The cat's in the cradle and we'll have a look.
In Holland (I usually write Netherlands but Holland IS appropriate here, ) is a dike, (That’s no surprise.) which stands out because of the row of mills, along the water’s edge.
I guess, like Stone Henge is to the U.K., so the Kinderdijk is to the Netherlands: One of the best-known tourist sites there, with the largest concentration of old windmills.
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I grew up in Gouda, whic…
"...would be walking between these two women,......"
Even in recent years, my father who passed away, two months ago, age 92, would talk about walking ” between these two women, you know ”, when he was about 9 years old and, apparently recovering from a vaccination, gone wrong. 
So I have always pictured this little boy, walking between two matronly-type-women, possibly across th…
A brush with fame - no doubt!! :)
Today, I met up with independent writing and editing professional and author, Yvonne Louis, whose writing can currently be found in Better Than Chocolate, which was released to support the charity Room to Read and which has a few snippets of the book _*A Brush with Mondri…
15 December - Gouda by candlelight. Seeing it again!
Tante (Aunt) Bep, in December 1969, when I was back in Gouda, after 13 years in Sydney, urged me to come with her to the market square.
Turned out to be the annual lighting up of the Christmas Tree, in front of the town hall.
I’ll be in the Netherlands in December and I mentioned this on a forum about Gouda and so it was that this article has appeared in the local paper:
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I AM!!! dreaming of a white christmas!
It’s been exactly forty years, since my parents and I took our first trip back to the Netherlands after leaving it permanently, thirteen years earlier. 
In those years the trip was fitted into the Sydney summer school holidays and that trip was by DC 10. (Was it 8???)
My hair was a different colour then and the energy le…
"I see nude people but YOU're not there" "Oh yes I am!!"
Quotes from the video….
A different purpose, this time.
“What the heart is full of, the mouth runs over”, is a literal translation of one of many of those sayings, my mother loved repeating. (Waar het hart vol van is, loopt de mond van over.)
I’m planning a trip to Gouda, in December, for a different but related purpose.
Speaking pictures....Apparently not this work.
One of the ‘works’ which I uploaded to redbubble.com, is a collage of pictures of my daughter and I.
This collage links to a copy of that collage which has our voices attached. They come via a recording of me reading her a bedtime story, about 24 years ago.
Here, o…
Hey!! Folks!! I'm in the nude................
..........book!
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It has arrived.
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Find me on
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page 67,
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Beyond the orange gate. 
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Well, actually,
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not me,
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but my description
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of
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descending into the valley,
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below,
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where,...
Not only NUDE! Other stories too. "Gezellig Down UNder".
I keep checking the (real) letterbox to see if the Redbubble publication:NUDE has arrived yet.
My contribution is in there.
Don’t worry. It’s text and not my body.
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All this has made me look back on the bits and pieces of or about me that have appeared in print, in the last 10 or more years.
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This one is in Dutch and it’s about that elusive Dutch word: Gezellig (cosy, embience, cof…