Bryn in Denmark

  
Snail on a flower,

A Blossom visited in passing,

Times conscious perception, a whirlwind surrounding.

-B)

  
This was delivered with the office lunch today. It would appear that some diners believed the Potato Salami was really only made from potatoes.

It say: PotatoSalami is not pig free.

While there are those who take this as obvious, I guess if you have never eaten salami before, then this is possibly valuable information.

More interesting though, is the fact that this is a real sign of how international Denmark is becoming and how diverse even small firms workforces have become.

-B)

Crumbly cheddar is tough cheese to cut nicely, especially when you are making open sandwiches where presentation is as important as taste.

Most cheese knives don’t really do this style of cheese well. Wire cutters tend to either give you a slice too thick or worse, go ‘twang’ leaving you with a half cut slice of cheese and pangs of frustration as you look for a new wire, only to discover there are non. 

The nightmare only continues when you use a cheese slicing tool, which you must drag over the top, like some mad farmer at a tractor pull. Then suddenly you give it too much force, the slice goes flying, falls apart and the corner breaks off the cheese.

Instead use a good quality potato peeler to shave off slices as you need. The blade is thick enough and sharp enough to cope with the cheese toughness, but thin enough to not suffer the friction caused by the cheeses texture.

-B)

Today was the last day of school for my daughter. As is customary, each child brings a dish for a final breakfast together as a whole class.

I decided last night to treat my daughter and baked her favourite bread, a white loaf with spices, raisins and cranberries in. It’s not totally healthy but hey it’s the last day of school.

So I was shocked when she came home with a near full loaf of bread. Was there something wrong with the bread? Did it taste OK? I asked.

Yeah the bread was great but the other children took the bought white bread.

You mean they wouldn’t eat this because it’s not white? (the bread takes on a dark brown colour due to fruit and sugars released, which brown during baking)

Yes, she replied.

There is so much fundamentally wrong with this, that it begs the question, what are these children’s parents teaching them. The fact that a child will not eat bread based on it’s colour or more to the fact it will not try a food because he/she associates it’s colour with being healthy and therefore not tasting good, is so crazy it’s frightening.

If you want to know why your child is fat, start by looking to yourself before blaming others. As a parent you are responsible for teaching your child to eat and eat the right things. Of course there should be treats and fun, but to not eat a spiced fruit bread because it’s brown and might be healthy is far out, it actually worries me.

-B)

I met these young Siskins this evening.  

They were no bigger than ping pong balls and appear to be out on a test flight. Sadly high winds and rain had grounded them and as you can see from the photo, they seem non too impressed with the situation.

-B)

While searching for album artwork for a Sibilius collection, Google offered it’s own alternative. This turned out to be an error that needed hasty correction. 

Based on Googles own algorithms, it would appear more people prefer her work than Sibilius’s.

-B)

There are those who live for affluence and there are those who live for a rich life. The challenge is not the attaining of the wealth, but deciding which has worth.

-B)

It’s Constitution Day in Denmark, which is another of the holidays only observed by half the businesses, making everything in the country frustrating and disfunctional.

You see the government and firms with a heavy union presence close, but private and international businesses mostly don’t. Trains run on a minimal service, daycare closes and so do schools. Thus you are forced to either take the day off or battle against the odds to get to the office.

These half days are in general are a waste of time and very detrimental to productivity. Given that there is less than a month to July, when the entire country goes on vacation and the country grinds to a halt for a month, I question the sanity of half days. Either make them full vacation days or cancel them altogether. Either they are important or they are not. Half days are pointless and hell for those who work them.

Someone, somewhere in DSB needs a rethink on this.