Is it Friday yet?
The Netherlands at its finest, turning a little bird into a huge elephant (BBC News and various other newssites worldwide):
The shooting of a sparrow on the set of a Dutch world record domino-toppling attempt sparked outrage among animal lovers and led to threats to staff.
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The bird’s fate was sealed when it knocked over 23,000 and [...]
Dutch Witches May Deduct Training Costs Against Tax, Court Says (Bloomberg):
The court, in the city of Leeuwaarden, confirmed a ruling by tax authorities that a woman’s costs related to her 366-day course to become a certified witch are tax deductible, according to the Web site of the court, which made its ruling on Sept. [...]
I’ve converted a few more pages from my homepage into static pages on the blog. They are the Klasgenoten S.S.G. pages (3 in total), which is 100% Dutch content.
The two sub-pages contain embedded PHP, so I was glad I had that sorted out a while ago already for the spam statistics page. It [...]
Sipping coffee from my Mind The Gap mug today, in a vague gesture to the people that died or were injured yesterday.
As far as I can tell any friends or acquaintances in and around London are alive and well, so that’s the good news. The not so good news is that the death toll [...]
The latest addition to the Dutch royal family now has a name: Alexia Juliana Marcela Laurentien.
Princess Máxima and crown prince Willem-Alexander are the proud parents to another daughter (Dutch article).
Congratulations!
Update:: An English article courtesy of Scotsman.com news.
Hmm. For an agnostic I seem to be doing pretty well on this Bible Quiz. Unfortunately for the non-Dutch readers it’s in… Dutch. Anyway, 29 out of 49 questions correctly answered, hrm.
Gelezen op de site van de Wereldomroep: Bij een grootscheepse controle in Delft zijn brommerrijders slaags geraakt met de politie. [...] De politie controleerde in totaal zestig brommers. Twee waren in orde, de bestuurders van de overige 58 werden bekeurd.
Twee van de zestig waren in orde?!? Ik zou het ze bijna niet kwalijk nemen [...]
The Radio Netherlands Wereldomroep really felt like it had something to say, today… not!
This is what the recent items looked like:
And the actual items really were that interesting:
It’s been corrected by now and of course this has me wondering if it was something that went wrong on my side instead, but I find it quite [...]