Mariager Salt Center
250 million year old salt from the underground of Mariager is handmade. The brine is poured into an iron pan warmed up un open fire. As the water evaporate salt crystals are coming forth filled with minerals.
Christmas Seals
The Christmas seal was a Danish invention. In 1903 postmaster Einar Holboell expressed the idea that all packages could be supplied with Christmas seals, and the profit dedicated to giving sick children renewed hope. The world´s first Christmas seal was published on December 13th, 1904- the motif was a portrait of Queen Louise
My Home & IKEA – A Time-Travel
“Mine your own material” Day 16 in our writing 101 course: I did a post on IKEA recently and I was asked to show my readers what effect that has on my home. Thank you for the idea Janelle! Many people love to hate IKEA. I don’t because I have good memories about getting something nice that I could afford. I […]
Proverbs
Jacqueline from the blog a cooking pot and twistedtales has challenged me to bring some sayings or proverbs that are useful in our everyday life or in bringing up children. I am impressed by the cool way Jacqueline’s mother could convince her children on how to co-operate after a controversy by showing them two woven baskets. “She loosened a bit of […]
My relation to IKEA – A story in a single image
For my story about my relation to the huge Swedish furniture concern I wanted to find a special picture from an IKEA catalog from 1969. On the front page was a picture of a ship’s couch. The wooden shelves underneath the mattress was painted in a bright red shiny color and the mattress was covered with navy blue thick cotton material. […]
Show your world – our new library
My fellow blogger Yulia a from the blog Tiny Expats has this blogging event and I would like to take part in that event. Our libraries are totally different today. I remember libraries as very silent places with rows of bookshelves and small boxes for the small children. I liked very much to walk around and look at the titles as a child and young person. […]
Postcard from Denmark
Originally posted on magerei:
“Postcard” is a new weekly column featuring guest bloggers from around the world. This week we’ve got a postcard from Maria Holm in Denmark! She’s a nurse and health visitor with passion for babies. This give her the perfect pitch to let us know why Denmark is the 6th best place to be a mother. Let’s…
The Princess and the Pea
Last week I ran a Half Marathon called The Hans Christian Andersen’s race in his hometown Odense in Denmark. For the last eleven years, I have run this kind of race four times a year, and this one was my third. On the medal was an etching on “The Princess and the Pea”. I also saw it as on one of the kilometre signs along […]
A Museum of Modern Art in my Home Town
Sometimes you should have a look at your attractions in your home town
A Series of Vignetts: Being 15
Looking back at the age of fifteen in three generations 1938, 1966 and 2000
From one Heart to Another 