Nina's Blog - Friday 16th May 2025

Lucky you spotted it before anyone else did!

I hope your model of car is safe from the gangs who steal cars by eavesdropping on electronic keys.


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Reminds me of a horribly a narrow escape many years ago, with my first car.

I had driven to London, which I would never do now, for one day, to visit an exhibition, and found a parking space close the hall.

Emerging a few hours later... could not find my keys!

Only when I turned to go back to the hall to ask if any had been handed, I found them.... hanging from the driver's door lock!

Had the car gone, apart from that loss (uninsured as I'd left the keys with it, albeit accidentally) I'd been in a right mess:

- Well over a hundred miles from home.

- No credit or debit card as far as I can remember. I obtained cash over the bank counters, but was paid in cash at work at the time, so had probably saved for the trip directly from my wages.

- Probably enough money on me to buy fuel on the way home but not enough for the rail fare. I might have had my cheque-book so could have used that at the railway-station, another payment option now lost to keep the bean-counters happy.....
)Do the London railway termini still have ticket-offices? Many stations don't; another purchasing option lost to the B-Cs.)

- No 'phone as portable telephones had not yet been invented, or if they had they were rare, costly luxuries for the wealthy - such as over-paid types who'd nowadays be called 'Chief Bean-Counting Officers'.
(This happened in the 1970s)

- I doubt my remaining cash in my wallet would have paid for phone-calls home from a public telephone....

Friday 16th May 2025, 11:28

Today's outfit is summery, a stretchy miniskirt, short top, bare midriff



Even though the skirt is quite short it is also not too revealing because it clings so close


What you can't easily see in the pictures, thank goodness, is that my belly is slightly overdue for a shave. Why is it that the hair I don't want stays dark coloured while the hair I do want is not only receding but greying too?

Friday 16th May 2025, 11:18

IKEA Slependen has closed the comfortable sitting area of the restaurant. I hope they are just improving it and not changing it to something else.

You used to be able to go through the gap that is now covered by black cloth into an area with comfortable sofas. It used to also have a separate counter serving fancier coffee but I don't think it was ever popular enough to justify paying for it to be manned all the time so it was closed a few months ago.

Here's what the space behind the black cloth looked liked earlier

Friday 16th May 2025, 22:16

After breakfast I went to the free library to drop off some books, and collect some more. Managed to leave twice as many as I took. Then I went for a walk around the Henie Onstad Sculpture Park, Veritas Park, and the adjacent beach.

Walking down a steep track in the woods

Posing in the sun in a clearing

Approaching Ragnarok for 117th time. That's the title not the number of times I have visited it.

Striding away from Ragnarok

The gatehouse at the entrance to Veritas Park by road

Looking down the slope toward the fountain

Having a brief paddle in the cold water

Too chilly to stay in for long

Most of the benches on the beach are occupied

The philosopher's stone. The famous Norwegian philosopher Arne Næss used to like to sit on it.

Well the label actually says philosophy stone not philosopher's stone.

A few metres further on it was time to sit in the sun for a moment. And there was a pretty young lady sunbathing topless a bit further on

Then it was time to head home via IKEA for a slice of napoleonskake and cope of glasses of sparkling raspberry drink before doing a little shopping for Sunday. had to make sure I had everything because everything will be closed tomorrow as it is 17th May tomorrow, Constitution Day.

Oh The convenience of remote key locking of a car