Category: My blog
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31-10-2018
No this is not the Post Apocalypse with people fleeing the zombies. As everywhere in Europe, the poor and dispossessed are on the move looking for a better future, about 7000 of them. Europe has taken in more than 1.5 million over the past 5 years being much smaller and more densily populated than the…
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25-10-2018
Amazing how legislators of all the EU countries can get together and discuss the problem we are having with plastic in the environment and come up with the solution to forbid plastic earbud sticks, straws and to have caps attached to the millions of plastic bottles being used by everyone. And it will all first…
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17-10-2018
Never thought I would be sitting in a classroom again surrounded by 24 excitable 10 year old children. But there I was trying to get myself familiarized with the current methods of teaching lower grade kids math. What I was not prepared for being my age was the near chaos that seemed to be the…
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04-10-2018
Returned from the Women’s Fiction Festival in Matera, Italy.It is a meeting for female writers who want to get information about writing and publishing their books. A better name would be WFF, Women Writers Festival as the name suggest solely women writing for women. Which does not have to be the case. Especially as there…
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02-08-2018
Just wanted to view something on the television and when I switched it on I saw a large group of people among whom some dignitaries all dressed on black with a very sad song being sung by a lady supported by a large choir. As quite a few disasters have been happening lately I though:…
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21-07-2018
My last post was interrupted before I could finish. We now all know the whole group of Thai children were saved. #metoo… caption reads :I don’t think she is up for it Theo!” Love Dutch humor. Western Europe is suffering from a real drought not seen apparently since 1976.…
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10-07-2018
This is a depiction of the rescue operation that has the whole world watching: 12 children trapped 6 kilometers in a cave with their football coach. Up till now I have not heard what on earth this coach was thinking off to go in to subterranean caves in the monsoon season. Anyway in the mean…
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27-06-2018
Streets are empty. Quiet in many cities. Did somebody die? Has the Apocalypse struck? Did aliens land? No the World Cup of soccer/football is upon us again. To explain to the aliens: Football is a game whereby two groups of 11 men during about 90 minutes try to put a football in each others goals.…
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14-06-2018
So the “historical’meeting as all the News agents keep calling it has happened. What is supposed to be historical about an uncouth childish man from the 2nd largest economy of the world meeting a dictator of a quite unimportant country? The little guy has been rattling his sword- read been shooting off rockets towards the…
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