When I just was taking care of my plants, I noticed something at the cacti that I have next to my computer desk… Yes, one of them is growing flowers! It is the first time ever that a cactus that I own grows flowers. I am really surprised to see this happening. Apart from that,…
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Sharing joyfully my life with Marion. Gaming. Cooking. Whisky. Greece/Lesbos. Photography. Computers. SF & Fantasy.
And more cookbooks…
Of course, everyone wants to win a big prize in a lottery. I think for many that is the main reason to play a lottery. If the money that people pay to be part of a lottery is used for charity, culture or use it where people are in need of help, it already another…
New reading material: Dan Brown’s “Origin”
Today a book that I ordered arrived, “Origin” written by Dan Brown. The Dutch title is “Oorsprong”. Dan Brown belongs to the select group of writers that I really love to read. As many others his book “The Da Vince Code” was my first contact with his work. “The Da Vince Code”, the fourth book…
Utrecht… and a surprise
Marion suggested some weeks ago to go sometime to the city of Utrecht again. Utrecht is a beautiful city to have a good walk, visit some shops and enjoy some good food. I found this a very good idea and so we planned already a few weeks ago to go there today. As we do…
And so our weblog became a little more safe!
There was something that I planned already for a long time to do, move the weblog from http to HTTPS/SSL. HyperText Transfer Protocol, that is where HTTP stand for and it is the protocol that is used by a browser (Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer/Edge) to communicate with a web server. So basically this makes it…
My grandmother’s christmas cactus
The Christmas Cactus (or “Lidcactus” as it is called in Dutch) is a very popular plant for indoors. They belong to the genus Schlumbergera (part of the Cactaceae family). Its origin are the coastal mountains of Brazil. Cultivars of the this plant can have white, pink, yellow, orange, red or purple flowers. It is an…
The Holiday Cup of Starbucks
Yesterday I was at the Central Station of Utrecht. There we decided to get some coffee at one of the Starbucks there. Every year Stabucks has a specially designed cup for the Holidays Season. So they have this year, a colourful and bright design I would say. I really like it, but again is not…
10 Years “dimrost.nl”
It almost slipped by without noticing it. By coincidence, I just saw it today: Our weblog on “dimrost.nl” was in October 10 years old! On 26 October 2007 the first article on this weblog was posted. And now we are more as 10 years further. I remember well how at first the weblog was titled…
A longing for Lesvos…
(Click on the image to zoom in) Rain, cold wind, temperatures that start to call to turn on the heating, all signs autumn is really arrived. And that is how it is here now: Wet, cold and wind. I was standing in front of a window looking outside, Marissa and Marion behind me sitting on…
Spider plant that belonged to my mother.
Chlorophytum comosum is a well known houseplant. The common name for this plant is spider plant, but is also known as airplane plant, St. Bernard’s lily, spider ivy or ribbon plant. In Dutch the plant is known as “Zebragras” or “Graslelie”. It wants a light place, but preferably not too much direct sunlight. Apart from…