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White Sangria ......
White Sangria - A 'kickin' cocktail for a lazy Sunday afternoon. Ingrediants 1 Bottle White Wine 4oz Orange juice 4oz Lemon Juice 2oz Lime juice Instructions Mix all ingredients in a cocktail shaker / stirrer and pour into an unusually shaped glass. Add...
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Sweltering heatwave sends residents flocking to the terraces.
OK Yesterday it was hot but today was even hotter! 32°C! Whereas old pooches head for the shadows to sleep the residents of Enschede flock to the terraces - aka pubs. There were thousands of people, including entire family's, sat out on the bar terraces...
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Wind Turbines ....... Are you sure about that?
A blog entry for Mariska. Have you ever wondered why there are so many Wind Turbines in the province of Flevoland, Netherlands? Probably not ...... but I have. Most weeks I have to drive to Almere ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almere ). Straight down...
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Pink Clouds
Pink Cloudy Cocktail Recipe Ingrediants 3 Oz White Rum 2 Oz Vodka 1 Oz Tequila 1/2 Oz Grenadine Syrup 3 Oz Pina Colada Mix 2 Oz Sweet And Sour Mix 1 Oz Margarita Mix 3 - 4 Cups Ice Recipe Instructions Pour All Ingredients Into A Blender, Add 3 - 4 Cups...
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"Rainy days and Tuesday's......."
Today's weather forecast looked like this:- Tuesday 07/07/2009 Hi: 21° Lo: 14° Widely scattered thunderstorms. There is a 30% chance of precipitation. Cloudy. Mild. Temperature of 21°C. Winds SW 28km. Humidity will be 59% with a dew-point of 12° and feels-like...
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One Final Word ......
There was only one casualty during our 5 day jolly around the Flamingo Route. Fortunately the casualty was bicycle related and not human. During a cycle along a particularly bumpy section of the route a part of my saddle support cracked. This was then...
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Pimp my bike.
What with all the rain yesterday and my staunch refusal to play Monopoly the Baby Cloggys were left to their own devices. They took off to the Gama and came back an hour later with masking tape, sand paper, 4 cans of spray paint and disappeared into the...
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Scrummy Ice Cream Shoppy
"You Scream, I Scream, We All Scream For Ice Cream" Every year in the Netherlands there is an Ice Cream making competition called the 'Gouden Ijsspatel' (The Golden Ice Cream Scoop). This year the 'Eet'alage' in Haaksbergen was awarded the 2nd prize out...
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COME ON ANDY!
Now ..... I wouldn't be a true Brit if I didn't have one eye on Wimbledon at this moment! However due to Cloggy's outstanding DIY skills the Satellite receiver for the TV in the living room refuses to work during thunderstorms. Just as Murray's game was...
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Boozy Weekend.
Wow! What a boozy weekend! We had been invited by friends, who live in Belgium, for a BBQ on Saturday evening and were told that we should "bring our tooth brushes". A very sound piece of advice as the aforementioned friends have an extensive wine cellar...
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Home Grown Veggies
I was going to be all 'Eco-friendly' and write something like "Organic Home Grown Veggies" as a name for my article, however trying to find a simple definition of the term 'Organic' on the Internet is a flippin' nightmare. There are countless pages of...
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1st day of the Summer Vacation.
We had a bit of a lazy start to the Summer Vacation today. The Baby Cloggys informed that as they had worked hard at school they should be entitled to a morning in their pyjama's lounging around in front of the TV. It was after all "our vacation Mum!"...
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Hot Fuzz investigates local Tree v Tractor incident.
Due to the crappy weather not much has been going on in the Cloggy household over the last few days. Blog subject matter was beginning to get pretty thin ..... until this afternoon that is. At precisely 15.10 I heard an almighty crash from the front of...
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Black, white, pink and green. Pimp my bike suplimental
It hasn't stopped raining today either so the Baby Cloggys went off to the Gamma again and this time came home with pink and green spray paint. Here is a picture of the piece of artwork. The Baby Cloggys have asked me to mention that this remains a work...
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Middle Baby Clog delivers Arse Kickin'.
Another Saturday and Another Winter Competition Hockey Game. Middle Baby Clog and his squad of pre-pubesent retro-bates (collectively known as Haackey Jongens C1) managed to haul their carcases out of bed in time for a 12.30 start, except Steijn who got...
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5 Days, 5 Family Members and 50 Euro's!
This is the beginning diary entry of how I will attempt to feed the Family Clog over the next 5 days spending only 50 Euros on provisions. (It's never gonna work but it will be interesting to try it!) I will admit that I have the free use of 'Augustine'...
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DUCK! ..... It's Hot Air Balloon Season.
"Come take a ride in my Beautiful Balloon ......." There can be no avoidance of it. As soon as the weather turns nice and there is no danger of guffs, of wind, emanating from the German border every Aunt Sally who owns a Hot Air Balloon heads for the...
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Transmission is temporarily interrupted .......
Please press play (you might have to disable your pop-up block) Transmission is temporarily interrupted due to technical difficulties ! (Remember when we sang this one Luus? Lake Jackson College Community Choir?) - aka my laptop was sent crashing to the...
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Dragon Heart Medieval Lifestyle - Staycation Activity
Dragon Heart Medieval Lifestyle in the righthand corner of the Netherlands. This afternoon the Baby Cloggys and I went on one of our planned 'Staycation' activities. It was a lot more productive and entertaining than our morning of hoovering up the plague...
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Dyson of (Fly) Death.
Living in the country has its upsides but during the Summer months we are inundated with Fly's. As most of the walls and furnishings in the Cloggy household are white we have found that squishing the filthy bugs isn't really a good idea, so the Baby Cloggys...
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Dinosaur Prevents Culinary Master Piece!
Its been one of those days when time just got away from me and my best intentions of inflicting another culinary master piece on Family Clog disappeared down the pan. A combination of work and a knackered boiler scuttled my plans for making Coq Au Van,...
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Flamingo Route # 4 Southern Section
Flamingo Route #4 Day 4 - Southern Section 25Km Start Point: Haaksbergen End Point: De Goede Hoop Campsite West of Zwillbrock A Lazy start to day 4 of our trip. We know the first part of the route very well because we walk the Dumbarse dog here every...
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Shaggy Dog.
Shaggy dogs are dumb! ... Are you sure about that? Friends of ours have a very VERY Shaggy Dog called Max. We were always of the opinion that Max was a complete dumbarse until they came to dinner the other night with the aforementioned dumbarse dog in...
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Mr.Darcy?...... My Arse!
Cloggy is having the vacation of his dreams! Due to the inclement weather we have been forced to postpone our bicycle camping tour of the area. If we had left yesterday as planned we would currently be floating, with our tents, somewhere in the neighbourhood...
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Flamingo Route
A 'Staycation"Activity. http://www.flamingoroute.eu/ Today we are heading out to cycle a section of the Flamingo route. All the bags are packed and strapped to the bikes. Tents and other camping type malarky has been dug out of storage and checked. The...