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 | Feb 25, 2019 | writing |
I’ve been struggling recently with a whole series of questions about how I spend my time. Is it better for me to do things myself, or to pay for someone else to do them? Which comes back to the question of the value of my time. Now, at the moment, what income I...
by Clarissa | Mar 21, 2017 | family
I love Lego, it’s brilliant. I loved it as a child and I’m so excited that my children are starting to enjoy it too. I love watching the two of them play with it together. Taking bits apart and putting them back slightly differently. And my parents have...
by Clarissa | Feb 17, 2015 | dutch life |
The Dutch tell the time in a very different way to the English, so it’s taken me a while to get used to it. Firstly they work it out relative to both the hour and the half hour. And secondly the half hour is described by the next hour, rather than the one...
