About a week ago, our travel agency informed us that our vacation in Greece had been cancelled. Due the current Corona situation all of their flights in May would be cancelled. Of course, we wanted to go back to Lesvos for twelve days. We were really excited about this. It would be so nice to…
Board Games
Since lockdown, many amusing things are no longer possible. Things like going out for dinner, having some drinks on a terrace, watching a movie at a cinema or a performance in a theatre, visiting a museum. Those sorts of things. So we tried to come up with other ways to have fun. And one thing…
Razor Blades
So I thought that maybe the raw materials needed to make razor blades are rare and that makes it expensive. Although it is kinda hard to find which materials are used, I could not find anything very rare or expensive. Of course, the blades are made of high quality steel with a special coating, but…
King’s Quest: The Princeless Bride
One of the first computer games I ever played was “King’s Quest: The Princeless Bride”, also called King’s Quest VII.I got the disc from “Aunt Marion”, who got it again from Rob (if I’m correct). The game was developed in 1994 (and that was before I was born) and was considered a “high resolution” game…
Binke & Boukje
Recently, I have talked to people quite often about dogs. Don’t know why, it just happened like that.And yesterday, I took a small walk. Yes, with my crutch around the building where I live. I need fresh air every day! Then, quite unexpectedly, a young dog came up around a corner of the building. Black…
Poor Greece…
This weekend we had a video call with Mel; Mel at her home on Lesvos, Rob at Heemskerk and me at Haaksbergen. As it is now over a year we met Mel in person, we regularly make video calls. We really miss her. Mel had some bad news. The COVID-19 situation became worse. Greece moved…
When boredom strikes
Yesterday, I was bored. Last Friday, I sprained an ankle. I slipped off the stairs. If the virus was not enough to limit myself. I remembered I had a jigsaw puzzle I had recently purchased. I’ve never been able to push myself to work on it, but now I could! A scenery of Amsterdam at…
About liquorice and dessert
People who know me well know that I love liquorice. I am really Dutch in this. I know that a lot of people in other parts of the world passionately despise liquorice.But I have to say I really like the better quality liquorice and not just what you can buy in supermarkets. A licorice I…
A Wonderful Announcement!
At first I wanted to make this post private, but you all are right: If there is no real need for a post to be private, it should be placed as public. So this post will be public accessible :-). In December 2018, Richard and I announced our engagement. And it was a great move…