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Monday 23 August 2021

In the morning i woke up around seven. I went to the loo and got back in bed. I might have read a bit, but i am not sure. I did fall asleep in the end, once again. Next time i woke up around nine fifteen. I got out, went downstairs and took my double espresso with some butter and cream. Yum.

The morning i spend watching news and youtube on my iPad. I also did some warcraft playing on this private server ChromieCraft. Been playing for two weeks there and enjoy it. Early in the afternoon i went outside and made a walk. I went into the Essenburg allotments and watched the late summer splendour. All the pumpkins! I chatted a bit with Faroek and a bit with the men who was working there. I got a courgette! On my way out i said hi to a woman working there in one of the individual allotments. She gave me some basil.

After i visited the Albert Heijn supermarket i went back home. Some more iPad and warcraft playing. Eric called me, he asked me if i wanted to make photographs of the Swimming event this Sunday. I said yes. I hope i can manage that! Once he got home we drank some coffee downstairs and talked about it for a while. I still hope i can manage it.

I made some chicken thigh for diner together with baked courgette. Not the one i got from the garden, i still had half one from the shop. I did use the basil i got today. It was really nice.

Today i was thinking about my future. I am not sure where i got the certainty i felt a few months ago from. The certainty i felt for the past seven years. I will still give it space. I still feel something developing in my mind. But it is difficult. Yes, very difficult.

That is it for today. Enjoy!

Published on August 24, 2021 at 6:00 by

New pages

Around November 2020 i got the idea to add more pages to this website. I wanted to high lite some of the content available here; the photos, videos, songs and drawings. Last week i made some changes to the header of this website. Most importantly i made it smaller. I decided to keep it simple. An change the header menu. I removed the old Contact page and added in four new pages.

Even though this is old content, i do hope you will enjoy these pages and what they show.

Published on July 12, 2021 at 6:00 by

Summer holiday

Yesterday i wrote about my holiday for this summer. Maybe in a week or so i wrote. I thought about it last night, and came to the conclusion that today would be my last post before my three weeks holiday. July 12 i will be back here.

I am looking forward to these three weeks. Walking, drawing, reading will be what i will do mostly.

Enjoy yourself. Don’t forget the summer solstice, Monday, 21 June 2021, 05:32 CEST.

Salute!

Published on June 18, 2021 at 6:00 by

Warm

Today i woke up around a quarter past seven. Then i fell sleep again. I got out of bed half past ten. It was warm. It still is warm. I read my rss feeds this morning. Watch some youtube. A new Simple Living Alaska! Hunting for salmon. A bit of gaming.

In the afternoon i went out and emptied the compost bin in the Spoortuin. After that i went to the supermarket and got coffee, salted almonds and a small tub of yoghurt.

I am working on a drawing. I hope it will turn out well. But i am giving myself two months or so before it will be done. So i will probably take a three week vacation before that. After next week? Hmm maybe.

I’m a bit tired. Most likely the warmth. Nothing to do about it.

That is it for today. I hope you have a good time. Salute!

Published on June 17, 2021 at 6:00 by

First vaccination

I decided to walk to the place i would get my first vaccination against corona today. Two and a half hours. So i gave myself an hour longer, took lunch with me, missed the most optimal walking route, and got there ten minutes before the appointment. It didn’t hurt, it still doesn’t, i’m happy to say. My feet do hurt though. Quite a long walk!

Here are some photos i made along the way. Enjoy!

Published on June 11, 2021 at 6:00 by

Not knowing

When i started this website, in 2015, it seemed to me i knew more subjects to write about. I wrote quite a few posts in the past years. But lately i am barren. Nothing comes out of me. Nothing i deem worthy. Or so it seems to me.

I do have thoughts, sometimes, who seem of value. Sometimes. Sometimes i read a bit and it inspires me. But when i sit behind my computer, try to think of something worth writing, i feel empty.

I hope there is an end to this feeling. I hope i will find many things to write about. As i once did.

I hope i will learn from this experience.

Published on June 1, 2021 at 6:00 by

A walk to the library

Today i walked to the library. So happy it is open again! The first part i walked up with Eric, my house lord with his little dog Blue. After i walked through the Spoortuin, then along the Westersingel to the Hema, where i bought half a rookworst. I sat there on a bench eating it, looking around me. Then i walked on to the library, over the market. A woman started talking to me, right before it. If i knew Our Father and Our Mother were taking care of us. We started a short talk and argued over Maria Magdalena. I was pretty sure she was not Mary the mother of Jesus. I also didn’t agree with her that God (my term, she kept saying Our Father) will take care of us. I think most of the hardships in the world are to make us stronger. But hey, that is only my opinion.

Well, that is my story for today. It is getting a bit warmer. Even though there was a bit of rain falling from the sky today. Most of it while i was back at home, happy to say.

Enjoy your day!

Published on May 26, 2021 at 6:00 by

Keeping quiet

I am still thinking about my future. If i have one. I enjoy the walks i make almost every day. I enjoy smiling at people, saying hi, good morning, good afternoon, good day, sometimes chat with them, looking at the dogs, sometimes patting them. Simple things.

I try to make my head clear, see around me, think about the things happening. This is difficult. It is so easy to let the society in which i live determine me. The people around me determine me. I feel the space around me becoming smaller, tighter. Money. Yes.

I still have enough for the next year. But i don’t want to wait till its all gone.

I am getting closer, i can feel it. But it is hard.

I would like to write about science, personal big data, shopping / retail, gardening, permaculture, movies and their meanings, the life people lead, dogs and cats and birds, food and so many other things. Most of these things i have already written about sure. But to try and get it all into one perspective. Yes!

Published on May 24, 2021 at 6:00 by