Although I find no special delight in watching horrendous TV-shows, sometimes it can be very satisfying to discuss the obvious gaping plot holes, inconsistencies, and scientific impossibilities or improbabilities with Eisirt ( Read more... )

The German short row heel is kicking my ass. "Double stitches" as they are called, are not double stitches at all. The trick of the German short row heel is that you yank the yarn over the top of your needle so tightly, it pulls the previous stitch over to the other side of the work. This makes the stich from the previous row look like two stitches ( Read more... )

My sewing machine is home! It's back and it's my precious ( Read more... )

Sorry, English-speaking readers, this rant will be in Dutch as it is about a typical Dutch problem with a typical Dutch public transport system. Also, it allows me to use the word "gewauwel" in my subject line.

De OV-chipkaart. Veel is er al over gezeken (en afgezeken) in dit blog en ook Alice-in-Wonderland heeft hele handleidingen geschreven ( Read more... )

I get the whole point of swordfighting lessons, honestly I do. I go to this club and they teach me new and interesting ways to kill other people. Only, we don't actually kill people but we play at killing people. It's all in the technique, so to speak.

So we have hängers and abstellen and absetzen en uberlaufen and all these other interesting ( Read more... )

This rubbed me the wrong way. (A translation is here.Right-wing party VVD wants patients to become more aware of the costs of hospital treatments. It caused a serious WTF moment in my head (and as I was listening to this on the news when my alarm went off, my mood is pretty much spoiled before my day even begun). Call me an entitled Dutchwoman, but ( Read more... )

The History Channel has aired this series since 2010, and when I mentioned to a colleague how I enjoyed Ben Vermeulen's "In den Beginne..." he gave me the first season on DVD.

Ancient Aliens sounds like a really interesting concept, but the way the series is just bludgeoning the viewer with piece after piece of evidence is just irking me. I don't ( Read more... )

Typisch geval kastje-muur ( Read more... )

Just a gentle reminder on how to use my pictures.

Copyright
"Copyright is a set of exclusive rights granted by the law of a jurisdiction to the author or creator of an original work, including the right to copy, distribute and adapt the work." (From: WikipediaOr, in Dutch ( Read more... )

Een week nadat het kabinet op de stoep bij de koningin stond, begon de eerste rel al. Er was weer eens iets met mensen met een dubbele nationaliteit. Cohen stond al eerder vorige week op Nu.nl met zijn PvdA en vandaag ging Wilders er nog even dubbel overheen.

Wilders dient geen motie van wantrouwen inPVV-leider Geert Wilders zal geen motie van ( Read more... )