Bits and pieces

This is the place for posts which don’t fit into other categories… unless they were a category all to themselves!

Waiting for guests

 Barbecue time in the Netherlands,staying with our friends… The tents are up because it looks like rain, the tables and chairs are out, the beer is in the fridge, the wine is open, now all we need is family and friends! I took this picture from outside the tent looking in, there must be a […]

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Something about water

This is only a little pool, a little display pool in a garden centre, but somehow, with the sunshine and the  reflections on its surface, it was quite enchanting. A wider photo would have shown people passing by with trolleys full of plants they had chosen and were about to pay for; it would have shown […]

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Oddly adjacent

I don’t know if anyone else has noticed this, when looking through Facebook there are sometimes two posts next to each other which have an unexpected connection: Find something that makes you happy and think about it a lot… Iceland! Sometimes those two adjacent posts are unexpectedly amusing… Ancient Mesoamerican recipe for cooking human flesh […]

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Jackdaw

Jackdaws  are small crows which you can easily recognize because of their grey hoodies and blue eyes. They are smaller than ravens, crows and rooks and can be found just about everywhere; they are amusing and intriguing to watch, full of character! Apparently there are over a million and a half pairs of jackdaws across […]

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