COLD DARK ROOM

Bee62

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Yesterday, daughter's best friend spent the day with us. (How exhausting! :rolleyes:) I took them to a park and later to Roskilde Museum. It's a very nice, interactive museum with lots of sounds and mood lighting, and the girls were startled more than once by sudden church bells or ominous music. (Fun for mom! :cool:) I have free entrance because of my collaboration with the city tourism office. I brought my tripod this time to get the light right.

Here are some skulls from a sacrificial site almost 2000 years ago:

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A legend has it that once upon a time, Roskilde was a small village with a giant Serpent coiled around it. The Serpent required its occasional meal -- a human sacrifice. The villagers then raised a special Bull to fight the Serpent. It's all a parable about Christianity versus the pre-Christian times, but here's an auroch, which may have sparked collective imagination:

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Roskilde rose to be the most important Nordic city in the Middle Ages, with the seat of the Bishop, 5 monasteries, and 13 parish churches. As such, it was a seat of power, and most Danish monarchs were laid to rest over the years in Roskilde Cathedral (a tradition that is maintained to this day).

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Things took a dramatic turn since the 1660s. The seat of Bishop was moved to Copenhagen, and Roskilde, having lost its prominence in the making of Danish history -- and much of its business, turned into a provincial town.
Many old bones .... upps...:eek::D:D
 

CarolM

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These four posts were in sequence.
A series of wonderful postcards from Linda followed by what Yvonne had for dinner then a joke from her followed by another series of wonderful photos of a far away place.
Guess which two got the most likes?
No disrespect to anyone, but sometimes the Cold Dark Room is a very strange place. :confused:
So which one got the most likes?
 

CarolM

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I have a gopher in my tort pens! I keep flooding the holes and the next day there’s a new mound! The mound is huge!
Do they actually come out and walk around? I wonder if he’s eating left over greens.
Hmm. Very interesting. They say for moles you should bury your dog poop in their mounds it is supposed to scare them off. Either or you take a plastic bottle fill it with water and put it down their hole. It is supposed to flood their tunnel with light which they don't like. Oh wait those are for moles. If Gophers dont see well like moles it should work as well. Never tried it myself though.
 

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Just managed to sign daughter up for ballet classes. It only took 100 calls within 1.5 hours to get through to the school. [emoji849] The registration opened today and it’s one phone number for three ballet schools.
Oh boy. Good thing that you don't give up. We want pics of her doing ballet please.
 
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