The Danish connection
Last week I re-launched our Resident's Association website after re-writing it using Wordpress. It was quite a bit of work but the feedback from some of the neighbours has been positive.
The estate where we live was built in 1866-1868 and it is named after the then Princess of Wales, Alexandra (also Princess of Denmark, and later Queen of the United Kingdom, Empress of India, etc.).
3 of the roads have 'royal names': Albert, Edward and Victor (Edward VII's full name was Edward Albert, and Edward and Alexandra's first son was Albert Victor).
So I was quite pleased when we were in Copenhagen and we were reminded of home!
One room in the Amalienborg Palace is dedicated to the genealogy of the Danish Royal family and we even saw a reproduction of a painting of the trio.
In addition to this, Penge (our London neighbourhood) is an important word in Danish. It means 'money'.
(we saw this and we just had to buy it!)
Penge is often ridiculed in England because it sounds funny!
A few years ago I wrote an e-mail to a gay columnist in one of the free newspapers telling that there was plenty of gay people down here -thank you very much, and he replied that the original piece had Tunbridge Wells but the editor changed it because of space.
At the beginning of the year, we watched 'Delia through the decades' on TV and we heard the narrator, Stephen Fry saying "Ah the 70s, the decade that taste forgot, style retired and bought itself a bungalow in Penge"
Stephen, honey, it's not a bungalow but a semi-detached cottage, it wasn't the 70s but it was the noughties and my dapper Adrian hasn't quite retired yet!
The estate where we live was built in 1866-1868 and it is named after the then Princess of Wales, Alexandra (also Princess of Denmark, and later Queen of the United Kingdom, Empress of India, etc.).
3 of the roads have 'royal names': Albert, Edward and Victor (Edward VII's full name was Edward Albert, and Edward and Alexandra's first son was Albert Victor).
So I was quite pleased when we were in Copenhagen and we were reminded of home!
One room in the Amalienborg Palace is dedicated to the genealogy of the Danish Royal family and we even saw a reproduction of a painting of the trio.
In addition to this, Penge (our London neighbourhood) is an important word in Danish. It means 'money'.
(we saw this and we just had to buy it!)
Penge is often ridiculed in England because it sounds funny!
A few years ago I wrote an e-mail to a gay columnist in one of the free newspapers telling that there was plenty of gay people down here -thank you very much, and he replied that the original piece had Tunbridge Wells but the editor changed it because of space.
At the beginning of the year, we watched 'Delia through the decades' on TV and we heard the narrator, Stephen Fry saying "Ah the 70s, the decade that taste forgot, style retired and bought itself a bungalow in Penge"
Stephen, honey, it's not a bungalow but a semi-detached cottage, it wasn't the 70s but it was the noughties and my dapper Adrian hasn't quite retired yet!