Moving to Denmark and learning Danish was - after meeting my wife - the best thing I ever did do...
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Another doorway. This one - again - from our recent trip to Den Gamle By.
Little bit of work done in Snapseed on the iPad2.
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A cart and two barrels.
From a recent trip to Den Gamle By (the old town), in the centre of Aarhus.
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Kids - no thanks!
Many Kommunes (Councils) here in Denmark, and round here where I live (in Århus), are thinking (very seriously), and some have decided to go ahead with, making people pay for the up-keep of the roads where they live.
This is because the councils are skint and need to cut costs wherever they can.
Councils have said they are forced to cut back on schools, nursery places, old people’s care, etc, etc, because the Govt has sent them part of the tab for the economic crisis. Obviously people are generally not all that ecstatic about it. Especially those who have had kids and have got used to expecting the council to pay for them.
People will have to pay for repairs to the roads themselves, pay to have snow removed themselves, and to stand for the costs incurred if people injure themselves on those roads or pavements outside where they live, and lots more.
One council leader defended the move, and clearly hoped to tug at the heart strings of viewers, by saying that it was ok, because it meant they would be able to spend more money on ‘our’ children, shools, nursery places, after-school care, etc.
Like fuck!
I don’t have kids. I’ve never wanted kids. We have absolutely no intention of ever had kids. I don’t like kids. I stay as far away from them as possible. Yet, I’m now expected to pay (extra) for other people’s?
People who think; “Wouldn’t it be lovely to have children?
*months pass*
Fuck! Kids cost! Why the hell is that! No-one told US! Oh well, the state’ll pick up the tab”
For ‘the state’, read ‘Steve’.
NO FUCKING WAY!
People who have kids should pay extra, to cover these costs.
Why should I pay for your kids? You want kids, you pay for them. I don’t send you the cost of something I wanted; a new tv, every month. So why should you send me the cost of something you wanted - kids.
Deal with it.
It may be becoming Spring elsewhere, but not here in Denmark… This is what we saw from the plane as we came down through the clouds, flying back from a week in the UK.
GOT to be Spring here soon?
Denmark's balance of payments in plus →
You may not be able to understand the link, but in short - Denmark (the state) has loads of money! Denmark paid off its foreign debt a couple of years ago and in November, the balance of payments (for the year) plus rose to over 60 billion Kroner.
That’ll be more than enough to bail the hospitals out for following the Govt’s guidelines then…
Now I've heard it all →
Politicians in Randers (just north of here in Århus) have, according to this article, very nearly decided to use the (excess) heat from the crematorium as heating for people’s houses (fjernevarm). Something to do with new environmental laws.
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