Category Archives: House

The last few days, our garden lawn has been jumping with frogs. Eloïse and I have great fun every day now, walking around looking for them. We generally find around half a dozen, ranging from thumbnail size babies to good-sized … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

With just a couple of days to go before we fly out to the Middle East, we’ve been making some improvements to the house and setting other things in motion. A few days ago, our new Arclinea kitchen cabinets were … Continue reading →

It’s been a long time coming, but we biked over to Duikelman in the Ferdinand Bol this afternoon and purchased the only other kitchen appliance I really care about (the first one being a decent coffee machine). What we splashed … Continue reading →

The gardeners came this morning to tackle our jungle. Two men spent four hours, pruning, raking, mowing and lugging bin-liners full of organic refuse. Although it looks a lot more tidy now, the grass is now looking quite yellow, so … Continue reading →