Surprises

Oh I do wish my digi camera was working. Its still sucking the life out of batteries without doing much. It would probably do a lot more if I took it to the camera shop but since I keep forgetting, I doubt if it will happen any time soon.

Anyway the reason I want the digi camera to work is so that I can upload a piccie of the lovely surprises I got today at work. I walked in to Vania jumping out from behind my desk shouting 'surprise' The minx is supposed to be on holiday, well moving house and not at work anyway AND to top it off she had baked a cake. A very smakelijk cake at that. Also the spare desk was piled with goodies. Well a small trolley case, you know like the ones you used to be able to take on as hand luggage and store in the overhead locker, and a large box with a large bow on top. Inside both packages was loads and loads of dutch goodies like pindakaas (peanut butter to us anglophones), hagelslag (chocolate sprinkles), chocolate, frite saus and lots and lots more. I really can't believe how much stuff I came back with. Its lucky that the wee trolley case had wheels otherwise I would have had very sore arms.

That brings me to another point. Wee felix our car is no longer our car. He's off down to Nijmemgen and has now joined the 94kmph is also a very nice speed even though the limit is 120 club. Frank's mum bought our wee car. Our car bunny Benjamin tells us that Felix is quite happy to go into retirement as he's a bit fed up with traffic jams and being driven up and down to the Hague every day.
Its really nice the way everything is falling into place with the car, the house, the flat in Berlin. Im not really a believer in fate etc but it kind of tells me that the move to Berlin is the right decision. Im sure it is. All we need now is for Frank to find a job there and we'll have landed on our feet. He's a clever lad and I'm pretty sure that he'll find something soon.

I decided to have a rest from knitting tonight. Sometimes its nice to read a book instead. I turned the TV off and put some music on. I must admit that its much more relaxing. Might as well get used to it. I hate german television so I think I'll be listening to a lot more music instead.

I'm still wondering what to get Sarah as a thankyou for being my witness at the wedding and for helping me make the outfit. She did the trousers and helped me pin and cut out the top. I want to get her something that she can keep but not something that will break. Or maybe something that won't break too easily. She does have 4 cats after all. Maybe a book or something sparkly like jewlery or something but then again I'm not sure what to get her. Maybe some silly freindship thing. She'll like that. I'll think about it a bit more in bed. I'm dead sleepy and have the cold. I've just finished the Gran Bel kill or cure you toddie. I think its curing so will go and reap the benefits now.

'trusten en groetjes
BB

Long Time no Blog

Okay so 3 posts doesn't make me a blogger so I'd better add more to make it worth while. A few things have happened on the way to Berlin. I'm not there yet but will be leaving shortly. First of all we got married. That's me in the green and F in the white shirt. Shame you can't see his legs coz he had a kilt on. My best buddy and myself made my outfit then I did all the embroidery including a nice thistle on the right sleeve to match my thistle tattoo (got that in August on my unofficial hen night). We got married in the Stadsdeelkantoor Oud Zuid in Amsterdam and then went to the Vondelpark for a picnic afterwards. Later on we went with close friends and family to La Caña (the wee tapas bar which I couldn't remember the name of) and stuffed ourselves full of very nice food and sangria. Friday we had a party at the rugby clubhouse. It was mad. All the important people were there and we managed to get through 5 kegs of Heineken and 1 keg of Boon Kriek.

We should have bought 2 of them as they are soooo lekker. My Mum and my Sister were a wee bit drunk at the party but they had great fun. In fact everyone who was there had great fun. I thouroughly reckommend getting married. Its the best party ever.

Saturday was spent nursing hangovers and farting about on a canal boat with some of the friends who came over for the party. The best way to see Amsterdam is by boat. You see it from a completely different angle. Then back to the club house to hose down the floor and check everything was still in one piece.

Between the last blog and now we've been to Berlin 3 times and found a flat in Berlin Mitte. Its such a cool place. We're in the Scheunenviertel which is lovely. There are loads of wee cafés, bars and restaurants just around the corner and we're really close to all of the main tourist attractions which makes it very easy for visitors. Last time we were there we stayed at wee hotel on the same street as we'll be living. I'm having a bit of bother posting a piccie but its called the Hotel Andechser Hof. www.andechserhof.de Its very sweet and not bad on the pocket either.

Well off to do something useful now however, I do promise to try and update my blog a bit more often as it will be nice to keep people posted on what we've been up to while we're there.

See ya, BB x

Blaaahhhh

My digi camera is definately knacked. It won't even switch on now and itsucks the power from the batteries in one foul swoop. I reckon there must be a short somewhere but I don't know the first thing about their circuitry so it looks as if we'll need a new one. I'm a bit miffed about it as the camera is only 3 years old. Hmph.

Also had a bit of a wierd experience today. I saw someone die. I don't know what happened beforehand but I could see everything from the office window. The paramedics were pumping away at their chest for a long long time then eventually stopped. For one moment I thought they had put the person into the recovery position but they hadn't, they brought out a sheet and covered them. I felt so sad for the person's family. It kind of made me think about mortality in general and my own health but I suppose that sort of thing makes you think about these things. Its automatic.

I will think about it some more before deciding to become a non-smoking, vegan vegetrarian, biologial, fitness feak. Just clean up my act a bit. I'll need to if I want to look good on the wedding day.

Weekend Whinges and Birkenstocks

My digi camera is not working :o( Its switching on, I can view pictures but I can't take pictures. F is going to the shop with it to see if there is anything that they can do. I doubt it but we'll see. So until it gets fixed or I get a new one, no sock, bunny moving or anthing piccies for the blog.

The weekend went well. NL won against the Elfenbeinkuste as they say in Germany. Exciting stuff. I caught the first half on the radio on the way home from work and the 2nd half in Tig Bara. Afterwards we found the best tapas bar in the world. Its taken a long long time but we've finally found one that's better than Genadio's. I'm not even sure what its called. JvD gave it an 8 in the lekker Amsterdam but he doesn't know what he's talking about. Anyway we booked it for the wedding.




Oh that's the other thing. We're getting married before we bugger off to Berlin. So we've got the food booked and the party booked. We've also got the rings ordered from www.metalart.nl . They're in the photo above. Ours are slightly different. We've got platinum instead of rose gold. We've also got an option on the date which we will confirm on Thursday. I've finally got all the paperwork sorted. Hopefully they won't decided that we're getting married for an NL passport and cause problems. I don't think they will.

Over the weekend I got half of the bedroom fixed up and looking gorgeous. New curtains up and a few boxes cleared out. I even tidied up. Shock Horror. We're getting there slowly. We also bought loads of plasterboard for the garden house ceiling so that will be looking gorgeous too and we can get on with the other jobs in the house.


Finally for today. On Saturday I bought the cutest Birki's ever. The picture is up there too. I love them. F hates them. They're all just jealous coz I can still fit into kids sizes. That's shoes only btw. My daddy always said I have small feet coz nothing, apart from mushies, grows in the dark.

Bloging Begin

Funny time to start a blog. Half way through the world cup (football, soccer or whatever you want to call it) Anyway I've started one before but never got around to keeping it up. We'll see how well I do with this one. At the moment I'm in Amsterdam but will soon be moving to Berlin. Hence the name of the blog. I wouldn't say I was a babe exactly but it has a sort of rhythm to it and its better than calling myself the berliner bitch or something equally as derrogitory.
As I mentioned earlier, we're in the middle of the football world cup which is being held in various places in Germany. I'm not really a big footie fan but when its the world cup or the european cup then I give in to the animal instincts and actually start shouting at the TV. Today NL plays the Ivory Coast. Im kind of looking forward to it but I'll miss the 1st half as I'll just be leaving work. Not to worry though Im sure they'll do okay.
Enough of football for now. I'm a rugby player, I should be talking more about rugby. In Berlin I probably won't be a rugby player any more coz they only play 7's there. 7's is for girls. Okay so I am a girl but I'm a forward and don't like too much running around.
I also do a lot of faffy things like sewing and knitting. Knitting socks is a favourite of mine and I can be seen knitting socks in pubs, cafés, in traffic jams and various other places. I make teddy bears too although I've not done that for a while. I only really make them now for special people. I've still to make one for my new nephew but I'll wait until I get to Berlin for that as I've just packed all of the stuff together.
Okay OTN at the moment is the most boring sock in the world but its for him indoors so its a labour of love really. Its grey, all grey and nothing but grey and very big coz he's got big feet. You know what they say about blokes with big feet? Yep you guessed it. Big feet.
I'll see if I can get a photo of the socks once their finished. Or maybe a work in progress. Then you'll see how boring they actually are.
That's it for the intro.I'll write more about the move to Berlin as I go along