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No spare parts when your body gets old
Thursday, 25 Jun, 2009 – 23:00 | No Comment
No spare parts when your body gets old

When I was 40 I never said but I always thought: gosh, I am not in my twenties anymore. And now having passed the big 60, I must say I am not 40 anymore…
A big …

Getting a bit fat
Tuesday, 16 Jun, 2009 – 3:21 | No Comment
Getting a bit fat

Woops, since I am helping with the laundry these days, I was thinking my trousers had shrunk, maybe I had used too hot water in the washing machine?
Turns out I still have the perfect skills …

Say aaah!
Thursday, 16 Apr, 2009 – 6:23 | No Comment
Say aaah!

Coming down with a flu… My own stupidity: working in the garden: sweating like hell in my cold clothes and than taking out my sweater and continuing.
According to my wife I have to stop thinking …

How to use birch juice?
Friday, 27 Feb, 2009 – 7:04 | No Comment
How to use birch juice?

In my previous post, Birch beer, I told you how to tap the juices from the Birch tree. You need to do this now or in spring that is before the leaves are out (otherwise …

Sausage bread and apple bread Monday
Wednesday, 7 Jan, 2009 – 7:38 | No Comment
Sausage bread and apple bread Monday

The first Monday after the 6th of January they have the tradition here to make sausage bread.
For the vegetarians or let’s say for the sweet tooth there will be apple bread: which is 1 whole …

What's for dinner?
Sunday, 28 Dec, 2008 – 1:18 | No Comment
What's for dinner?

What’s for dinner?
Now I always knew my wife was a good cook. Only these days she is even better
Lot’s of festivity meals are being cooked, since I am totally there to help with …

How long does the flu last
Sunday, 21 Sep, 2008 – 0:00 | No Comment
How long does the flu last

How long does the flu last without taking antibiotics? 5 days at most
 
Well, let’s cross fingers that this flu is not going to last any longer. When I was working, I never had …

Yummies: mussels :-)
Sunday, 10 Aug, 2008 – 0:55 | No Comment
Yummies: mussels :-)

As said in my previous mussel post, I have been cooking some delicious mussels these days

Cooked green lipped mussels in a simple veggie stock added some wine of course…
Ok, delicious is what …

More mussels against arthritis
Monday, 4 Aug, 2008 – 8:36 | No Comment
More mussels against arthritis

Quite funny this world is sometimes I find…
So I go to the fish-shop buying my green lipped mussels. The man behind the counter, a few years younger than me, looks at me and says:
- …

Mussels against arthritis
Monday, 4 Aug, 2008 – 3:32 | No Comment
Mussels against arthritis

These days my little arthritis pinky is getting worse: sometimes suddenly I feel a sudden pain (that’s why I said suddenly as well…).
Actually it is as if somebody is poking my little finger with a …