garden bench

the last two of nine cans of beer, which I found in Helsingborg in the park on my trip to Sweden

this design is copyright but ok for private use
I am going to keep the bench indoors until it is painted

the New York taxi mug was a present from a client for whom I arranged a genealogy tour of Denmark

this is the last blog here until I get sorted back in England
so better check my videophone blog for my latest news http://upsrev622.blogspot.com/
which worked from Sweden so I will see what happens at BHX
if this blog seems dead

junk in my bathroom

stage one
cutting and assembling
and at last I can get a shower

sketches

first design
final design which got modified anyway

books and bars in Copenhagen

the law students are back in town


Atheneum bookshop

I ate two red and one curry medister sausages to line my stomach


handy hooks for shopping bags


publisher to the left and bar to the right
in the street Clariboderne named for the St Claire Nuns

Bo-Bi is the dog
Bobi bar was closed - it used to be open 11 00 am to 01 00 am
I play chess and read the papers here - my local of old

display window owned by the bar - BITCH FASHION


PALÆ bar was open - named for the old telephone exchange famed for jazz

I had two large beers and went home to sleep
painting by the late LOTHAR

great atmosphere

circus in the morning

just the right light in Brumleby















a lovely day in Copenhagen










out to Øster Alle

København











by the post office steps in Triangelen


menage with shetland ponies
and the smell of stables









goats


















dogs and kids













sculptor with elephant











more kids

a whole kindergarten in fact












looking at the back ends of some hungry camels


















this one came by for a short stroll
I felt that I was being inspected

























Mercedes replaces the showman's steam engines of old









and a fire engine

no Dumbo here











one row of older vans













window cleaning at the box office

junk, plums and an old sleeping bag

my neighbour admired this 25 year old pattern when I washed and hung this old sleeping bag out to dry

soft plums get eaten first and are sweetest


fmore than enough for the next three days

in my double shed to the right

and to the left -- I remember that 12 years ago 5 families shared each of these outside toilets from 1890

the wood I need has been there 10 years and is at the back

the two beech wood rollers with cast iron cogs are from a dis-assembled cast iron framed mangle which was also used by an artist for print making from linocuts, wood cuts and etchinmgs

out on the pavement

and packed in again in Brumleby, Copenhagen

The old lumber in my bathroom is ready to be cut down, and I am going to use the broken iron framed chairs as the basis of a new garden seat

birthday

I enjoyed this so much that as well as posting on SNAPS 3
I exceptionally post this snapshot here too

big sunflowers are better than the short stemmed commercial varities

Dahlias remind me of my maternal grandfather Alfed Thomas LAPHAM, who used to grow them at Grey West, Marsh Common, Pilning, Gloucestersgire
and sell them to passing motorists from a bucket by his garden gate


I can imagine a face

pavement gardening

what can be done with plant containers

modem as rubbish now Brumleby has broadband


an antiquated electrical distribution system in Hvidovre

War Memorial in Hvidovre

a test of the phone camers for photographing memorial inscriptions but a grey day maybe helped













young guests now we are six













the child's own garden from which I am eationg fresh carrots

















plums were falling off the tree so I am gorging myself on them

















two girls crteated this but her mother was very cross
DON'T PICK THOSE FLOWERS !!!


If things go according to plan I will be back in UK by Wednesday afternoon

check my videophone blog for the latest news http://upsrev622.blogspot.com/
if this blog seems dead

I have to spell the text letter by letter because I am not an SMS user so SNAPS 3 is terse
I usually limit myself to one picture each day and the blog is set to show 3 posts so it is adapted to a mobile phone's browser

I have changed my ISP again and it may take a couple of days to get the new connection working
all my email has a web mail facility so I can use any old computer at a libray or web cafe to answer my correspondents

this evening in Sweden

I took the train to Helsingør, Hamlet's Elsinore
and a ferry to Helsinborg

climbed up to the old castle tower

and down a lot of steps (ow my knee)
a beer and a pear cider later
took the ferry back to Denmark, train and 1a bus home again to Brumleby, Copenhagen.

this is place holder blog in random order 10 of the nearly 100 snaps that I took - see SNAPS TWO for the sunset

arrival hall in Sweden

in the bar afterwards
the old castel tower at top of the hill

customs had gone home

pear cidee perry and two kinds of swedish lager by Spendrup brewery

leaving Denmark

view looking north west from the top
also in my videophone blog SNAPS 3


and sailing by Hamlet's castle

on board

swedish birthday cakes for kids

bad idea?

more experiments

In the morning I went to Rigsarkivet the Danish National Archives

the lighting set up
and the file about a divorce in 1903 to 1908 which I had ordered last week was ready for me.

I used the Sony Ericxsson K800i instead of my notebook
below a small selectition of the documents

a true copy of a report of a meeting in the Overpræsidium sent to Justitsministriet
There is more in Landsarkivet for Sjælland, Lolland-Falster og Bornholm
both a register and a file which had the number of this Justice Ministry file.


Anna Gottlieb's first plea seeking a divorce

She is the mother of the film star Karl Dane
his older brother was 18 and she got custody of her younger son

http://karl-dane.blogspot.com/
and HIS FAMILY TREE Karl Dane

the signature of Anna Gottlieb

with the camera in closer the colour is closer to the original






the whole of her husband's statement

in which he writes of his problems with alcohol and the misuse of money.









and the signature of Rasmus Marius Gottlieb








the parish priest states he had counselled the pair

as obliged by law






then I went home and slept and awoke in time to watch TV
Cycling - Eurosport
Torrelavega (Velódromo Oscar Freire) - Burgos, 173,6 Kms.

Web Oficial de la Vuelta a España 2006 - Official Web Site Vuelta a España 2006


much later in the evening back at Brumleby I decided to experiment with and without the built in flash

with gamma correction made in Mac OS Preview 3.0.7 and taken by very weak light overspill from Parken the danish national football stadium

the snake using the cell phone camera inbuilt flash on automatic


ambient light only

the test roses with flash and very slight gamma adjustment

the marrow is growing well
unretouched
it was too dark to see the composition of the picture, but the camera illuminates closer objects with a weak red light before taking the snap shot

afterwards

I had forgotten to post a letter, so I went out to the post box in Østerbrogade


the main entrance at Østerbrogade 57

night panorama in Copenhagen

the gamma was slightly adjusted in Preview

as is

the meeting

I went into mødesalen "Kostalden" mod Øster Allé (1897 af Andreas Clemmensen)

Beboegermode of Brumleby residents in our hall

after the Powerpoint presentation of the accounts BUDGET AFGIFTER the discussion began

this play ground is limited and needs redevelopment
Børnegruppen showed designs by www.hampus.dk

EU-standarderne: DS/EN 1176 & 1177 from 1991 are applicable
http://ec.europa.eu/ but where ?

these stones brought here by glacier 20 000 years ago from Norway
take up too much space and are a risk to falling childrens' teeth and bones


the eye

slangemøbel - serpent
"Stone serpent.
Seating and play space.
Unhewn stone, some places cut and polished by www.rudilarsen.dk
Brumleby, Copenhagen. Inaugurated 1996."
A playground beneath the lime trees, the stones are glacial erratics,
mostly granites from Sweden and Norway, found in the underlying boulder clays, when the new water pipes and sewers were laid.
and they were sculpted by Helle Vibeke Steffensen a citizen of Christiania.

a proposal to take about one third of this lawn for more play space LEGEPLADS was firmly opposed

I suggested that the stone snake be sold at an art auction - and this will be looked at - if it appeals to a wealthy collector (or two or three) in Japan for example, the money could be used to pay for better equipment for the children.

Sony Ericsonn K800i

to compare colour and light and how the new camera performs

a sunny day after a shower of rain - 4 September 2006

a grey and cloudy day, 5 september 2006

see the same bush blogged a rose is a rose on the 28 August 2006

walking in a Copenhagen park

Brumleby graffiti

and a wonderful flower


grrrrrrr

the old cavalry barracks - are the broken window panes for fishing for a beer?

Borgermester Jensens Allee


Jean Gauguin - football player - has the same kind of leather six studded boots I wore in the 1950ies

Jean Gauguin AKA: Jean René Gauguin
born Paris, 12-04-1881 - and died København, 21-04-1961, billedhugger
danish sculpt0r Litteratur -- Weilbach -- Værker

in wet weather the fungii flourish

looks like designer sketches for graffiti and tags

on this bench


something about sowing and reaping

the corner of a bridge across an arm of the lake

looking to the south east - the raft is an oxygenation thingy


I sat on a bench like this by afdeling O (of the hospital) and made my mobile blog
SNAPS 3 for today
2 error mesages but one post made it anyway


not a stable with a hay loft, but an elegant public toilet

the paddling pool is closed because of technical probelems

too bad - and the temporary inflatable pool cover lives on

Skateren
I was looking for my daughter

with a good atmosphere

a general view of the easy part of the skateboard park


but this looks really high - can my daughter use this?

great graffiti

and on the other end
www.myspace.com/clean2

clean graffiti site:dk - Google Image Search
or explore http://www.paint.dk/


this little house has a wooden shingle roof

at the back
and to the left

to the right - the phone cam flash went off

in a spiral staircase


whicj goes down to the "secret" tunnels between the hospitals


road kill but not unlike a fossil record of a primative bird

keep the town clean please


party is over



I think this was once a bandstand, but wind music lost out to a summer seasonal cafe

my daughter and her friends taking a well earned break from their skate boarding


this ambulance dropped by - nobody hurt but a firman's friend was here

study in perspective 1



perspective study 2


study 3

the hot dog stand was closed


ready to be loaded


and this one from Sweden

three days

by the danish parliament in Copenhagen


lamps and trees

and a king

archives by the barrow load - all wrong

an end paper from about 1900

finished for that day

2cv or bike?

bus 15 double decker

and a seat at the front


two cyclists were waitng to turn left at Nyhavn

the circus is in town
Cirkus Dannebrog - Danmarks Nationalcirkus

see the magpie bathing by my door


and splashing

rain made Brumleby greener



my tiny garden this morning

with light reflected from the window

and new bamboo from Charlottenlund

paveur brolægger is repairing the damage done by the painters
paveur - Google Image Search


nice idea - bottle post by balloons - too bad about the missing message

after another day at the archives and home by water bus 901


I collect textures

by Nyhavn warehouses became a hotel

Jubii the danish Yahoo has an office here
Jubii Danmarks mest benyttede søgemaskine til danske ressourcer.


ship not a boat
Georg Stage schoolship

all very clean

Georg Stage - Google Image Search

and a couple of traineesfinished with that trip


Churchill is not forgotten


temptation


bench behind the museum of the resistance and the cafe

fat ladies looking after the wounded woman
Bernard Reder 1897-1963 "bernard reder" - Google Image Search
from Rumania he studied for three years at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. The next seven years he made a living carving cemetery monuments and creating his stone sculptures on the side in his hometown of Czernowitz. In 1930 he moved to Prague because of anti-Semitic demonstrations. In 1935 Reder had his first solo exhibition at the gallery of Manes, an association of artists in Prague. Two years later he moved to France and lived near the sculptor Maillol who befriended him. He exhibited at the Wildenstein Gallery in Paris in 1940 but had to flee Paris; all the works in his studio were later destroyed by the Germans.

He traveled to Spain and then Havana, Cuba in 1941. Reder worked on woodcuts and drawings at this time. He arrived in New York in 1943, acquired a Guggenheim fellowship, was shown regularly at the Whitney Museum and was shown at the Philadelphia Museum in 1949.

Reder's bronze works have included musical subjects, and biblical and religious figures based on Jewish traditions. In 1960 Reder received a Ford Foundation grant and in 1962 was awarded membership in the Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1961 he was given a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum and for the first time in its history the museum devoted three of its floors to a single artist. Reder's works are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Jewish Museum in New York City; the National Gallery, Washington, D.C. and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

the ducks will eat from your hand

very tame ducks here and in Tivoli too

in british army battle dress

and into Kastellet the Copenhagen Citadel

the gate is from 1663
I located Det Kongelige Garnisonsbibliotek
- i daglig tale KGB - er et hærspecifikt forskningsbibliotek

åbningstider: Mandag og onsdag: Kl. 13.00 - 18.00
Tirsdag og torsdag: Kl. 13.00 - 16.00


and my phone camera was out of memory

see also
SNAPS 3 posting directly from my Sony Ericsson mobile telephone 0045 31241936
and
SNAPS TWO. using my Sony HandiCam with the Zeiss 40x digital zoom lens .