Thin plastic bottles
Posted on | September 2, 2010 | No Comments
The plastic bottles for drinks and lemonades are made thinner a few weeks ago.
Too thin, to my opinion.
When the bottle is unopened one doesn’t realise the plastic is so thin, because the bottle is under pressure.
But as soon as the bottle is opened it loses it’s shape when you want to lift it.
Yesterday one of the boys pushed a bottle (which stood on the floor) over by accident.
Immediately the bottle lost it’s shape when it hit the floor and at the place with the most flexibility it broke.
The drink gushed out and we had a hard time cleaning the sticky mess.
The former bottle and a glass bottles would have survived.
Topdroppers august 2010
Posted on | September 1, 2010 | No Comments
Thank you all topdroppers of the past month.
There were many of you and these are the top 10.
Guitarbench.com
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Thank you too all visitors, commenters and others for coming to my place.
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A crisis in a political crisis
Posted on | August 31, 2010 | No Comments
No government yet, and when I read the signs well, we’re in for another long wait.
One of the parties, the CDA, had a long meeting today and when they finished for the day no reports were given to the press. Tomorrow they’ll come together again at 12.00 o’clock.
Rumours were that two of the main people in the party, negotiators Maxime Verhagen and Ab Klink, don’t agree.
The days before many top politicians spoke out against working with Wilders and some even left the party.
All negotiations for the new government have been brought to a stand still.
There’s a possibility the CDA will split over this. But on the other hand, when they’ll be able to prevent that this party will be part of the new government and gain a lot of power.
I’m curious what’s going to happen tomorrow.
Last minute vacation? Forget it!
Posted on | August 30, 2010 | No Comments
We had a look at last minute vacations to try and have some fun days before the schools begin.
We even looked through the vacation auctions. Nothing.
That means… there were places enough to go to.
But regardless if we could reach them or not, they were far too expensive.
Last year the prizes for travelling to and staying in London were extremely high and I thought I’d never be able to go there again.
But I looked now and to my surprise I found out that a stay in London isn’t as expensive anymore.
Maybe that’s due to the fact that we want a stay this week. I don’t know. But the fact is that staying there is afforable.
In a cheap hotel, that is. (Yep, there was catch)
But…not all kids want to go by boat with this weather.
I can understand that, but that means: staying at home.
So that’s what’s going to happen.
What a pity!
Terrible weather
Posted on | August 29, 2010 | No Comments
Today we’ve had terrible weather.
We thought that we wouldn’t get much more rain after we had such an enormous amount last week.
Wrong!!!
The girls left this afternoon and it was raining more than just a bit.
Well, it got worse and we’ve had a lot, lot, lot of water coming down.
Many events were cancelled, especially when it was announced that firm winds and even storm were expected.
This summer has been a disappointment.
We started spring with very nice weather and that was it.
It feels like we’ve had more rain than ever.
Last friday we reached twice the regular amount of the whole month.
After today maybe 4 times.
I tried to grow carrots and some herbs this year, but it has failed completely.
Well, more is to come.
Hope the dykes won’t break.
Empty shops
Posted on | August 28, 2010 | No Comments
Today we went to the shops to get the last groceries.
It was late afternoon, so we expected some items to be gone, but what we saw when we entered the shop was beyond our imagination.
Empty shelves, almost no fruit and vegetables but the most expensive ones, fridges that had been open so many times that the glass was far too moist to see through.
It was amazing.
It’s not that we’re never at the shops at that time. On the contrary.
We’re often there at that time because they put a 35% discount on the products they’re not allowed to sell on monday anymore.
Maybe more people than expected were back from vacation??
Maybe people expect nice weather next week and want to get the groceries in in time?
I don’t know.
Do you?
Friday Fill-ins #191
Posted on | August 27, 2010 | No Comments
1. You do your thing; I do mine and sometimes you do yours.
2. the terrible weathere of yesterday is what’s been on my mind on and off all day.
3. Remember when you first saw a real clown?.
4. coffee, blogging and making music are three of my favorite obsessions 
5. During the last year less rain fell than in one day..yesterday.
6. The sea puts a smile on my face.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to sleeping, tomorrow my plans include the usual saturday stuff as cleaning and groceries and Sunday, I want to sleep in!
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For Pakistan
Posted on | August 26, 2010 | No Comments
Today a special national fundraising was held for Pakistan.
The end result van 16,1 million, which is great for such a small country.
Especially considering the fact that many people where hesitant to give money in the first place, because the taliban are active in that country.
It’s a strange coincidence that at the day of the action the country here has been tormented by heavy rains and we were confronted with mini floodings all over our country.
Nothing too serious, but I’m sure it has made people reconsider.
Spider
Posted on | August 25, 2010 | 1 Comment
Before we left today I had a look around the room, as I often do.
It´s a habit from when the kids were small, and I wanteds to see if there was nothing switched on that should be switched off, nothing dirty, etc etc.
Today I saw a large spider above the curtain, and when I say large I mean: huge!!
It was pitchblack, with thick black legs.
I’m looking around me now as I write it. Ugh!!!
It was with bown legs at least 5 to 6 cm large.
All I could do was get the vaccuumcleaner and so I took the thing and the spider got in.
Then I vacuummed some more, but the things was soo large… I glued the opening closed, because I had no time to empty the machine and I didn’t want the spider to crawl out.
I don’t like spiders, and I certainly don’t like large ones.
Ugh!!!
Are weightcontrolprograms unhealthy?
Posted on | August 24, 2010 | No Comments
It’s a long, long time ago I mentioned in a debate about weightcontrol that prevention is great and motivating people to get rid of their weight is great too, but that more thoughts need to be spend on the national campaigns because there’s far more to it than telling people to eat healthy.
Not only do these campaign discriminate against obese people, they also bring them in danger.
People laughed.
But after all these years finally a commission will look into the matter.
On TV obese people are told they endanger themselves for diabetes, heart failure and a shorter life span. They suggest people have complete control over their weight.
Stress causes chemical reactions in the body that prevent weightloss.
So putting people under stress to lose weight is counterproductive.
And ofcourse we now know about the jojo effect: losing weight and gaining even more afterwards.
The extreme attention for food also causes people who are vulnerable for it to become anorectic or boulemic.
Even though the health commission doesn’t think this is the case, they want research on the subject, targetted on children and young people.
It’s interesting to see that acceptance on ones body, no matter how big it is, often results in a healthier weight.
I think that happy people move more and feel less hunger.
I also know that too much attention on weight makes obese people feel unconfortable and unhappy. In fact they’re told they’re not good enough. And certainly not good enough to control their food intake.
The need to show they’re in control is the last step before anorexia and boulemia.
So I have an idea about the outcome of the research…
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