Expat Voices: 25/01/10 ConnieLene Johnston on living in the Netherlands Danish expat ConnieLene Johnston, who moved to the Netherlands from New Zealand, is ecstatic about Dutch bird life but cannot abide the way the Dutch simply park their bikes at any spot convenient to them. However, she has managed to join a group to continue [...]
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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 story [...]
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 – [...]
I had so many hand knitted scarves here, comes from being a crazy knitter – that I hung 5 outside our little steeg on the railing along side the road, and 2 on the bridge railing close by in early December when the weather turned and it became really really bitter and cold. I wondered [...]
Then believe it or not, Best Beloved and I had 12 marvellous days in Denmark, we went everywhere, we were taken everywhere, and had such a fantastic time. My Danish family were amazing and gave us a holiday to remember. Some of you will have heard the story that Best Beloved said 44 years ago [...]
