What’s happening in Europe?

I wonder what’s happening in Europe. We´re going through such changes that it seems history is repeating itself. In Paris and 135 other cities in France pëople protested against their own government is deporting Roma gipsies. Those who leave the country voluntarily receive 300 euro´s and a planeticket. That is the grown ups. Kids get [...]

pregnancy leave

The European Union wants to extend the duration of pregnancy leave. Already The Netherlands offers two weeks less than the lowest adviced duration. (16 weeks) In the papers the subject was discussed and the readers were told that more leave wouldn’t be positive as with a longer leave nothing would change at all, like work [...]

Alone at home in the night

The word is getting stranger and stranger. According to the paper a woman was smoking a cigarette in the garden because she couldn’t sleep. It was well past midnight. Then she heard something at the front door and opened it because she thought it was her son coming home. Instead she found 3 men, at [...]

protection against the sun

Oh my dear! The temperatures went very high today and I saw some children playing outside in the sun without any protection. I don´t understand those parents, because enough warnings have been issued to protect children. We´re even warned against bad creams and lotions. More than half of the suncreams contain oxybenzone, which influences hormone [...]

Neighbours! Arghh!

They came to the door to ask if this was a quiet neighbourhood. I told them that that was the case. I also said that now and then people could hear each other, and that we have a classic autistic son, who makes noise at times. They decided to move in to the house next [...]

A day full of music and mini earthquakes

Oh, I long for the times that music festivals presented musical quality with guitars, singing and drums which couldn’t make too much noise, because the soundsystems couldn’t cope. Rather far from our home, but not far enough, a huge music festival was/is held today. The first sounds were not too bad, as the wind came [...]

Don’t ask, don’t tell

Not even my gynaecologist, who delived 6 of my children and went with me through giving live and receiving death, not even he, who saw my smiles and tears, asks what I’m doing in my relationship or in my bed. Because what I do there doesn’t define me. Doesn’t make me the person I am. [...]

Puberty and hair

With puberty hormones flying around for quite some years now, I’m used to a lot. One of the boys has a way to decorate himself with out of fashion hairlooks. He had very long hair a few years ago, and the last year he has it straight upwards to the sky. Kilos of hairgel in [...]

Using handicapped people

A European prize has been given to a project which is said to give handicapped people a meaningful passtime. Well, I wonder what you think about it. Handicapped people are working at a home for mentally disabled elderly people, handing out coffee and tea, walking outside with them, transporting them, and other jobs. Because they [...]

Lavender smells

In the past I loved lavender and to make my towels smell lovely I put lavender soap between them. I like however to keep things that are nice the way they are. Towels I’m using are on top of the pile and they’re used first, so I never reacher the lavender soap. Today I was [...]