Spring or summer?

 

I remember the beginning of one June long ago, I do not know why I think it was 7th of June. I cannot have been much over 10. I was running to a shop, the first time without a coat. I was thinking how wonderful it was that it was summer at last.

Nowadays, like this year, it is often warm halfway to May. This year it got really warm, 23 to 24 degrees Celsius. on 25th of May. On Friday, after two days, it will be June. It is already much colder,the night two days ago, it was 0 degrees.

The spring was ery early this year, the leaves started to grow in the birches a couple of weeks earlier than usual. I love so much the gentle green of the young leaves.

 

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Eurovision

Watching the giving of points. I love Estonia and Malta and of course they are not getting much points at all. Sweden is still on top but Azerbaijan get so many again. Serbia is second when half of the countries have voted. Again Slavic countries are giving most points to Slavic countries. Serbia at least has a good melody.
Later. Sweden the great winner more than 80 points over the Russians. Good but more because of the performance than the music. It is often said: 'The melody is soon forgotten'. I cannot remember Sweden's, would never had happened with ABBA's songs.
Poor England and Norway are the last with 8 and 7 points. But then Finland did not even reach the finals.

Misleading advertizing

Outside a petrol station there was an advertisement showing four different kinds of Royal Ice cream. There were quite  large letters saying "Royal-is, halv pris,  11 kroner". There was some text underneath and on top, with much smallet letters and not as clearly written. On top I read something about  a coffee provider.

So I went in, took an icecream from the box and gave it to the cashier, who said : 22 kroner.

But it says: half price, said I. Yes, if you buy a X coffee, it's an offer by them. Well, I paid and took it, as it was my own fault, not reading the small letters. I should have read everything. And now I noticed behind the colourful icecreams a white paper coffee mug partly hidden. 

I took a photo of the advertisement, so I could read it later, and noticed at home I had moved the camera so the white text could not be read.  When I went to take another photo later, they had just changed the advertisement! Was it deliberate, was their purpose to mislead the customer?

TV writers

I sometimes wonder about TV writers. I was watching "Numbers". An ambulance driver is suspected driving patients who are receiving illegal donor parts. The agents go to the ambulance garage to ask after the driver. They are told that he is just driving the ambulance in. So the agents turn and start gesticulating towards the driver. Of course he turns the ambulance and tries to escape. Would the agents really be so stupid as not to wait until he has left the ambulance and has perhaps come to them?

Mistaken identity

On the TV, there's an information part which gives you a few facts about any film which is shown. Sometimes there exist two films with the same name. Today the film is "Ghost Town". The information gives this as a film, a comedy about a dentist (Rick Gervais), who can talk to ghosts, from 2008.
Of course it is nothing of a kind. ThisGost Town is a horror movie, a TV movie from 2009, by Andy Briggs, directed by Todor  Chapkanov.

"Reb Halland, who lives in the era of Wild West, has made a deal with the devil to gain immortality alog with his gang." This is not the first time when the wrong film is mentionad.

Emotions

TV was showing "Babe in the city", where the little pig helps other animals to escape  from the pound. It is a story of how being kind and helpful makes everybody happy.

As the film finished, I suddenly found myself crying. Earlier I had been reading comments under the YouTube videos of Norwegians singing "The Rainbow children" on Youngstorvet, as a protest against ABB saying it was indoctrinating children in Marxist thought.  The kindness of the animals towards each other contrasted with the many hateful comments on the videos and made me cry, which surprised me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGWKkGbGgEY&feature=watch_response

Flowers for the victims

At the Law Courts

The trial of the Norwegian terrorist started its second week. Why is it that press and TV descend on us mostly only when something bad has happened.


We are dealing with a person whom most of us cannot understand. He can shoot dozens of teenagers at a   close range, often looking in their eyes, calmly calculating that those who try to escape swimming, are so desperate that they will drown.

He can close his mind to all the horror so he can tell in detail how he did the killing. He said that if he did not do that, he would not be able to  accomplish the telling.

He says what he did  was necessary. I do not care! You do not kill teenagers. He says he did it to save our culture. I do not care! You are allowed to do what he did! He says that after 50 years we'll see he was right. I do not care! You have no right to take lives for that reason. You do not kill and terrorise. I cannot forget how they were helpless with fear and hopelessness..

Roses in front of  the Law Cours

If he is not deemed insane, we have to invent a new name for his state of mind.

So now it is the fifth day of the trial of Anders Behring Breivik (ABB). Norwegians like to use all three names, there is usually a first name, middle name and surname.

NRK shows in its daily TV program everything that happens in the court, with a column on the right showing questions and the answers by ABB.

He has been telling about some other planned terror attacks, which he gave up. He considers himself a victim, because, according to him, it was necessary to do the killings and he knew people would hate him for that. He regrets that he did not kill more people. He only cried seeing his own film he sent to YouTube: "because my ethnic group would die", he never cried for the real victims.

"According to the normal norms he is pretty crazy. He has created a fantacy world and his own universe which no arguments can bite", says Kjell Lars Berge, an expert on rhetorics.

If he cannot be called crazy, then we should invent a new word to describe him.

Bare branches just a few weeks ago. Now the birch leaves, which I love when they are still small and gentle light green, are almost full-grown. Wood anemones, usual mother's day flowers, picked

by the children from the woods, are soon bloomed out.

At Easter it was suddenly like summer, one day 40 C in the sun. At least 22 C a few days. As usual, it's much colder now .

And now, Osama bin Laden is dead, and not of old age. It is not sure that it makes the world a safer place, it might give closure to people who lost people at 9/11. Still, even if he was the the head of Al Quida, it is just one terrorist less and there might be revenge actions, there is a warning for ' anti-western violence'. Lord, keep us safe.

People rejoice, but it is strange to celebrate that someone is dead.

Here we are! I had forgotten about this blog untill I was looking for the right Google password and somehow was given the address. So maybe we'll meet tomorrow.

I had a homepage once, but messing about trying to add more memory, something happened and the connection between computer and monitor was broken. I did not take my puter to be repaired so it stood abandoned for two years while I used a free machine at the library to cure withdrawal symptoms.The company providing the homepage discarded homepages so it was lost to me.
Now I can start again, with the blogs, but it is slow