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Random thoughts and ramblings on no particular theme.

  • Dresden Dolls Live in Amsterdam

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    Now there is no way that I am ever going to do justice to last night’s concert with mere words. No, The Dresden Dolls are most definitely something to be experienced first hand. It is a genuine pleasure to stand in an intimate smoke filled hall and watch musicians perform. In an era when bland,

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  • Sweet freedom

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    I am new to the blogosphere, just a few weeks old in fact, and I’d been wondering, even before I posted my first entry, why it was I was doing this. Who would want to read my thoughts and musings? Who was I to assume that I had a right to send my grumblings and

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  • When you have no enemy – create one…

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    The world is becoming an increasingly dangerous place. Or is that how I am supposed to react to every news report from the Middle East and other nefarious hot beds of terror dotted around the world? Are such reports and incidents designed to provoke a sense of unease and fear within me, that will ensure

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  • Parrots in the park…

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    It’s Monday which means a long morning walk in the Vondel Park with the dog. It’s a (very recent) Monday tradition initiated by my cleaning lady, who comes by on Monday mornings to tidy up my mess from the weekend. She’s from Ecuador and speaks no English or Dutch, so we tend to have lots

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