AUTUMN HOLIDAYS

It is the autumn holiday in Denmark this week, where all children are off school, and many parents join them for all or part of it. Since my wife is a teacher, she has the whole week off; and that means at least one day of outside cleaning.

The windows are de-cobwebbed and washed, the guttering is cleared, and vast numbers of fallen leaves in the yard are removed to the compost heap. Garden furniture that has stood outside for the summer is put in the barn, and the yard is de-weeded and swept. We are now ready for the onset of winter.

It was a perfect day for leaf-clearing, a bit of wind for a broom to help them on their way, but not too much. All in all, it was pretty "hyggeligt", as they say in these parts.

Walter Blotscher