We can stay!!
A few days ago we got the happy news that we can stay in our apartment. At last, a whole year's uninterrupted contract! I am very glad that those bloody moving boxes don't have to be packed/unpacked again. The mere sight of a cardboard box makes me break out in a cold sweat these days.
Mum has been over for the weekend, enjoying the sites and sounds of the Pijp and covering herself in mud in the garden. The poor thing came over for a couple of relaxing days and ended up pulling up weeds and stamping on snails. It wasn't all hard work though, and we managed to tear her away from the flower beds to check out the UitMarkt (an outdoor arts festival with lots of 'sneak previews' of forthcoming cultural events to sample). There were some very polished performances going on, which was a marked contrast to the Albert Cuyp summer street festival we went to the weekend before. It was pretty surreal watching the local Hare Krishna band demonstrate their chanting skills whilst the local 'mad market man' danced around in his purple ski suit. He seemed very pleased with all the attention. I'm not going to make any negative comments about the music however, because I guess I'll create bad karma and come back in my next life as a one of those snails.
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