or do we have a family of mice – I don’t know, I only see the evidence of their presence. What to do???? We have 2 spunky mouse traps – that capture the offending bench crappers and kills them, neatly. BUT what does one use to attract these mice. Nothing according to the mouse trap [...]
In New Zealand – people mess about in boats and then they take them out and sail, or row, drive or whatever else one does to move a boat on the waves. And of course it is usually on the ocean waves which makes it not messing about in boats. It might also be in [...]
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This is for Tomas, and anyone else who hasn’t actually seen snow falling anywhere. The view is from our lounge window. The odd bicycle going by – everything becoming slowly and surely white. It has been a beautiful, crisp, white white winter, wonderful for us from Auckland, New Zealand. It has not been so wonderful [...]
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Winter. No snow (for the present). The ice on the canals is thinner, but still many are covered bank to bank. They are patterned with the tracks of the coots. We’re in a warm period that will last until mid-February – then it will get cold again with twenty-four hour sub-zeros for another three or [...]
Our family came from Switzerland for Christmas and we were a little worried. Not because our house is small, with one tiny bathroom on the ground floor. Not because we have only one bedroom and they all had to sleep in the lounge on one fold out single bed, one 3 seater couch, and one [...]
Morgan and his family are coming for Christmas – and that will be a challenge as there will be 4 adults and 2 teenage boys in a 1 bedroom house – that is a bedroom in the attic roof space, a lounge, and a kitchen / dining space. In preparation for the Christmas gathering we [...]
we have been a bit tardy sorry. We have been waiting for our own internet connection which should have happened by now but in good Dutch tradition it would seem our house with lots of telephone jacks has no link to the outside world – hence no internet. Fortunately JJ’s work has not yet taken his computer and rebuilt [...]
If you are considering bringing your lamps with bayonet fittings – don’t All bulbs are screw in – you will need to have a care package sent from New Zealand or wherever you used to call home with emergency light bulbs. Light bulbs are on my list of things to buy when I go back [...]
well they do call it a house here – it is a 3 floors, a bedroom floor (one bedroom in the attic), 1 lounge floor (the middle floor) and the ground floor – which contains kitchen, bathroom and laundry, and a little entry hall. It is lovely and it is even lovelier still because the [...]
