I Dansk, Glaedlig Jul og Godt Nytaar.Quote:
Originally Posted by prelude
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I Dansk, Glaedlig Jul og Godt Nytaar.Quote:
Originally Posted by prelude
Cats are no problem to a nisse. They have an aura that makes cats hair stand on end and the cat slinks away. Brown snakes? You think elves that lived with Vikings for millennia are worried by snakes? They catch them, skin them, sell the meat as smoked eel and make belts out of the skins. If you see a small man with a bushy white beard selling snake skin belts at the local flea market then you have been privileged to see a normally invisible nisse.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ferret
Times gone by the nisse was left a bowl of risengrod (rice porridge) with a knob of butter on top and, of course, a snaps. My Danish great grand father and grand father preferred the apple slice over hot porridge in an Australian summer.
All ours got was a Bottle of West End or Nathan & an apple, that seemed to give it a long life span as it bobbed up each year on Xmas Eve. Hmmm, maybe that was Santa the thievin' rascal. AKA my old man.[biggrin]
Following on from the above Woollahra ship post, how is this for a coincidence?
The reason we came to have the Swedish friends was as follows & I just know you are busting your balls to know.[biggrin]
When I was a Service Manager for a Refrigeration firm we were tasked with inspecting & checking over a new LUKE Refrigeration Clipon Refrigeration Sysetm ( My co. were the Agents here for this concept) that was to be taken back to Sweden for trials.
This system had been delivered to the Northern most wharf at Adelaide's Outer Harbour for us. It was designed to be fitted to the end of an insulated container which had porthole like holes in the end & this thing clipped on over the holes & recirculated the cold air. It also saved tying up a Refrigerated Container when carrying general cargo, the clip on was unclipped, the holes blocked with plugs & away she went. The clips were in fact very heavy gauge galvanised over centre clamps. They were apparently Purchased for Overseas Containers Ltd. OCL.
While looking it over, two blokes from the ship strolled over to introduce themselves. The big guy was the Chief Engineer named Gusta/Gosta & the 2nd bloke was the ship's electrician named Noel, an Aussie then based in Brisbane.
There was something familiar about the sparky & as a little time went on it hit me like a Besser Block. He was the sparky that had wired my Uncle Bob's new house at Vale Park in SA & was a long time mate of Unc.
. He had packed that in & taken this job on-board ship. After I had introduced myself he said that there had thought there was something familiar about me as well, as I used to help with pulling wires through cavities, mixing a bit of concrete etc etc etc but that was about 1957 & this ship day was aprox. 20 odd years later. FFS!
Anyway back to the ship for coffee & a long chat. Nice quarters they had too.
Whenever the ship was visiting Adelaide we all caught up & the Chief just loved going to an Orchardist friend's property at Blackwood in the Southern Adelaide Hills & catching Yabbies in his dam as these were a most sought after delicacy on board when served with some sort of Dill mayo & knackbrod. They would visit the dam each visit.
I suppose we saw them about 5 times before the Chief retired & the ship was sold off & we never saw her again.
When Noel went on leave I was asked if I could get time off from from my work to fill in as Ship's sparky for a trip up to Cairns but my own boss said a resounding NO. Just as well I suppose as the young bloke that did fill in stayed with the Co for a few years but he was single.
So as I said ^^^ "how is this for a coincidence?" I guess they have all passed on by now. Unc has.
Vol. 21 No. 10 (23 May 1969) TROVE.