August 31, 2008 – 1:00 am
Usually, when I travel I have a problem. Sometimes more than one problem . . .
Like the time I came to the USA for a writer’s conference. My train from Rotterdam to Amsterdam airport was delayed for an hour due to a cow on the train tracks eating its breakfast.
Like the time I travelled back [...]
August 28, 2008 – 8:24 pm
Public Announcement. I am interrupting my Michelle’s-mini-disasters-and-Red-Tape blog to bring you some fun Dancing Dolphins. Well, they’re not actually dancing, but I like to think of this as their equivalent of dancing in a culturally-enjoying-themselves kind of way.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7570097.stm
A wild dolphin is apparently teaching other members of her group to walk on their tails, a behaviour [...]
August 27, 2008 – 10:00 am
Picture this: Oh Patient One and I are at the offices of the apartment block management company to sign the lease on our new apartment. It all goes really well. The rep is very nice, explains everything to us, a copy of the signed contract will be sent to us in due course. All we [...]
August 25, 2008 – 10:00 am
So, in my last post I promised you the sad tale of the Internet and TV switchover from the old apartment to the new one. I thought it would be so easy, so straightforward, such a simple thing to arrange. Oh, but I was wrong . . .
Before we moved out of the old apartment [...]
August 23, 2008 – 3:04 pm
Ages and ages and ages and ages ago, I posted my first blog here. And then promptly fell below radar due to some rather complicated family health issues and the sudden, unexpected passing of another close family member. I’ve been diving back and forth over the North Sea like a yoyo with a long string! [...]