The Tapestry of Love by Rosy Thornton
About six weeks ago I received an email from Rosy Thornton, asking if I’d be interested in receiving a copy of her latest novel The Tapestry of Love, even though – as Rosy put it – her books might be too light compared to my regular literary diet. Seeing that The Tapestry of Love is [...]
Belated awards
I am ashamed to admit that I just realized that I haven’t even blogged about this yet. Last night I found this half-finished post. Ouch! It’s been almost two months, but I only get around to this now. Two great fellow-bookbloggers awarded me with this award (and they are not great because they thought me [...]
5,4,3,2,1, Meme
Kim over at Stepping Stones tagged me for this expat-meme. I so hate calling myself an expat, even though that’s what I am. I associate the word expat with consultants, embassy-staff etc. in their fifties plus their wives who hardly have an idea in what country they are living this time. Sorry, I know I [...]
I voted
Even though the parliamentary elections in Holland are tomorrow, I cast my vote today through the internet. I posted earlier, that I had applied to vote from abroad through the internet. This was the first time this option was available (before you could only vote by sending you ballot back by snail mail), though I [...]
To vote or not to vote – that’s the question
Talking about the elections made me remember something else. In Holland itself in many voting districts voting will apparently be done the old-fashioned way again – with a red pencil -, because the voting computers that were going to be used turned out to be manipulable by wireless signal. Or something like that. The expats [...]
