I love my new garden gnome!

I was taking my son Piet for his swimming lessons for the umpteenth time, feeling numb with boredom, when he suddenly said: 'Daddy is very naughty!' 'Oh yeah?' I said distractedly, because I was busy feeling sorry for myself. 'Daddy uses lots of naught words' 'Yes, daddy uses lots of naughty words when the other...

It's one of those things I dread the most: my washing machine breaking down. Because with five teenagers in the house, there's always a lot of laundry waiting to get done. And if I so much as slack off for óne day, that laundry immediately will start to grow, and grow and grow. Until it...

  Wat is really only a week ago that I slathered my arms with sunscreen to protect myself from the sun?  It's seven days later and temperatures have dropped dramatically.

My old mousepad which used to look  like a pretty Persian rug, was looking kind of dirty.... But it wasn't until after I received my new mousepad that I realized hów dirty! I'm almost hesitant to show it to you... because it really is very grubby. But okay, here goes nothing: And here's the new...

Tomorrow my fourteen year old daughter will be heading for the German city of Trier for a school field trip. Even though it's a supposed to be a cultural trip, they'll also be climbing trees or something. Because you know, that's Fun. We even had to sign a scary paper giving our daughter permission to...