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• 2007 - Nigel and Joke visit Yorkshire

  Created: Sunday, 12 July 2009 16:04 Author: Administrator

  After an absence of almost two years, Nigel and Joke returned to the sceptered isle, to visit friends in Yorkshire who they had not seen in many a year. The first victims were Gary and Sue Walker in Wakefield, followed by Trevor and Alex Boon in Leeds. ...

• 2007 - Our 29th wedding anniversary

  Created: Sunday, 12 July 2009 15:48 Author: Administrator

  Nigel, Joke, Genevieve and Robert journey to the local Greek restaurant, to celebrate two old luvvies' 29th wedding anniversary. We ate, we drank, we reminisced, we laughed .... a convivial evening was had by all. ...

• Weesp evening at Nigel and Joke's

  Created: Sunday, 12 July 2009 15:31 Author: Administrator

  After three months of planning and preparation, it was finally time for the Taalcentrum Zenfest. The crème de la crème of the Taalcentrum-VU descended on our pad with the firm intention of staging the Zenfest to end all Zenfests (admittedly, there haven...

• Joke has a "Teddy Bear" birthday party

  Created: Sunday, 12 July 2009 15:04 Author: Administrator

  Joke, Nigel and the kids whip out for a birthday meal, and where better than: ...

• 2007 - Genevieve holidays in ancestral Swansea

  Created: Sunday, 12 July 2009 14:55 Author: Administrator

  Having passed all her first year BA English exams at Utrecht University with flying colours, Genevieve decided that she deserved a holiday. With a group of mates, she visited an Internet friend of a friend in Swansea. The group stayed at a couple of rente...

• 2007 - Robert visits the family in England

  Created: Sunday, 12 July 2009 14:50 Author: Administrator

  Feeling that it had been much too long since he had last set foot in the UK, or visited family there, Robert decided that a visit was long overdue. He spent a few days with Simon, Sean and the Godmum (Sarah), joined in a gathering of the clans in Oxford, ...

• 2007 Simon turns 49

  Created: Sunday, 12 July 2009 14:45 Author: Administrator

  Simon took his mob out for a jar or three to celebrate the occasion of his 49th birthday. The venue? The Swan and Bottle, in Uxbridge .... where else? ...

• 2007 - Genevieve's new student accommodation

  Created: Sunday, 12 July 2009 14:41 Author: Administrator

  Genevieve moves into her new student accommodation, and her aged parents are allowed to visit in order to drill some holes in the walls, and hang up a mirror and a light fitting. Enough of this idle banter .... here are the pikkies: ...

• 2007 - Secret corners

  Created: Sunday, 12 July 2009 13:21 Author: Administrator

  Some might say "For Gawd's sake get a life!", but Nigel is undeterred by the opinions of those with no appreciation of microhorticultural Zen. OK, I admit it, this is a highly specialised field - and to date Nigel has something of a monopoly - but it coul...

• 2007 - Nigel discovers that farming is in his blood

  Created: Sunday, 12 July 2009 13:18 Author: Administrator

  April 30th, Queen's Day in Holland. Nigel and Joke were living life on the edge, nosing around a nearby garden centre, when they spied a couple of cows in a nearby field. Numbering many generations of Suffolk farmers among his ancestors, Nigel was off, he...

• 2007 - Summer arrives early .... in April !!!

  Created: Sunday, 12 July 2009 13:16 Author: Administrator

  Like many other "Baby Boomers" I had hoped to be safely dead before the climate change poo impacted with the proverbial rotary oscillator. The Netherlands has been "suffering" from beautiful summer weather for weeks ... and it hasn't rained since the end ...

• Beard swap

  Created: Sunday, 12 July 2009 13:00 Author: Administrator

  So anyway, Nigel's 28-year old facial foliage had made the transition from a sleek dark brown, to salt and pepper, to Santa Claus white. ...

• Robert gets a new TV

  Created: Sunday, 12 July 2009 12:55 Author: Administrator

  February 2007 - Robert invites his aged parents to help him install some blinds and a bathroom cabinet in his new room in Amsterdam. As a bonus, they were also allowed to help him collect a posh, 60 kg, wide screen TV - kindly donated by that well known ...

• 2007 - Shocking start to the new year

  Created: Sunday, 12 July 2009 12:51 Author: Administrator

  I was about to write that problems with the domestic wiring cast something of a shadow over the New Year celebrations for 2007, except that you need light to cast a shadow, and we were in the dark. ...

• 2006 - Christmas in the Schijfmos

  Created: Sunday, 12 July 2009 12:48 Author: Administrator

  Well, the season of goodwill and large appetites has arrived, and the Cloggy branch of the Hillens gather in the Schijfmos along with their guests, Ada and Tycho. ...

• 2006 Tooled up for Christmas

  Created: Sunday, 12 July 2009 12:27 Author: Administrator

  Yuletide preparationsOutside it is as warm and wet as March, but the calendar insists that it is December. This climate change business is going to take some getting used to. ...

• Nigels Christmas Letter 2006

  Created: Saturday, 11 July 2009 21:39 Author:

  Dear All,2006? Blink and you’ll miss it! Once again, I am agog – nay, gobsmacked indeed – at the increasingly fleeting nature of things. Forget dark matter and dark energy, what about dark TIME? In the immortal words of Basil Fawlty: “What was tha...

• Dot's oriental treat

  Created: Saturday, 11 July 2009 21:29 Author: Administrator

  Impeccably dressed conductors help passengers board the restored carriages of the British Pullman before serving bucks fizz, smoked salmon and caviar as the train trundles out towards the countryside. ...

• The Taalcentrum-VU hits Heemskerk

  Created: Saturday, 11 July 2009 21:23 Author:

  The Taalcentrum-VU hits HeemskerkYes folks, the locals over there in Heemskerk are still talking about the day that the Taalcentrum-VU hit town. We rocked, we rolled, we shook SERIOUS bootie. All the dirt here....

• Keith & Janet's garden party - 2006

  Created: Saturday, 11 July 2009 20:58 Author:

  Keith & Janet's garden party - 2006Keith and Janet invited Sarah's mob for a garden party. They also used the occasion to break the good news of their upcoming wedding at the Chapel in the Clouds, in Las Vegas...