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Category RAMBLINGS

ramblings

Human Rights?

So Mrs Mayhem is appalled as a Vicar’s daughter, that the word Easter is left out of an​ add campaign. Yet, she pop off to Saudi Arabia and sends her Trade Minister to the Philippines, both countries with VERY questionable… Continue Reading →

Dreaming scarfs

Well this morning one was rather good, very vivid and full of details. Peli and me, was on an over night bus* tour. With random people we knew and some unknowns. The middle of the night – in the middle… Continue Reading →

Lords voted on 9a

Peers have voted by 358 votes to 256, a majority of 102, to guarantee the rights of EU nationals living in the UK after Brexit. Good news, as long as Mayhem plays ball next week. The question still stands how… Continue Reading →

Happy Hangover

Visiting family who voted

Someone wrote on farcebook how their in laws had voted for Brexit and clearly did the “we just wanted the foreigners and Muslims out, we didn’t mean you” bit. They talked about how hard it was for them to be… Continue Reading →

No dinner

Very generally said, three things that victims of being bullied do: 1: Never go back to where it happened, moved away, never meet/speak to the people who did it to them. 2: Seek out revenge, this often never happens as… Continue Reading →

Little known

Rebecca Elizabeth Taylor wrote: Whether you voted Remain or Leave, please be aware that the Home Office are using a little known rule about health insurance to refuse official permanent resident status to EU citizens who have lived, worked and… Continue Reading →

More joy

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/feb/18/eu-citizens-right-to-stay-britain-chaos Oh more stuff that fills me with joy and rejuvenation … NOT!

Down the drain

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/feb/08/mps-reject-brexit-bill-amendment-to-protect-eu-citizens-in-uk Well that just made it feel like 21 years here was flushed down the drain …

New law?

Can’t find a English version. But the Danish parliament just voted. That you are not Danish if you don’t have direct descendancy or is from a non western country even when born there. So my best mate who is a… Continue Reading →

Voted down NC57

Ah bollox! But the way Mayhem and her fellow nutters behaved, I wasn’t really holding my breath. MPs vote down amendment guaranteeing EU nationals right to stay in UK by majority of 42. MPs have voted down NC57, the amendment… Continue Reading →

More nutters

http://www.politico.eu/article/meet-denmarks-new-anti-islam-anti-immigration-anti-tax-party-nye-borgerlige-new-right-pernille-vermund/ Well that fills me with hope and joy … Here I was thinking that the Danish People Party was as nutty as you could get. The damage the DPP already have done, this party ain’t going to help my… Continue Reading →

Mountain to climb

Yup the free and cool country I grew up in – ain’t. The things I read and hear are shocking. Over the twenty+ years I have been outside DK. I have mainly been in the UK with three years in… Continue Reading →

Where are you from?

Hmm, it just hit me that this year alone I have been asked where I’m from more times than I was, since the vote. Which is more than I have been asked since I arrived on these shores. Not asked… Continue Reading →

Some people…

Yesterday when my colleague was opening up shop. He came out of the shop with the sign, which we put at the top of the road. A LOL* who had just parked across the road, on double yellow lines, asked… Continue Reading →

An English Dane

What, what? The Danish government has now enabled the possibility for dual citizenship. And since my wee “look see” over here is going into its 20+ year, I think it might benefit me and to some extent Peli :) if… Continue Reading →

Making your own Kilt

When I first saw the utilikilts.com I knew that I wanted one. And with a weeding coming up that we couldn’t miss, I was searching one evening for photos of kilt to figure out which design I wanted. I also… Continue Reading →

Is this a dagger I see before me?

I have always been fascinated by knives. I can spend hours looking at them in shops and online. I had a trusty Vangedal knife when I was a scout which I somehow sadly lost. I have gone through my fair… Continue Reading →

Feed by Mira Grant

Run Zombies! It is the Zombie Rising! I have always loved to sit down and watch a zombie movies and books about zombies and the age-old question : fast or slow? Can have me talking for hours on end. I… Continue Reading →

Cold Callers

I have learnt that it is good to present yourself when you meet a new person. So you call a random phone number or knock on some random front door. It would be great if you tell the person you… Continue Reading →

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