Words for Wednesday, December 15 -- Á Íslandi 1

Please! all reading this go to Elephant's Child's place to find the prompts, read some good stories, and be inspired to write your own.
  This is a challenge, where the old saying "The more the merrier" holds true, therefore: Please, remember to go back, read other peoples' stories there or follow their links back. And please leave a comment after reading. Challenges like this one thrives on interaction.

 This week's prompts are a selection of phrases relating to love and/or relationships.and I could do plain nothing with them, but I had a lot of leftover words from Wednesday, December 1, where I used only say and standing:

   Thread   
    Butterflies
    Unsuitable
    Sea
    Shattered 
And/or
    Press
    Eyelids
    Spaghetti
    Cardboard
    Dumped

Now we're later in time on Susan's timeline than ever before. We're leaving Birch Manor for yet a trip after old apprentices:

Susan and Knud were waiting in the lounge at Copenhagen airport. Susan sat on the edge of the chair. “Relax!” Knud said gently, “we’ll board the plane in ten minutes or so.”
“I know,” Susan said, drawing a big shuddering breath, “But what with the spell thread, the books, and wands and magic paraphernalia in general, passing the customs gave me a major attack of butterflies in the stomach.”
“We got trough with no trouble,” Knud said grinning.
“And don’t tell me you had nothing to do with it,” Susan said more calm now. “It’s not totally unsuitable to use the ‘There’s nothing here-suggestions’ on unsuspecting customs officers. I’m more surprised that it worked. I always used to have everything checked when travelling in days of old.”
“Are you nervous?” Knud asked. “Most of our flight will be smooth, as we’re flying over the sea. No mountains or even high ground until we arrive.”
"No," Susan said. “I’m not really nervous; apprehensive describes it better. I do not like flying, and I do not like going north. You know my preferred holiday would be a slow, easy train travel to Italy in the summer time. But you can’t have everything. If we’re going to save the shattered remains and rebuild the school, we have to travel to Iceland and visit that museum for old Icelandic magic - even if it sounds like the phoniest thing north of Equator.”
“You nailed it, Susan, and I agree on all counts,” Knud said.

5 minutes later they boarded the plane, in the press to get aboard they got separated, but as the plane was not that full after all Susan quickly found Knud's lanky form over the seat rows. One of the assets of having a tall husband, Susan thought to herself, it’s quite hard to get lost. Knud felt her eyes on him, turned and waved at her, he had found their row.

The flight was totally uneventful, Susan dozed while Knud read a book, later he nodded off and Susan pulled out her sketch pad and drew Iceland as she imagined it would be looking, perfect with a smoking volcano in the background. Knud woke up and rubbed his eyelid. “Did you draw a plate of spaghetti?” he asked in a teasing tone.
“It’s lava, stupid,” she grinned, doffing his shoulder with mock blows. “I have no idea how it will be looking, this is my guess.”

Suddenly the plane lurched, the Fasten Seatbelts sign lit and the cardboard box containing Susan’s colours fell over and dumped its contents in her lap.

En slags lykkelig slutning -- A Happy Ending; Kind of

Engang var der et kirsebærtræ i Helsinge. Uglemor nød det hvert forår, dette kirsebærtræ stod nemlig lige ved stoppestedet, når hun skulle hjem og glædede hende med sit oversdådige blomsterflor. Det blomstrede altid tidligt, først i april, også i kolde år.

 🌸

For many years MotherOwl loved this cherry tree. It was situated next to the bus stop where MotherOwl waited for the bus home when shopping. It was always the first sakura to blossom, sometimes as early as the 1st of April.

2014

2016

     Senere på året 2016 blev det desværre blevet slemt beskåret. Det stod i vejen for et stillads og alle grenene blev savet af. Uglemor var trist.
     Men næste år blomstrede det alligevel!

🌸

Some months after this picture the tree was cut down. Repairs at the roof called for scaffolding, and the tree had to part with its branches. Very sad.
   But next year it was defiantly flowering again.

2017

Næste år så det endnu bedre ud.  --  Next year it looked even better

April 2018

Men det endte trist med træet.

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But the tree came to a sad ending.

Juli 2018

     Senere samme år var Uglemor til en udstilling i vores væverforening. Navnet snyder, der bliver ikke kun vævet, der bliver også strikket, hæklet, flettet med pil, filtet, drejet i træ, kniplet og en masse andre ting. Uglemor faldt i snak med en af de dygtige trædrejere. Samtalen kom ind på kirsebærtræ, der er meget smukt, men ikke helt nemt at dreje i, og Uglemor fortalte om det smukke træ, der var blevet fældet for nyligt. Uglemor beklagede at hun ikke havde fået taget sig sammen til enten at spørge om eller bare at stjæle et stykke af stammen, der forsvandt meget hurtigt - den er faktisk allerede væk på billedet her.
     Trædrejeren spurgte så Uglemor om hun vidste, hvor stammen var blevet af. Det gjorde hun naturligvis ikke. Men det gjorde han! Den lå såmænd hjemme i hans udhus og lagrede!
     Uglemor sagde så, at hun meget gerne ville have en skål af det træ, og så glemte vi alt om det.  

🌸

  Later that year MotherOwl was at a meeting in our Weawers' guild - it's not only weawers meeting there, we knit, sew, felt, crochet, plant dye, make willow basket turn wood, and much more. She spoke with one of the really good wood turning people, and the conversation fell on cherry wood, which is very beautiful, and not too easy to work with. MotherOwl lamented her Sakura tree and said that she regrettet not havin stolen or asked for a bit of the trunk to make something from.
   (As you can see from the picture it disappeared very fast)
   The wood turning man asked MotherOwl if she knew where that tree had ended. She did not, but the man did! It was in his outhouse, waiting and curing!
   MotherOwl said that she would very much like a bowl made from this tree, the man said, well yes, of course. And then we forgot all about it.

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For nyligt holdt vi udstilling igen, og Uglemor kom i tanker om kirsebærtræet. Og nu ...

Recently we had yet another exhibition. MotherOwl suddenly remembered the tree. And now ...

Fin, ny sukkerskål  -- Fine new sugar bowl.

Theposekaleidoskop -- Teabag Kaleidoscope

     I søndags så vi et lille udsnit af mine mange theposer. For i snart mange år har jeg samlet og foldet theposer. Så længe, at theposerne har skiftet udseende ikke mindre end fire gange. Her er den samme slags the - jordbærthe - i fire forskellige udgaver.
     Den nederst til venstre har jeg ikke ret mange af, for det look holdt ikke længe. Det er også den model, det er sværest at folde noget pænt af, for de grimme (eller i hvert fald kedelige) bogstaver har det med at vende udad. Der skal foldes skævt.

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  Last Sunday I showed off a tiny bit of my tea bag stash. For many years already I have been collecting and folding tea bags. For so long actually that the tea bags have changed appearance no less than four times. 

  Here is the same kind of tea - strawberry tea - in four different versions. The one on the bottom left is the least common in my stash (I had 84). The look didn't last long. It's also the model that's hardest to fold anything from, because the ugly (or at least boring) letters tend to turn outwards. It has to be folded at a slant.

     Men man kan stadig lave to forskellige firkanter med de samme led. Her er de to forskellige. Hvordan skal de så vendes?  Forskellen er ikke farverne, men hvordan de grønne blade vender.
     Et familie-rundspørge sagde at den orange firkant var den rigtige.

-- ⏍ --

  But you can still make two different squares with the same four teabags. Here are the two different ones. So how should they look?
  The difference is not the colours, but how the green leaves are positioned. A family poll said the orange square was the right one.

Der skal 18 firkanter til en DaVinci-kugle.

-- ⏍ --

It takes 18 squares to make a DaVinci sphere.

     Alle poserne, nogle af dem har før været brugt til forsøg og opgivne projekter. Men der er lige præcis nok - og 5 i overskud!

-- ⏍ --

 All the bags, some of them have been used before for experimenting or abandoned projects. But there are enough - and 5 to spare!

Så blev kombinationsprocessen og puslespillet færdigt. Nu skal der bare foldes og sys.

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 And the decision process and the puzzle was finished. Now I just need some time for folding and sewing.

Words for Wednesday -- The Words

Please! all reading this go to Elephant's Child's place to find the prompts, read some good stories, and be inspired to write your own.
  This is a challenge, where the old saying "The more the merrier" holds true, therefore: Please, remember to go back, read other peoples' stories there or follow their links back. And please leave a comment after reading. Challenges like this one thrives on interaction.

 This week's prompts are a selection of phrases relating to love and/or relationships. You can use some of them, all of them or add your own:


Out of sight, out of mind
Absence makes the heart grow fonder
Puppy love
Love laughs at locksmiths
Love is blind
A face that only a mother could love

So far I've had lots of ideas. Writing will hopefully happen.

Tirsdagstæsk :: Køreplaner

Tuesday Thumping :: Time Tables

   I søndags fik vi nye køreplaner.
    Der er bare et lille men ... De er der ikke endnu:

   Det her er den besked, man får, hvis man vil skrive for eksempel S-togenens køreplaner ud, skærmbillede fra i dag, tirsdag den 14. på DSBs hjemmeside. *
   De siger så, at ændringerne på S-togene er få og små sammenlignet med den gamle køreplan - som de naturligvis har fjernet, da den ikke gælder længere!

* Lokaltogenes og bussernes køreplaner har ligget der en god uges tid eller mere ...  bare til sammenligning.

-- 🚆  🚅 --

  Sunday 12 December we had new time tables. This happens regularly the second Sunday of December. The only thing I do not understand is, that it always comes as a big surprise for those making the time tables for us to use:
  The screenshot tells me - and whomever else goes to the page where the time tables are to be found - that you can have the time tables for ordinary trains in the three parts of Denmark. The metro, S-trains and fast trains / expresses and international trains,... no, they are still being worked on as of today Tuesday 14. I sure hope it's only us not being given the time tables Else I'm afraid chaos will soon follow.
     When asked, they tell that the changes are few and small compared to the old plans - which of course were taken down Sunday, when they weren't the current time tables any more. Sigh.
   Just to put this in perspective, the time tables for all buses and local trains have been accessible on the relevant home pages for almost two weeks in advance.