Carnaval is over

We went with a group of friends to the south of the country where they are said to celebrate carnaval best.
I have to say: we had fun. Lots of it.
We stayed at the farm of the parents of one of us, rather near to town, and we had plenty of space and were not bound [...]

I didn’t fall nose-down from the bright pink cloud

No, I didn’t fall nose-down from the bright pink cloud!
I failed an exam, because I couldn’t concentrate during those long hours of studying…Yep, dreaming….And because I saw him just a few minutes before the exam.My heart stopped beating for a while, and because of that my brains weren’t oxygenated enough to find the right answers.
When [...]

Valentine’s day and valentine, mine

Valentine was good for me this year.
This morning I found a card in my mail, signed by an unknown person.I was asked to be ready at lunchtime to go for a valentine’s day brunch with someone unknown.
There was a phone number on the card, only to be called when I didn’t want to go.
I kept [...]

Thank you for your help

Thank you online friends for your help.
Putting all the information you gave me together with a movie someone from my studygroup gave me made me almost a theoretical expert.
Just a week and it’s vacation here so I’ll have the time to work on the hat.
Already, I have 100% wool and a steel form as big [...]

how to do it?

I know a friend wants to have a felted hat.She saw it in a shopwindow and fell in love, but the prize was so outrageous that she asked me to help her out.
Ofcourse I can buy ready made felt, but it isn’t as thick as the hat should be.Maybe I can use several layers…which will [...]

Sven Kramer: worldchampion!

We’re a country of ice-skaters.OK, we’re not the only country, but we know how to do it, and from young to old people take the opportunity to skate. We saw that last month when we had so much ice, and we saw it today.
At the world championship in Hamar, Norway our skaters entered the ice [...]

Don McLean

I’m posting here a song that will delight a good friend.

It was one of the numbers she sang at a party. She caught me with her voice and the way she sang it.
Don McLean wrote it in remembrance of his great inspiration: Buddy Holly.
Today it’s 50 years ago that Buddy Holly and his friends, discjockey [...]