“Nimbus”

The word Nimbus refers to a motorbike made in Denmark. I grew up with the sound of this as our neighbors had such a motorbike  from the 1930s. Fisher & Nielsen created this motorbike in 1919 and stopped the production in 1960. The peak period for the motorbikes was in the thirties. The firm is mostly known for making vacuum […]

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A Flash Back to a Lone Swimmer from 1937

Today I ran across a fellow blogger’s extraordinary blog the LoneSwimmer on our common blogging course Blogging 201 and my thoughts went back to the year 1937 in Denmark. My mother was fourteen years old and admired greatly the five-year older swimming star Jenny Kammersgaard. My mother followed the radio report on a special long distance swim from Griben on Zealand to Grenaa […]

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A Healthy Mixture

I am making an experiment. For the last year I have taken freshly pressed lemon juice with water ever morning to boost my immune system. I have become addicted to it and take lemon and a lemon squeezer with me every where. Four months ago I have taken a new step and made myself a mixture of ginger, garlic, cinnamon, turmeric, […]

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Heather Landscape

Inspired by my fellow blogger Judy Dykstra-Brown in Lifelessons, who put a question on a flower, if it was a Foxglove? Yesterday I went on a Sunday walk in a heather landscape close to us. The first picture I took was of a Foxglove that so much reminded me of the Beatrix Potter landscape in the Lake District in England.    

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