Author: rainleander
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Dutch Lock Down Day Six
Something’s wrong with the bread maker and things aren’t rising quite as much as they used to and if that isn’t just a metaphor for the new reality, I don’t know what is.
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Dutch Lock Down Day Five
We’ve abandoned our trip south as Spain and Italy lie in transit and the planes lie dormant in the hangar. This satire / sarcasm / alt-world section is REALLY difficult to write when The Cabin In The Woods is playing in the background. I think part of the reason why I’ve always found horror movies…
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Dutch Lock Down Day Four
Dutch Lock Down Day Four “We’ve sold the house, the car, and all but the essentials and are moving to an undisclosed island on the equator to wait this out.”
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Dutch Lock Down Day Three
All the other days I did this style report, I started out with a ‘joke’ report but, really, I can’t even. Here’s the State of the Leander Union Address, y’all. My partner and I are sharing my office while the three kids have a sort of schedule that includes some academic, creative, and outdoor time…
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Dutch Lock Down Day Two
The partner went out for a cup of sugar. Three hours ago. May never see him again. Girl twin has thrown a coup against her older brother and now rules the house under her tiny thumb with Barbapapa playing #AllTheTime and #AbsolutelyNoBroccoli MAMA. Boy twin refuses to NOT splash in the tub no matter how…
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Dutch Lock Down Day One
I haven’t seen my partner in seventeen hours. I think the natives voted him off the island. Or ate him.
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The Latest Nineteen From The Netherlands
Some of these points are media based. Some are via via. Some are personal. Take everything with a grain of salt. Or some other idiom.
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What is Your Armageddon Agenda?
I just figured something out. I’m slow sometimes. #PBBT At a certain time, people started scolding me whenever I would shake their hands, but they would scold me with a dash of embarrassment and humour. Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte accidentally shakes the hand of a health official after announcing a "no handshake policy". Video:…
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This Was Going To Be The Post And Then I Got An Ocular Migraine Instead
the Netherlands didn’t have ANY known cases because that’s the cultural norm – if you’re sick in any way, you take paracetamol and wait at least ten days for symptoms to pass. THEN you go to the doctor.
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Check This Out: Wash Your Lyrics
WashYourLyrics.Com made by the badass William @neoncloth and totally not affiliated with the NHS or any other government body.
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Tell On Yourself Then Brag About It
While I didn’t get a single thing done on that list of three things that I told on myself yesterday, I made progress.
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FYI – A Is The Oldest Child
There are always ‘puzzles’ and looming #ToDos on the horizon wearing us down and sticking in the back of the brain and it all boils down to not prioritizing it.