Tomorrow the twins are having their birthday. So all three of them (youngest didn’t want to be left out) made a cake.
Category: life lately
In the garden
Not good enough
I planned to do a shop update today. Not that I ever sold anything, but a girl has to keep trying… But lately I just can’t seem to get to some good sewingtime. And when I do I have to finish a dress (oh, forgot to show it all finished, will do that soon)…
Typical Dutch sky
Today was Queensday. Last year the weather was great, so we kind of hoped, maybe even foolishly expected to have a day like that again. We started at the flea market in Gouda, but I only bought two books (Jessica Fletcher, I love her). We went home very soon, because we were very cold and…
Growing herbs
I try this every spring and summer but it somehow never works out. I guess it has something to do with the moist (the windows get condensed when it’s cold and rainy) and the sun (when it is shining it’s quite bright and hot behind these windows). But I like trying. I’m also fond really…
New kids on the block
This is across the street. We live on a dike and as you can see, we have quite a view from our home. There will be some building going on next to that farm on the right, but because our home is build on the side of the dike, not on top of it, we…
My cookbooks
Not all of them, by the way, I have four big binders on an other cupboard and four cookbooks that are part of a sixties series of household books. I don’t use them much, I have to admit that I’m not a very adventurous cook. I do a lot of stir frying and we also…
Blooming explosion
This was yesterday, those flowers are blown off quickly now.I’m going to watch this tree and try to get a picture of the cherries before the birds get them.
In our back garden
Isn’t this a logical sequel to yesterday’s picture of the front-garden? Actually it has not much to do with it. Yesterday I was sick and uninspired, today I want to tell you about our back-garden.When we bought this house there was no back-garden. There was some room to sit on the side of the garage,…