All Entries in the "Life in NL" Category

The Cat Who Loves Me

It’s now been a few months since Spencer has been back home with us after the shelter debacle and the kiwi carnage.   I think I’m going to start calling him Spencer v2.0 from now on because he really is a new version of himself.
I was speaking with the lady who kept Salem yesterday and he [...]

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New Living Room

Over the last while we have been making some changes to our living room as we decided that it was time to retire our sofas and redecorate a bit.   It’s still a work in progress but I do have some photos.   I figure I’ll do it the same as our dining room and show how [...]

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A World Without Mosquitoes

Aaaah, it’s a wonderful thought, isn’t it?  I’ve bitched in the past about how much I hate mosquitoes but ugh, I’m fed up.   I have put screens on all our windows and doors but they still manage to get in somehow.  I think they have a secret breeding ground somewhere in my house.   I’m also [...]

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42 Days

That’s how long until the first day of Autumn.  It sounds like a long time but it’s not really, and we’ve not even had a summer yet (we didn’t last year either).   I want to go back to France, where it was warm and dry.   Barring my horrid sunburn, I loved it there… and I [...]

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Typisch Nederlands!

I’m ripping this post off from A Touch of Dutch where she also posted this video today (linked same video for Facebook notes cuz the stupid thing doesn’t import them properly).   It’s a video with just music and photos showing typisch Nederlands (Typical Dutch).   It shows what the Netherlands is mostly made up of and [...]

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He’s Got The Right Idea!

Have you ever just wished someone would shut the hell up? (I wonder how many of you thought ‘yeah you!’ when I said that haha)
Anyhow, today I realized that Bailey is smarter than all of us.   While playing with Pixel on my footstool I guess he got sick of her because this was the result.

I [...]

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Pixel is Famous!

Omgomgomgomg!
If you aren’t familiar with the site Cute Overload, it’s a really awesome site with endless photos of cute animals.   I’ve submitted photos to the site before but they’ve not made it on there.  Today I nearly had a heart attack when I saw A POST ABOUT PIXEL with the photos I’d submitted!!
Yay for Pixel, [...]

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Kitchen Complete

The other day I was chatting with Melissa about her buggered up fridge and as I was looking for a photo of our tiny little fridge I got to thinking about if I ever showed the completed kitchen photos.
I just did a search on my blog and from what I can tell I stopped updating [...]

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Policewoman Shot Dead

From DutchNews.nl:
The police officer shot dead in Amstelveen on Wednesday night has been identified as 28-year-old Gabriëlle Cevat, news agency ANP said on Thursday. A 49-year-old man from Amsterdam has been arrested in connection with the shooting.
Amsterdam police chief Bernard Welten said her station was extremely shocked by the death and sent his condolences to [...]

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Lucky Shoplifter

My brother in law mailed me this video and told me I absolutely MUST put it on my blog!   I have to agree with him, it’s hilarious and doesn’t really surprise me at all, it’s the Dutch humor.
I know the video is all in Dutch but basically it’s at a store called Hema (which is [...]

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