Some time ago I wrote an article here on my blog about the birth announcement card that my parents made for me when I was born. I wrote how I thought that all these birth announcement cards were lost. Well, thanks to my nephew Paul I own now one of my own birth announcement cards…
Author: Rob
A New Year’s Resolution
The party was wonderful, but sadly over again. And so now it is 2014… a whole new year ahead! After a small breakfast Marissa, Jennifer, Miranda and Richard went on their way back home again. Of course they want to spend some time with the friends and relatives too. Great people as they are they…
Might & Magic
Yesterday I was discussing some old computer games on Facebook and the subject turned to the Might & Magic saga. I have good memories of the Might & Magic games, spend many enjoyable hour playing those games. Without any reason I browsed the Internet a bit for Might & Magic and to my very surprise…
And then winter suddenly is there…
So today officially the winter of this year starts… and when I look through a window I see rain. Just a few more days and it will be Christmas and so I guess no white Christmas this year. And that is somehow a pity… It is said that this winter we would get lots of…
Woot, a new “Suske en Wiske” comic….
I needed to get some small things from the supermarket… and there I noticed there was a new “Suske en Wiske” comic available! Woot…. Guess what I will be doing in a little :-).
A Game of Thrones… errrr…. Chess.
As I already have told before, I really love the chess game. I believe I also told here before that I have played chess for several years on competition level. For the last time I am playing chess with Sanne (a common friend of Marion and me). Sending each move by mail, text-message or Skype….
About a headstone of a grave and a church called “Schuilkerk De Hoop”
As many will know, I am lately very involved with the history of my family. Currently it is only the family from my fathers side, but I hope this will change soon. And it is good to be in contact with my family again. Lots of nice folks and thanks to them I know now…
About religion…
Religion is always something tricky to talk about. Before you know it (and without meaning so), you insult people or making them angry. Misunderstandings are easy to take place. And yet I will write about religion in this article. This because I notice lately much confusion with people around me about how I think about…
Something precious….
You know the feeling when there is something special to you and you think it is lost forever? Well, it happened to me. When I was born (long long ago :P) there was of course a birth announcement card sent to the relatives and friends of my parents. I knew that my mother at least…
A special family picture….
Lately I am browsing through the big pile of old family pictures that I have, which is really great fun to do. There are so many surprises to be found there. And so there is this pictures of my mothers family. I have seen this picture many times before and it always strikes me again……