2012 – without electricity?

The government has started a new campaign.
This time they want us to be prepared for three days without electricity.
I wonder what they know and we don’t.
Maybe the dykes won’t hold with bad weather, maybe we’ll have more hurricanes, or maybe or electricity system is too old to be reliable…. I don’t know.
The longest I’ve been [...]

New restaurant

Today a friend opened a new restaurant and ofcourse we were invited as special guests.
His home has it’s own style: very minimalistic, so we expected the same of the restaurant.
Before he told to expect a surprise and he was right, we were surprised.
The restaurant was large, with wonderful wooden furniture, and very warm colours.
The food [...]

Caretakers can’t take care of everything

For some years now I’ve seen the decline of professional care.
I’m not meaning that professional care is of less quality, when it’s available.
I’m meaning that there’s less money for professional caretakers and that familymembers and friends have to take over.
Each saturday I help an elderly woman. I clean her house when she can’t afford a [...]

The new flu season

Guestpost by Laane from Laane on the World and Laane Loves
Everyone agrees: they’ve made a mess of the way they’ve dealt with the mexican flu.
Too many people alarmed, sketching a far too serious scenario, and spending far too much money on vaccines that were never used.
Only Spain and the UK were hit bad by the [...]

Oscars – wealth vs poverty

Yesterday a friend called.
Like me she’s been helping an old woman for years now.
We don’t talk about it often, because we each have our own bond with our person and both old women have other difficulties, even though both are lonely and both have to deal with physical limitations.
I’m getting the groceries for my old [...]

winter..again???

I really thought we were slowly moving into spring.
Wrong!
When I woke up I heard some birds, but when I stepped outside I could only think they were talking to each other about the weather. Soooo cold.
I was happy to bring the groceries to the old lady and sit down with her with a cup of [...]

painting is fun sometimes

We went with friends and family to one of my nieces to help her to make her new house to become a home.
The power of numbers is wellknown in my family, so my mom made a list and brought it with her to all birthdays and family gatherings, including christmas and new year.
No one had [...]