Tag Archives: Denmark

Danes, Englishmen, The Killing, killing a giraffe – and your kids

The Killing, a giraffe and your kids – why shooting Marius in the head may be good for children Ok, that headline is from a sub, but the rest of a recent article about Marius the Giraffe and how it … Continue reading

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Photos: Danish libraries – inside and out

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My first ‘adult job’ (before that I’d had some atrocious jobs, including an evening-gig as Fowl Abattoir Cleaner…yes, that’s a title….which was like the cleaning version of Holiday on Ice…especially if they had been slaughtering ducks during the day…) had … Continue reading

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Supermarket gets Santa ever so slightly wrong (or: shows him getting oral satisfaction on the shelves)

The Danish CO-OP may have brought a smile to some people’s lips with a recent pixie/Santa doll that hit the shelves here in the early run-up to Christmas. The reason why people were smiling? Well, here’s the figure in question: … Continue reading

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According to this, company logos and country flags are confused

Marketing people know that colours are one of the best ways of conveying emotions. We naturally associate feelings with them. This association varies from culture to culture, but this graph/illustration makes some general observations about what colours mean in the … Continue reading

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Photos: Playing with power

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My dad’s place is just next to Energymuseet, which translates into the Energy Museeum. They have loads of interesting old stuff. Here are a couple of slightly manipulated pictures from their exhibitions:

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Photos: a canoe, an hour and our lake – plus ducks

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Visiting home at the moment, and had an hour to go out on the lake that my dad’s house lies down to in a canoe. Can’t be bad 🙂

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Photos: Close to home

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Spending a couple of weeks in Denmark, at my dad’s place. Here are a few shots from his garden:

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Photos: Copenhagen, Assistens KirkegĂĄrd

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Assistens KirkegĂĄrd lies in the centre of Copenhagen, in the Nørrebro district of the city. In it, you find the graves of some of Denmark’s most famous sons and daughters, including poet and writer Hans Christian Anders, philosopher Søren Kirkegaard … Continue reading

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Sometimes I think I should go back

Photo by: jimg944 I moved to my current home in Albion about a year ago. Before that, I spent a good ten years living in one of the most smug capitals in the entire world. Mind you, we had (and … Continue reading

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Brits seek Dane’s help to make politics a better bore

Photo by: Troels Dejgaard Hansen I just read this piece on the BBC website, which claims that the Danish TV-series Borgen is all the rage in Westminster. According to the BBC’s Chief Political correspondent, Norman Smith, who is the author … Continue reading

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