Bill, Bill and Priscill First an update from the moving front: I had planned to meet quite a lot of people tonight who wanted to have a look at the two rooms available in my current flat, but I fear that the planned tube strike from 7pm tonight might mess things up a bit. Just [...]

It is mostly me who is surprised I think. Short version: I have found a great room in a fantastic flat where I will share with a very friendly male kiwi (I call him Angus) and a third person who still has to be found.

Firstly – and this will be the last time I write about it – my dizzyness is gone. I am not quite sure how well my ear is hearing, but I do hear with it. I just tried to listen to my iPod for the first time in weeks, and it seems that the music [...]

When my head started to feel a little bit less dizzy, I started to make some small walks in my hometown IJsselstein, and noticed that the small things in life are very worth noticing. I am slowly getting better every day and I am back in London now. I am still having some trouble reading [...]

My dizzyness is not completely over yet but the good news is that it is now slowly getting better. It has taken nearly two nervewrecking weeks which is much longer than the couple of days they mentioned in the leaflet I received from the hospital. I am still having trouble reading and staring at a [...]

I am on my way to Holland (with bus and ferry because I am not really allowed to travel otherwise). Things are not how they should be with my dizzyness and I just need to be with my mum. I don’t know if this dizzyness will ever disappear, I am still hoping it does, but [...]

No you didn’t accidentally ended on a medical website. I have a funny ear which suffers from Otosclerosis, which means I am not hearing very well with it. Tomorrow they will operate it and that type of ear operation is called Stapedectomy. I had the same type of operation done five years ago, and that [...]

Book exchange in Lympstone (Devon) I like to read and I used to buy my books new in the many book shops London seems to have. I normally don’t really want to keep books after I read them so I found some better and cheaper ways to get books and to get rid of them [...]

(*)You didn’t know I was a bionic woman did you? Or maybe you did, I had a simular operation about 5 years ago (in Dutch sorry – but they replaced one of the tiny bones in my ear with a tiny platinum replacement – yes they have to cut through the ear drum and this [...]

Spring is in the air Easter food/drink in Holland is : Home made kroketten as only my mum can make them Pancakes the size of wagon wheels in De Oude Muntkelder, where they have 80 different types of pancakes! The one and only Chocomel Dinner at Boro, Utrecht Import of Autodrop parkeerwacht Zwartjes Icecream from [...]

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Imagine the following scenario. You walk to work. A woman on slightly high heels walks in front of you. She slips on the curb and ends on her bum on the street. Two things to think about here: If this would happen to you (as in you ended on your bum on a busy morning [...]

Just a small practical anouncement: I am not moving to Notting Hill. I removed the previous post, I am not getting into any details, it is just not going to happen. Not now anyway, I will keep my eyes open for other chances. I bought a new pocket camera, a Panasonic T4. It replaces my [...]

The Berkeley (Knightsbridge – London) does not look grand from the outside, but you know it is expensive when you spot the fully hotel-uniformed men (beautiful long coat, bowler hat, gloves) standing outside the door. And I was waiting for one of them to tap me on the shoulder saying “where do you think you [...]

TV-2 in Paris How to be impulsive and try something new in six easy steps: Read on facebook (and yes I want to be your friend too – I am known as Ingrid M van Vliet, the M standing for mad) that TV-2 (danish band extraordinaire) is playing a concert in Paris. Admit that taking [...]

No it wasn’t going to be that easy. I had forgotten how you should not believe too much of what people tell you about the rooms they have available. As they are all “great” “spacious” “modern” etc. The room in Fulham was all that in the ad, in real it was smaller than a shoebox, [...]

When doing some thinking this weekend about this i suddenly had an epiphany (I love that word, I learned it from Billy Mack in Love Actually). I suddenly realised that if I really wanted to find a place to live with nice flat mates then why didn’t I seriously go and look for it? Duh.

A perfect weekend is: Great weather and good views in Exmouth Long walks with the dogs on the beach (Exmouth) A perfect red and white lighthouse (Plymouth) This is Smeaton’s tower, a lighthouse located on the Plymouth Hoe. The lighthouse is no longer in use as a lighthouse, and this is not it’s original location [...]

Organic Coke – no thanks No: I am OK with Organic food, but this “Sparkling Delicious organic Cola” is not Sparkling and as far from Delicious as it can be, it is the worst tasting cola I have ever tasted. So that’s a no. Never again. Yuk. Yes is what I said to a Tweatup [...]

Confessions of a shopaholic wasn’t the best rom-com ever (it’s Sex in the City meet Devil wears Prada), but I laughed quite a lot at Isla Fisher. She has great comic talent, and she is worth watching the film for. She and Hugh Dancy. I saw A View from the Bridge last week, and wow, [...]