Halloween pumpkin
The big advantage of halloween is that the pumpkins are on special offer....
![]() Cut it up and make soup out of it... |
Even a small driblet can create something grand...
The big advantage of halloween is that the pumpkins are on special offer....
![]() Cut it up and make soup out of it... |
There is no longer absolute silence when I'm cooking. I can now listen to some tunes when I'm slicing, dicing and stiring in my pans.
![]() Wow, I'm cutting onions in rhythm with the music... |
With daylight savings in effect, the sun doesn't only rise earlier, it sets sooner too. I now have to turn on my lights when I cycle home in the dark.
![]() I've had it, I'm done... |
Yesterday it was time, with all my colleagues we were heading in a small cosy green bus (with red carpet and green table lamps) to the surprise location.
![]() Look out: a water rapid! And another one... |
![]() Trying to surf on a generated wave... |
I still have to get used to it, but I can see the back rests of all my chairs. Normally most chairs are host to one of my coats, but today they have all moved...
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I don't know how long I've been putting this off (actually I do: more than two years), but finally I've done it...
![]() Skirting boards..!!!!!11112 |
No, I wasn't finished yet, I have more stuff to put on my walls...
![]() No, this isn't a fish, it's a kite... |
I hope my neighbours haven't gone mad. It took quite some time in step three to turn one of my walls into something resembling a piece of Swiss cheese...
![]() New: a whole wall to display some of my CD's... |
Now I know the 'where' part, all I have to do is arrange the 'how'.
![]() Step two, thanks to Tjeerd... |
Been busy the whole evening with a pencil, measuring tape and spirit level. The result: 54 little marks on my walls...
![]() These and 50 other pencil marks... |
I was surprised when my phone rang whilst cycling home from work last night. When I answered the phone it was silent for a split second, then I heard a voice: "Hello.., it's me... Have you forgotten me..?"
![]() Bread-call: A reconstruction... |
"You're elephants..!," we are frequently told now-a-days on mondays. Since a few weeks we are getting a special fitness training for kendo. Our trainer reminds us we stamp our feet when we are running.
![]() My view on route to Amersfoort |
TO give my colleagues a taste of New York I brought with me a dozen donuts.
![]() Mmm, donuts... |
My plan of today is simple: I have a few hours left in New York before I have to fly back home. I want to see as much as possible.
![]() Quickly, there so much of New York to be seen... |
![]() I couldn't resist buying the iconic T-shirt... |
Today I started breakfast with tea and donuts. The rest of the day I conducted tests at a large research hospital in Manhattan.
![]() Breakfast NY style: chocolate and Jelly donut... |
![]() Are these all energy saving bulbs..? |
I am to travel again for work, this time to New York! After landing on Newark airport I took the traion to the centre to find myself surrounded by skyscrapers.
![]() Wow, I'm in New York... |
![]() East-side was not on my side... |
I suffer from a strange kind of dyslexia. I mange to scramble up letters in words in such a way that it spells something which is much funnier.
![]() Don't you agree with this sign..? |
Today I've conducted a test in the UK. I decided to go to and fro in one day.
![]() Did I say early..? |
Packing my bag this evening I suddenly find a strange object, a book that isn't mine...
I'm not lost...A sticker on the cover indicates that 'de klokkenluider' from Tomas Ross didn't get in my bag by accident.
I'm a book on a journey,
may I travel with you..?
![]() This book is on a journey... |
I'm cycling to an appointment in the early morning light, well on time, neat shirt (ironed it myself), everything will go just fine. All I need to do is cross a bridge at the central station and take the ferry north.
![]() This shouldn't let go... |