A Dutch Life

It gets worse. You can check your geographic knowledge of the world via a “Pop Quiz” hosted by Miss South Carolina here.

Thanks goes to those intellectuals at People magazine for educating the world.

If I had known about this sooner I probably would have bid.

Those of you reading my blog would know that I have a minor obsession with Soviet Era manufacturing and tech and this would have given me my own little piece of it.

The first Soviet mouse, look at those CURVES!

Miss South Carolina articulately describes why Americas Beauty Pageants should get back to basics.

As you may have guessed by the inactivity around here Petra is back! (and she wants me to tell you her blog has a new address!)

She actually got back for just over two weeks ago now. It was a lot earlier than expected as her friend and research companion Esther was very unluckily hit by a minibus. This left her with a pretty seriously bruised foot, when I say pretty seriously I mean not able to walk for a few weeks type seriously. This was not your average “ouch, I just kicked the step accidentally” type bruise.

Anyway, the two and a half months she was away was long enough for us both. She had an amazing time, has come back with all sorts of weird habits, like insisting on giving me some type of “fiver” every time one of us says something even mildly amusing, but I think we will be able to westernise her again pretty quickly.

Welcome back Pij-je!