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…
A sad time
It might have been noticed that since around the beginning of this year nothing was published here on our weblog. There is sadly a reason for this. After a short, but aggressive, sickbed a very close and dear friend passed away, leaving behind his beloved wife and two children. It has been a very…
So now it is really official…
How things suddenly can change… A little after the wonderful Christmas dinner we had at the house of my aunt and uncle (Marion’s parents), Richard came to me and asked me if he could have a little talk with me. A bit confused because this is not the normal way of acting for Richard, I…
The new madness on sayings about animals…
Really, this has to stop… That people are not happy with “Zwarte Piet” (Black Pete), I can understand in a way (I say understand, not agree!). “Zwarte Piet” is often displayed as a clumsy, no too clever person. And quite as a stereotype. So yes, I can understand that people don’t like that. But…
Spam through the contact form
Marissa, Marion, Jennifer and Richard informed me that they started to receive spam through the contact form here on the weblog. I will investigate en solve the issue (add protection to the contact form or find a better solution). For now I will disabled the contact form as spam is something we really don’t want!
Zapekanka
Begin this week a colleague was so kind to bring a dish from her homeland (and surrounding countries if I have understood correctly). This dish is called Zapekanka and she made it herself. Looking around on the internet it shows that Zapekanka originates to the Ukraine and Russia (and most likely some more countries…
Christmas Cactus
I think that the Christmas Cactus is one of most common houseplant around. In Dutch we call this plant “Lidcactus” or “Kerstcactus”. The scientific name for this plant is Schlumbergera truncata. So you may wonder why an article about a plant that is so common. Well, I have one Christmas Cactus that is very special…
WordPress 5.0
I just upgraded our weblog to WordPress 5.0 and the upgrade went well without any issues, just as I am used to with WordPress. The most important change of this new version is that there is a complete new editor for writing the articles added.This new “Gutenberg Editor” is block orientated and is more or…
Perfume
Today I got a wonderful perfume from Rob as gift, but there is a little story to it. Begin this week, Rob was travelling home from his work. The train he was travelling with was over a hour delayed. Rob was feeling cold and hungry.But instead of losing his good mood, he found something that…
Sanctuary of Mesa (or Messon)
During our holiday to Lesvos this year we saw many beautiful things, but there was one location that made a deep impression on all of us: The Sanctuary of Mesa (or The Sanctuary of Messon, as it is also referred to). Specially for Rob visiting Mesa/Messon was very high on his wish list. His interest…