Posted in Family, House, Housing, LGBT, Life, Neighbours, Travel, housework on March 12, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Bärbel showed where she has been in the world in her blog, but I’m not much of a globetrotter. As you can see I’m more of a Europetrotter:
create your personalized map of europe
And a WesternEuropetrotter at that. (And I have to admit I’ve only been to Norway in utero LOL)
As for housing news: the strategy [...]
Posted in Crafts, Family on October 16, 2007 | 3 Comments »
To answer the question of where the other mother is…at work of course! She has to provide for her family and get all those beach nuts in!
(Well…in reality I haven’t made her yet. She’s next on the list!)
I made another mouse and a house for the two mice. Here is one of them in [...]
Posted in Family on October 1, 2007 | 5 Comments »
It’s Kat’s birthday today
We’ve already celebrated it yesterday, starting the day with a beautiful birthday card from Kat’s mother. Later my parents came over for a visit and some cake. And we finished the day eating pizza’s from our local Turkish (but Italian baking) pizza place, watching season 1 of the Brtitish series [...]
Posted in Family, Language on September 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I love reading about other people’s, families’ and couples’ own language – the mixture of languages/dialects, family in-jokes, regional sayings etc. that cause each close-knit group of humans to have some expressions that only they will understand correctly and appreciate the meaning of in particular contexts. It’s so interesting to me how such things grow [...]
Posted in Family, Food, housework on September 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Life is treating both Kat and myself well at the moment.
We more or less found our rhythm on workdays. Going to bed early to sleep and snuggle, waking up early to snuggle some more and not having to haste a whole lot during the day. Perfect!
Kat finds that having to get up early and being [...]
Posted in Family on August 8, 2007 | 10 Comments »
Today is a very special day for us. We met ‘in real life’ for the first time 3 years ago. That’s 1095 days ago that I first saw the most beautiful and sweet woman of this universe. On the one hand I can’t believe it has been so many days since I first walked around [...]
Posted in Animals, Books, Family on August 3, 2007 | 2 Comments »
This cat has randomly decided he owns our garden, and he is now guarding it from other cats with its dear little life. He sits on this wall for hours on end, and seems to have a special fascination for snails sliming about on the other side of it. He also keeps track of all [...]
Posted in Bureaucracy, Family on July 3, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Wheeee!
We did a lot of walking back and forth from the station to the other side of the city and back.
First we walked from the station to the city council.
We had our appointment to register Kat as a city citizen, and the man who did it was very kind. Despite the fact that Kat’s birth [...]
Posted in Bureaucracy, Family on June 29, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Pat was confused about the family doctor system here in the Netherlands. It is very confusing indeed, so I’ll try and explain why all the registering steps are necessary here.
Firstly, you can’t just go to any doctor of your choosing here. You can only go to your own family doctor, and this doctor has to [...]
Posted in Family, tv on June 26, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Nothing very exciting is going on at the moment. Which is just how I like it, but it does make for boring blogs.
We celebrated Kat’s graduating with waaaaaay too much Chinese food. On saturday we stayed in doors all day, because the weather here has gone crazy. It’s like:
10 mins. bright sunshine
10 mins. drizzle
10 mins. [...]
