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heaveninbelgium (jientje)
50, Female
BE
Name or Pseudonym:
jientje
About Me:
By the time this adventure starts, I'll be fifty...
I will have lived for "half a century" in Belgium, Europe.
English is not realy my everyday language nor am I used to writing!
Anyway, I love challenges, and I 'll give it my very best...
I have a digital camera growing out of my arm, I looooove to take pictures!
I discovered blogging only last year, when I started my first blog in Belgium, written in Dutch.
I was terrified of computers before, but I learned all my computer skills through blogging!! Yes, I think I learned quite a lot since then!
So I took on the Nablopomo challenge to try to blog and express myself and learn a new language while doing so.







I was invited to join



And now, at the end of November I'm a little bit more self-confident
due to the support and the encouragement I got out of the comments from my new friends.
I wanted so much to keep in touch, that's why I started a new blog, written in English this time.
I hope to welcome some of the friends I have made through Nablopomo on my brandnew website!
Blog:
heaveninbelgium.blogspot.com/

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A hot time in the old time tonight

A hot time in the old time tonight
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Over: Nul de prul, Madame, en een schattig cache-pot-ke met kiekskes.

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Feestje voor mama

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Bloemetje voor mama

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Mama,
ik stond op mijn terras dit bloemstukje te maken in de zon,
en toen ging er vanalles door mijn hoofd.
Ik dacht aan de keren dat je van niks iets moois maakte voor ons.
Hoe je niks liet verloren gaan, zelfs geen decimetertje stof.

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De schelpen deden me aan de zee denken,
en aan badderen in ons badje ...
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Drie witte rozen, voor je drie dochters.
De druppeltjes staan voor de traantjes die we allemaal wel eens lieten.
De rode roosjes voor al de goede momenten en goede herinneringen.
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De besjes voor de potjes confituur die je maakte,
lekker, maar toch liever niet van rabarber?
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Het busseltje hout voor de warme haard waar we mochten opgroeien.
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De transparante blaadjes omdat je ons altijd zo snel doorziet...
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Fijne moedertjesdag mama!
Ik hoop dat je er heel lang kan van genieten!

Raar weekje ...


Raar weekje geweest deze week, amai!
Mijn ganse week was gepland in functie van het feestje dat we hier zouden
houden voor mama haar verjaardag. Je weet wel, duizend en één dingen te doen om alles in huis te halen. Het huis aan de kant krijgen om bezoek te ontvangen, een beetje koken al voorhand, dat was de planning ...
Omdat ik de zaterdag werk was het dus wél een beetje piekeren over hoe alles best georganiseerd zou moeten worden. De tuintafel groter gemaakt,
paraplu verzet, en kijken hoe we iedereen het comfortabelste kunnen laten aanzitten. Mijn terras is nu niet zo klein, dat niet, maar we zijn toch al gauw met tien tot twaalven die hier zo tussen de bloempotten moeten gedrapeerd worden! Potten verzetten ook dus, puzzelen met de ruimte die er is ...
Dat hebben we in het begin van de week dus allemaal al gedaan.
Maar hoe verder de week vorderde, hoe warmer het werd ...
En hoe meer ik mijn hersens begon te breken over hoe het allemaal moest!

En toen kreeg ik woensdagavond van zusje Bientje een telefoontje, dat mama het feest liever in Klein Spanje laat doorgaan! Yaaay!!!
Klein Spanje, da's bij mama en papa onder de appelboom, da's véél meer ruimte, da's veel koeler, daar kunnen we tenminste wél barbequen!
Daar kunnen de kindjes naar hartelust ravotten, kortom ... perfect!

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Dus vertrekken wij vanavond naar Huisje Weltevree, blijven daar gezellig slapen, en vieren mama haar vijf en zeventigste verjaardag onder de appelboom, net zoals we vorig jaar papa zijn verjaardag gevierd hebben!

En ik? Ik had ineens zeeen van tijd op mijn vrije dag,
omdat er een hele rits dingen ineens niét meer moesten!
Bovendien was mijn ventje, die anders de ganse dag weg zou geweest zijn om te werken onverwacht ook het grootste gedeelte van de dag thuis!
Ik wist niet waar ik het had!
Zelfs tijd gehad om efkes (ontspannen) te gaan shoppen en àl!
En zélfs nog een paar leuke dingen gevonden! 't Kon niet op! Goh!
Bedankt hoor Sinte Pieter!!

Veel liever donkere donderwolken ...??

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Who is still going the pace with NaBloPoMo?

Added a reply Nov 30 2007

Two blogs IS a challenge!! How about two blogs in two different languages, huh??? Hahahaha! LOL! Read More »

Is anybody still going to blog on the Nablopomoblog after November?

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Is anybody still going to blog on the Nablopomoblog after November?

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I must have been the only one blogging from my Nablopage, I've read other discussions and I have come to the conclusion that Nablopomo is indeed a meeting place for bloggers from all over the world... Read More »

 

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Shhhhhhh.... listen... ?


Shhhhhhh ....!
Listen .... I think I just heard an enourmous sigh!
Nablopomo 2007 is over, and we've made it!
Not quite yet, I still have to post this, but still!

It was fun doing, I am very glad I joined!
I really had no idea where this was going to take me ,
felt like Chistopher Colombus, when it all started!
Or Napoleon, he was from Belgium? I think?
Hahahaha, no he wasn't Belgium did not even exist,
I'm sure he had something to do with it, thou…

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Posted by heaveninbelgium on November 30th, 2007 at 3:38am — 1 Comment (Add)
 

Three litlle sisters

The oldest sister had just celebrated her fiftieth birtday.
They had never been able to be together like three little sisters anymore since they were kids..
So the three little sisters took off to London.
They laughed, and they giggled, had coffee at Nero's
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Posted by heaveninbelgium on November 29th, 2007 at 4:04am — No Comments (Add)
 

The secret I can no longer keep ...

I have been thinking about this for days.
Worrying about it , hesitating.... ,
what if I do, and what if I don't?
I started blogging in English on this Nablopomopage.
It started out as a challenge, trying to find out if I could blog in another language than my own.
Post something every day, and meeting new friends who would read it, and maybe leave a comment or two.
I have met some very interesting people here, and now,
at the end of November, I am afraid I am…

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Posted by heaveninbelgium on November 28th, 2007 at 3:28am — 10 Comments (Add)
 

I would if I could ...

So here I am, sitting here, staring at my screen again.
Trying to find out what I want to write about,
and trying to find the right words again.
I guess I could always write about my cat, but I don't feel like it at the moment.
Nor am I in the mood to talk about Morroco,
or London for that matter.
There is an awesome story on the Laguiole knives we bought once,
during our holliday in France.
That was a real funny story, but nah .... don't feel like it.…

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Posted by heaveninbelgium on November 27th, 2007 at 4:05am — 5 Comments (Add)
 

Gig Street

Let me introduce you to our favourite jazz band, ... Gig Street.

The singer of the group is Leonard Blair, born and raised in New Orleans,
but living in France since a couple of years.
Wherever they play, the whole street starts to swing,
and when they start to improvize together, ther's no holding them back.
Playing New Orleans Jazz, out on the street, just like that.

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Posted by heaveninbelgium on November 26th, 2007 at 9:33am — 2 Comments (Add)
 

Weekly winners

Hi everybody, this is my weekly winners collection of the week!
It was a such a bad week for pictures!
The weather was horrible, no blue skies or beautiful sunsets!
No sightseeing trips either, so....

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Posted by heaveninbelgium on November 25th, 2007 at 12:06am — 9 Comments (Add)
 

Talking cats

Gosh!!! They are cute!
My cat talks to me all the time, but these two darlings.... well, they talk to each other!



And now let me introduce you to Tisja, our 14 year old talking Blue Point Tabby.
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Posted by heaveninbelgium on November 24th, 2007 at 4:09am — 4 Comments (Add)
 

The dentist, the spider and me


I had a dental appointment today.
One whole hour of torture.
It took like for ages.
There was a little spider on the ceiling.
Right there, above my head.
I could see it looking down at me.
Me, that poor human creature being tortured down there in that dentist's chair.
Spiders have no teeth. ( I think, they don't huh? )
Happy little creature, that little spider.
It moved further away, towards the window.
Bye bye, little spider!
By the time…

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Posted by heaveninbelgium on November 23rd, 2007 at 10:11am — 2 Comments (Add)
 

Happy Thanksgiving!

"Thanksgiving, it's all about family, friends and a whole lot of food, fabulous food."
That's what it says in the latest edition of Marth Stewart's magazine.
Thanks, I already knew that much!
So? Every time friends and family celebrate it IS all about food, right?
Oh, about the turkey. That too. People eat turkey at thanksgiving.
Yes, well we ( people in Europe, well ... Belgium I mean) eat turkey at Christmas, so?
Leafing through that magazine, t…

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Posted by heaveninbelgium on November 22nd, 2007 at 1:06pm — No Comments (Add)
 

Making bread ... in the old fashioned way

I got a comment on yesterdays post from Sandy,
telling me that she would like to know more on baking bread.
So I dug these slideshows out of my archives and adapted them.

The making of ....
We were in Boechout this summer where theywere doing a baking demonstration.
I had my digital camera with me, and I started to make make a few pictures.
I was timidly standing at the si…

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Posted by heaveninbelgium on November 21st, 2007 at 9:18am — 2 Comments (Add)
 

How to blog and (try to) be a domestic godess ...

Oh dear!
I find myself counting time in hours left to blog this week!
On Friday, which is my day off, I have a dental appointment (one whole hour! Brrr!), and a meeting with a friend. We already had to cancel this meeting twice,
so there's really no escape from that one either!
On Saturday I work, and on Sunday we meet the family. There's another birthday celebration (for me and my sister) at my parents house!
Which rem…

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Posted by heaveninbelgium on November 20th, 2007 at 4:22am — 4 Comments (Add)
 

Please let me know?


Ooooohhh, thank you all very very much!
I am having the time of my life here, blogging on Nablopomo!
Gosh! Getting twelve comments yesterday, awesome!
That really gives me the feeling I'm settling in here,
that I belong amongst all of you! And that sure feels good!

But there is one thing that worries me though.
I think that my computer can not count!
No, I'm not joking, I'm very serious.
You see, my archives say: November (12)
I have noticed i…

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Posted by heaveninbelgium on November 19th, 2007 at 11:11am — 3 Comments (Add)
 

Weekly winners

Hi!

This is my contribution to weekly winners for this week!

Looking back on the past week by posting pictures
is something wonderful to do on a sunday morning!
So here we go,
This one was taken early tuesday morning, just before leaving for work.
When I returned home at noon, the leaf was gone...
.... blown away by the wind.…

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Posted by heaveninbelgium on November 18th, 2007 at 1:51pm — 15 Comments (Add)
 

A dééééeeeeeelicous recipe for applepie!

Sitting at my kitchen table having coffee with the cat on my lap
is the moment of the day for me to make plans,
write things to do lists and shopping lists, and other little memo's.
There's a pile of magazines I usually never get to read,
exept for some bits and pieces here and there.
But I just cannot help myself buying them anyhow.
Leafing through them inspires me
and that's how my apple pie recipe was born.
It tasted delicious in my head, so I baked it…

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Posted by heaveninbelgium on November 17th, 2007 at 10:03am — 6 Comments (Add)
 

And the day was not over yet...

Hell no, the day was not over yet.
I'm happy to inform you all that I did get that ironing finshed after all.
That being done I congratulated myself and went right back to blogging.
After all, I did have to check my comments, didn't I?
On two different blogs, that is!
Okay, so I read a few blogs for a while,
joined a new group called women over 50.
Well, I am now after all, am I ?
I uploaded some pictures, and got bored a little.
So, I thought it would…

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Posted by heaveninbelgium on November 16th, 2007 at 11:00am — No Comments (Add)
 

I would never have seen....


Woke up this morning, I was late.
Couldn't get out of my bed when the alarm went off,
and when my husband woke me up, it was already eight o'clock.
I work from nine till twelve on thirsdays.
I got home two minutes past twelve.
Lucky me, my work is just around the corner, thank God for that!
So I got home, half of the day already gone.
And then I checked my two blogs, yep, this one ànd my homeblog.
Check…

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Posted by heaveninbelgium on November 15th, 2007 at 10:03am — 3 Comments (Add)
 

Time flies...



I could use twelve more hours every day, and still want more !
I don't know why, but time slips through my fingers like sand on a beach.
November is halfway gone, only six weeks till Christmas,
can any of you imagine that?
When I was little, days were endless.
When I reached the age of seven .... I wanted to be ten.…

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Posted by heaveninbelgium on November 14th, 2007 at 12:27pm — No Comments (Add)
 

Still the same


It hasn't changed much since I was little.
We walked to the church, my grandmother and me.

On the narrow roads between the fields,
all it was was two little chapels and a church.

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Posted by heaveninbelgium on November 13th, 2007 at 12:15pm — 2 Comments (Add)
 

Ice cream with a view

Okay, I'll admit.
I'm in this way over my head, and I was feeling just a little bit unsure.
There are two tiny litlle words glaring at me every time I visit my page here.
NO COMMENTS it says.
Gosh! No comments for the last three posts!
Gosh! I must be doing something wrong here?
I know, writing is so much harder for me than I imagined.
I'm trying to catch up with all of you girls and guys,
but I'm just a toddler on the playgr…

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Posted by heaveninbelgium on November 12th, 2007 at 10:50pm — 2 Comments (Add)
 

Apple pie and Carpe Diem ....

Today is all about cocooning and Carpe Diem.
Only doing what we want to do, and enjoying just that.
I've bought some delicious things, and they're waiting in the fridge for me to cook them.
I was having coffee this morning in my kitchen with my cat on my lap,
and I imagined a recipe for apple pie.
There's still some apples left from the garden of my parents,
and they taste like no apples ever did since I was little.
Maybe it's because my dad picked them?…

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Posted by heaveninbelgium on November 11th, 2007 at 8:32am — No Comments (Add)
 

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At 3:17pm on November 29th, 2007, Rick Ethington said…
Hey, I really believe in the power of connecting and creating a network of people across a vast spectrum of experience and location. It's nice to meet and interact with new people! Keep writing, you seem to have grown some in your english writing, since Nov first. :)
At 12:06pm on November 28th, 2007, Sandy C. said…
I love the new blog! congrats!!! I've added it to my blogroll :)
At 7:12pm on November 21st, 2007, Jennic said…
Your English is very good :D English is not my first language either.
At 9:38am on November 20th, 2007, heaveninbelgium said…
Good heavens no! It's a symbolic name for what my life is all about.
It is about creating a little bit of heaven here on earth, just by enjoying the little things in life.
It means, little house in heaven, if you really want a translation!
At 9:24am on November 20th, 2007, Jayne Jubb said…
Hemelhuisje? No.....or is that some very symbolic way of talking about the toilet?! (like 'talking to God on the great white telephone'). Or could it actually be a place :=)
At 5:12am on November 19th, 2007, L-Squared said…
Thanks! Nice to meet you too.
At 2:17am on November 19th, 2007, Secret Agent Mama said…
What a nice thing to say!! :D
At 12:36am on November 19th, 2007, Sandra Hanks Bentoiton said…
You WORK in a cheese shop? We should certainly consider some sort of a trade. I could send you some sand, I suppose, but that's not really what a beach is about, is it?
At 12:16am on November 19th, 2007, Sandra Hanks Bentoiton said…
But think about this ... we don't have any good cheese. I would trade you a day at the beach for a cheese a chocolate plate, a nice wine and some great coffee.
At 12:04am on November 19th, 2007, Sandra Hanks Bentoiton said…
That smoked eel thing looks wonderful! A couple of mentions of apple pie didn't hurt, either.

By the way, it's always green where I am ... and warm. In fact, today it's sweltering and I've had to turn the aircon on in my office. My husband took the day off and has just returned from the beach with the kids.

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