As with every holiday there are these “empty moments” when nothing is going on and nothing needs your attention. Mostly it is early in the morning, late in the evening or when the ladies were getting a tan. For these moments I loaded a game called “Forge of Empires” on my iPad (well, you are…
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Sharing joyfully my life with Marion. Gaming. Cooking. Whisky. Greece/Lesbos. Photography. Computers. SF & Fantasy.
The stars above
Now the darkness has covered the island, the temperature has become very nice. Very welcome after the heat of the day. Mel, Marion and I made a very nice walk in the neighborhood of Mel’s house. Just 5 minutes away from her house and the darkness is complete. Then, looking up to the sky, something…
Our first real day in Lesvos
So the first real day of our vacation to Lesvos. Lesvos again? Yes, Lesvos again and that for many reasons. Just read the articles that Marion and I will write during our vacation here and maybe you will understand why. Our vacation really started yesterday. Because our plane would leave very early in the morning…
Rabbit Island (or the Island of Saint George)
In 2015 around this time of the year I placed a message on Facebook related to Marion’s and my vacation to the island of Lesvos. It was after a long time that we would be going there again. On one of the photo’s of the area where we would be staying there was an island…
RSS or Really Simple Syndication
Yesterday Marissa asked me if there was not an easy way to see if something new happened on the weblog or the forums. I was happy that I was able to say that there is indeed something for that: RSS, which stands for “Really Simple Syndication”. Let me explain what RSS is. With RSS you…
Tony Hazzard – Loudwater House
Many years ago I bought a vinyl long play record of Tony Hazzard. I was still going to school. So yes, really a long time ago. First of all, I can imagine that specially younger people don’t know who Tony Hazzard is. Even in “The Gang” only Miranda and Jennifer knew right away who he…
Marion is in the USA
I am sure that many of our friends know that right now Marion is in the USA for her work. She has to stay there for about 3.5 week. She and her colleagues will discuss all that happened the last year, the good and the bad. See if it is possible to improve things, even…
“De planetenvreter” (The Devourer of Planets)
Two days ago (19 May 2017) a new issue in the series of “Suske en Wiske” (or “Spike and Suzy” as they are called in English) was released: “De Planetenvreter” (which freely translates to “The Devourer of Planets”. The story… When Suske and Wiske discover a spacecraft that was frozen for millions of years in…
