One more day at work and then we are off to Sweden. I have been really looking forward to this. And I not alone. It will be good for us to get together again with Mel. It really has been too long that we saw her. And I’m looking forward to some real Greek hugs.It…
Author: Rob
Sharing joyfully my life with Marion. Gaming. Cooking. Whisky. Greece/Lesbos. Photography. Computers. SF & Fantasy.
Dorotheus
Today I learned a fun fact about one of my Christian names.My full name is Robertus Dorotheus Maria. Knowing that my parents were Catholic, it is very clear were “Maria” comes from. I always thought that the names Robertus Dorotheus were Latin based. For Robertus this is partly correct. The name Robertus is indeed Latin,…
Upgraded PHP to version 7.3
This morning I got a message from Jennifer telling me that the weblog was extremely slow. Thank you for informing me Jennifer. And yes, the site was indeed responding very slowly. Some investigation showed that this may have been caused by the PHP version (PHP is the computer language that is mainly used for WordPress)….
Recipe books
Today I went out to look for a recipe book about salads, as I wanted to have new suggestions and ideas. I felt a little “dried up” on this. I succeeded in buying a very nice and complete book on salads. The “Saladebijbel” will bring me many new recipes and a lot of new ideas….
Red Curry Paste (make it yourself)
This weekend I am planning to make a dish with sea bass. One of the needed ingredients is red curry paste. I was looking for it in a local supermarket, but could not find it (most likely I have overlooked it). So I did what I do mostly in such case, I called Miranda for…
New theme for our weblog…
I just installed a new theme for our weblog. This new theme fully support the “Gutenberg block editor” that was introduced with WordPress 5.0.It may take some time to get used to it, but for now it is possible to switch back to the classic editor. The new theme has a very nice feature called…
About Quora, Turkey and Greece :-)
I think most people will be aware that Greece and Turkije are neighboring countries. Good! Let me before starting the article what “Quora” is. “Quora” is a question-and-answer website where questions are asked, answered, edited, and organized by its community of users in the form of opinions. So people may place questions they have on…
A sad time
It might have been noticed that since around the beginning of this year nothing was published here on our weblog. There is sadly a reason for this. After a short, but aggressive, sickbed a very close and dear friend passed away, leaving behind his beloved wife and two children. It has been a very…
Spam through the contact form
Marissa, Marion, Jennifer and Richard informed me that they started to receive spam through the contact form here on the weblog. I will investigate en solve the issue (add protection to the contact form or find a better solution). For now I will disabled the contact form as spam is something we really don’t want!