It looks like we are going to make it by Sunday night: the kitchen stuff has been completely moved to the new house, the bedroom is fully over, so is most of the living room, except for 2 arm chairs. What’s left is what we call our “office room”, with the computer gear, printers,...
Read more →I didn’t sleep well at all. The roll of toilet paper they had tightly strapped to my right groin was hurting all night. The nurse had explained that it was necessary, to make sure that the vein in my groin would close completely. A good thing they will take it away in a couple...
Read more →Okay, one more quicky before I go to sleep, because it is the end of the week, and I owe you some entries for the time lost these months. I’ve been asked a few times why I write this blog in English. While I gracefully try to cover up that I don’t have a...
Read more →At a quarter past six, straight from the office, I was in the vendor’s shop. Michalis, the technician whom I had been dealing with, was waiting for me, clearly embarassed. I told him not to worry, but that I was now at the end of my patience. I offered 2 alternatives. Either they rang...
Read more →Up at six o’clock in the morning today. Plenty of time for my morning rituals and at 8 o’clock sharp I climbed the stairs of the employment office, straight to the second floor, where the hundred or so of misérables had been queueing last friday. There was nobody now. I entered the office the...
Read more →After a nice walk in the warm morning sun we entered the building full of hope and good spirits. We took the elevator straight to the 4th floor, as indicated on a magnetic board in the hall. Two ladies were occupying the office. Neither of them spoke English. We tried our best Greek. Something...
Read more →Sorry about my absence. ‘t is amazing how time flies when you’re having fun, but without any writing inspiration. Anyway, I thought I’ll amuse you with this gem below entretemps: The European Union commissioners have announced that an agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than...
Read more →For all you English speaking fans: this is in Dutch so that a very special little person can read this too. Voor diegenen onder jullie die Joëlle niet kennen, even voorstellen: Joëlle is onze trouwste (je zou kunnen zeggen”hardnekkigste”) fan in Nederland (op de foto hiernaast is Joëlle degene die geen gekke bekken trekt,...
Read more →A Flemish farmer is “born with a brick in his belly”, But what are bricks to us are not bricks to Ikaros. Well, I got lost walking in these cities and towns in which I am certain Luc could give perfect directions to any passerby. You readers, if there are any out there, know...
Read more →Does Time fly? In some sense it does. It hovers in circles, A bird of prey, Above us. This chapter requires its own preface. However, the preface must follow the chapter proper. Isn’t that what friendships are like, the explanatory bit always following the existential bit? And that is how this biography is to...
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