Wim Harwig

Category: stuff on the kitchen table

  • archiving is progressing

      Marjan is lucky. Her father was a mate (deck officer) and sailed all over the world. In the many letters that her mother wrote to her father, a picture of the Netherlands in the fifties was described. Of course, Marjan now also gets a good impression of how her parents were …. Unfortunately, I…

  • situations at home

    I came home from work and found Marjan busy reading old letters from her parents ….       one of the famous “old shoeboxes” ….                               documentarization is a separate discipline  and can be done best in the evening with…

  • Dutch traditions ….

    Dutch traditions ….

    Marjan is busy with the “Dutch traditions” at our kitchen table 

  • old stuff

    old stuff

    I bought a new coat. Therefore, I can give the old coat away to make room on the peg. In the pockets of the old coat were still things of long ago ….. ….. good memories ….  

  • metalworker

    metalworker

    He did it ! the best metal worker I know, has started his own company : “Smederij de Vonk” (translated; “smithy the spark”)   highly recommended !

  • old time … new time.

    old time … new time.

    Marjan wanted a clock in our kitchen … I remembered that I inherited the last pocket  watch of my grandfather and still kept it in a closed cabinet for about 15 years…. While I put the spring of the watch back on for the first time  … it immediately started running! While walking with the dog…

  • the most valuable gift

    the most valuable gift

    a sign that Marjan perceives the intended meaning of all my talking ….  

  • on the kitchen table

    on the kitchen table

    Marjan picked a few roses from the old rose bush. The rose bush is inherited from her mother and has been in our garden for decades. She takes them to Hans.     Hans is cremated today.

  • peeling shrimps

    peeling shrimps

    The “Lady of the House” and “La Contessa” peeling shrimps.         and the “principe consorte”  baking whiting ….      

  • Tax

      Please do something good with it … don’t give it to the rich and wealthy …. 😉  

  • Is this the life we really want ?

    Is this the life we really want ?

  • adapter

    I got me a KIPON FD-EOS adapter. So now I can use all my old FD lenses on the EOS cameras ! especially with the Sigma 600 mm tele-lens it gives me back the feeling of the seventies and eighties …. No stabilisation, no nothing …… so I have to use a tripod and all…