Tantrums & Rants

I have a thorn in my side and I’m going to blog about it. An entire series on why British TV rocks my socks and why Americans need to stop trying to recreate it. There’s something about British TV that is so great, great in an entirely different way to anything we watch on American television.  It’s hard to describe… …

The red one, I mean.  If you do, could you kindly punch him or her in the throat the next time you meet? Whatever they did to cause all these cop cars to come tearing into our lot with sirens blazing is the reason I’m sitting here writing this at 6:40am on a Sunday morning. I didn’t see them getting …

This has been the weekend from hell, seriously.  I’m pretty sure that when I opened the door to our flat on Friday night that I walked through some sort of gateway that took me straight into Satan’s bathroom. Let me go back and tell a little more about what was going on… You may want to grab a snack, this …

That’s what I’d say to my teenager if they told me they wanted to sail around the world, climb a mountain people die on, bungee jump, skydive or … oh, I don’t know… roller skate?   It’s probably a blessing for my imaginary children that they don’t actually exist because this is one of those times where I wonder if I’d …

Around this time last year I did a post about what my choices would be for Stephanie Plum Movie Castings, if she were ever to come to the big screen.  There has been a lot of debate about it, but I still stand firmly behind my selections. The other day I saw an article on the MOVIETASTIC website SCREENRANT about …

This is quite possibly one of the worst books I have ever read.  A friend loaned it to me together with an entire bag of other books.  She went through them quickly with me but she admitted she bought a few of them simply because of their covers.  They do all have very cool and impressive covers, I must admit!  …

I would not want to be this guy! Seriously… Christmas trees aren’t THAT expensive here that you have to steal one.  Perhaps he feels the same as I do, that the Dutch Christmas trees are not worth buying.  They are Charlie Brown Christmas Trees! They don’t even deserve to be called trees, they are Christmas Shrubs!  With their big fat …

Today I went for my second gastroscopie and all I can say is that it wasn’t as good an experience as the first one.  Everything seemed to be following the same routine as the first time, I went in, they took my blood pressure, laid me down and gave me the drugs.  Then I was off to La La Land. …

Do you remember ages ago when I made a post about Fox News and their opinions on the Netherlands?  Well, the bastards are at it again!  Recently a video has come out where Bill O’Reilly gave his backwards opinions on Amsterdam.  FU Bill O’Reilly, FU!!! Sometimes I think this is more home than even I realize because when I see …

Growing up the child of a musician, I know how much their instruments mean to them.   When I was younger I would never have dreamed of taking out my father’s guitar and playing with it, although I’m sure he would have loved if I’d wanted to later on.   It’s their creative outlet and they choose their instruments with great care …

This is the weather forecast for Rotterdam for the coming days.  The top bit is the weather conditions here this morning.  ONE HUNDRED FREAKIN’ PERCENT HUMIDITY.  You can literally see the air, you can feel it.  It’s disgusting.  This is summer in the Netherlands. This weekend I was in Friesland with my photography club.  We went sailing and visiting some …