WORDLESS WEDNESDAY

 

Sunrise

 

 

The beach early morning

sunset

 

cleaning the beach early morning

 

 My late friend Nicole had an apartment at the Belgian coast. This was the view from her balcony

 

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AWWW MONDAY - WEEKEND APRIL EASTER

I was really lucky that I could take pictures of one of our 6 castle cats, which you can't pet and usually run away when you come too close. But here she cleaned herself from top to bottom on the terrace of one resident room, while we were inside. The sun had come out for a few minutes. 

 

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WEEKEND

It was Easter Weekend, but honestly we haven't gotten anything special. On Saturday an Easter mass was held, which is normal, but what I don't understand is why so many people attended and why a priest was specially hired who only had an hour free that day to celebrate an Easter mass. I mean, if you never go to church for mass, except at Easter and Christmas, then that's rather hypocritical, and besides, they are taking the places from those who are really religious. 

We were four of us who didn't attend,  my friends, who felt the same way as I. Our animator, Elinor, was with us, and we played an interesting game it was a very pleasant afternoon. We were given a special room that's usually only used for family birthday parties.

Fortunately Kim had decorated the whole castle with bunnies, little baskets and flowers and it looked really like Easter.  

But that was all. On Sunday the Easter lunch was honestly disgusting, for that we all agreed, we haven't even seen one single Easter Egg. 

Last year it was completely different, everything was nice and we were all in real Easter mood.

After the activity, the coffee was served. Usually there is a cake, waffles or other biscuits, this time the basket was rather stingy there were a few biscuits and 3 waffles not enough for all of us. Fortunately we had a guest who had brought chocolate eggs more then enough for us. We will ask why it was so different then the other years ! 

 

The cutest card I have got !

FRIDAY's FAVE FIVE APRIL 3

 

From Monday til Friday we had a very moody weather,  just like the wannabe orange king of the USA. The days were always the same, except one day I met our new female manager. To me she  made a very friendly impression. I greeted her, and we exchanged a few words. She looks very young and is very tall, I am 1.70 m (5'7") and she's easily half a head taller. 

Then came April 1st. Nobody made a joke with me, and I didn't even realize it was April 1st, but then in the restaurant, I saw several people with a fish stuck on their backs. In Belgium, people call it "Poisson d'Avril," meaning "April Fish," which is why they try to sneakily stick a fish on someone.

Here is grandpa André who got a fish and hadn't realized ! Of course nobody told him !

On Thursday we went to an exhibition at the farm belonging to La Hulpe Castle. Unfortunately, it was the rainiest day of the week. Nevertheless, it was very nice and we had a great time.

 

 the farm   

In one part of the farm is the restaurant in the other the exhibition of the painter  Jean-Michel Folon, a Belgian painter and sculptor, who showed in his exhibition about 500 paintings and sculpture in the Ferme du Château de La Hulpe.  He was born on March 1, 1934 in Brussels and died in Monaco at 71 years. 

When we went years ago, he didn't have an own exhibition, he just had his atelier in one part of the farm.

We went through the exposition, after one hour I gave up and walked over to the Restaurant,  I was thirsty and honestly I didn't like his paintings very much. I preferred his sculptures.                                             

 

This was a bird

 

Here we were in a room made of mirrors, and I took a picture of the ceiling so we were upside own, it was really funny. 

 

After a drink in the restaurant, we drove back home.  

 

I had been often in this park, when my son was little and later with friends. The farm had been converted to a very nice restaurant with a large terrace outside and in summer it is always full. The view over the fields and woods are gorgeous and there are also two little lakes where children feed the ducks and swans

Unfortunately, we couldn't sit outside because it was far too cold and wet.

Our animator should have scheduled this trip for a few month later. 

The week ended as usual, I was a little tired from the excursion and didn't participate in the game, which was a kind of bowling. Tomorrow Easter starts ! 

to all of you !

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