So you use your grandma’s hanky or a vintage linen doily on a tray; someone spills red wine on it; you wash it. In the dripping wet stage, which follows the last rinse in the sink, you slap it against the tiles in the bathroom. Or the tiles anywhere else in the house and because …
Monthly Archives: May 2019
The Best Hack
Learned this decades ago, when first in Holland; all thanks to reader E who illustrated it for me. I have never ever seen it repeated in any magazine on “best tricks; how to ‘iron’ anything linen, cotton etc.”. I can’t be the only one that now and then uses a vintage piece of linen. If …
The Flower Parade
It’s a small country so the scale is not that of the Rose Parade. The floats have to maneuver their way through narrow village streets. The flowers used are of course, seasonal, this is the spring flower parade vs. the fall parade. I especially the complete decoration of the company cars.
Raining Fish
Here it lay, in the middle of the street. A fish. Likely dropped by a seagull – at least that seems the most logical response.
The Window Lock
The Engineer of the Steam Train
Is this Picture Perfect?
or what. The houses in the background, the flat land and bulbs as far as the eye can see!
The Middle Green Rows
Notice the ‘pile of orange’ in the left bottom of the picture. That is the cuttings of all the flower heads from the stem of the bulb. This is how bulbs are perpetuated. But again, as far as the eye can see
As Far as the Eye can See
Took a ferry boat to a steam train to travel amongst the bulb fields.
Loss?
Had time to stop and sit at an outdoor cafe in the center of the City. To my utter surprise, neither of the two waitstaff that served my table, spoke Dutch. Then it was I realized they didn’t have to. Amsterdam is so populated with tourists, they need English speakers, not Dutch. One more loss …