Timothy M.

Stay safe ! I guess I can't complain about the bit of rain and wind we'll be getting from Marty by the end of the weekend.

I tried to check out my list of followed authors in my profile. I wanted to make sure I was following Mann R, since I wondered if that was why I didn't get a notification about his new story. I can see the first page of the list, but when I click on Next or 2 for the second page, I get the second page on the list of all authors instead. If I use the back arrow once, I'm still on page two of all authors even though the url goes back to https://gayauthors.org/stories/browse/author/?member=18045 and I have to click the refresh icon to get to page one of my followed authors list, but clicking the back arrow twice will return me to my profile view. Very strange. My list of Followed Stories works as expected. I'm on a Windows 10 laptop in Google Chrome. It's nothing urgent of course, but I'm guessing it's a bug, if other people experience the same thing.

I'm glad Weston gets a chance to shine as Captain, and I have trust in Granger's ability to maneuver through all kinds of danger and difficulties. Letting Schein captain the Ursula is clever too, as he will be motivated to avoid capture by the Russians.

Yeah, maybe I was being too optimistic, I should proably have said 'a little hope'. On the other hand, I usually take notice when Robbie does something sensible, because it happens so rarely. I'm not a fan of Nathan as a boyfriend for Robbie, but I'm fine with him being friends with Daniel and Robbie. Particularly if it annoys Don.

Well, Kevin sure got his revenge on his stupid dad. And I liked his mate for letting him have his say, even after storming in to 'rescue' him. But I wonder who managed to hide the invitation and get him to sign the transfer papars. A sneaky wife working together with the secretary ?

To me the best parts of the chapter was the interactions with Daniel, including him giving Robbie advice on his love life. He was spot on about Conner and Robbie's relationship. On the other hand, I think Conner may be on to something about Nathan and drugs. I don't think Nathan is a regular user, but he has probably experimented with more than just weed. Telling Jo about this and about Alex was wise, and that move gives me hope for Robbie going forward. I think I can count the number of chapters doing this on one hand.

Somehow the chapter felt longer than 1K, maybe because of the suspense. I think I'll return next Wednesday.

In Denmark, we're opening up faster than first planned, due to the continued decrease in patients needing to go to hospital. However, we still need to practise social distancing and stay in groups of only 10 people. Larger congregations (like music festivals) and night clubs will be under lock down all summer. It remains to be seen whether any of the next steps will increase the spread of the virus, and whether the plans of test, track and isolate will work.

Very good for local biodiversity. But probably not fresh enough to grow oyster mushrooms, one of the few edible wood decay fungi.

Yeah, but there are no pictures from the penguin story on the English main page.

Now that we're talking about penguins, this was the funny story in Denmark today, and also made international news. https://nyheder.ku.dk/alle_nyheder/2020/05/forskere-blev-plimmelim-pingviner-ved-antarktis-udleder-ekstreme-maengder-lattergas/ IFL Science | Antarctic Researchers Get The Giggles As Penguin Poop Produces Laughing Gas You can see cool pictures at the top of the front page of the University of Copenhagen, but it's only in Danish there. https://www.ku.dk/

I really loved those stories and it made me long for a nice hot sauna.

Contribution from Denmark. Originally sung by Bamses Venner, but I like the Stig Rossen version. The main point of the text is he's sitting in a small boat rocking on the water and singing about the little things which give value to life. Such as the scents around him, spring, grilling a fish, and having a beer on a string cooling in the water.

The number to look out for will be 44444.

LOL, I edited my post to make varme hveder in italics, that may help to show it's in Danish.

Yeah, and actually the Wiki page says it was FORMERLY observed by Norway and Iceland, so I guess they got rid of it when they became free. I'd love to see a SATW comic about this, with Finland and Sweden being all over the varme hveder discussion.

Thanks Were you able to find an explanation in English or did you have to resort to translating Danish ? I didn't know about Færøerne and Grønland. I wonder if Iceland also has the tradition.

Tomorrow will be Great Prayer Day (Store Bededag) in Denmark, so tonight I'm having Varme Hveder with butter and pålægschokolade. The bakers were closed on the Friday, so they made the buns to last till Saturday, but I think a lot of people eat the buns all of the holiday now (Thursday to Sunday). This tradition is more than 100 years old. @ColumbusGuy mentions the tradition in chapter 60 of his story.

Tomorrow will be Great Prayer Day (Store Bededag) in Denmark, so tonight I'm having Varme Hveder with butter and pålægschokolade. The bakers were only closed on the Friday, not the whole weekend, but I think a lot of people eat the buns all of the holiday now (Thursday to Sunday). This tradition is more than 100 years old.

I was thinking of Jonah too, but mostly if I could go back in time and give him a shake and a shouting.

Oohh I loved this one. Why don't you use it again on a bunch of other authors, @Carlos Hazday ? You could ask people to sign up to be asked this. I'm with Myr, Mann and Renee, although I'd like to meet the other alien in Maze for Three. But the snake Carthera is one of my favorites, too.

The second book (Enforcer) of the chronicles is my favorite, and I read it again last week. I'm still hoping for a sequel telling Zef's story.

Than it's good I only had 3 small edits for the next Endings chapter. Sorry it took me so long to get it back to you.

Maybe that was meant for somebody who looked after the livestock - milked the cows in early morning and took them out to graze?

Prompt 838 is quite similar to prompt 830, but I like both. It's good to have a bit of variation, instead of using the same prompt twice, as sometimes do.