Back from a family holiday in France where we spent two weeks in a rented castle. It was great fun and we lived and ate like kings. The girls each brought a friend and KH and his wife Karin from Frankfurt, as well as my brother-in-law Gerrit and his daughter Inès from South Africa later [...]
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A French Holiday
Posted in Family, Friends on July 19, 2009 | 6 Comments »
… and now the good news!
Posted in Diagnosis, Doctors, Family on February 11, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Well, you know what they say: three experts, three opinions. In this case, this is easy for me to live with, as the general view of my MRI results (bar one) is that no new growth has occured, my neurosurgeon even thinks it’s gone back a bit!
We are besides ourselves with joy!
I am convinced that [...]
Shangri-La
Posted in Family on October 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The few days at the fabulous Shangri-La Resort in Muscat were really quite something. We were well and truly spoilt and had a very relaxing time. I was a bit tired mostly, so we didn’t do too much other than lounge by the pool or the beach, but hey – it was a holiday.
Oman is [...]
Texas Chili for a Streetparty
Posted in Family, Food & Drink, Friends on September 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For our traditional streetparty I cooked up a chili again, which was sold out much to soon; must make more next year!
Texas Chili
5 kg of beef (breast or neck, not too lean) cut into 2 cm chunks
6 large onions, chopped
6 stalks celery, chopped
4 large green peppers, chopped
4 large sweet red peppers, chopped
4 jalapeño peppers, deseeded [...]
Weekend in St. Moritz
Posted in Family on August 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
With the girls away in Spain and Crete, we went up to St. Moritz for a long weekend. Beautiful weather, great food, but bad idea. Yours truly wanted to go hiking, so on Friday we took a cable car up to 2′300 metres and started a short, but challenging hike which would have brought us [...]
Thursday, June 5th 2008
Posted in Family, Friends on June 5, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Dear Friends,
Just to let you all know, I’m fine and will be able to go home tomorrow!
I’ll report more news next week (including the story on how I got 7 holes in my head for my operation).
Thanks for all your help, support and thoughts!
Love,
Tom
Sunday, June 1st 2008
Posted in Family, Friends on June 1, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Ah, what a glorious sunrise over the lake! It’s 6 AM, the water is as flat as glass, and there are no boats yet to stir its surface.
I thank you all my friends for your concern, your offers of help, your kind, wise and funny words of support and for being… well just friends. This [...]
