Great Books Explained: Ulysses

One of my all time favourites.

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Monaco

(Photo taken on July 22, 2023 with the iPhone 13 Pro. Click for full version)

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Garden, Late May

(Photo taken on May 27, 2022 with the iPhone 13 Pro. Click for full version)

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Sunflower

(Photo taken on July 8, 2022 with the iPhone 13 Pro. Click for full version)

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Roses in the garden


(Photo taken on June 15, 2022 with the iPhone 13 Pro. Click for full version)

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Fredensborgveien

(Photo taken on May 23, 2022 with the iPhone 13 Pro. Click for full version)

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Thursday Miscellanea

It literally feels like several years ago we attended a concert, but this will soon be rectified – over two days, we’ll be hearing all four symphonies by Johannes Brahms live at the Berwald Hall.

Plans for our vegetable garden and green house are coming along nicely. We’ll grow several varieties of tomato; there’ll be lettuce, carrots, beans, peas; there’ll be early, mid- and late season potatoes (we still have some left of last years’ late season!), and we want everything to be sprinkled with nice flowers, so we’ll hopefully have something resembling a potager.

Whether or not Desperate Housewives is really coming back, we’re enjoying the original series. Suicide, murder, blackmail – anything goes. Slickly produced with plenty of memorable one-liners. Recommended.

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The old oak tree


(Photo taken on June 9, 2021 with the iPhone 11 Pro. Click for full version)

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Ted Lasso — The Missing Christmas Mustache | Apple TV+

I have very much enjoyed Ted Lasso on Apple TV+. The whole series is absolutely lovely.

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15 years!

Today 15 years ago I started publishing stuff on this website!

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Wednesday Miscellanea

Currently setting the stage for a lovely Christmas and that includes getting into the spirit by watching Christmas movies. While Love, Actually will probably always be my personal favorite, there’s a whole bunch of interesting ones worth checking out – Harper’s Bazaar

Sorry, can you repeat that? Seems like I’m far from the only one not able to hear the dialogue in movies – /Film

One of the reviews of the iPhone 13 Pro that convinced me to make a purchase – Austin Mann

Don’t know what Christmas presents to get? Adopt an elephant orphan through one of Africa’s oldest wildlife charities – Sheldrick Wildlife Trust

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Nasturtium


(Photo taken on August 28, 2021 with the iPhone 11 Pro. Click for full version)

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The Summer Day

Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean—
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down—
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don’t know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?

—Mary Oliver

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Mixtape 2021 Vol 9

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Wednesday Miscellanea

More than three years has passed since I was updating this site on a regular basis. I’m slowly getting back to posting again.

We’re both currently working away in the country house. From the speakers in my study Igor Levit can be heard playing Bach’s Partitas. Good music for focusing.

The upcoming lunar eclipse on November 19 will be the longest since February 18, 1440 – and the longest for the next 648 years – Gizmodo

Enjoying the latest season of “Fake or Fortune?” – delightful show with lots of attention to detail.

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Words Matter

Words matter. Control the language and you control the masses. Five years ago I linked to an article in The Spectator about the new “alphabet soup”, and here’s an article in The New York Times writing about the current state of things. It’s an exhausting, hot mess.

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