[Sorry for lack of picture - but imagine Pancake picture here] It has been a while, and there are several reasons for that. I guess you would have figured out by now that if the Wales shoot had all been tickety boo (= satisfactory) I would have written about right after it finished. In stead, [...]

Send to a friend I hope you were able to spent your Valentine with the people you love.

Snowman in London When you finally get snow in the UK, you have to make a snow man. So I challenged my friend in Devon to do the same thing and send in photographic evidence. The above one is the one I made this morning. Lucky I took a picture of it as it has [...]

When I came home from Devon last night, London looked white. This morning I woke up to even more snow, which caused all buses to be cancelled, the tube came to a halt, lots of trains cancelled, airports struggling (Heathrow is closed), schools are closed, and children are having the time of their lifes playing [...]

Bill on Leicester Square, Valkyrie premiere – floppy hair is cool I really wasn’t going to go. I don’t like big crowds like that, and I have been so busy all week I just wanted to go home and relax with a cup of Yorkshire tea, right. Right? And that other part of me thought, [...]

As if there would be a chance that I would leave a Bill behind … You know you are not a Brit when you totally did not know that yesterday was supposed to be the most depressing day of the year: Blue Monday. Willy-nilly. In stead of being depressed I was busy figuring out what [...]

(Re)Writing BBC Writersroom I did attend the open BBC Writersroom event. And realised that it is very intimidating to see the competition. Loads and loads of people where there, all writers, all wanting to make it. Not good for self confidence. I had to leave a bit earlier, so I don’t know what I missed [...]

Newness odour? … you find these kind of message on the package of your new pillow. Would they expect people to complain if they did not put this message on the package? Or have people been complaining after which they put this message on? The genius who came up with the “newness odour” description deserves [...]

New York sky line taken from JFK airport (Amazing view from the waiting area on the airport, it’s far away but the Empire State Building is so much higher than the rest) Honestly what can you write after a post like the last one. It’s far from as interesting, but this is the best I [...]

POPB Life has its funny ways.

Winter warmth Send to a friend I was drawing this yesterday night, and this morning I read the news article that seems to fit perfectly with it. A little warmth in the dark and cold times of winter and economic crises. Two German children – aged five and six – have been stopped by police [...]

Winter in IJsselstein Despite having an annoying ear infection for most of my time in Holland, I did enjoy my holidays and the lovely winter weather. A few days of frost and the Dutch massively come out with their skates. This is a picture of the ice rink in my hometown IJsselstein. It doesn’t get [...]

Let me be your lighthouse (Send to a friend) Some random bits before I leave for Christmas (which is not before Wednesday): I need to buy a present for those two slime monsters. I am going to spent some days with them in Ireland after Christmas and I am sure we will be even better [...]

I know it’s good Pain throws your heart to the ground Love turns the whole thing around No, it won’t all go the way, it should But I know the heart of life is good I know it’s good Send this card to a friend The card is inspired by this wonderful song from the [...]

No Love, Actually then? Well that means I am pretty buggered. Even more so at this time of the year where I take in an overload of romcoms (how else to survive the Christmas time?). You can read some of the article on the Daily Mail or in today’s paper version (which I happened to [...]

Happy Holidays I really wanted to learn Illustrator (especially the pen tool) and the only way to do that was to actually make something with it. I found a nice tutorial for this winter landscape here, this is my interpretation of it. This drawing has taken me an insane amount of time to make, but [...]

The girl in the notebook The lovely Bloglily has published an interview with, ehrm, me about writing. In stead of typing it in a long email I scribbled the answers in my notebook, took pictures of it and sent it to her, you can find all of it on her website. It makes me realise [...]

Tree poem Send to a friend

I am looking forward to your cards already I have just spend most of the day in the office where I work to drink tea and listen to music, and oh to work on my card for 2008 and it is done! I am quite pleased with the result and have just send the order [...]

Books for New York Discovered that New York, or rather Manhattan has a Little Red Lighthouse. Awesome. It’s on the list, and if the weather is reasonable I will go and visit it. Discovered that New York has a lot of nice cafes. I am planning to visit at least two of them: City Girl [...]