“No, it’s not a drumband playing in my house, it’s just my five-month-old kitten banging the hanging extension of my desk,” I explained to a customer on the first Monday…
Author: <span>Kirsten Bett</span>
Sometimes you experience something that can only be described as gezellig. It’s nearly the same as cosy but cosy refers more to a place than to a time. Like a…
It’s been a strange week in the Netherlands. Not so much because Thierry Baudet, the leader of the Forum for Democracy, stepped down. He had not taken sufficient measures against…
At work in Wellington, when I mentioned we were moving to Featherston, I sensed an undertone in people’s reactions that as a non-local I could not place. I even started…
This is the last photo I took of Prince. He always waited for us on the windowsill. This particular day we had been to Tini’s birthday. Tini is Wim’s cousin.…
Max is our kitten. He’s been with us for two weeks, the last to go of Hans and Sjoukje’s double nest. Mother and daughter both had had their kittens on…
of Leeuwarden… Leeuwarden, Friesland in the north of the Netherlands is a great city for cycling. Leeuw is Dutch for lion. Creating one made out of bike parts makes sense.…
The kitten was chasing a leaf in the summer of 2005. Or a twig. A habit she kept for life. One of my payroll colleagues scooped her up, she fitted…