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Like about anyone I don’t like hospitals.
For the last few weeks I have been there every second day, taking turns with my brother. My father is in the hospital and of course my mother wants to visit him every day.
We are very lucky that it is only a few blocks from our homes, my parents appartment AND the hospital.

It is the third time my old man is in the hospital this year. And again his body warned just in time to give him a big chance to survive. He will have a single bypass coming week.

I really want to write on our relaunched Green Crab, but can’t keep my thoughts to it. I hate the idea, because we have big plans with the new Crab.

I’ll Be Back!!! [while never been gone...]

The last few day we did hear that the emission of carbon dioxide isn’t decreasing, but actualy increasing!

This is bad news for all of us. The climate will be changed forever!

I was convinced that The Netherlands was doing a good job by different kind of measures concerning the environment. To be honest I always thought that we are a respectable country.
But just like many other countries we are dealing in the emission rights of developing countries to get to the levels that was agreed on.

I don’t like that!

So once and a while you find yourself a nice hairy pussy…
I always thought I was a dog lover, but pussies are nice!!

:-)

The word climate buffer (”klimaatbuffer”) is thought to have a great future in The Netherlands.

This is because The Netherlands, like its translation Low Countries says, is below sealevel and therefore quite vulnerable for the flooding of parts of the country. Selected areas are needed to be used to act as a buffer. At least this is the idea.
Territories can serve as reservoirs for rainfall.

I am not sure…

Source: Taalpost – Dutch only

The island(s) of Zanzibar, part of Tanzania and place of birth
of the star of rock band Queen, Freddie Mercury, is banning plastic bags from now on.
There will be no plastic bags produced or even imported (!).

“The environment must come to the first place and platic bags are not only ugly, but for all damaging the environment on land and water”.

Tourism is the main source of income to the island and it is on one of the main apportionment routes of the East African mainland. About 200 (metric) ton of plastic bags is passing the port of Zanzibar every month.

In The Netherlands it is quite normal to take stronger bags to the supermarket that you can use several times. But when you go shopping in little immigrant supermarkets (that I like!!) you get about a bag per bought product, just like in big supermarkets in Belgium and France and many more countries.
For smaller purchases I don’t need plastic bags or just one for everything I buy, and I take a big shopping bag otherwise.

Source: 20 Minuten – German language / Swiss source

Yesterday I caught myself throwing away an enormous pile of beverage cans. Every dustbin in the house had a mountain of cans.

There are some drinks I like they don’t sell in bottles. But the others I could have bought in bottles, but then the bubbles are gone within a short period of time. I don’t drink it that much.

What should I do? Start to learn drinking drinks with less or no bubbles, or keep on drinking from cans, next to the juices and tea I already drink?!

But less…