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tin/can opener
Marjan found the old tin opener that was used by my parents for so many years. My brothers will immediatly recognize it. It has opened many tins. And opened a lot of skin too ! It was important to keep the cut in the metal as smooth as possible! It was made by Crosse and…
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Powerex
My rechargeable batteries have lost a lot of their capacity and I wanted to buy a good and advanced battery conditioner to break in. After a lot of surfing on the internet I found the next picture … (thanks Robert Elsinga for the link). So I decided to buy the Powerex from MAHA and ordered…
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1965
A film made by Ed van der Elsken in the sixties, when I was too young to die old.
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450 t
It took a long time, but I own a new GPS now. I choose for the Oregon 450t, a new model made by Garmin. together with the City Navigator Europe NT and the Routable Topographical Map Benelux. The Garmin manuals are bad, very bad. They remind me of the days I was too young to…
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IKEA couch
We needed a matress and a couch for Rea. So where to buy ? Everywhere around the world …….. IKEA seems to rule …………
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40 years old posters
A boys’room that has been unchanged for the last 40 years. The posters reminded me of the “good ol’days” when the US-troopers were bombing the innocent Vietnamese, the Stones were still Rolling, Ajax was a serious soccer team and students knew the philosophy of Karl Marx. The days I thought that I would never get…
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Liggecyklen
I’m just proud to see one of my photos on the cover of the magazine for Danish recumbent cycles. No need to thank, I’m happy to contribute ….
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a new floor
A new floor for Rea.
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Goofy
I own a car as well as a velomobile and the effect of a “wheeler” is happening in both……. I can understand why “Mister Walkers” don’t like “Mister Wheelers”, because I’m a “Mister Walker” too. I experience this “schizophrenic” alteration every day when I use my velomobile. Maybe the difference between “Mister Cyclist” and “Mister…
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Reader’s coach
It’s amazing how difficult it is for intellectuals to write “Zutphen”. Instead they prefer to make an accidental mistake and write “Utrecht”. 😉 It’s Wim de Bie, explaining in Dutch why and how we decide to buy which book. Met de leescoach in Utrecht
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cyclocomputer
The thin cable for my cyclocomputer touched the tyre and because of that, the signal to the computer interrupted. I tried to fix it and used another cable, but without success. So I made a phone-call to velomobiel.nl ; they advised me to buy a new cable. The hole in the wheelbox is 8 mm…
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It’s simple ….
RDF TV – “Teach the Controversy” – A.C. Grayling
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Long ago
vroeger op de boerderij. Long ago on the farm. My uncle Wim, who owned a farm in the “Wildenborch”, was one of the farmers who used horses up till the sixties. As a little kid I often saw him working on his land. This video reminded me of those long hot summers ……..