Ina's Blog
Ina
- Location
- Terschelling West, The Netherlands
- Birthday
- January 04
- Bio
- Freelance Dutch writer. (fiction) Married, 3 sons and 1 cat. Living on an island in the North of the Netherlands.
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Someone you think is
DEAD I mean :)”
7:16AM - “Good story!
Someone
you think is, and there he or
she is on your doorstep,
it
happ…”
7:15AM - “Thank you Alan! I didn't
know there was a contest
till
yesterday, and I still
don…”
November 22, 2009 09:57AM - “I did a lot of
unhelpfull clicks. What a
disgusting set of
books they
have over…”
November 22, 2009 09:14AM - “I am going to Amazon
now. A book like Fords
translation of
Mein Kampf
sounds UN…”
November 22, 2009 08:57AM
Ina's Links
- New list
- Colin Morley
- Wordpress weblog
We did win something! So Belgium has Van Rompuy? Ha!
Just my luck!
Yesterday morning, I had to wait on the telephone for someone. I was reconnected, waited again, “Please, just one moment!” and I started to draw a bit, on a piece of paper. I drew nothing important, just some lines, some curves, some penises…
OK, I admit, I drew pics of… Read full post »
Stewardess on a coaster - New years Eve in Leningrad
This is a true story.
In December 1973, a day after Christmas, my mother and I got a physical check-up, in order to get a real Seamans book. It was all done in a hurry, in Amsterdam, and from that moment on we were supposed to be stewardesses. It says/… Read full post »
Telephone calls
"Hallo, this is Jacoba speaking."
"Good evening, my name is Sofie, and I have a very special offer for you!"
"Why are you crying, dear?"
"Oh, nothing. My offer is as follows: You can read the Morning Gazette for four weeks, without any payment whatsoever! And no strings attached!"
"Are you… Read full post »
The letter (fiction)
New York, October 31, 1995
Dear Anna
It is time. I want to tell you about the past.
Eighteen I was then. I had just nicely finished grammar school, with all good marks. Therefore my mother has thought of a reward: she and I were to spend a while on… Read full post »
Europe's first president - sort of
Now I had no idea, but we are going to get a sort of president in Europe soon ! It will be a formality job, really. Now what candidate is most likely to get it? It has to be a politician, he/she has to be chosen by that mysterical institution called… Read full post »
Going back in time
The times they are changing. Tonight at 3 time goes
back one hour (here anyway) as wintertime starts. I always
wondered what would happen if you got a twin during that mysterious
hour, the first one born at 2.40 at night, the second one born 3.30
at night but that would be… Read full post »
Skype - son, I can see, hear and watch you!
Today I found out how to make a pic of myself with
the laptop. Since I have this new one with camera,
I can Skype and watch my son in his boarding house on the
mainland. And talk to him. Well, talk...
"So is that your laundry on the floor?"
"I… Read full post »
Justice for all! Bill Stickers is innocent!
This is probably old for English speaking readers, but it was new for me. Someone put this pic on a Dutch blog. I googled and found this on "Bill Stickers is innocent":
"In the UK in the 1960s an attempt was made to reduce fly posting (the illegal pasting up of… Read full post »
Beach hunters' sorrow

"Nuts!"
"Laptops!"
"Wood!"
Rumour had it yesterday that this was all washed ashore on our island, or was on its way over, so we went to the beach and checked. We decided to take our change at Formerum aan Zee, and see if there were Landrovers and Jeeps and in what direction… Read full post »
Family history - looking for the Dankbaarheid

This picture was made in a Danish port, about 1927/1929 I think. The little girl is my mother, born 1924, the others are her parents Harmannes and Neeltje, and brothers Jan and Wubbo. The ship was called Dankbaarheid, (Greatfullness, Gratitude) a tjalk, with sails, on w/… Read full post »
A funeral
The last summerlike day it was, when we walked behind the hearse to the graveyard to burry my mother, who died September 20. We all carried one white rose.
The ceremony had been sober, with my husband speaking about her life, my text. We had some music. There were people from… Read full post »
A way to go
This blog might not be up to standard, as I am typing in between visits to the old peoples home where my mother is dying. She is 85 and she had been suffering from dementia for years. She weighs almost nothing now, and she is unconcious, as she is dehydrating, she… Read full post »
Passenger seat
The dance at Durbar Court
Tonight, 150 young girls were going along to Durbar Court in
London's Whitehall, for a rather traditional event - but one which
has fallen out of favour in recent years.
The last few years not many ladies met the standard the
organization was looking for.
Cheryl
Jones-Fortescu… Read full post »
How my mother changed world history - without knowing it!
Terschelling, Netherlands, June 1964
She was skipping the rope that, on the other end, was tight up on the stoop bench, while she stood across the street and my friend was jumping. She had been jumping for such a long time, she started to pant. That’s the thing I remember
… Read full post »Having Weltschmerz? - well so is the world!
When the romantic term Weltschmerz (worldpain, hurt of the world?) was ‘invented’ by Jean Paul, born as Johann Paul Frielrich Richter ( 21-03-1763 - 14-11-1825), a German writer, the World as he knew it was quite smaller than we do nowadays and he meant quite somet… Read full post »
A trip to Amsterdam
Two weeks ago my husband, our youngest son and I went to Amsterdam for a short visit. We took the fast ferry to Harlingen at 7.30. For our teenager that was a bit early but he took it as a man.
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