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)….
Funny Celebrations
That today it is Mothers Day most people will know, but did you know that there are many International/National Celebrations? Rob and I had great fun yesterday looking up all kinds of not so commonly known international or national celebrations. Some are funny, some are just weird and some even make some sense. Did you…
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…
Gary Moore
Music! Yes, it is important to me! This week on an evening Rob and I were discussing on Skype the best guitar players we knew. Many famous names were mentioned. Great memories of great guitar solo’s…. And then Rob mentioned one name: Gary Moore! Awesome songs as “Empty Rooms”, “Still got the Blues”, “Always gonna…
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…
The Mamas and The Papas
This morning I was listening to the radio while helping Jennifer to clean our house. And suddenly there was this song….. “California Dreamin’” by The Mamas and The Pappas. I have to be honest, I really like this style of music. It made me walk up to our media set. I turned off the radio…