winny’s blog

Yes, again I’m going to loose weight. The story of my life
Of course not without my inseparable laptop.

I found an, at first sight, remarkably good programme that is going to show me my progress at every angle. Litterally because it also shows the measurements. It also takes into account that you loose callories when working out. I’m going to try it for 10 days and if I think it’s worthwhile I’ll buy it.

My goal is to loose 9 kilos in 3 months. That’s heavy and I’ll keep you posted if it’s working for me.  More feasable would be 6 months but that sounds so very long from now. But 9 kilo’s less anytime would make me happy and feel better.

Although I’m a little embarrassed that I gained weight again which proves I can’t really resist sweets, I do tell this on the internet because I hope it stimulates me to go on and really do it.

Is it going to be a continuing story? Until now it is.

It ought to be a one week job. But after two weeks now the only result is that my bathtub is turned in the opposite direction, something I wanted. And that the screen that protected the bathroom of the shower, watering the whole room, is gone. So showering must be done very carefuly.
And there are already water pipes for the new shower.

It’s partly my own fault I suppose. The shower barge is to smal for this great shower I ordered. So it had to be changed. Luckily they can manage that but is takes time. And because the new bathtub is not ready before januari all the rest can be done at the same time. With some patience it will be exactly as I want it to be.

I missed a hype in dating I suppose. But thanks to my mother I can pick up on that.

It’s about a lamp with many colours and if you set it to a specific colour and one of your neighbours does the same you can be a couple eventually. Of course you must have the guts to ring their bell and hope that he or she is of the sexe you are into, and a nice person also.

Thanks mom…

The fifth of December is childrens day. And way before that Santa Claus arrives in Holland over and over again. Today he arrived by boat in our harbour. And because of the fact that my good friend Theo organized it all, I made pictures of the happening for the website.

15 minutes before time there were hardly any children at all but amazingly, when the boat went through the open bridge with a very loud horn, there were loads of them. Don’t know where they came from but who cares.

It was really lovely to see how these children were nervous and stayed very close to there parents. It started all kinds of memories. I aspecially remember one time when all the children in school went outside when the good man arrived and I was very affraid and stayed, crying, in the arms of my teacher. But then, I was the youngest child in class.

Beneath my bathtub is a little bit of room. 70 centimeters at each side of the square is not much but just enough room for a shower.
Of course I did not want a common one. It had to be stainless steel becouse of the overall design. This is not an easy size and material so it had to be custom made.

This week it is put in place. It fits perfectly and the shower is really a beauty as well.

And you know what? The bathtub is damaged in the whole proces so it needs to be replaced. Am I lucky or what? Gave me the opportunity to buy one with a whirlpoolsystem in it.
This image shows my new tub without that system.

My youngest cousin, tried the fur coat of my late grandmother. She neerly fits in it, doesn’t she?

And because it makes her look like a queen a castle is appropriate.

My favorite song of the moment.

Rufus Wainwright – Going To A Town lyrics

Yesterday I had a filmcrew in my house. How’s that for a change? I must say it is rather confusing experience.

They took a scene of a Dutch police series, ‘Spoorloos verdwenen’.

They worked for more than 12 hours for I think not even 10 minutes braodcasted. There were 2 actrices and at least 20 crewmembers. I must say, fascinating to see it all happening.

On the other hand I had no control of my own house anymore at all. It was crowded, transformed into the house of a man with al kinds of sportsgear and football (well actually it’s soccer of course) magazines lying around. My furniture was partly moved away. There were moments that I was glad to be able to go away. Luckily I have my second living room downstairs in ‘5‘, a cafe on the ground floor. And one of my neighbours invited me and a couple of other neighbours for a drink in the afternoon.

An odd day and very nice at the same time. I would do it again, if asked. Of course I took some pictures.

Yesterday I went to a, I thought, interesting boat show. The classical boats show in Enkhuizen. Drove about 1 hour and 45 minutes to Enkhuizen for a fair that took me les then that to visit. It was nice to visit nevertheless but I expected more boats like my own. More small classical motorboats. It was all about the old sailingboats, platbodems as they are called in Dutch.

It was nice to be back in Enkhuizen though. I had a friend once who lived there and I have some ice memories there. Only for that it was good to be back.

In this lovely museum in Rotterdam, the Kunsthal, is an exposition of Jean Tinguely; Everything moves!

Fascinating. The noise those magines make…