How to measure what you have done during the pandemic lockdowns: paintings completed, books read, cards made, letters written, packages sent, loaves of bread baked, cookies baked and given away, and then this:
Author Archives: The Chronicler
A Key Idea
In response to “Slam’ posting, reader A had this suggestion. “I put mine in an empty pill bottle with tight lid. Then glue a rock on top and bury it ..in a pot or yard so rock sits on the surface.” Clever idea indeed.
The City Wall
Really it is not mine to ponder the education levels of readers, as I am grateful to all who take time to ‘tune in’. However, a question was submitted about the use of ‘vestment’ in referencing the city wall on the other side of which is a large, salted, body of water. Below are sources …
Storm Day 1-b
This Guardian news article is an excellent rundown of weather here: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/08/storm-darcy-netherlands-declares-code-red-emergency-as-rare-snowstorm-hits
Storm – Day 1
So far, manageable
Stormy Weather
Or so it is predicted. Many a time wherever I was, have not heeded the weather report. Only two times has that proven to be a mistake, one time rather dire. As I don’t know how accurate the Accu-weather forecast is here I’m willing to heed my caring neighbors who tell me a gale force …
Them Apples
Santana, Jumani* Jonagored, Jonagold, Golden Delicious, Evelina, Elstar, Dijksman’s Zoet, Delbare, Cox O.P., Cox, Boskoop, to name but a few of the apple types available, plus those listed below. Some are for eating raw, ‘in-your-hand’ as they say, some are specifically for making apple cake [apple-taart] and some are for.. have yet to discover. This …
Could NOT Resist
This was so perfect, I could not resist. Translated it into Dutch, encased it in plastic and placed it below my doorbell. You see, there are solicitations door-to-door: buy a better Wifi network, support an animal shelter, help fund the research? for all sorts of illnesses, and more, too many to count. We’ll see what …
The Bird
I am sitting downstairs in the living area, with my feet comfortably on the edge of the dining table, working on my computer, my back to the garden door. As mentioned, after a guest leaves, I open the cross-draft doors to allow a fresh breeze to blow through my space. Working, without taking in the …
Words
Words in other languages can ‘tickle my fancy’. I have a mother tongue and my relationship to language is linear. The current ‘fancy tickler’ is the Dutch word; Avondklok- literal translation: evening clock in Dutch. Curfew in English. In English, ‘curfew’ has no context. In Dutch, ‘avondklok gives a time, and a hint. The Prime …