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…
Category: General
About mobile phones and stairs…
Okay, I will be the last to deny the use of mobile phones. I mean it is handy to be able call anywhere someone. And yes, connected to the Internet such a phone has many nice and good uses. But at times… About once per month I go to Enschede, which is a very nice…
De Markt 2, Haaksbergen
Today Rob and I had lunch at Grand Café Central in the town of Haaksbergen. Their omelets and fried eggs are very good. We have there many times before. We had a very nice chat, but I noticed that both our eyes drifted to the building were once was café “De Markt 2”, which had…
Singles’ Day
It is today Singles’ Day. Never heard about it? Well, I didn’t either until Rob told me some days ago about it. It seems to be something very big in China. Singles’ Day or Guanggun is an entertaining festival widespread among young Chinese people, to celebrate the fact that they are proud of being single….
A change to my weblog…
Something will change Until now the articles on my weblog were written by myself (and every now and then an entry written by Marion). This will change. I have given editor rights to Marissa and Sanne, so they can publish here articles here. On their own request they want me to review their articles before…
Jose
Two days ago we were informed that during the last night completely unexpected Jose Lopes passed away. Jose was an colleague of mine who was working as tester in the IT department where I also am working, although he worked for the Front Office and I for the BI/Middleware team. The news stroke us very…
A small story related to my mother…
Last evening I had a long talk with Sanne. Sanne is a long time friend of Marion and me (I know her as long I know Marion, but Marion and she even went together to school). Somehow the subject of the conversation turned to my mother (if I remember correctly the upcoming birthday of Sanne’s…
We wish you a most wonderful 2016!
In the New Year, let’s resolve to get less stressed, upset, anxious about things over which we have no control. Lets have a narrower focus on our lives, loving and helping our family and friends, making our community a better place to live, to create peace and contentment. In the New Year, let’s resolve to…
More updates…
Time for some maintenance and tonight the first step to that (there will more steps to follow). There is small list of blog that I regularly read. I already noticed that this list was not really up to date. Time to change that. I have updated the list. It kinda sad to see how many…
Birth announcements card
By the kindness of someone in my family I got hold of the birth announcements card of my older brother, sister and of myself. It is kinda special to hold these little cards that are witness of three very important moments in the lives of my mother and father. These birth announcements of our family…