Finally, some sixteen months after moving into this house, we’ve got rid of the two lightbulbs protruding on wires from above the television in the living-room and above the sideboard in the sitting-room. The lights we’ve had on order for months were finally delivered and installed today.
Now we just need to purchase a few standard lamps and possibly a small table lamp to go on top of the sideboard, and then the house will finally be starting to achieve that lived-in look.
We finally hit the 10,000 km in our car in the last week. It thus took us a little more than a year to drive the first ten thousand kilometres, nearly half of which were completed during our two month trek around Czechia and Slovakia last summer.
It’s getting harder and harder to reach our house. Not only is the Sophialaan closed off by roadworks, which stops us biking home via the Amstelveenseweg and the Saxen Weimarlaan, but now the crossroads of the Emmalaan and the Koninginneweg is closed off for work on the tram rails. By bike, we can still opt to use the Vondelpark to get in and out of our neighbourhood, but by car we now need to go to the end of the Oranje Nassaulaan where it joins the Koninginneweg.
A week from now, they’re going to be doing nightwork on the tram rails, too. God knows how much of a din that’s going to kick up, and I’m not looking forward to finding out.
As we walked along the Emmalaan today, we saw Porgy Franssen, Roos Ouwehand and Daan Schuurmans chatting on the street, in between shooting the third series of Keyzer & De Boer Advocaten. Daan seemed to be flirting quite a bit with Roos. Ssh… don’t tell the gossip rags.
The last couple of days have been gloriously sunny. Unfortunately, I’ve been gloriously sick and slept through most of Sunday. Still, I got to enjoy the Vondelpark with Eloïse this afternoon. We had a good time over at the Melkhuis playground.
I also have to do our taxes in the next couple of days. Bah.
It’s all go here, as I’m sure you can tell. We need to plan our next trip.