Irene extended an invitation to join a crafty exchange and I decided to accept. Here are the guidelines in English:
“I will send a handmade gift to the first 3 people who leave a comment on my blog requesting to join this PIF exchange. I don’t know what that gift will be yet and you may not receive it tomorrow or next week, but you will receive it within 365 days, that is my promise! The only thing you have to do in return is pay it forward by making the same promise on your blog.”
First 3 to leave a comment and post an invitation on their own blog, will receive a handmade gift from yours truly.

Jeg vandrer efter Irene - og retningslinjerne er:
“Jeg lover at sende en fin hjemmelavet gave til de første 3 personer, som skriver en kommentar her, og som vil være med til at sende gaver på vandring. Jeg ved endnu ikke hvad gaven vil være og jeg kan ikke love at du får den i morgen eller i næste uge, men du får den inden der er gået 365 dage - det lover jeg! Det eneste jeg beder dig om at gøre til gengæld, er at du selv sender 3 gaver på vandring ved at give det samme løfte på din egen blog.”
Læg en kommentar hvis du har lyst at være med!

Tags: gaver på vandring, pay it forward, PIF

I wasn’t really planning on posting pictures, but since Rain asked, here she is. These pictures were taken a couple of days after we found her.

Tags: snowy

Yesterday DH and I attended the Seventh Tun Razak Lecture on “The West and Islam: Rethinking Orientalism and Occidentalism” by Professor Dr. Carl W. Ernst. DH was invited as he is OU alumni and got permission for me to tag along. It was very interesting, especially because some of what he said is stuff I have been thinking myself - except I obviously don’t say it as well as he did. But I have often wondered at the whole Islam versus the West thing. It may sound simple enough, but as a Muslim with Western roots I know that it isn’t. Because what exactly is “the West” and what exactly is Islam? Neither is a uniform and unvarying entity.

I går fik jeg hjernemad til frokost. Var til en forelæsning af Professor Dr. Carl W. Ernst med titlen “The West and Islam: Rethinking Orientalism and Occidentalism”. Den var meget interessant for mig fordi han talte om et emne som jeg selv har tænkt en del over, nemlig den evindelige opstillling af “islam mod vesten”. Det lyder jo enkelt nok - og er det tilsyneladende for mange, men som muslim med vesterlandske rødder er jeg meget bevidst om at det er det ikke. For ingen af de 2 størrelser er jo een stor homogen masse.

Tags: islam

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Tags: blog reads

Og sørme om ikke det er fødselsdag igen! Idag sender vi et stort tillykke og mange ønsker om alt godt på dagen til Bedstefar!

Mrs Richards har fødselsdag i dag, og vi sender mange ønsker om en dejlig dag. Og om gode gaver, selvfølgelig
Og så ville vi i øvrigt ønske at det var os der skulle have chocoladelagkage med banan!

Today would have been my father’s 75th birthday. He died from prostate cancer in 1992 and the pain and sadness of that loss, though tempered by time, will be with me until the end of my own life.
My father gave me the greatest gift a parent can give a child: unconditional love and acceptance. Every day I do my best to pass that gift on to my own children.

Tags: family

On my recent webtravels to various online auction sites I have discovered that the Swedish auction site Tradera, which is part of eBay is blocking ip addresses in certain parts of Asia. “For security reasons”, I was told by their support. I am more than a little perplexed!

Det svenske Tradera, som er en del af eBay spærrer for adgang fra ip adresser i visse dele af Asien. “Av säkerhetsskäl” blev det oplyst af deres support, på min forespørgsel. Man undres - jeg gør i al fald!

Fru Hansen fylder 68 i dag - og herfra sendes mange ønsker om en dejlig dag!