http://www.vaguelyspecific.com/ en-us dougiedehond@hotmail.com 2008-04-12T08:34:53+01:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.vaguelyspecific.com/archives/cat_oma_and_opa_in_australia.html 950@http://www.vaguelyspecific.com/ Oma and Opa in Australia 2008-04-12T08:34:53+01:00 http://www.vaguelyspecific.com/archives/cat_babbleon.html The tail end of a cyclone passed close by the other day. Besides some alarming winds we didn't really suffer too much here in Brunswick; no power shortages and no buildings collapsing. Which, when you think about the building... 949@http://www.vaguelyspecific.com/ babble-on 2008-04-04T04:53:06+01:00 http://www.vaguelyspecific.com/archives/cat_oma_and_opa_in_australia.html Despite oma and opa's scepticism they good-naturedly went along with our participation in Earth Hour 2008. Oma almost scalded herself making coffee and Opa couldn't see to write in his puzzle book but still, a 'gezellig' time was had by... 948@http://www.vaguelyspecific.com/ Oma and Opa in Australia 2008-03-29T11:33:22+01:00 http://www.vaguelyspecific.com/archives/cat_babbleon.html Yesterday Jacob's friends Olive and Lyla came over to play. It was a rainy day and by the time they left Jacob was a bit sick of being indoors. I was also keen to get out and show Ronnie my... 947@http://www.vaguelyspecific.com/ babble-on 2008-03-28T03:15:13+01:00 http://www.vaguelyspecific.com/archives/cat_oma_and_opa_in_australia.html Opa is busy building the new chook shed Ron and I have been planning. It was just after he'd nailed the first nails into the cross beams on the last outside wall that I came out to check progress and... 946@http://www.vaguelyspecific.com/ Oma and Opa in Australia 2008-03-26T11:20:21+01:00 This is one of the watermelons that, alas, didn't make it. Due to a combination of lack of water and a temporary loss of interest in gardening on our part earlier this year, the watermelons came up too late to... 931@http://www.vaguelyspecific.com/ 2008-03-26T03:19:44+01:00 http://www.vaguelyspecific.com/archives/cat_oma_and_opa_in_australia.html ,/center> Jet lag and 38+ degrees take their toll.... 944@http://www.vaguelyspecific.com/ Oma and Opa in Australia 2008-03-19T06:58:18+01:00 http://www.vaguelyspecific.com/archives/cat_oma_and_opa_in_australia.html Last night was a little warm. Luckily Om and Opa slept well after spending a day earning their keep sanding, varnishing and repairing an old kitchen table in the almost-40 degree heat. Oma did have a good incentive to finish... 943@http://www.vaguelyspecific.com/ Oma and Opa in Australia 2008-03-18T11:44:10+01:00 http://www.vaguelyspecific.com/archives/cat_babbleon.html 940@http://www.vaguelyspecific.com/ babble-on 2008-03-17T08:12:30+01:00 http://www.vaguelyspecific.com/archives/cat_oma_and_opa_in_australia.html They've landed. Oma and Opa have arrived for their almost-annual holiday in Australia to check-up on how we're raising their grandson. When they left the Netherlands the high was 8 degrees celcius. They woke this morning to 38 degrees. Opa... 942@http://www.vaguelyspecific.com/ Oma and Opa in Australia 2008-03-16T06:24:21+01:00 http://www.vaguelyspecific.com/archives/cat_babbleon.html February was strangely cool slowing down the summer produce from the garden. That and the drought and a temporary loss of interest in gardening in January. Now that its officially autumn it's warmed up again, (of course!) and so the... 930@http://www.vaguelyspecific.com/ babble-on 2008-03-14T03:03:11+01:00 http://www.vaguelyspecific.com/archives/cat_babbleon.html I'm so glad I went to the trouble of getting that Dutch passport! Yesterday an invitation landed in my inbox to a celebration of Queens Day at the Netherlands Consulate in Sydney. Only the biggest holiday of the year in... 939@http://www.vaguelyspecific.com/ babble-on 2008-03-11T13:08:51+01:00 http://www.vaguelyspecific.com/archives/cat_babbleon.html Recently we had the Construction Queen in. There were two reasons for this; 1) we liked the name of her business and 2) we wanted to establish exactly what it was that we couldn't afford to do to the house.... 938@http://www.vaguelyspecific.com/ babble-on 2008-03-11T06:12:39+01:00 http://www.vaguelyspecific.com/archives/cat_babbleon.html Now that Jacob is staying up later he has taken to watching Robin Hood on Sunday nights. This was my definition of purgatory; sitting through a whole episode of goody-two-shoes-Robin and his sappy-men until that is, I discovered, .... Gisborne.... 937@http://www.vaguelyspecific.com/ babble-on 2008-03-10T04:50:09+01:00 http://www.vaguelyspecific.com/archives/cat_babbleon.html 936@http://www.vaguelyspecific.com/ babble-on 2008-03-09T13:12:40+01:00