I can't keep up

becausae I am researching and taking lots and lots of snaps
about 50 or more each day

so are here are some of my favourites from the last week

a self seeded marrow plant

my healthy lunch with "blood thinning " schnaps from Iceland

a first panorama by the Brumleby kostald

morning after the birthday party

not many old Copenhagen manhole covers left

a rose is a rose

three ways of photographing the same flower
Sony Eriksson K800i

I stood here
Brumleby Copenhagen

and used the digital zoom

I then walked in close up my new phone

and snapped this in close with my old phone K600i too

my new phone

the view from my bathroom in Copenhagen when I got up at around noon today

one very wet ape still awaits an answer from the call centre


Brumleby rose
the original has even more pixels

I like this Sony Ericsson 3.2 mega pixels cybershot

the fairy ring

after lunch


childrens' hour on TV


with flash

SNAPS 3 or http://upsrev622.blogspot.com/
has the same picture reduced in size and blogged directly from the phone cam

more research

this morning the painters started on the kitchen side of Blok G Brumleby


Changing the fluorescent ring in the pedestrian crossing sign

his colleague opened the box and turned off the electricity

secrets include two old style fuses

nearly done

NØRREPORT STATION, Copenhagen - I love the quality of the lettering North Gate station is underground

Fiolstræde

fruit stall in front of the old telephone box
but I walked down Nørregade


imported from England HABITAT

R.O.O.M.

Nørregade 12
1165 København K
Tlf: 33 41 44 00 http://www.room.dk/
Hans Axelsson and Klas Litzén started the first R.O.O.M. store 15 years ago with a sincere interest for furniture, design or architecture. One thing was clear to them right from the beginning; if you really, really enjoy what you are doing, things will turn out just fine. The years passed, and Hans and Klas opened stores in Oslo (1997), Gothenburg (2001) and in Copenhagen (2003). http://www.room.se/ Stockholm and Gothenberg, Sweden


but surely not this garden furniture - note the rocking chair


alos from England and Lord Nelson cannon balls in the wall of the house opposite the burned cathedral the english destroyed

these kids photographed me so i snapped them - swedes I think

umbrella time when I came out of the Atheneum bookshop
after I purchased (together 1000 pages)
DEN STILLE PIGE by Peter Hoegh

and HISTORIEN OM BØRNELITTERATUR by Torben Weinreich
danish children's books from 1578 to 1967
a boy in a monastry called a munkling
definitely my word of the day spiderling, duckling - and monkling?

atheneum international boghandelpsykologi, filosofi. pædagogik,english language teaching,engelsk, engelsk skønlitteratur, lingvistik, alternativ helselitteratur, anatomiske plancher, ...
www.atheneum.dk/

the renaissance fountain in the old town square
and I sheltered at the bus stop

draft horses need to be exposed to traffic

but no beer barrels on that CARLSBERG brewers dray

wonderful paveur work, I have not seen that double pattern before

and bus drivers' hell in the medieaval street


In a cafe window

by this bridge to Slotsholm

Kanal Cafeen is frequented by civil servants on the way home from work at the nearby ministeries and a a traditional Danish lunch restaurant
from 1852
jævnligt haft besøg af naboerne på Christiansborg, men restauranten besøges også af turister, skuespillere og unge, som i frokostpausen finder vej til det danske smørrebrød og en opkvikkende snaps.
Kanal Cafeen Frederiksholms Kanal 18 1220 København K


the bridge has old railings but was raised on girders to let the district central heating be connected


the Armoury museum was closed and when I got in to Tøjhuset at 12:00 pm all the expert were on holiday for another two weeks
outside was Hennie Odendaal from South Africa, the detective, marksman. lecturer and collector of automatic weapons

the wooden horse is a traditional punishment
for peasants and soldiers


the other end of the same yard - after I took the long way round


the gable of the armoury from about 1588?
shown to the left in the painting I blogged previously where the Royal Library is


the Royal Library bridge
http://kb.dk/
Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Nationalbibliotek og Københavns Universitetsbibliotek


8 chinese calligraphic styles

kalligrafisk stilarter a mini exhibition


I needed some old reference works on open shelves in the west reading room gallery

too blurred but Borum & Wulf Aps karosseri in Krak vejviser from 1930
I walked through the garden to Rigsarkivet but could not find them easily in the 1930 census without a street address


ducks are on the move to the library gardens

but would not let me get closer

from storage in Glostrup to the National Archives
I needed a wagon to move that lot into the reading room

stambog og stamblad brought out of storage from the FOARK Ministry of Defence archives
but for the 1. artilleri batteri or afdeling and I need the tenth but can't find it in the catalogue see stambog


weather

















today the bus got here first

































blok G brumleby and the painters got a lot done before the rain

the vine has many bunches of grapes

















honeysuckle in my garden















see my BLOOG

BTW this does not hurt very much 1 or 2 on a pain scale of 10 - muscle cramps score 7 or 8


about
dystonia
why I got out of bed and blogged this

rain and thunder in Copenhagen

what a cloudscape!

painters in my garden

and it rained at Lyngbyvej Copenhagen
and I HAD NO UMBRELLA WITH ME.

the goods and personel entrance to Landsarkivet København LAK



four winds?the magazine

oops
a beautiful door
do the three towers mean this was built by Copenhagen town?


closed
open


I will be in there in a while

died in 1945
I must transcribe this

Copenhagen Overpresidium divorces and Sorø churhc book with births

looking out
through the window above

iron shutters are locked

the old telephone tower has been stripped of the old antenna


which will come first, the rain or the number 18 bus?

the rain

seen from the bus


the bus atop for number 15


a very wet cycle path but thunder roared so I hurred away from under the trees


the rain shows the colours of the granite setts


typical rill across a Copenhagen pavement leading rainwater into the gutter

cat sheltering on a Brumleby doorstep

my rose looked good in the soifter light


my kitchen door and the ivy saved from the gable of F block during renovation

sunday evening at dusk

cosy in Copenhagen
Brumleby settling down to sleep

after a heavy rain storm

best indoors

rainy weather in Denmark

I took this picture on the fourteenth of August to show how green everything has become after three days of incessant rain in Copenhagen, just like the Emerald Isle - Ireland - or west Wales, where it usually rains a lot too, as the water laden winds from the Atlantic ocean rise over the higher ground and cool below the dewpoint.

outside my kitchen door

Part of my photo blooging style is to start with a locational image to show what the weather is like - often a bus stop in England or these gardens in Denmark

and its image url seems to have reached a limit
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1424/216/1600/DSC00001.99.jpg

The image name DSC00001 is the first picture of a Sony digital photo session has been used 99 times as the result of garbage caused by failed uploads and it looks like 100 or 101 etc to 999 are not envisaged by the google engineers connected with the set up of the server photos1
which means I have spent several hours this sunday morning editing older blogs as a clean up.

I was intrigued by my own intuitive chice of words, so I made this
incessant rain - Google Search
to see if the spelling was correct, and the phrase seems to be most popular in indian english newspapers - monsoon time?

Now I have to rename all similar images for newer blogs and re-upload to repair the confusion

saturday noon in Copenhagen Ø

I had a great time yesterday. because I was a night taxi driver I had not been on the streets of Østerbro fro may years - I would be in bed all day every day.

I had no idea how lively and pleasant the quarter could be.

this shows the new neighbour Parken - the danish national football stadium - towering above Brumleby
It is partly financed by the office blocks on each corner.

a fairy ring
and my friend's garden
there has been more trees here many years ago giving rise to the fairy ring
as the roots decay in the ground.

I was surprised to find a flea market in full swing

this stall belongs to my upstairs neighbour
who suplements his pension by dumpster diving

and this one to another neighbour

coming out to Østerborgade and the MATAS store in the background

Loppe marked
in fact one of three

looking back in from the side walk

thank you guys for the help
http://www.3.dk/
is where I get my cell phones from

genial mobil
indeed with MS Messenger and Blogger too
so expect a picture quality upgrade in about a week

3 Butikken
Østerbrogade 92
2100 København Ø



a very stylish Avenu bike


secured by a U shaped lock - which has to be approved by your insurance company


this broad red reflector is a life saver

and the white reflector is brighter than any cycle lamp seen from a car drivers seat

outside this stylish shop


Zerododici of Benetton
Østerbrogade 100
2100 København Ø
Tlf: 35 55 35 29


I went in to look for the bike's owner for a snap but they were too busy serving customers
for me to dream of wasting their time.

Matas is quite like a chemists shop, but has no dispensery because of the centuries danish official royal monopoly


Helosan is nicknamed cow udder ointment
"kopatte salve" - Google Search
and has helped me with skin rashes and a bruised big toe nail

a stylish black stone counter top but when I am nevous about people's privacy I get blurred pictures

my other essential ointment - Anjo urtecreme - Google Search
good for cracked skin on heels for example

past the flower shop

and on to
a wine shop - I just fancied some port
like my granny used as a gargle for sore throats

and an ecological market in Skt Jacobs Plads

bread made without yeast and fat reminded me of the bread made in the Brish Army cookhouses in the 1950ies
rather dry even if dipped in olive oil

this singer was singing ballads in swedish

the litle guy looked a little worried then decided I was OK with beard and all. and smiled and waved arms and legs


I was tempted by the hot sausages but went across the street towards NETTO

the english style victorian Skt Jacobs church

kids and adults playing and being recuited for Frivilligt Drenge- og Pige-Forbund
which is sort of local evangelical scouts, or Church Brigade, founded in Denmark in 1902

• Pusling: 5 - 7 år - years old
  
• Tumling: 7 - 9 år
• Pilt: 9 - 11 år
• Væbner: 11 - 13 år
• Seniorvæbner: 13 - 15 år
• Senior: 15 - det halve år man fylder 19 år

and quite important as source of brass band instrument players in danish cultural life.
I FDF findes der groft opdelt tre slags musik: Tamburkorps Brassbands og Multimusik
http://fdf.dk/

http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/FDF

and wedding parties

no safety wall if kids are going to fall off no one will sue anyone
http://www.opoghop.dk/ - up and jump op-og-hop pronounced op o' hop

I usually drink this cheap wine in liter boxes from NETTO

I went baack to the market to get coffee beans after I got some cash back in NETTO
from this young american from Winconsin who is married with kids living in the countryside north of Roskilde. http://www.justcoffee.dk/

the skeleton on a bicycle brand
Pedalkraft blanding




sharing with an organic wine stall






the street has been narrowed from 4 to 2 lanes and is much slower and safer
we used to hear car after car crashing into each other when one stopped for the crossing

and it was so quiet back in Brumleby after the saturday throng


a peek in the old Commando house where the administrator used to live

green and rainy

this wet weather makes the grass grow greener
and I took bus 1a into the town

the bus stopped at the traffic lights by Den Fri art gallery
where van Gogh and Gauguin exhibited years ago

this doorway by the bus stop where I get off to go to Slotsholm used to be the Skipper's laug
a guild of ships captains but is now part of Den Danske bank headquarteers complex

not many passengers for the canal sight seeing even with a lid on

I cross this bridge every time I go to the Rigsarkiv
Rigsdagsgården 9
1218 København K

today I dropped in to the offices see if the secretary of the Danish National Archivist was in

Rigsarkivet
Johan Peter Noack, Rigsarkivar is the man in charge, but his secretary was not in and the receptionist refered me to Poul Erik Olsen, Chefkonsulent of the Rigsarkivarens sekretariat


they have a brand new reception area but the very helpful young woman chose to hide behind her computer
Because the Rigsarkivar's secretary was on holiday, I asked for a press officer to discuss the 1880 census, which is coming on line as images and is both a milestone of progress and a benchmark of success.

A tall and athletic dane was called, he cycles to and from work, who turned out to be Chefkonsulent Poul Olsen and he suggested we go to the reading room to use a computer there and we had a very successful meeting.
He explained to me for historical reasons that there is no such thing as Crown Copyright in Denmark and I showed him my site DNKCEN Denmark Census with the deep linking problems and some other census sites.

Afterwards I went to see if the records I had ordered have arrived yet,
but got distracted by this open doorway

to the new self service stacks in the census archives store room

and I had a nice chat with fellow family historian Folmer Riis who had travelled all the way from Assens on the island of Fyn to use the original documents of the 1925 and 1930 danish censuses in here

wet weather

in Copenhagen

failed photo upload again

early morning in Copenhagen Ø

one building in Nørrefrihavnsgade but with two owners and an uncoordinated colour scheme


8:00 am - but I thought this NETTO would be open like the schools and factories

so I decided to go for a stroll instead of shopping

I like these strings of green glazed bricks amongst the yellow copenhagen stock bricks

see london "stock bricks" - Google Image Search the yellow colour is because the geology of the two cities is very similar with yellow boulder clay over chalk layers - from which the similarly hard water is pumped.

a plain gable transformed into a work of art

empty bottles are worth money
so I bagged them

Autumn IKEA catalogue to be distributed - and I grabbed one

there is one graffiti every 3.5 meters in Copenhagen

my daughter laughed when she saw this snap - she might even know the artist in the Nørrebro skate board and youth subculture

this 4 x 4 is a passion wagon - but rusting out

an ex military job

three floors means old, but with a new roof apartment, but the building to the right replaces a little two floor house

I do like this elegant cast iron window frame with fine glazing bars in an old factory


the old factory is a kind of school for out of work young people


one more older house survives


outside a church
I love the colour combination

I like the rustic bench, I am looking for inspiration for my own little garden, but the venetian mirror is missing some bits


doggy comfort station - not that dogs care - only humans

smørbrød ready for packing into lunch boxes

Bager Bosse is a master baker and a leading member of the Copehagen Guild of Bakers

Københavns Bagerlaug which has roots back to 1290

københavns bagerlaug - Google Search


Inside there is a wonderful smell of fresh baked bread
and many happy memories of fetching fresh warm "morning bread" - morgenbrød - Google Image Search - before my family ate breakfast - in England I have to bake it myself especially on a sunday.
When I was very poor I got yesterday's one day old bread here very cheaply.

the door to the right is where you get bread in the very early morning on the way home from a DISCO by knocking on the door of the bake house roomed at the back of the premises

I got an enormous cabbage for 20 kroner
the moslem (?) who served me has a drinking problem which he tried to disguise by emptying a can of beer into a pineapple juice can before sipping it at about 8:30 am.

I got here at 8:50 am and sat on the geen boxes to await the opening of our neighbourhood NETTO


On the opposite side of Østerbrogade I feasted my eyes on this green copper roofed appartment block from 1906 -- note the painted shop sign to the right for the dispensing chemists which used to be here


this newspaper delivery boy stopped by to ask me if I was still a mac-freak
because he too has sold his PC and got an intel dual processor mac

I had to sit down twice on the way home and sleep for an hour before I was ready to got to town and the city archives.



København Rådhuset

Copenhagen school records are in the archives

CLICK here to see whatI searched

in the great hall a cat walk had been set up for COPENHAGEN FASHION WEEK

computer free saturday

one old bench surives at Østerport station

also architect designed
one of my themes is outside benches and street furniture


wooden columns in earth colours

the gallery is closed but what a wonderful electroleer in the station hall


closer


and more beautiful wooden doors
the staircase suddenly stopped moving when I was nearly at the bottom - a shock and a new experience.


bad news working on track replacement today

GOOGLE MAP CLICK

this swedish girl just stepped out
my Hillerød train came up on the board really quickly

not the best tags


and under the bridge from which I blogged on my way to Hellerup
I like these reverse shots showing where I was to take a photo looking the other way
and this is an aerial view of the bridge at Svanemølle CLICK

and the bench I rest on
in Ryvangs Allee

missed the little grey box with the face on it

running into Hellrup station with the bus drivers' rest room in that old station building


we waited for this local train to arrive on the light railway branch



from Jagersborg, via Lyngby to Nærum

sneaking a look at my fellow passengers click to make bigger

note the old rails used to support the fence at Holte


a more traditional branch line train runs from Hillerød to Helsingor


Hillerød station is where three lines meet

on google maps

at the Hillerød bus station a driver said 2 hours before the roads will be open
so I started walking towards the castle

til slottet

click to see the copper green roof of Hillerød slot

only the elegant cellar windows survive

the house owner gave me permission to snap his granite bench

was this a factory or a school originally - now a youth centre


I admired the elegant chimney and the single floor houses are of the oldest type


what are these marble statues doing here?

I waited on the corner

for my friends to pick me up
and drive me out through the forest to SÆTTERDAMMEN google map

and KRAK

the co-operative's hens have eggs

Sættedam


Ellen and Eugene took me to their home

everywhere this prehistoric plant finds a cozy damp patch


windfalls are neglected these days
they could be apple sauce or even cider

where the Royal Library is

no time for a big blog today I was busy in the archives and writing up the results

detail of a mural on the stairs in Copenhagen Town Hall

on the left below the windmill on the city's wall is a large battery of cannons
this still exists under the large warehouse pictured yesterday in the background of the flat fountain fourth photo down in I love this library

the little square harbour has been fillled up and is the garden outside the national archives with the tall fountains in my blog post I love this library

the second photo shows the location of the harbour entrance aprox betweeen the two towers

therefore the statue on a pillar is about where the latest library has been built.

the long building behind the middle mast of the sailing ship was a provisions warehouse used by the Danish National Archives of today

the similar building to the left of the little square harbour is the Armoury Museum, Tøjhuset.

In the top right hand corner is the old Copenhagen Castle of which the foundations can still be seen in the cellar of the danish parliament palace Christiansborg.

The mural is based on an old engraving of a prospect of Copenhagen titled in latin:-
Hafnia urbs et caput Daniae est (Anglice Copenhagen, Danice).

on my way this morning

I slept long but it was a beautiful afternoon when I got going

Brumleby Boiler Room - no smoke or flames just a heat exchanger on the district heating system



A very special cycle with a good back support


knallert wizzing past the bus stop - a 50cc flying hair dryer


the Royal Academy of Art frowns on some tasteless photos

What's up? Just getting ready to get some empty pallets off the top floor by the flag pole.

Do you really nead all that gear just to change a light bulb?


not a church but an art gallery


yes


waiting for a trip roung the harbour and canals

full up


and straight past

Slotsholm

Danish National Archives

up the cool stone stairs to the first floor

in the old warehouse formerely used for provisioning the danish royal navy about 400 years ago

http://www.sa.dk/ra/

MILITÆRE STAMBØGER 1747 - 1900

a basic leaflet but I am into 1908 1914 to 1916






I received excellent help from the duty archivist

You have to learn to use an index register to the indexes

I have an outline of his career from the conscription records and now I am looking for the details.

then fill in a form starting FOARK


Fra omkring 1900 gik man over til stamblade og stamkort, der senere er blevet sorteret personbestemt og ikke enhedsbestemt som oplysningerne i stambøgerne.

sounds like I have ordered a lorry load of stuff OOPS

Daisy - Dansk Arkivalieinformationssystem
Find oplysninger om arkiver i Statens Arkivers samlinger
Søg i www.daisy.sa.dk

Forsvarets Arkiver (FOARK), Det dansk-engelske Rekrutteringskontor 1945 to 1947 going back tomorrow !!

1785

1990

Det Kongelige Garnisonsbiblioteks Billedsamling

these files are just the old listing of the ministry of defence archives


I am looking for the service records of Karl Dane the hollywood film star

they are not filmed and warehoused out of town
allow three working days to get the documents


the reading room is on the first floor to the left and the door is the public entrance.

I love this library

Det Kongelige Bibliotek København K - Copenhagen Denmark
is an amalgamtion of Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Nationalbibliotek og Københavns Universitetsbibliotek

the garden replaces an old navy harbour

the second Royal Library

no ducks here and too hot to sit out and eat a packed lunch.

modern fountains and the great barn-like warehouse in the background is full of the reserve collection of the armoury museum

the bridge contains the enquiry desk and the loan counter - you may borrow duplicate copies
after reopening my library card I took the jump seat in the elevator and got out two floors higher .
The photographic department was closed.

mirrored
looking down at the information desk and the loan counters

I had just crossd the street on that corner

tourist traffic in the harbour

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down again - I peeped into the old catalogue room
I was embarressed when I couldn't read the handwritten cards, little did I know that they were written in gotisk script which I continue to wrestle with daily as a genealogist

the old catalogues have been replaced by REX: online katalog, to which we used to dial up and log on as a terminal.
NB REX og Cosmos lukket d. 4.-16. august.

I pressed my nose against the glass pane in the door to the old reading room, like a child locked out of a sweatshop.
I have many happy memories of studying viking history, and more than twenty years ago, the original manuscripts of the great danish composers. This lovely old reading room is closed until the university students return in September and then they may bring their own books to study and write their "special" - or thesis

back to reality and typically the reference works I wanted to use are shelved upstairs in the west reading room

click to see some of what I was researching

going home to Brumleby

this hot dog was lying on his tummy cooling off

leaving the Royal Library

I went my way before the dog shook the water off himself - I grew up with spaniels


bus 901 and 902

I took my Sony handicam out whilst I was waiting click here


the enetrance to the canal around the old castle

another grey haired passenger with a bus pass

tho old library is red brick and the new is the BLACK DIAMOND
I went aft and up on the tiny deck at the stern

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the king admired Venice and had this canal made in imitation to the warehouses of Christianshavn

bigger

Langebro does not need to lift fot us

smoky old diesel soubnds very worn and is running to press the bows to the bus stop

from Japan

under the bridge

bigger


an outdoor floating stage - for rock music?



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Nyhavn is famous for beer these days, but was once a working harbour, and a sailors hell with bars, hookers and tattoists - now just hell for the Swedes

another new theatre on the site of the Bornholm ferry terminal

the other water bus

marble church with the dome, and the royal palaces

the new opera house

in case of fire in the engine room, under my feet


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the cranes from the navy yard still stand after the basin has been filled in

bigger

launches loaded up ready to go by road



the end of the line
I have to walk 400 metrers to catch a 1a bus

bye bye bus boat

noisy cruise ship
sounded its BIG horn - from Norway ?

this used to be a ships' chandlers which looks like another office in half cellar

Valkyrie by Winding 1901 Paris (I think)

at last a seat to sit on by my bus stop


temptation in Øster Allee

I was too lazy to wait in line so avoided buying an ice-cream this time

holyhocks going to seed

the caretaker's office

just happened to be late open on a thursday, so I arranged with the caretaker (one of three gardmænd or pladsmænd) for my bathroom to be painted after a spring clean

his cactus getting a drink

opening times


looking back

some one has green fingers in Brumleby

walking to Hellerup

click any of them for a bigger picture

I wanted to see my doctor about my sore right knee, her surgery is 3 floors above this estate agent on Østerbrogade , Copenhagen but she was still on holiday until next monday.


so I decided to walk towards Charlottenlund and see how I was feeling
never more than 500 meters from a bus stop or a train station, meant that I could break off my walk any time if it was too ambiteous.


the Taco Shop people are on holiday too
Such a success story - two austraalians could not get work, so they invented this business unique in Copenhagen, Did their own sign writing too.


Time for a break at the end of Jagtvej - no pigeons to be seen.

opposite me after i sat down. this massive renevation of stucco and painting
Rubin Stuk og Søn ApS. Peer Rubin. Sydmarken 48. 2860 Søborg
stukkaturfaget stukkatur - Google Image Search

further on --- a carved doorway

and a pair original entrance doors to the appartments above


and an original shop door - probably in finest finnish pine (grown slowly north of the arctic circle)


I am still a train spotter at heart - the s-train is red from thje suburbs and the express will be going to the airport and Sweden

vegitation


I love to look in to holes in the road -here at Svannemølle

no geology - just sand - and fixing the big pipes for the district heating

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the flag of shame hangs low at this embassy

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at last another place to sit down
the yellow sign says HELLERUP

this thrilled me last year - I am glad it survived


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crossing Tuborgvej

at last Hellerup train staion and bus interchange

the old Hellerup station has a rest room for bus drivers too.

last time I walked this way Wednesday, August 03, 2005

my friend Hedvig picked me up in her little car

and after eating we fixed a page on http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hedvig/
this one ushkas_album.html
Olga Dorothea Henriette Meyer, née Baumgarten,

washing done

this old wash house has been in use for about 160 years
the old boilers and wash tubs are long gone

safe storage of bycycles is important in Brumleby and Copenhagen, and because Denmark is so flat it makes sense to cycle and keep fit.


4 washing machines and two dryers my stuff is finished after two hours, and I left the white bowl in case another resident needed to empty the machine - but instead of going for a walk - with my new nordic poles - i saw some TV at a friends appartment in the thunderstorm and downpour.

but I use my bathroom as a drying space - best in winter when I can turn the radiator up fully

wash day

this post has been moved to http://not-googled.blogspot.com/ because it became a rant about deadly slow photo uploads
and I couldn't delete it in Firefox on Mac OS