Spring is in the air: Spring Outfit

June 2012 School Newsletter Dear colleagues, Summer Vacation is almost upon us, and so the time has come for our annual Mom Hunt! In the final weeks leading up to the long Summer break, lots of special activities will be organized, to ensure a chaotic end to the school year. And of course these will...

Country life can be quite idyllic. The silence, the views, nature.... However,  there's one thing I definitely don't appreciate about life in the country, and that's flies. Pesky flies who take up residence on my bare legs, while I'm trying to read a book. Or while I'm having my daily cup of coffee. Because during...

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...

I'm trying to be frugal, so I'm using our woodburner to keep us warm instead of using the central heating. There's rat in our wood burner! This morning, shivering and feeling like Cinderella on a particularly bad day, I carefully opened the little door of the wood burner to put some logs inside, and create...

My husband likes to make sure we have lots of toilet paper available. Even before Covid 19 he was always worried we would run out. So he buys our toilet paper in bulk, and then throws it down the stairs of our cellar. There it lies waiting, until someone runs out of toilet paper, and...

I've been reading Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Readingby Nina Sankovitch, and I was struck by something she said about rekindling your sex life. Especially in the light of the recent hype surrounding the softporn book 'Fifty Shades of Grey. Nina advises to have a glass of wine, read a good...