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World book day 2022
Part of today’s blog was planned for the week of February 14th as that Monday was International book giving day. However, I’ve been in doubt to effectively publish as not sure if it would turn out as a book recommendation. But as beauty is in the eye of the beholder and today is World book day (https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/world-book-day/), I’m sharing all World War II novels I read in February. I started with Flying Angels from Danielle Steel. In this book, we follow 4 American nurses and 2 English nurses in the Medical Air Evacuation Transport Squadron.The subject seemed very interesting and promising. However, the execution could have been better for me.…
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Pancake day
Our Belgian pancake day always falls on February 2nd, together with Candlemas, on the one hand, one can say I’m a bit late with this blog. On the other hand, USA national pancake day is only March 1st, so I’m still on time.The tradition of pancakes on Candlemas stems from a special kind of biscuits eaten on February 2nd when farmhands were hired for jobs (they could only change jobs or be hired on 2 dates in the year, February 2nd or November 11th). Later these biscuits evolved into pancakes, which with their round form and yellow color resemble the sun and symbolize the lengthening of the days. It is…
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Happy New Year!
January is almost over, but as this is my first blog this year, I want to wish you all a Happy New Year! I hope you had a good start to the year. I need to work on a couple of my resolutions and goals, but trying my best every day. One of these goals is of course this blog. Thanks to the topic calendar from OM Collective (www.omcollective.com) I had a blog post planned for each of the previous weeks of January. It seems, however, that I wasn’t that invested in the actual topics I selected. For the first week of January, I wanted to share some mocktail recipes…
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2021 Wrapped
The title for this blog is inspired by my Spotify-wrapped playlists, they are not that accurate as I also listened to some musicals (especially Notre Dame de Paris in Dutch) on Youtube. No surprise that Broadway is Number 1, followed by some Dutch Cabaret (Kleinkunst), West End, and Pop music (especially TOP 50). My most 5 played numbers come from 2 albums: Jersey Boys – Broadway cast A Spoonful of Stiles & Drew However going on the top 5 artists, these were not the only musical albums I listened to. Because next to Franky Valli and the cast of Jersey Boys, this top 5 is completed by: Matthew Morrison &…
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Merry Christmas
If you browsed my blog, you know I’m a big fan of Waterdrop. With all the new and temporary flavors, as well as all the bottles and accessories, my wallet likes it a bit less. However, I saw an unboxing of last year’s advent calendar and purchased the advent calendars this year. Yes, you read it correctly plural, due to FOMO I couldn’t decide between the medium and large size. At the time of purchase, you got the small size free of charge with your purchase. The small one contains different flavor drops. I was team impatient so all doors were already open as soon as it was delivered, hence…
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Deliciou review
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Trip to Paris
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Book recommendations: WWII reads part 3
Unfortunately, my posting schedule has been bungled up again. So thank you for sticking with me until I finally will figure this blog writing out. I probably should write more drafts and then clean them up when I need and want to publish them, instead of keeping these ideas in my head. A while ago I read both: The girl from Venice by Siobhan Daiko: https://www.amazon.com/Girl-Venice-Girls-Italian-Resistance-ebook/dp/B093SRRM5D/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2Z05AIS8JY9H1&keywords=the+girl+from+venice+siobhan&qid=1636135553&sprefix=the+girl+from+veni%2Caps%2C179&sr=8-1 The things we leave unfinished by Rebecca Yarros: https://www.amazon.com/Things-We-Leave-Unfinished-ebook/dp/B087VXZYMM/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2TCU0LXYKV1ML&keywords=the+things+we+leave+unfinished+by+rebecca+yarros&qid=1636135689&sprefix=the+things+we+le%2Caps%2C174&sr=8-1 Both are about a (great)granddaughter who learns more about what their (great)grandmother did or experienced during WWII. I don’t want to give away too much of the story, but you can find more on Goodreads or Amazon…
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No soda challenge with Waterdrop
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