Okay guys, here is my serious attempt to make a more entertaining vlog. Maybe the best improvement is: it’s short 😉
About a new mat, our street, the sun-oven, a x-mas gift from me to me and how Frank got a free suit.
About saving insects, playing with the cat, doing the groceries, going to the dentist and painting.
For a while I was not sure about publishing my vlogs, because of ‘too boring’. In the first place they were intended just for family. It’s not more than a peek into my daily life in New Zealand.
My first vlogs were edited quite clumsy with too much too long shots. In the first minutes I even made the classic mistake of keeping my smartphone upwards. Sorry for that. It will get better.
… more heinous were the bloody sanitary towels (of strangers!) which flew around with 80 kilometers per hour. The loaded diapers and plastic bags with slimy rotten eggs were attacking you full in the face.
… put them under the Eiffel Tower and 1 week later they are still sitting there; completely furnished and surrounded with countless friends!
In New Zealand having a patch of edibles is quite common, but in the Netherlands I have never had one single thought about growing more than a pot of Marigolds.
… if you bend over to pick up a little insect from the ground, you get a punch in your neck of the shifting battery. Constantly you are stuck in the bushes and slowly you become crazy from the itching of that chafed skin.
Every woman who is passing this fence gets an uncontrollable desire to take off her bra and hangs it on the fence, directly is rewarded with an outrageous sense of freedom!
21 September 2007 Do you remember, four months ago? When we were hit by 1 man, 5 sheep and 1 horse? The damage to our
19 July 2007 In the meanwhile, we have been to the marae 6 or 7 times, without me blogging about it every single time. When
4 June 2007 Six months ago we fed the neighbor’s grey cat and his dog for the first time, because the neighbour went on a
27 May 2007 Last night on the road we were cut in by a small truck with five sheep in the back. The truck was
23 May 2007 If a Maori looks at you, he primarily sees the representative of a long chain of ancestors who are standing behind you.
16 April 2007 The Hong Kong gallery couple cancelled the meeting after arriving at the New Zealand airport. They could not fit me into their
19 March 2007 (New Zealand) Because all the highlights of New Zealand are located far away from each other, every tiny collection of rusty old
3 March 2007 Two weeks ago Frank’s parents arrived at the airport for their second visit to new Zealand. After they had stayed with us
13 January 2007 After more than a year living in New Zealand, I have written about most of the things that were remarkable to me,
15 December 2006 Our neighbour is out-of-town for a week and he asked us to feed the chickens, the cat and the dog. De dog