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Schools out for Summer!
Thank goodness for that! All Baby Cloggys have passed the year and tomorrow is the last official day of school. We can now look forward to 6 weeks of sleeping in and not having to look at the clock. Bliss! This evening was the Diploma Ceremony from the...
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Movie Park Germany - A Scathing 2/10 Staycation Activitiy Rating!
'Movie Park Germany' / Formally known as ´Warner Bros. Movie World´. Seriously .... DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME OR MONEY! Baby Cloggy rating of 2/10 and they want me to tell you that they are being generous. Today we went to 'Movie Park Germany' as one of our...
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Cloggys self inflicted 'Staycation' Chores.
Cloggy is having the vacation of his dreams! Update! Cloggy has asked me to forward an update of completion status for his self appointed 'Staycation' chores. So here it is! ..... Painting of the garage windows ...... COMPLETED Tiling of the laundry room...
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3 Games Down Many More To Go ..........
30°C heat is not perfect conditions for playing the 1st games of the season ....... Today was a tough day for my girls. There are a few older members of the squad still on vacation so I was forced to field a very young team against experienced opponants...
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Good Grief ... Enough is Enough!
SERIOUSLY ......... ENOUGH SNOW ALREADY! The Netherland region of Twente would have been an ideal location for the 2010 Winter Olympics. We have had more snow than Vancouver. The slight flaw in my statement is the fact that the downhill ski competition...
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Pure Nostalgia!
Don't know why but I experienced a sudden hankering for a more simpler time in my life. Childhood! This is one of the cartoons that I grew up with, possibly the reason why the NASA Mars landings never worked and Earth has never been invaded by whistling...
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Saturday Evening Storms and a new Captain.
When planing a BBQ it is always wise to keep an eye on the weather forecast. Un-prepared for rain has a tendency to put out the charcoal very quickly. Yesterday evening it was the end of season BBQ for Cloggys 'Old Farts" hockey team. Yes .... the 'genius's...
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The Veggie Stall
The concept of a weekly village market is becoming less and less in the UK. People rely on the big ol' supermarket chains that are open daily from daybreak to vampire hours and can sell you food at knock down prices because of industrial farming. Here...
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Bat Attack - A Wildlife SOS sucess story!
"MUMMMMMMMMMMMMMM THE CATS CAUGHT A BATTTTTTTTTTTTTT" woke me up at 6.15 this morning! My first thought was "HUH? Dr. Suess nightmare". My second thought was "your kidding me its only 6"! The youngest Baby Cloggy was not going to let me go back to sleep,...
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"Waspinator"
The Cloggy home has sprung a leak. A few days ago, during a downpour of biblical proportions, I was sat in the study with nothing but my umbrella for protection from the elements and 3 sauce-pans to catch the drips. It was wetter inside the house than...
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"Oh so THAT'S where all the nuts have gone ........."
No ..... I am not talking about the sad and untimely demise of Micheal Jackson, may he finally rest in peace. I am talking about the peanuts I put out daily on the bird table. This has been going on for WEEKS! I've been getting through sacks of the things,...
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Re-incarnation as a Wood Pecker
Now ... my Aunt is in regular contact with dead people. Every Sunday off she goes to spiritualist church in order to have a chat with my Grandfather - who has been dead these last 30 years. Hmmmmm ... Well who am I to tell she's nuts - I guess everyone...
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"But Hen everybody reinvents themself when they move to a new country"!
For any of you that are trained in the black art of mind stuff for fucks sake don't take this blog seriously! Quite a few years ago, when I was new to the moving around lark, I was informed by one Ex Pat Hoola that "Hen, everybody reinvents themselves...
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Sunday evening and the hockey scores are in - why oh why is Cloggy still angry?
Ok so this is not so interesting but hell its life! Mini Cloggies played hockey on Saturday and did the following;- Baby Cloggy - 7 - 1 Win ...... Hoorah! Middle Baby Cloggy - 3 - 1 Loss .... Shit happens Oldest Baby Cloggy - 4 -3 Loss - They shouldn't...
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Women Drivers .... What's all the fuss about?
The ability to drive an automobile is 10% taught and 90% gender oriented. Yes .. the XY chromosome thingy has a large factor to play in our percieved skill of getting from A to B using the internal combustion engine. If us girls get where we want to go...
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Sunday Morning in Twente
As it is Fathers Day we were woken up hellishly early by the 2 youngest Baby Cloggys who had made breakfast in bed for their dear ol' Papa. After the self made cards were admired we took to our bikes, hitched up the dogs and disappeared into the gorgeous...
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Ironing - Why I don't do any and why the Dutch can't say it properly.
Which delusional neat freak came up with the idea of Ironing? Why is it not socially acceptable to wear wrinkly clothes? Do you realise how much money the Ironing industry of this world is making out of us? Lots! My families expenditure on ironing is...
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More Flippin' Rain!
Today's downpour can only be described as BIBLICAL! Another rainy day in Cloggyland! Only one thing to do ...... hit the movie theatre to watch the new Harry Potter film. It was excellent, even Cloggy enjoyed the 2 hour 50 minute marathon. The Baby Cloggys...
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What is a good name for a chicken??? An interactive Blog!
Now we have the beasts what do we call them? All my suggestions have been shot down in flames by the Baby Cloggys, I thought Tikka-Marsala and Potpie were quite cool names. So here is your chance to contribute to the general mayhem of the Clog Family...
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Another shit day stuck in traffic jams because the Dutch can't drive when it's raining..
Bloody 6 and a half hours to drive 340 kms. It can only happen in the Netherlands. When it rains in this country it is apparently an indicator for people to crash their cars thus causing 400 and blah-de-blah kms of traffic jams! AND GUESS WHAT ..... yours...
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Staycation v Vacation + resulting Baby Cloggy 'Jackass' clip!
Due to the age of the Cloggy oldest Pooch (13) we have decided to have a 'Staycation' this year instead of a 'Vacation'. The old mutt has been half way around the world with us, run over by cars on two separate occasions (both times with no injury - he...
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Haarmuhle
Beer Garden Haarmuhle - A 9/10 on the Baby Cloggy 'Staycation' activities. http://www.haarmuehle.de/ ....... Sorry but I refuse to be held responsible for their website! As promised a write up on the nice place we found on the way home from 'Crap' Movie...
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Today is a good day! I have a flag and an empty back pack swinging from the lightpost.
When you move your family around the world things have to give. Most of the time its the furniture at the hands of crap movers but sometimes its stuff that is more important. The oldest Baby Clog has lived in 5 different countries and changed languages...
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The Flamingo Route - Northern Section
No Flamingo's sighted but we did see a few wild Storks! Day One, 35km. Don't be too alarmed about the lack of Flamingo's as they are only to be seen in the Southern half of the route. The Northern Route combines Nature Reserves and Town Centers which...
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DAMN! Its hot.
Today it reached a high of 31°C in our little corner of the Netherlands. For my American friends (Hi Pamelia ) that's 87°F - more or less -which may not be considered hot where you are but here ITS DAMN HOT! There wasn't even a gentle guff (of wind) blowing...