Det kan jag förstå eftersom engelska är ditt modersmål, John.
Kramar 🙂

Jag förstår, Kim. Samma här men tvärtom (fakta böcker mest på svenska, skön litterature mest på engelska).

Spelar ingen roll John, jag kommer att läsa allt du skriver, på svenska vill säga. Tar lång tid att läsa på engelska. Många faktaböcker är tyvärr på engelska, och jag läser mycket fakta inför varje historisk äventyrsbok. Därför föredrar jag att läsa skönlitteratur på svenska.
Kram Kim 🙂

Jag skulle aldrig vilja gentesta mig. Bättre att hoppas på att jag inte ärvt mammans alsheimer och gener för fetma (något jag dessvärre tror jag har) utan istället ha ärvt min 91-årige fars skarpa intellekt och fysiska form. Mamma finns inte längre hos oss, hon blev bara 82. Jag satsar på att bli minst 92, pigg, alert och klar i huvudet. När jag dör ska jag göra det över min dator när jag skriver den bästa bok jag någonsin har gjort!

Ha en fin dag. Hoppas du inte har några problem med handen nu.

Kram Kim 😀

Thank you, Eva! The truth is Wednesday crept up on me (again) and I had to write about what was in my head at the time rather than plan. I’m glad you found it amusing.

We inherit all sorts of things from our parents, don’t we? I was never very close to my father while he was alive. It was a relationship that was – in the modern sense – complicated. But the first time I saw myself on film, walking away from the camera, I saw my father. The same shape, the same walk. I even wear down the heels of my shoes in the same way.

And yes, that brave holding out sounds very familiar. Though you’d have to ask my wife whether I’m very successful. 😉

Tack Pernilla. I switched the mouse back to my right hand and the pins and needles faded away. So that’s what it was. (Sockerdricker? Har inte hört det förut. 🙂 ) Genetic mapping is another of those tools that can be used for good or ill and everything between. Personally I’m fascinated by the news that the majority of all European DNA can be traced back to three distinct groups in prehistory, one of whom had dark skin and blue eyes. (See this article from The Washington Post.) If you’ve seen the original Conan film (with Arnold Schwarzenegger) from 1982, you’ll know that the evil Atlantean sourcerer was played by James Earl Jones wearing disturbing blue contacts. A black man with blue eyes. Someone had a premonition!

Three men in a boat, Tre män i en båt, inherited that from my father together with some meters of PG Wodehouse. What else I might have inherited I have no idea of. The best things would maybe be fantasy and love of all animals. The not so good things would maybe be leading to illness. I can only hope for, and encourage, the more pleasant inheritance.

Ah, and hypochondria. Who is free from it? You read something and you feel “no, I don’t suffer from that”. Or maybe? No! But should I test it? OK, I test it. And you phone. They don’t hade any time within a week or a month or two. And that is when you realise that this is SERIOUS. You are about to die. But you are brave and will hold out a week. Over felt that?