by Clarissa | Jul 13, 2020 | family, food, personal
For the last few years, or so , I have been struggling with my digestion. And so at the end of last year I started seeing a dietician. On their advice I have been following a low fodmap exclusion diet. For those of you, probably most of you, who aren’t sure what...
by Clarissa | Apr 13, 2020 | family, personal, writing |
I’m sitting down to write this and I’m really not sure what I want to write about. I have a list of possible blog topics, but somehow none of them seem relevant right now. This is a weird time, for everyone, where the norms are not normal. Where there is...
by Clarissa | Sep 17, 2019 | family, personal |
Over the summer, as well as planning out what I’m going to be writing for the rest of the year, I’ve been thinking about how I look after myself. Everyone knows the importance of physical exercise in order to look after your physical health, but what can...
by Clarissa | May 20, 2019 | family, personal |
It’s funny how time works. Days go by without you realising, and suddenly it’s nearly five years since we moved here. Nearly ten years since we got married, and we’ve spent nearly half of that time in the Netherlands. The children have both now spent...
by Clarissa | Mar 11, 2019 | dutch life, family, personal
Last week I had parent teacher meetings for both children. These were fifteen minute sessions with their teachers and without the children there. And we have these three times a year now – late autumn, early spring and before the summer holiday. Both of them are...
by Clarissa | Mar 4, 2019 | dutch life, libraries, personal |
One of the things about continuing to life in a different country is that I’m actively looking for new words. The children at school have activities in order to increase their vocabulary. But I need to work to keep developing mine, otherwise it’s too easy...
