Queens Day / Koninginnedag : or is it Orange Crazy Day?
April 30th – Queen’s Day is a national holiday here in the Netherlands. It is a celebration for the birthday of the Queen of the Netherlands (Queen Juliana’s birthday). The date has been retained as Queen Beatrix birthday is in January – not good weather [...]
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I know I have mentioned such things as ball [...]
We have taken down the scarf – it took longer than our estimated 5 seconds and we left the scarf hanging over the tree supports for someone who needs a newish scarf. There are spring bulbs showing their new leaves already, and some are in flower. I don’t know the flower and have taken a [...]
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In the Grote Markt – the Haarlem town square there lives a row of beautiful grey balls. They look very very cold in the early evening light. What can you do – you can knit, being a knitter – a ball cover, and hope that one ball is comforted by this.
See the ball [...]
Maybe the snow is really getting to us.
Last Sunday, John and the camera, me and 3 scarves, and a threaded needle went out into our park to a group of 3 trees that we had decided needed to be warmer. All the scarves were too narrow to be attached to the chosen three – so [...]
