Even though I have some really nice posts lined up, I can’t seem to get anything posted. All for good reasons of course: Kids’ vacations, husband abroad, unbearable summer heat, and – the best one of all – a whole lot of visitors from near and far. Last weekend, we had three different sets of […]
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Germany’s Service Desert. Case 1 in Appeal
It is a lot harder than expected to write during the summer vacation, even though I have help from the best: my Mother-in-Law arrived from Belgium to help out while Frederik is in Switzerland. This tradition – since 2012 – is what makes summers fun despite missing Frederik. Unfortunately, it did me no good last […]
Germany’s Service Desert. Case 2.
Apologies for my silence last week. I have been home alone again, with Willem that is, as Frederik is off to PSI, Villigen, for his yearly summer of experimenting and Janne spent two weeks with family in Belgium. Blogging with Willem around is like eating chocolate mousse with chop sticks: very inefficient. Back to the desert: […]
Germany’s Service Desert
So, welcome again to my private courtroom, fellow jurors or counselors. In the next couple of WONDERFUL posts, I am going to present you my argument that German service SUCKS. They even have a term for it: Service-Wuste-Deutschland, that is, Service-Desert-Germany. You can be the defense, or the jurors, or both at the same time. […]
Wonderful pinworms. Did you know?
Two weeks ago, we went to visit good friends in Belgium. We had a ton of fun. Alas, they also told me something that, up till then, I was blisfully unaware of: the existence of pinworms, or – in Dutch – aarsmaden, – in German – Madenwürme. Have you ever heard of these? I am […]