saturday jan25

Well I put up a birthday date to remember on my reminder on the computer .. the bday was for someone on the west coast of Canada and at 0900 here in France I got a blinking light telling me at this exact time my friend had just had his birthday.. so it was spot on for seconds past midnight of the 25th. These big numbers really give a sense of importance to ones life.. a milestone.. a reminder that one has to get on with ones life. Last year the islanders threw me a marvellous party, half way into the decade it was and now I have to take my own advice and get on with life. This is early saturday morning and the hurly burly of this household is revving up.. three are going skiing this morning, another is making a costume for Carnival which is Feb7 and a large event here, but obviously not to rival Rio deJaneiro. The dog has been walked, the bakery visited, breakfast porridge, eggs all made and consumed. A little child spent the night and is now involved with a complicated board game. There is a shopping list to prepare as C and J leave tomorrow morning for London UK and I am in sole charge and Monday the only shops near by are closed. I am not allowed to drive their cars, it is not that I am not able but that the cars are insured and licenced for only C and J. I watched on IplayerBBC a swedish/danish serial. It was a police vs eco alert nasty people. They were murdering people to make a point about environmental issues. BUT the interesting thing I learned.. and maybe all of the rest of the world knew this, that there is now a huge complicated bridge joining up Denmark and Sweden. The city of Malmo is the Swedish point. The bridge leads to an island and then there is tunnelling . It looks like an engineering feat of great magnitude. It was open to the public in the year 2000.