This Week In Wijnjewoude 2025

  Week 3 birds and deer housing pottering details bookkeeping boat plans We had someone look at our empty apartment on Friday - a couple who are going to split up, but they have 2 kids who will probably go with the Mum. They talked about the parents "taking turns" in coming to the apartment so that the kids could stay at "home" - we had that situation once before and I don't think it was at all suitable - but none of our business, of course. They seemed rather stoic and business-like in what must be heart-breaking times... Janny had upped the price a bit without telling me - but I reminded her that we have a tax threshold to keep in mind, otherwise we have to pay BTW (GST) on the income and that would then have to be passed on - making the rent payable even more. One of the advantages of being small - it's just a nice "extra" for us - and it helps people find temporary and sometimes emergency accommodation. Which leads me on to something I found du...

Week 2 Things to do this year... (haha, in times when even buying long life milk seems a bit optimistic) Upgrade kids' area inside Vegie garden again Painting More firewood Security cameras (Cheryl could see who was at her front door - from all the way over here!) ...and I looked for some old boating blogs for a dear friend...and discovered that this is the 10th year of me doing this. It occupies a couple of hours on a Sunday morning, but it also means that I think about things during the preceding week - those "count your blessings" moments, or something unusual, or indeed something totally boring :-) as I often wonder how lucky I am that things turned out the way they did. So, I'm thinking of making a summary like this...(it will probably take me the whole year to do) - not sure if it will be another blog or a Google Doc.... 2015 week 43 https://thisweekinwijnjewoude.blogspot.com/2015/10/week-43.html The beginning. Explanation of our business Preparing the Granny Fl...

  Week 1 2025 We both luxuriated in having a couple of weeks off - but now it also feels good to be back doing what we do. The clients are back - we are very important to them also having a "normal" routine. Black Ice During the night from Friday to Saturday, slippery conditions arose throughout the country due to freezing rain. Precipitation landed on the frozen ground. Traffic was affected by the black ice throughout the country. The N31 in Friesland (Drachten to Leeuwarden) was  closed  for much of the morning after four accidents occurred at various locations. I was about to go for a walk (with my tracker on) but it was too slippery and treacherous - so I lit the fire out the back and spread some salt around the walkways - house to workshed, the apartments. :-) Then later my modest walk for the day...slowly building it up for 2025 The Fire Service in Amsterdam had calls about a strange smell... The smell is a light ammonia smell, the fire department reports. "That is...