It is always good to have at the begin of a new year a moment to look back at the year that has passed by. So lets have a short look from 2017 to 2016 I think for me personally it was a relaxed year. Of course there were things that went not completely the…
Author: Rob
Sharing joyfully my life with Marion. Gaming. Cooking. Whisky. Greece/Lesbos. Photography. Computers. SF & Fantasy.
Paprika powder from Hungary
Everybody likes it to get presents (at least I think so). And so today I was happy when I got those two nice little bags with paprika powder as present. Let start with some nice to know information of the paprika: Paprika powder is made of the fruit of the “Capsicum annuum”-plant. In some countries…
Suske and Wiske 337: Game of Drones
And then there is a new comic book of Suske and Wiske” (or Spike and Suzy as they are called in English) again. This comic book has the catching name “Game of Drones” and I think that everyone will see where this title is taken from (“Game of Thrones”, for those that didn’t know). This…
Heretic Christmas
Although “tradition” seems to proclaim that you should not decorate your house for Christmas while “Sinterklaas” (which is celebrated in The Netherlands among other countries) is still in the country, we will start with the Christmas decoration this weekend. I know that I have talked before about Christmas and its origin, but it is something…
A Fellowship of Friends
It seems that everyone agrees and “A Fellowship of Friends” will be the new name of the blog. Kudos to Mel and Marissa. Well done! A nice step forward in the new structure of this weblog with multiple authors. The “About Us”-page of The Fellowship of Friends. With this please the request to the authors…
Weblog 666 :-)
This morning I noticed by coincidence that there were exactly 666 articles posted on my web-log. And that is a reason enough for a new article! Since 2007 666 articles and 1295 comments. Not bad at all, I would say. Specially when you consider that there have been times of low activity here on my…
Entrecôte (or porterhouse steak)
I think everyone had those moments that you want to do something, but you just don’t get the time for it to do it… It has been extremely busy at work and privately is not much different for me. Don’t get me wrong, I am not complaining. But there was this one thing I really…
Some people noticed that I haven’t posted anything for some time on Facebook. And that is correct, I basically stopped using Facebook. Main reason for this that Facebook becomes more and more a privacy thread. If not by Facebook self, then it is by people with bad intentions. For the second time now in the…
“Heemskring”
This week I found the “Heemskring” in my postbox. The “Heemskring” is the magazine of the “Historische Kring Heemskerk” (Historical Circle Heemskerk). I am getting this magazine because I am member of this society (obviously!). Now one can wonder why someone, who is just living for a few years in Heemskerk, is member of such…
Something I always enjoy very deeply!
Most will know that Marion is often during the week away for her work. Aside from that we have a so called LAT-relation (Living Apart Together). The result of this that we mostly only see each in the weekends (maybe it is a nice idea that Marion and I write some time an article about…