Coping with public and private transport since 2001
As of the 16th, it’s only a mere month before I can rightfully be declared a home-owner. Oh well, at least a home-co-owner since we both will own half of it. Secondly, I will legally have a partner. It’s pretty weird to know you’re going to legally bind yourself to another person, regardless of the fact you perhaps even intended
Continue readingThis week, several things have happened, which do not happen often. Firstly, I got two separate acknowledgements that our mortgage is accepted by the institution lending us the money, and they do not see any reasons why not to let us be able to buy our house. Yay! We now own a vast amount of money. 🙂 Secondly, but not
Continue readingI know it’s kind of weird to discuss a defect of Dutch-writing people in English, but it bothered me that much I just had to mention it. So here goes. My personal rant on misspelling and general neglecting of rules in writing Dutch. Whenever someone is ranting on a defect, there’s a website on that subject. This is also true
Continue readingThis week, our world is about to get a little less polluted. The Dutch government has effectuated regulation conceived last August in conjunction with the corporate world and the municipalities to collect and process the plastics in the garbage separately from the other waste. No worries there, separated collection of garbage makes it easy to process it, as the separation
Continue readingWell, we probably all know the issues in Belgium these days. After a period of 192 days, a new government has been formed under the supervision of Yves Leterme, which had to cope with a huge amount of concessions. The agreement was almost non-functional as both sides were dug in deep. Today, and in the short week hereafter, this might
Continue readingToday, I put away the winter-headers, and restored the original headers on top of every page on this blog. The sun is shining generously over here, and with temperatures quietly reaching over 20 degrees Celsius, the wintery images are not quite suiting the weather. 😉
Continue readingRecetly, you might have exerienced some sluggishness and a hickup. Timmo: sorry I lost your reply! Due to a migration of this site to a new and improved install of the server, with more secure versions of PHP and mySQL, some mishaps occurred with the old system. A DB had to be put back from the backup, and thus I
Continue readingI’m trying to get some sleep, as tomorrow is only a few hours away, yet I cannot. Why? I can hear you ask. I’ll tell you why. For the Dutch, and in particular the ones addicted to a show called ‘Mijn tent is top’, it should be clear by now. For those who still have a huge question sign floating
Continue readingThis week has started really early for me, as I got into my car at 05:45 this morning to go to Groningen. For those wondering how far that would be for me: pretty far! Grotere kaart weergeven I’ll be here for three days, and two nights. All I can say is that Groningen is a pretty city, I hope I
Continue readingThis weekend, I’ve competed in a A,B,C,D-tournament at Conquesto, Waddinxveen. It is one of the nicer tournaments. Well organized, nice accommodation and nice people. I”ve played single, men’s double and mixed double in the C-level, with pretty nice outcome. I lost the semi-final in the single’s competition, and the same holds for the men’s double. The mixed double (with my
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