The robins have landed
“No gifts, I don’t need anything,” I’ve been saying it for years on birth- and holidays. And then there are people (in this case my mother-in-law)…
Our life
Different as night and day
Yesterday I joked about it but it really is quite something when two strong-headed types start a business. One makes decisions real fast, the other researches…
Dear Deidre
Dear Deidre, I have a new co-worker and he’s driving me mad. After lunch he leaves his peels on the counter and never puts the lid…
Serious maid skills
Queen of ducking out, bone idle, always on the loo when something needs to be done: my eldest knows how to slack like a champ. Until…
Choosing the Italian school
They have to choose a school: an international school with barely any Italian children or an Italian school with hardly any foreign children. We visited quite…
Writing on the porch
The girls are still snoring, Roeland is doing his manly farmer things and I’m on the porch working on my second novel. Don’t I have other…
Learning Italian
Learning Italian must be easy for you with your language skills. If only my language skills unfortunately don’t stretch beyond Dutch and English. All the other…
Isn’t this just his dream?
Isn’t this whole adventure not just his dream? You could think that considering the stats. I was born and raised in Amsterdam. Always claiming I would…
The bird flew out of the cage
For ten years he came home five days a week wearing a suit which always looked like a clown’s costume. Working for a bank, while his…
Is it what I expected?
Sooo? It’s brilliant which doesn’t mean it’s a walk in the park. The positives first. It’s what I teach my girls so practise what you preach,…