read my stories

This my blog page where you will find the latest post on top, and years and years of older posts below.
For a more focused way of reading, you can select the Categories underneath My Articles tab at the top !
Enjoy your stay here and check back once in a while!

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Major changes in the website

Please bear with me all, I changed the theme of my WordPress website, am adding a little aircraft webshop, and integrating some material from my

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No more oppression

In the light of the recent attack on their customers, it seems like most current social media are indeed Socialist Media and only exist to

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More closings

I feel like dying a little bit, closing down various internet activities that I have fanatically worked on these past 15 years of my life.

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Flightsim

Closing the FSAddon shop

Dear all, first of all let me wish you a Merry Christmas, even when in lockdown or otherwise limited. Hopefully, you are all still healthy.

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Bye Bye Zuckerberg

All the way back in November 2008 I added my first friends on Facebook, on my brand new account. I started it out of curiosity

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NO Facebook, so peaceful

The Facebook Gestapo has locked me out once again, this time for sharing a joke on good old Hitler….. totally irrelevant for their ‘community standards’, whatever

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Absence

Dear readers and Facebook followers. There are 2 reasons for being absent these past few days. First is some heavy migraine attacks lasting multiple days.

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Book Reviews

M7 Priest

(Images of War series) by David Doyle Admittedly I never looked into the history of artillery much, but maybe that will change after reading this

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Fire !

Never a dull day here in our new place in Italy. Today, while I was cutting down some trees in our ‘garden’, suddenly a black

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France

SOLD !

YESSSSSSS !! Against all odds (we think) we sold our little apartment in the French Alps. We had it for almost 17 years and we

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France

FOR SALE !!

Our wonderful, cozy little apartment in the Trois Vallées area in France, smack in the middle of Europe’s largest skiing area, is for sale !

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Yay ! More Dutch Gold !

….. and bronze ! Yesterday Margot Boer FINALLY made it into the medals after a life of having been 4th ! And now Groothuis won

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New tables and content

I am hard at work to re-do the ‘blog’ as you can see. Part of the work includes finding/adding featured images to all the posts

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Goodbye Dick

Dick has been gone for well over a month now. In the meantime life for everybody else has continued. Nina and I went back to

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Tomorrow is the funeral

I know, not the sort of news you want to read when happily browsing blogs. And yes, I have more uplifting news too. But it

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RIP my dearest friend

I don’t know what to do……. What DO you do when you get a call and hear that one of your best all-time friends deceased

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Folks keep peeping…..

…. peeping into my blog, that is. Although I haven’t written on it in ages ! Blame Facebook! Blame a chronic lack of time! Blame

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