Will wonders never cease. If you encounter me having to spend cash, constantly, you would have heard me bemoan the fact. I prefer to pay with a credit card. There are incentives to pay with a card, most notably travel points. If one keeps current monthly it is like cash. Every where in smaller cities …
Author Archives: The Chronicler
200,000 Free Tulips
The Quest began when a friend handed me a newspaper clipping and said “This is something for you!” The clipping told the story that for the past five years, on a specific Saturday, if you showed up on the Dam in Amsterdam you could take home some tulips. A kick-off for Spring by the Tulip …
Malcolm by Frans
Frans & Black
Vincent van Gogh said ‘Frans Hals had 27 shades of black’.
More Frans
Folded Linens
The Blurb says it all, what it doesn’t say is that to find linens in a house ironed like the example above would not have come to pass. The linens for the table were always presented with folds to prove that they had been washed, ironed and put away in the linen cupboard.
Cheese for Lunch?
Cheese for lunch, in a very pretty basket. Both of these cheeses are paintings from 1649. Iphone photography is almost as good.
A Book Light
Tram Rules
The rules include:No food and/or Drink; No feet on the seat. Was wondering why the tram interiors are so clean and tidy when there are no trash baskets. How this is controlled: one may only board the tram via two entrances. One entrance at the front is next to the driving conductor, the other is …
Laundry Tips
Bought a box of wash treatment to better-a-sweater. The instructions: open the box, then open the bag, add the contents of the bag, the powder, to the washing machine with sweater. Wash for an hour long program. When finished, your sweater will look like new. The amazing part of this treatment was the page of …