Skip to content

Tag Archives: cute

An unexpected acquisition

I went into Scheltema this morning. I wasn’t even looking for a book… but I got sidetracked (it’s a five-storey bookstore, in retrospect it was inevitable). I got caught by this.

That’s Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip. (It’s actually “Volume 1″ of “The Complete…”, projected to run to five volumes, which to my mind [...]

Pre-coffee

This morning at the breakfast table:

—Do you need the milk?

—No, there’s no cereal left.

—It’s very good with the biscuits. But I will not tell you, so I can eat them all myself.

Punk ducklings

Just down the canal lives a family of meerkoeten. They’re nauseatingly cute.

Mama takes good care of them.

Sea-moomin!

Pharyngula calls this little fellow “Piglet” but we (and, to be fair, plenty of commentators) know better.

(Genuine update coming Real Soon Now, with pics from the weekend and the visit of the prodigal brother.)