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To the four corners of the earth
Ian Gillan spoke to the Leona Graham Podcast. This sounds like it was done some time in 2025, but posted only now, in May 2026. They talked about Ian’s collaboration with Urock, his age of discovery, the hardest song he had to sing, and other things.
Thanks to Fla76 and Uwe for the heads-up.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
Pleasntly surprised about Never A Word. Dusted off Bananas and gave it a spin. I’d forgotten how much I liked the track. Unique in the DP canon. First album without JL. He was critical of the song as the chord progression didn’t resolve. I think that this adds to its charm. Saw them on the last night of the Bananas world tour at the North Shore Events Centre in Auckland New Zealand. Great gig, great crowd, they even dragged Bruce Payne out onstage after the encores during the standing ovation. DP were subsequently permanently banned from the venue after local residents complained about the noise levels. Very rock n roll.
May 17th, 2026 at 01:46Never a Word, the most beautiful and subtle and Deep Purple song ever create. And I’m listening to it again as I am writing this comment
And what makes it special to me is, it’s difficult to imagine other Purple formation to create song like this. Just like you can’t imagine other DP marks creating song like You Keep on Moving, Space Truckin’, The Painter, or The Cut Runs Deep. These songs are unique, representing the 5 musicians in that line-up as well as reflecting the period of time they were in.
@1 Lol that’s hilarious, banning a band like Deep Purple due to their noise levels. Sure the audience that went there really had good times
May 17th, 2026 at 13:48Was Ianās very flirtatious interview with a younger woman pre-authorized by Karin? š¤
May 17th, 2026 at 16:20#1 AJ:
as already said elsewhere Never a Word is a gem of absolute purity, but Bananas is full of great songs, in my opinion it is the most risky and “different” album of Purple, riskier than all those that came after and even than the much celebrated Purplendicular.
If Bananas had had the same hard sound as Abandon and a few more BPMs in the more rhythmic songs, it would now be the masterpiece of the Morse era.
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May 17th, 2026 at 19:33I love Leona’s voice and accent, and she seems super-friendly.
May 17th, 2026 at 19:57‘Never a Word’ is possibly my favourite underrated off the wall Purple song. For all Ian’s implied criticism all his best compositions in later years have been when Steve dragged him out of his comfort zone and specifically away from trying to complete with their seventies heyday or something that would be at home on a Gillan album. Actually reminds me a bit of Episode 6. Here’s hoping somewhere hidden in the new album tracklisting is another ‘Man Alive’, ‘Nothing at all’s, or ‘The Surprising’.
May 17th, 2026 at 19:57@ 3- ha ha ha, I was thinking similar Uwe. Wondering if Karin will watch these interviews and if she was wishing that she was the interviewer. We really should leave poor ole Karin alone for a little while………………………..oh hang on, why would we want to do that?? Just joking Karin. Uwe and I will attempt a little more decorum from now on, for a little while at least….if we can………Cheers.
May 18th, 2026 at 10:24@ 6- you are not wrong there. Thinking outside the box and getting away from the ‘mothership’. This is where solo or collaboration albums are better in certain ways. Particularly after many years singing so many songs. Vocalists get too much the same-ish just like a guitarist does in rock music. Break it up a little, do something different. Easier said than done though and that will not pay the bills like a constantly active band will. That song Never A Word isn’t really a DP sounding song to my ears. Cheers.
May 18th, 2026 at 10:32@3
Uwe, you make me smile, some times I laugh very much too, every single day I read your posts in here!
May 18th, 2026 at 11:18And yes I did authorise it.
Are you happy now? š
OK, Folks, how about showing some love to “Step By Step” from Whoosh? It’s also beautiful and much “outside the Purple box of content”. Based on some Chopin progressions, I believe. Swaying delightfully and, as typical of their more brave ideas, fading out all too quick.
May 18th, 2026 at 12:04Bananas was a fun record and sounded like the band felt that too. Very diverse, which is always good with Purple.
There is something in the production though, itās klirrig/clinky in a slightly irritating/unpleasant way. Has nothing to do with the music though. Popoff mentions it in his bio too. I guess that album could use a remix as well, Roger, get on with it! āļøš
May 18th, 2026 at 13:41@1,2,4,6
Never a word: wonderful song – esp. when Steve plays it without a singer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BDHyTu2k7s
Did they ever play it live?
May 18th, 2026 at 15:03@ 4, @6 … Bananas great album….
May 18th, 2026 at 15:19If you don’t like what you see
If you can do better than me
You better walk on
I think the whole Woosh! album is a strong showing, Thorsun, I prefer it to Infinite which I thought a bit mediocre.
May 18th, 2026 at 17:24“That song Never A Word isnāt really a DP sounding song to my ears.”
Yes, but that is a good thing! Buy Ramones, AC/DC and Motƶrhead albums if you want to hear the same song rewritten over and over again.
I love diversity with bands, QUEEN were really fearless in that regard.
I much prefer a good composition breaking with a band’s convention to a mediocre same old-same old. It’s fine if a band has an immediately identifiable style and sound, but not every song in their oeuvre needs to be processed like that.
May 18th, 2026 at 17:32@7
Ohh please MacGregor! šš¤£
Never ever make promises you cannot keep!
And YES! I would have loved to interview the great man and singer š
May 18th, 2026 at 18:52I have so many questions that only he can answer ššš¼
#10 Thorsun:
step by step is one of those (too many) songs from the Morse/Airey era that leaves a bitter taste in my mouth, because it potentially could have been a great song.
the main theme is beautiful and BigIan’s vocal line is beautiful!
but the song is too flaccid, it lacks BPM, and LittleIan does nothing to enrich the song.
guitar too soft, keyboard intro and Don’s solo I don’t like the sound, and the opening theme makes me exclaim: “another keyboard intro?…when will there be a nice guitar riff?”
May 18th, 2026 at 21:26Bananas was a brilliant album ( except for haunted ! WTF was that ? …and they even played it live at the worst DP gig I ever saw …Birmingham 2003 , they were supported by Skynard …and a relatively unknown band …The Darkness !! ) DP looked totally disinterested that night !
I remember the British press flagging off Bananas…yet a few years later ( when they realised they weren’t going away ) …they were all over them !
Ps
Doesn’t Gillan look well …I wonder if he’ll still be on the stage as a centurion!?
Good interviewer as well …knows her stuff !
May 18th, 2026 at 21:49Never A Word is basically a song that would have worked well with Steve’s Angelfire collaboration with Sarah Spencer too, in fact it is a bit of a prototype for the songs on that album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApOqvXUHlpg
May 18th, 2026 at 21:53@ 15- you read my post then Uwe. It sounds like you didn’t get it, if I am reading your reply correctly. Cheers.
May 19th, 2026 at 00:02KAAARIN!!! Have you noticed that lascivious redhead traversing in the background during the interview in what I take to be IGās home?
WHO
IS
SHE???!!!
I had to alert you to the fact.
May 19th, 2026 at 01:04@21
Uwe, she might be his servant, girlfriend, a mateās daughterā¦. I donāt know and I donāt care, if she keeps him singing so nicely, Iām happy š
And of course I saw her!
There is not much that escapes my attentionā¦..
And talking about DHL! Whatās happening? No DHL here! I miss my drumstick š
May 19th, 2026 at 11:27According to the Popoff bio, Haunted was written by Roger who wanted to save it for one of his solo ventures, never imagining that his Purple buddies would like it. Yet when he played it to them hesitantly, they did!
The lyrics of the verses are Gillanās, Roger wrote the ones to the chorus, so he is the one who mis-rhymed āIām hauntedā with āis that what you wa(u)ntedā – with which the in such things usually scathing and merciless English music press had a field day! š
Bad rhyme or not, I like the song and loved the fact that they played it live.
https://youtu.be/UVG8lguytlk (WARNING: muscle shirt content)
The gig I saw on that tour (also with Lynyrd Skynyrd opening) was actually one of the best ones of Mk VIII I witnessed, really spirited and with an abundance of new songs which lamentably all fell by the wayside eventually.
May 19th, 2026 at 13:55@19
aah Angelfire – I could listen to Steve’s (semi-)acoustic playing on the Buscarino for hours…
The track you mentioned ( Far Gone now) is originally a song called “Indian Summer” that he composed years ago.
Not to forget the wonderful “classical” duets with Dave that you could find on every SMB album. Steve always joked that these duets were “weird” when he picked up his Buscarino in the middle of a SMB live gig.
May 19th, 2026 at 17:45I was very disappointed that there was not such a duet on “Triangulation” and the last tour, but the duet with Kevin on the album made up for it!
āUwe, she might be his servant, girlfriend, a mateās daughter ā¦
Canāt all three go together?
Thatās it, a housemaid, all is innocent then!
Como estas chickadee?
Have a housemaid on your knee ā¦
https://youtu.be/322upW8mHvc
Re the drum stick, I have to offer my apologies. Since we stopped invading neighboring countries on a regular basis, German logistics have lost all Blitzkrieg appeal and efficiency, the stupid post office didnāt use the right postage decal and the drum stick was unceremoniously returned to me today. I will return to the post office tomorrow and initiate the customary reprisals, i.e. (i) put up against the wall and shot, or (in less severe cases) ā>Ostfront!!!
If this second attempt fails, I will bring you the drum stick myself, employing tried and trusted German transport help.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f6/Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-217-0493-31%2C_Russland-S%C3%BCd%2C_Sch%C3%BCtzenpanzerwagen.jpg
May 19th, 2026 at 22:14Say something nice about Steve, and Beate automatically crawls out from underneath her rock! I knew I’d lure her.
https://media.tenor.com/RMHLrQkEayAAAAAM/crab.gif
And then she even casually throws around terms like “Buscarino”. That woman never ceases to amaze!
https://buscarino.com/
(I have to laugh at my own stereotypes. I’m reminded of an interview with Shania Twain where she was asked by the (male) music journo what her favorite guitar was and she went into this really detailed description of the pros and cons of various acoustic guitars she owned, only to halfway stop in the middle and deadpan: “You expected me to to say “the wooden one with the hole in the middle”, right?” š¤£)
May 19th, 2026 at 23:08#18 Steve:
Among the post-1993 long ballads Haunted is my favorite, I think BigIan gives a great interpretation and Steve’s solo is thrilling!
Changing the subject, this evening I rewatched the DVD of Gillan’s live performance from the Naked Thunder tour.
the band was a group of ugly, dirty and bad musicians, but how good!
I did a bit of searching on the internet and discovered (with my guilty delay) that Tommy Eyre (a very good pianist) and drummer Ted McKenna have long since passed away.
McKenna was very unfortunate because he died following a complication after a banal hernia operation, poor man.
https://offbeat.co.uk/ted-mckenna-a-tragic-loss/
Bassist Chris Glen (Sensational Alex Harvey Band & Michael Schenker) is having health problems but is still active in his hometown of Scotland.
May 19th, 2026 at 23:19I have not found any recent news about rhythm guitarist Michael O’Donoghue (Grand Prix).
and I also found no news about Dave Lloyd, it’s a shame that he was reduced to doing backing vocals for BigIan, after his seminal bands Nutz and Rage had little success, he was a very gifted singer:
https://youtu.be/wOyFCfGAsaA?is=hoX2soqUNrZG3gRG
I could be wrong but I’d hazard a guess that the girl is ” knickers Nicky ” his personal assistant…it certainly looks like her …and I don’t think he’s at his own house …it certainly doesn’t look like the interior anyway
May 20th, 2026 at 00:13I only ever thought that the lady buzzing around in the background was making a nice cup of tea for Ian. The Tea Lady. Cheers.
May 20th, 2026 at 07:36@25
Oh but Uwe that wasnāt your fault!
Iām just very happy that no one nicked it.
However, should the second attempt fail, and I somehow hope it does, you take Edith under your arm, and come to my home, say hi to Anton and taste my Ć¼ber-delicious coffee š
And if the weather gets a bit better, we can sit in the garden with blooming flowers, humming bees, chirping birds and little Anton jumping around and showing all his tricks š
The lucky redhead could be all three persons in one, yes, but please have mercy with Ian! She looks like somewhat of a handful š (redheads usually are, right? Women – Iām talking about women!)
May 20th, 2026 at 08:22@Fla 76
Interesting that you like Haunted ! ..I guess we all have different taste . I was actually just splitting up with a long term girlfriend at the time so that’s probably why I couldn’t stand it …likewise, loving on borrowed time from Naked Thunder ( I don’t seem to have a lot of luck with the ladies …maybe it’s my taste in music ! Lol )
I knew about the two RIPs …but what about Steve Morris? Is he still around and active with Gillan ?
When you talk about ballads , I think the only one I really liked was ” A touch away” from Purpendicular…great song , great album
May 20th, 2026 at 10:47Never a Word used to be my most disliked DP song for ages, whereas I loved the rest of the album; my first own DP-CD that was. But somewhen along the line I came to really enjoy Never a Word with its beatlesque melodies. A remix of course would be interesting, Uwe. There are some sounds on that record which make it sound a little bit dated, typical early 2000s production with perhaps a little too many overdubbed sounds.
May 20th, 2026 at 12:05Fla76, are you aware of Dave Lloydās work with AOR cult favorites 2am?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emDCLMvpylo
That album is nowadays regarded as a late 80s melodic rock masterpiece, but of course went nowhere at the time.
May 20th, 2026 at 14:14@23
āHaunted was written by Roger who wanted to save it for one of his solo ventures, never imagining that his Purple buddies would like it. Yet when he played it to them hesitantly, they did!ā
– Uwe I did not know that! š
I love this song so much. Speaks (?!) to my sentimental girlish heart š
My eyes donāt shed tears, but boy, they pourā¦
This song is so dear to me:
https://youtu.be/UVG8lguytlk?si=txk0Kvz3wqbGgJhS
And please pay attention to the kind acknowledgement from Ian to Steve at
2:38
I know someone – sorry Iām an old lady, cannot remember who – said in here that Steve was poorly treated by Ian. But this shows me that Ian really liked and appreciated the brilliant guitarist.
But that does not mean that Ian isnāt proud and happy about SMcB!
Steve Morse was a terrific guitarist. I really loved his work.
May 20th, 2026 at 16:57Am I even more happy about SMcB?
Yes. Indeed I am š
As has been written over and over (by me?š¤) he is very well suited for Purple, and ohh boy I am back at the In Rock excellences š
“I only ever thought that the lady buzzing around in the background was making a nice cup of tea for Ian. The Tea Lady. Cheers.”
No harm done, you’ve always been a little sluggigh in picking things up, haven’t you, MacGreggie? š
May 20th, 2026 at 20:11“Never a Word used to be my most disliked DP song for ages, whereas I loved the rest of the album; my first own DP-CD that was. But somewhen along the line I came to really enjoy Never a Word with its beatlesque melodies …”
It’s called “coming of age”, Tilly Schatz, and we all go through it! š„°
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FruHLslczag
May 20th, 2026 at 20:21āHaunted was written by Roger who wanted to save it for one of his solo ventures, never imagining that his Purple buddies would like it. Yet when he played it to them hesitantly, they did!ā
ā Uwe I did not know that! š
Neither did I until a few days ago on the toilet seat, reading Martin Popoffās DP bio. He practically dumped that info on me!
Itās a lovely song, reminds me of my heartbroken youth when I started hating Rainbowās Rising. āļøš§
The āmellow mixā, only available as a bonus track on the CD single, was especially nice, it turned up Paul Buckmasterās orchestration and Beth Hartās backing vocals.
May 21st, 2026 at 01:22#33 Uwe:
I confess I didn’t know about 2am, I have to go and look in my photocopies of a 30 year old magazine for the article “the 100 fundamental AoR albums” to see if 2am is present!
Anyway, I have to listen to the whole album because honestly this song doesn’t seem like anything special to me, anonymous beginning, anonymous melody, chorus fished out between Brian Adams and something else American (Richard Marx, Jon White, etc).
even the voice is quite impersonal in the rich chaos of 80’s AoR…I mean, Jolene’s Rescue You or Nothing Changes albums are of a different quality than this one.
May 21st, 2026 at 12:32I almost succeeded in forgetting everthing the Morse era put out but here we go again.
Step by step, its like I hear it for the first time.
I do remember always trying to listen and appreciate what they put out.
Its not bad,IMHO because SM is not dominant in the mix
Power of the moon …..
It reminds me of RIVERSIDE, a Polishband I went totally for for some years.
After the death of the guitarplayer I lost interest.
Decent singing.
I now see WHOOSH was released in august of 2020.
I crashed and since I ve been in HELL since june of that year.
OCD like I think I tried to push myself into following it.
But also skipped a lot.
Today I m a changed man.
CRUSHED.
No clue how to proceed.
Today I again was imho, gaslighted about being too negative.
What do they expect from a man, damaged,grown kinda old in the last 6 years, amidst a severe depression?
They seemed to understand before.
So much to do, but no energy….
In 99 I was working somewhere to get rid of debts,save money in order to get back on my horse.
The kitchencrew and waitresses had the habit to drink like no tomorrow after work.
Although totally ravaged I went along with drinking big glasses of beer.
Maybe I only did it when knowing the next day I didnt ve to work.
These cooks worked like slaves in that small kitchen with not enough oxygen.
Coulfnt grasp how they handled doing that, drinking so much afterwards and worh soon the day after.
Partly due to the mix of being done and drinking I talked too much.
A waitress hearing me said : “Are you aware you have to work here again? ”
I said nothing, thought of how the crew talked about her,this short ugly woman,her hoarse voice. And that she was known for living like a slut and thinking life was about houseparties together with drugs of course.
I m always too kind and remained a gentleman.
I can come out after having lost my patience already long before but then it hits hard.
And then its me of course thats gets blamed…..
May 21st, 2026 at 16:28@26
Uwe, Ich lebe nicht hinter dem Mond š
For all the others:
AI-GPT-5 mini definition:
“Itās an informal idiom meaning the person is unaware of obvious, recent, or widely known facts, events, or trendsāimplying theyāre out of touch or isolated from common knowledge. Often used jokingly or mildly critical; e.g., āHave you heard about the new phone? Where have you been, living under a rock?ā
“Common knowledge” about DP and esp. Steve is “my thing”and it feels nice to amaze you, Uwe. I’m not completely uneducated in music, tried to learn the violin for about a year when I was about 11. But guitar(ist)s always caught my attention.
Nice to read that you can laugh at your own stereotypes – I laugh at them, too – now that I know a little more of your sometimes very strange humour.
@28:ā knickers Nicky ā =? Sally Long, his personal assistant. Very nice person indeed, she helped me get an autograph from Ian. I wrote via “Caramba” during the pandemic times and when they finally started touring again (about 2 years later ), I recieved a letter from the UK with the autograph. I’m a very patient person sometimes š
May 21st, 2026 at 17:30You certainly don’t, Beate, you are a blindingly luminous figure!
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/65/63/38/656338ac3a6ee70682b82bd675f6af9a.gif
Don’t let Karin know about that Ian autograph though, you (don’t) know what she is capable of!
May 21st, 2026 at 23:28@41
I can never do any harm on such a nice lady as Beate š
And I donāt mind it, because I have two (2!) autographs from Ian Gillan, and I guard them with my life š
May 22nd, 2026 at 07:21@ 42- “because I have two (2!) autographs from Ian Gillan, and I guard them with my life š” Isn’t that what Anton is for Karin? A guard dog, a protector of all things. Although from all the torment the poor little thing has endured in regard to Ian’s vocal histrionics, it probably is better that you keep an eye on those autographs yourself. Cheers.
May 23rd, 2026 at 23:33@43
MacGregor š¤£ Anton is very quality-conscious, and he adores Ian even more than i do!
I have this fireproof safe. And no Anton isnāt in there. But the autographs are, and whenever I get the coveted drumstick from Uwe, it will find its place there too š
May 24th, 2026 at 10:08Anton is gonna chew up that drum stick and then there will be a family tragedy in Randers, I just know it!
Instead of twirling the stick, Karin will be regularly fluffing up the deceased (under never quite cleared up circumstances) Antonās pelt outside the window ā¦
The fur industry is mighty in Denmark.
May 24th, 2026 at 20:25@ 44- Anton would know the code to that safe Karin, rest assured. Doggies watch and listen to everything. Uwe, I will worry incessantly for Anton’s sanity if you ever send that drumstick up there. Imagine the everyday scenario that unfolds before his very eyes. Karin gets the stick out, caressing it, holding it, looking at it for hours. All this time Anton is waiting for her to throw it. Every time she picks it up and then she slowly walks towards that fireproof safe and then locks the stick away again. Poor Anton, driven crazy by his master as he repeatedly thinks to himself’ why in the name of hell does she always do that, it is a stick god damn it, just throw the thing’! Cheers.
May 25th, 2026 at 00:10@45 + 46
Gentlemen, settle down!
Anton is of course very well behaved, and will never do anything to make me unhappy!
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MacGregor: ā Karin gets the stick out, caressing it, holding it, looking at it for hours.ā
– well if it was Ian Gillanās drumstick, that might be trueā¦. But for now, havenāt even recently Ian Paiceās drumstick, so I donāt know how either of us will react š
And today the King of Denmark visits my little city! In the name of Royal Runā¦
May 25th, 2026 at 08:20I am not joining the circus at all.
But if Uwe had been a bit quicker and the postal service in Germany less slower, I might have impressed the King with my twirling abilitiesā¦
Can I be blamed for the guys at the post office forgetting to stamp it right?
Wear something nice for the King for chrisssakes and practice that curtsy you subject!
Iāve shared your innocent thoughts about the danger of female misappropriation re that drum stick, Herr MacGregor, thank you for voicing them so intrepidly!
May 25th, 2026 at 11:39@48
āCan I be blamed for..ā
– yes Uwe, normally I blame you for most of the wrongdoings that happen š
Nooo, of course not!
But I tell you I am surprised the all-too-precise former Empire Germany is as bad as handling postal services as Denmark is!
Normally I receive spit-tests from patients via ordinary mail, but since the postal service was transferred to private companies, nothing is as it used to be in the good old days.
Oh I am not at all into all that royal hoopla. Donāt get me wrong, I wonāt spit at them or anything like that š but to me they are ordinary people, put their pants on one leg at the time like the rest of us.
May 25th, 2026 at 15:51And for the life of me, I donāt get that worshipping of people who just happen to have been born into some family!
To me itās the inner qualities that are pivotal much more than who is allowed to wear the crown.
If I could crown anyone king, it would be this guy:
https://youtube.com/shorts/WCKmQA5Wmtw?is=nsdJq3LOdE5nJJ-H
(Ha ha š you thought it was Ian! Admit it š)
Anton, the Royal Canine, I should have known ā¦ š
May 25th, 2026 at 20:57I cannot understand the Danish language at all Karin, but I presume you are telling Anton, ‘now with the stick, you will do the same, eh?” As in returning it in one piece. Cheers.
May 26th, 2026 at 00:46@51
Well MacGregor, I say:
Are you ready – then I throw the frisbee
And when he runs after it I say:
Oh youāre so good, that was great š
You ought to learn the Danish language š
May 26th, 2026 at 07:27Then in return I will learn English š
@50
Indeed he is not Uwe, he is a Danish-Swedish Farmdog š
May 26th, 2026 at 07:29No royalty here thank you very much, we are all peasants š
Danish-Swedish? A mutt then?! š±
May 26th, 2026 at 16:36@54
Dear bro – allow me to initiate yourself into the secret world of dog breeds:
A Danish-Swedish Farmdog is its own breed! Just like a German Shepherd, or a Collieā¦.
But had Anton been a mutt, as you so charmingly call it, I would have loved him just as much and protected him, taken care of him and fed him with the best dog food š
Anton is a very intelligent dog, highly trained and so well-behaved āŗļø
Unless: the postman comes to the door, or I have guests – because then he has developed this quite not so charming ability to go to the laundry basket and show off different clothing-itemsā¦. There has been some quite embarrassing episodes!
Or when Iām walking him and let him off the leash, then he likes to run away, and Iām afraid he has developed another ability: being deaf periodicallyā¦
But besides that: he is a charming doglet and I love him so much ā¤ļø
And he really likes it when I sing along to this tune:
May 26th, 2026 at 17:24https://youtu.be/LBUBess2YPI?is=Y_iAgQr7bd9KDoVU
“You ought to learn the Danish language š”
That takes utmost devotion to the subject and might be a task/labo(u)r of love for someone on, say, a remote island with too much time on his hands and in dire need of any kind of intellectual stimulation?
May 26th, 2026 at 18:40@ 52- thanks for that Karin and good to see Anton out and about, on that ‘pristine’ lawn of yours by the look of it. The only ‘Danish’ I am familiar with is the pastry, yummy that is too. I am familiar with a few Dutch words being in a relationship with a Dutch lady for decades. Mainly the swear words that were levelled at me occasionally for allegedly doing wrong. Same with a few Italian words from my school days, a large population of Italians in our area, farming etc. Oh and a few German words form those old war comics, Achtung, Himell, Schnell, Dummkopf etc. Oh my favourite are the French words of course, probably my only regret not learning more French. Reminds me of poor ole Poirot, constantly reminding certain people for calling him a Frenchy or a frog ” I am not French, I am Belgium”. And rightly so too. Cheers.
May 26th, 2026 at 22:58@57
Well, I like the garden to be neat š but I wonder if I should make a part of the garden āwild on purposeā for the bees and insects.
Oh yes Danish pastry, āwienerbrĆødā, is very delicious but also very very fattening. And not that healthyā¦ but once a year I enjoy it immensely š
Especially the āspandauerā!
https://youtube.com/shorts/7uOhpCXKewU?is=o4YcgL6N9G-vR13F
Together with a lovely cup of coffee I can almost forget Brexit, the orange dude, climate changesā¦ thatās how lovely it is. But I warn you: donāt eat it too often or youāll need a new wardrobe very soon š
āI am familiar with a few Dutch words being in a relationship with a Dutch lady for decades. Mainly the swear words that were levelled at me occasionally for allegedly doing wrong.ā
May 27th, 2026 at 09:50– poor you! š
Denmark is too squeaky clean to offer much of a selection of swear words.
June 4th, 2026 at 18:26