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…
“Wish you were here” – Pink Floyd
Yesterday evening we had a very nice get together with some of my direct colleagues. I had with my colleague Tridip a very nice talk about music. What kind of music we like, concerts we have been to. Turns out he has a very good taste of music! There was a request for a…
About memories and a very good mood
Ever walked into the house and your partner starts to sing for you? Well, that happened to me this morning *winks*. I returned from a short visit to Patricia, when I walked into the living room Rob started to sing with a big smile on his face… “If you were the only girl in the…