Showing posts with label brief return of summer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label brief return of summer. Show all posts

Friday, August 17, 2012

Being Positive Helps Me Cope.


Roberto Matta.            
Summer seems to have briefly returned to the Netherlands, during the day today it was very warm, it felt like it was 26° .

The temperature is set to go up to 30° over the weekend, which I'm not looking forward to at all.

Now at the end of the afternoon the wind is getting up and I'm beginning to wonder whether we will be getting the rain storms that England is having.

I'm dreading this weekend and maybe a whole week of temperatures of 30° at least we have the option of using a mobile air-conditioning unit.

If only we had regular windows which we could stand the unit under and dangle the tube out of the window, and the bedroom would be cool.

Because of our floor-to-ceiling windows we can't do this, which means that the unit does not work in an optimal way.

Unless the electric fan is on next to me I do not get all the benefits of having an air-conditioning unit, as I only seem to get hot air not cool air.

That is because the air conditioning unit cannot be placed in the bedroom, so it is in the doorway of the bedroom.

Which means that Richie gets the benefit of cool air, but because I am at the other end of the room I don’t get that and feel warm.

On 31 July at an appointment with Andre, from an air-conditioning company came to see where to install our air-conditioning.

Since 31 July I've not heard another word from Andre so I will be sending him an e-mail asking for an update.

Wouldn't it be wonderful to get a positive response to my e-mail, that would be wonderful and who knows maybe it will happen.

Friday, August 27, 2010

Pink Roses.


Myrtille Henrion Picco


This afternoon a great friend, Anja came by to visit, she brought us a delightful bunch of lovely pink roses which unusually for here had a gorgeous delicate scent.

It was great to see Anja, one of my best friends, someone who knows me well and someone I trust 110%.

She is a wonderful woman, lovely to think that I have had the pleasure to know her now since 1984.

Amazingly that is twenty six years ago now, how wonderful, shame she no longer lives in Amsterdam.

Now she lives an hour and a half away, today she came straight from work to visit with us and was here until 17.00.

We had a very pleasant visit during which Anja helped me with a couple of admin things, which are sorted now, a relief and now there is nothing for me to worry about.

All set to enjoy the weekend now, whatever the weather is like I intend to enjoy it tremendously.

While she was here there was a brief glimmer of sunshine, seems that the weekend will be dryer and brighter and next week will be nice warm weather.

That’s what Anja said and I really hope she is right as a brief return of summer would be an unexpected treat for us all.