It’s raining cats, dogs and an assortment of pets. Maybe the winter is showing off one more time before saying goodbye, because (supposedly) today is the first day of spring. It’s also Good Friday, but like a priest jokingly said on TV this morning: “Perhaps it should have been called Awful Friday.”
So today is Good/Awful [...]
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Awful Friday
Posted in Everything, Housing, Life, Neighbours, Wheather, work on March 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Europetrotter, housing and LGBT parenting
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 [...]
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Posted in Meme, Neighbours on August 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »
For some reason I’m always tired on monday. No matter how early I go to sleep on sunday night, or how much I sleep during the weekend.
This weekend our b*st*rd neighbour on the top floor helped add to the monday morning tiredness by waking us up at 8:30 on sunday morning.
First he played his loud [...]
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Noooo! It’s…
Posted in Neighbours on May 7, 2007 | 8 Comments »
Bicycle Repair Man! (a Monty Python reference, once again. But this one was so appropriate I couldn’t let it pass.)
I had to attend a meeting of house-owners, and there was only one other house-owner there, as a result of which I have been appointed as the committee of finance (grr) again for next year.
The other [...]
Any nightmare will do
Posted in Food, Neighbours, Youtube, tv on April 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The BOTTF (Bastard on the top floor) played his music again from 6 pm till 9 am… Considerably softer than yesterday though, so we’re hoping he is going through a phase, as much as we are hoping he’ll accidently step off of his balcony.
We ate homemade (i.e. Katmade) falafel last night, which we didn’t even [...]
It’s oh so quiet….shhhh! Shhh verdimme!!
Posted in Books, Films, Neighbours on April 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Due to a small forest fire next to the railway track between Ede and Arnhem, Kat missed her flight last wednesday and had to reschedule it for monday (koninginnedag!), missing out on a couple of her revision classes and basically arriving in Birmingham just in time for her exams.
She’s been trying to get all her [...]
