Siege and Bombardment of Copenhagen in August – September 1807) he was hit by a cannon ball and die on the danish ship of the line PRINS CHRISTIAN FREDERIK in the spring of 1808 at the Battle of Zealand Point - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
ship of the line PRINS CHRISTIAN FREDERIK - Google Search

I missed the enameled sign for 54 A B C D

Østerbrogade number 56 A B C D is such a prestige filled address that this side street has no name

ABC street ABC-gade or more correctly Østerbrogade 54a 54b 54c 54d
with the sun in my eyse I can not see what I am shooting

CHEESE_BOX
well not really - some child has erased the P of the 'OSTKASSE P'ost box
These were designed in Berlin for ease of use with the mail release door underneath, and the letters falling into the hooked on postman's sack on collection.
The only disadvantage of this pressed metal construction is that they can be blown apart at the seams by fireworks on New Years Eve.

Honda retro-style

made in USA

gentlemans' appartments circa 1880 with a view of the lakes

filling a gap in Østerbrogade or was it there first?

by the lake
where we met yesterday see Den Franske Café below and lake view cafe blogs from Wednesday

Den Franske Cafée where we sat

FONA (which was FREDGAARD) tv shop is in an old house with a new skin
lastly I took a taxi home with a new Sony TV for my daughter's eighteenth birthday.

back in Brumleby G block is being prepared for a coat of paint next week

Den Franske Café

On my way from BRUMLEBY walking to the cafe by the lake

one of the last of the old summer houses

grapes

on this vine along the fence

looking back after I crossed to the shadow side of Øster Allee

towards the post office and Trianglen

and the circus has come to town

http://www.superkids.dk/

film unit

FLYING SUPERKIDS
and a DOLLAR GRIN possibly an old tgaxi or imported as a wreck

and at the cafe I met:-

Ellen McCarty http://www.erpublications.dk/
who gave me a copy of her book SUSPENSIONS OF TOUCH

Eugene Garvin writer, even cycled from Hillerød - and back afterwards - to renew our old friendship

Linda Horowitz photographer, just happened by after being at a detective story writers group with Ellen her work http://www.multifoto.dk/linda/beach/photos.html
photography & layout

---Linda Horowitz Photography and Layout - service in web design, graphic design and photography---
www.multifoto.dk/linda/

click to see the view from the table at this lake view cafe
Sortedam Dossering 101, 2100 Copenhagen Ø Denmark

when the party broke up I went shopping
with no luck close by so took a bus onwards to Sølvtorvet

I go my last cheese cutter here

no luck, no kitchen stuff anymore only tools

the original technical and engineerin g school

sitting on a step waiting for a bus - unusual handle

lift down to the METRO driverless trains

METRO station under Nørreport - the old north gate of Copenhagen

down the drain under the harbour
you may sit where the driver should be

reflection

emerging by the university on Amager island

not a bombed out house but a work of art

the high road to FIELDS

stopping at Øresund station
for the FIELDS mall which shuts at 8.00 pm

BILKA within Fields has everything - except outsize clothes
so I got my T shaped cheese slicer from Germany, some danish tomatoes and a Black and Decker dust buster V3605 from UK

at last a hot sausage TRAILER

two very hot sausages
then by METRO and bus home

a distant evening cumulus nimbus incus floating distantly by Øresund station like a gigantic ocean liner of the sky

FOOTBALL results FCK 5 Randers 1

blue and white football fan
on the bus to Trianglen
FCK = Football Club København also blogged

and she turned the head of the guy on the right

evening and morning

A phone call from my daughter and after seeing the finish of Le Tour de France in Paris
I went out to catch bus 1A

tomato time

and apples soon

short stalked sunflower surely bred for farms not gardens?

the buses air condition was not working
and I considered getting out here at København Østerport (Copenhagen East Gate) Station and catching the train.

In fact it was half working and I changed sides and enjoyed a blissful draft all the way to Hvidovre

bus 1a going in to Copenhagen
when I waited at that bus stop I got a pnone call redirecting me to the nearest chinese restaurant

BTW
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good place to eat
Dong Fang restuarant,på Hvidovrevej 136 lige ved Hvidovre torv on google groups
http://www.dong-fang.dk/

on a very slow server 19 seconds delay and the domain not listed on http://www.dk-hostmaster.dk/

ANYWAY we had an enjoyable evening and ate Menu 203

Sichuan Special Menu

Forret: Shichuan suppe

Mellemret: Stegt Wan-Tan - Dybstegte små rejer - Dybstegt kylling - Dybstegt svinekød

all four Hovedretter:

Gong Pau kylling med Cashewnødder (stærk)

Kongerejer med kinesiske champignons og bambusskud

Shichuan oksekød (stærk)

Desserter:

Is yes Icecream - a banana split !

Pris pr. couvert: kr. 138,00 (Minimum 2 couverter)

- our party included the youngest family member Stine, who is now 9 months old, and who was happy to be bounced on my knee.

Tomorrow they are off by train to Berlin for 14 days. 5 or 6 hours but they waited as long at the airports with flight delays last time.

It started to rain and thunder and I got a well air conditioned bus for a cool ride home to Brumleby
After doing some email and a failed WinXP instalation I went slowly to bed

I woke at first light at 4:00am far too hot to sleep
as usual I switched on ARD tv from Germany
after the railway thing
a documentary about SOMMERLOCH
see also:-

I grabbed my phonecam to show you the weather map for today

Europa is cooking

ARD german TV

and now I am going back to bed

evening in Copenhagen

the meal was not ready so I went for a walk to look at the new bridge at Østerport

and I sat down and played with my handicam click for Snaps 2

and then I rewarded myself with an ice cream

ow ow 40 steps up and 40 steps down

I needed to sit down - St Jakobs Plads

Østerbrogade and nearly home

graveyard scare

from news:soc.genealogy.britain

We all know that graveyards can be scary places at the dead of
night especially with a little mist, an owl hooting and a bat
or two darting about. But on a hot summer day with wall to wall
blue sky I thought I was quite safe - but not so ...

So there I was at 5 pm this afternoon in St Patrick's Cemetery
just up the road from Rowlands Gill innocently photographing
family headstones when suddenly a shadow crossed the grave I
was kneeling on. I looked up and nearly had a heart attack.
This is what I saw - it was m a s s i v e and just feet away ..

My finger was already on the shutter release, so it was just a
matter of pointing & shooting. The only difficulty is the darned
delay between pressing the release and the shutter firing - you
have to predict where the beasty will be a second or so after
the press.

--
Brian Pears
Gateshead, UK

MY WAY HOME

TAGENSVEJ BUS STOP 6A

classic chairs

BLEGDAMSVI BUS NUMBER 3A

6 MINUTES TO WAIT

next stop Trianglen

last time in burning hot Birmingham

amateur cat painter and more

HAVE YOU EVER SEEN WATERLOO ? NARRATIVES ABOUT COUNTRIES AND CITIES
She live in Belgium, but is german. her husband is italian. They live in Waterloo near Brussels, where Napoleon lost the battle but like to travel and take snaps - just now in UK.

run rabbit run

I saw that the wild broom has finished flowering and is setting pods full of seeds as I walked down the path through the wild park from the Chelmsley Road terminal bus stop of the 97.
Clikc here and you can see an empty bus turning left and at the top of the picture a yellow and a blue bus parked where the drivers take their break
I took the broad path diagonally down towards the right hand bottom corner of the picture leading to Birmingham Business Park at GOOGLE MAP B37 7YB

I had been on line all day and watching the first stage of the second phase of La Tour - when they reached the Pyrenees, and the pain begins, and the sprinters fall further and further behind.
I set out with the idea of walking towards Coleshill, or the hill of rubbish because from Thursday the nearest hill with a view is in Sweden and I will be in Copenhagen, Denmark

and I came to this grassy corner

click to see the rabbit better

I was thrilled and rushed to grab my handicam to zoom in and take these three snaps and then the bunny exited to the right under the bushes

looking back you can see the rabbit tracks As a boy playing in the fields at Widney Lane (now a tennis court and housing) I met a poacher in the woods he showed me how to set a brass wire rabbit snare across a path like this.
That was during WW2 and hungry days with food rationing and nettle eating. My mother once cooked a rabbit stew (with carrots and onions mmmm) and I prepared and mounted the skull as an exhibit.

more signs of rabbits - the little path and droppings

I glimpsed the rabbit again in the dark shadow under the shrubs
and in the background Pfizer Regional Office (Unit 2610), Birmingham Business Park, Solihull and lunchtime meetings for GPs and PosGrads

Pfizer
and I walked on towards the boundary fence and the Chester Road

Warwickshire oak trees on the other side of the Chester Road, and one looks like it had been struck by lightning a year or more ago
and a good view of the woods in a google satellite picture

By now I was tiring rapidly, abandoned my dream of an ambitious walk, and luckily I met the 974 bus which shuttled me back to Chelmsley Wood shopping centre

On the farm, every Friday
On the farm, its rabbit pie day.
So, every Friday that ever comes along,
I get up early and sing this little song:

Run rabbit - run rabbit - Run! Run! Run!
Run rabbit - run rabbit - Run! Run! Run!
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Goes the farmer's gun.
Run, rabbit, run, rabbit, run.

Run rabbit - run rabbit - Run! Run! Run!
Don't give the farmer his fun! Fun! Fun!
He'll get by
Without his rabbit pie
So run rabbit - run rabbit - Run! Run! Run!

Run, run rabbit run . . .

Dig that hole, forget the sun,
And when at last the work is done
Don't sit down it's time to start another one

For long you live and high you fly
But only if you ride the tide
And balanced on the biggest wave
You race toward an early grave.

In world war two when we sang this we meant that Hitler was the rabbit and we, the english, were the farmer !!!

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Solihull is at the very heart of England
Destination	Distance (miles)
London	120
Leeds	121
Manchester	100
Bristol	92
Oxford	67
Birmingham City Centre	10

Breakdown of Business Sectors in Solihull
Sector	%
Banking, Finance and Insurance	36.5
Hotels/Restaurants and Distribution	26.5
Construction	10.3
Other activities	8
Public Administration	7.2
Transport and Communications	5.5
Manufacturing	5.2
Energy and Water	0.22
Agriculture	0.22

old and new

old XXXXL T-shirts recycled as computer covers

and then I went to the dentist
and on the way home . . .

at the Chelmsley Wood library and I just finished an hour on the machine in the corner on the ANCESTRY SITE

MacBook Pro

the old machine drivs this display and is a gatway to the net

next to connect the scanner

more blue tooth

click

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a coople of test pictures from last summers phone camera my Sony Ericsson T610 which ius handy as a beam me up Scottie on the Orange Network but had a dusty lens
grey light todya with a lowering cloud ceiling

changing my mouse

Apples latest mouse is the MIGHTY MOUSE but, for my hand, it is much too small.
After five hours use I felt really sore at my wrist and the edge of my thumb so I decided to go the Microsoft route

I heard the clip clop of horses' hooves in Bosworth Drive and rushed to the window

and the sight brought back memories of my mother's funeral which cost about !"#€%&&/()=? where is the pound sign? 3000 with two horses and a cremation

Which reminds me I need to scan and post those photographs

waiting for the 97 bus and this guy backed out not with a beep beep reversing alarm but a sort of rushing noise

Marshalls used to be road locomotive steam engines many years ago

MacDonald I wonder if the burger people know?

I feel the bus looks wrong -- too wide?

I got the pictures into the Mac via blue tooth for the first time

I got off at the markets and walked up past St Martins, and headed towards the Apple Store this is in fact a roof sloping at about the same angle of the original hill

at first floor height I took the short cut through BORDERS book store and u nsome escaltors I got my new mouse in Dixons, returned the old one and emerged by the Rotunda in very slight rain - hardly even a shower or a scotch mist

I turned to look back down New Street because I wanted to record that the buildings on the left were totally blitzed and one of my earliest memories of Brum is the last of the old walls being demolished by a man with a sledge hammer standing on the wall he was knocking down - circa 1943

I was being taken to Dudley Zoo by my mother and had to climb over the fire hoses crossing the street damping down the other bombed out shops and department store

Piccadilly Arcade looks all freshened up

I hardly got wet at all by walkng under the trees and in the lee of the buildings

at last our wonderful Town Hall is nearly restored I asked the two workmen when the job would be finished and was told due in August but most likely September

true measure to combat short yard sticks being used to cheat in cloth sales etc, there is a public standard foot, yard , metre and pole

a link is part of a surveyer's chain of 22 yards

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watching le Tour so time for a break

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MacBook Pro and market

shopping cart traffic jam on the bus in

I just thought I should check if the 'puter had come to the Apple shop - YES

tiny calculator on a very big screen but after that it went wrong

Ben repairing the account on the 'puter

I like the tie very much but I no longer wear business suits

lots of software too

took about 3 hours and still not done

aha the loo is over in the corner I had drunk my two pints of tea for breakfast

the quality of the architects' work shows even in these fine toilet door hinges

dear old Lord Nelson I must have been here when I was 5 or 6 years old holding my mother's hand a few weeks after the great victorian market hall got bombed, but they cleared up and did business as usal - in the shell with no roof

and I filled up my wagon with fruits and vegetables chatting with the stall holder I mentioned Copenhagen to COL - he even had worked at Tuborg when he was a student

how I remember blitzed Birmingham - here only demolition

and when I got back to the APPLE SHOP we completed the paper work, got 1 gb more ram put in and I walked out with the MacBook Pro

I took a short cut through Selfridges looking for the lift down to the pavement

and there I was - me myself BIG SHOPPER

I SHOP THEREFORE I AM

YOU WANT IT
YOU BUY IT
YOU FORGET IT

and I found the bridge

and here was the bridge

and looking east

bridge below under GWR tracks at Moor Street Station

from the bull ring bridge

and the markets are behind the buses

happy memories of night photography here with my daughter

on the 97 bus on the way home - a hennaed heel

when I got in I saw the end of Le Tour and drank some iced coffee

then I went shopping for the second time because I needed some bread and fish and meat from LIDL and spotting with rain

and the sun came out as I got home to Merton House

a bit busy

this is my first blog from my new MacBook

time to start walking more

now Le Tour is on TV every afternoon I must walk in the mornings
but starting gently with two sore knees

a ROVER car was outside the front door, this car was one of the last models made at the Longbridge Factory, Birmingham before the chinese took over the remains of the business

this vehicle is used when a flat has to be cleared of furniture but today they were getting rid of a couple of tags in the lift

on the corner

looking back

the new owners have got a new dish

the last faded red poppies and today we remember that on the 1st. July 1916 the Battle of the Somme commenced which was one of the largest battles of the First World War, with more than one million casualties

No Ball Games and a lovely smell of summer grass and flowers

the sound of gurgling water here
made in Sheffield about 40 years ago before that iron and steel industry died

I have never seen flowerbuds on a palm tree outside in the Midlands before

looking downstream from the bridge over Chelmsley brook

looking down from the bridge railing

looking up stream weeping willows reflected

this dog stopped to say hullo and then picked up the empty plastic flask to resume carrying it home

the end of my walk is in sight

But when I went to BOOTS I weighed in at 168.6 kg or 26 stone 7 lbs
so I dropped the idea of a bottle of whisky and some cider