Giant jellyfish

I’ve just watched the late eveningnews and saw an item about giant jellyfish.
In the past I’ve had a painful experience with a very small one, and since then I get the shivers when I see a jellyfish, but these ones made me wanted to hide behind the couch.
Japan experiences an increasing amount of these creatures [...]

Drunk driving

He’s a student, 24 years, and in june 2008 he went home after a party after boozing about 8 glasses.
A policeman asaked him to stop, made him take an alcoholtest.Result: 1,7 promille of alcohol.The fine was 500 euro. The student paid it and thought he could move on.
Well, he could, until he was called in [...]

christmas swimming

No, I’m not talking about the new years dive the russians initiated and many countries took over to get some fresh newqs item at new year.
I’m talking about the special swimming lessons people can get here around Christmas.
Because just a few people want to go through the cold to the swimmingpool, they need to find [...]

The Mexican Flu, a governmental hoax?

Guest blogging:Laane from Laane on the World and Laane Loves.
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We were threatened to expect the worst.
Healthy people in the prime of their lives dying, babies suffocating with breathing difficulties without enough equipment available to keep even a small number of them alive.
A virus [...]

Happy thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is celebrated in a part of the world where I don’t live.It’s interesting that it was a humble festivity, but has grown over the years into a commercial happening with food as the main ingredient.
I’ve seen many blogposts in the past about gratefulness for materialistic things, like people lost touch with the reality and [...]

Oldest sheep has died

In september 2007 the Guinness World Records organisation acknowledged that the 21 year old Lucky was the oldest sheep on earth.
Now she’s burried under her favorite tree in Australia after dying at the age of 23,5 years.She probably died because of the extreme high temperatures that are measured in australia at the moment.

She’s got ICT

Neelie Kroes is a highly valued commissioner for competition in the European Union.She knows how to deal with companies like Microsoft, Intel and Oracle, and how to make them stick to the rules of fair competition.
With the new round of the political dance of the chairs she’s got ICT.
To be honest, I’m thrilled about that!
I [...]

Keeping pancakes fresh and warm

When I was young my mom made pancakes and one after another was put on a plate until she had a tower with plat pancaked.Those at the bottom were strangely compressed and flat, and they didn’t taste well anymore.
Yesterday one of the women I baked pancakes with too a huge soup pan and taught me [...]

Pancakes…hundreds…

I promised to come and help at a special scouting event without even thinking about the consequence of that promise.
Stu—pid!!!
The scoutinggroup decided to make a kind of survival day at different levels.There was even a route for people in wheelchairs.
Everyone was urged to invite family and friends.
And there we were: three of us.
With enormous piles [...]

Our streets are on the map too

This summer our streets were photographed and now they’re online so I can make a virtual walk through my neighbourhood, visit the gardens of friends without even being there and wonder where the endless rows of cars at dinnertime are.
It’s strange, but I like to walk through the main cities of europe without spending the [...]

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