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Neighbours

Monday, September 18, 2006

These cheerful little fellows were hanging out in the tree in front of our place a couple of weeks ago. (Cheers to Andi for the photos, and apologies for butchering them with the Gimp.)

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Bald-faced cheek

Monday, September 18, 2006

We celebrated with great enthusiasm our third houseboatwarming last Saturday. (It seems we’ve miscalculated a little though: the boat is now too warm, so when Stefan leaves we’re planning a housecooling to restore the balance.) One event stands out as worth recording: at a relatively early point in the evening some random fellow let himself [...]

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Spiders

Friday, September 8, 2006

We have spiders.

Like other people have … something you’ve got a lot of all over your house.

To sleep at night, I don’t count sheep. I count spiders. And I’m usually asleep before I have to start imagining them.

A couple of days ago I woke up with two tiny spider-bites on my shoulder (you can tell [...]

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Houseboating

Monday, July 31, 2006

I’ve moved in! Come visit me!

According to Google Earth (which is wicked fun, btw, try it if you haven’t!), I’m now living at 52°23′04.67” N, 4°54′26.31” E.

So actually I haven’t completely moved in. I cycled a backpack of clothes, my papers for work and my guitar there, but my books, toolbox, bongos, sewing machine &c. [...]

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Woonboot!!

Tuesday, March 28, 2006

I’m going to live in a houseboat! In Amsterdam North, almost within spitting distance of Central Station (if you know Noord: it’s opposite Ot en Sien, the pub a couple of hundred metres up from the ferries).

We told the landlord yesterday we’d take it. It’s two stories (decks I suppose — I mentioned that it’s [...]

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