HODGEPODGE APRIL 30

1. Are you feeling more reset, restart, or full speed ahead as we move into May? Tell us why. 

I rather feel like a snail ! As April was nearly summer like, May will be like autumn, the weather has become like a certain politician. Moody.

full speed .... 

2. Painting, sculpture, architecture, literature, cinema, theatre, music...what's your favorite form of art? Elaborate.  

 

I was a hobby painter for over 20 years. Ever since Rick died, I lost my creativity and can't paint anymore. But I still love to go to expositions of sculptures, I love architecture, literature, and theater. Music depends, I love the music of my generation (Beatles, Rolling Stones, Freddy Mercury, Elton John etc) 

 

 

 3. What time is dinner at your house? How do you feel about leftovers? 

When we were a family, we had our main meal at 7 pm, because during the day we were working and our son was in school. Now here I eat the main meal at noon, and supper is at 5.30 (difficult to get used to after 60 years) Supper I eat at 7, earlier I have no appetite 

4.What's the last thing you fell down a rabbit hole investigating? 

I suppose that I am too old to fall in rabbit holes ! Can't remember anything..

5. And now for a question from the book Marilyn (Memphis Bridges) gave me...

At what are you 'self-taught?' 

Languages. German was my mothertongue, so I learned it automatically at school. I also learned English at school for nine years. But I never became fluent, that came naturally a bit later,  because I worked for an American company. I couldn't speak French at all, and I learned it at a French business school—or rather, I didn't really learn it; I just picked it up when my friends talked together. When you have to speak, you don't think for long. Italian was the last language I learned. I fell in love with an Italian, and when we were in Italy visiting his family, I absolutely wanted to understand what they were saying about me. Curiosity is a means to an end, after all. It wasn't long before I was speaking Italian. I really can't say that I learned vocabulary or paid attention to grammar; it all came naturally. My grandson, at 15, already speaks three languages: Dutch (at school and with his mother), French with his father, and English with his father's colleagues' children. I even learned to write, don't ask me how.

6. Insert your own random thought here. 

Thanks to the nice weather, I feel on holidays, I enjoy our park, I have no special thoughts for the moment and our staff too. Isn't it nice to have the lunch break in a beautiful park on wooden tables with  bench.   

 

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY

 

Belly dancer in Hurghada (Egypt)

Belly dancing is originated thousands of years ago in Egypt, North Africa, and the Mediterranean, primarily it was a social, celebratory dance and a fertility ritual to prepare women for childbirth,historically performed by women for other women to celebrate femininity,and fertility, and not for male entertainment, evolving later into diverse cultural entertainment forms. 

 

 

These were the ancient costumes, today they are less dressed !  

 

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AWWWW MONDAY - WEEKEND 27

 

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WEEKEND 

On Saturday we were alone, I mean without our entertainers. I don't know who had made the planning, but he or she is not very talented. On Friday they were 3 and on Saturday none ! I mean with three people you can organize that at least one is there on Saturday and Sunday, especially since Kim was hired for weekends. I'll mention that at our next meeting with the director. The poor woman probably doesn't even know. Anyway, she's very nice and has a lot of work, since her predecessors weren't very efficient.

The weather continued to be very sunny so we put a few tables together and played Bingo. Everybody loves it. Without money of course. 

On Sunday my friend Jacky picked me up and I left my castle for the whole afternoon. We went to the lake Genval which is not so far from Waterloo. It's the only lake nearby where you can surf or sail and of course there is a little space for swimmers. as the weather was so nice there were a lot of people !  

This is the sailing club, but not yet open

 

 

The restaurant was packed and we were really lucky to find two chairs. Jacky had a Mango tea.

The  restaurant was right by the lake. The water looked as green as the grass, even though the sky was completely blue. I had been here many times before, even when my son was still feeding the ducklings. Still, it was nice to get out again, although I couldn't walk as well as on Monday. The air must have been bad.

 

     

crocket players

 

                                      This is the castle of Genval, which is now a hotel with a spa.

We noticed that a lot of restaurants around the lake had changed names and probably owners and some were closed and looked neglected. Still the aftermath of the COVID. 

We walked a bit along the lake and then returned home, but promised each other to make more little excursions. 

In our restaurant there was only the meanwhile 101 old Jeannie and another, all the others were dispersed in the park on different benches.