Unsplash Some days start with so much promise! Today, the little one was at daycare for the whole day, my wife was going to be at Dutch class in the morning, where I would meet her for lunch (with the older daughter) and then the two of them would stay […]
This is my submission for the [Pay it forward Curation contest](https://steemit.com/contest/@thedarkhorse/looking-back-pay-it-forward-curation-contest-week-17-c280a606eeb7eest) run by @thedarkhorse and @pifc. Well, it appears you can trap flies (or top quality posters) with honey! I have a little contest for SBI going on weekly, and I get an interesting array of people coming to comment […]
Thanks to everyone who took part in last week’s Idioms SBI Giveaway. It was an interesting array of answers from people around the world and of different languages and countries. There were some really amazing and baffling idioms which would have been confusing to anyone who wasn’t a native of […]
Whilst @recordpool is on hiatus, I am going to continue an occasional recommendation of music from the huge canon of music history! [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=13254553) Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687) was principal composer at the court of the Sun King (Louis XIV) of France. He is famed for composing an [incredibly huge range […]
Okay… yes, I’m not such a bad gardener that I don’t know that the photo above isn’t a fruit, but it is such a nice flower that I thought I would lead with it… and then later I came back and re-read the Title, and couldn’t be bothered changing it! […]
One of the best things about The Netherlands is that, when the weather is good, you can easily bike around the place! The place is set up really well for cyclists, with many dedicated bike lanes and paths, and often it can be just as quick going by bike than […]
Whilst @recordpool is on hiatus, I am going to continue an occasional recommendation of music from the huge canon of music history! Beethoven is known as one of the greatest composers of the late Classical and early Romantic eras of Western Classical Music. He made great strides in the development […]
[Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/photos/bZXQ6zUmqkw) Steemit has a retention problem, there is no easy way to sugar coat this. I’m not going to fling numbers around as I have none, but it is a common thought that people come for the money and then see that the rewards are not matching the effort that […]
Well, it appears that @recordpool is down and out for the count at least for the time being. However, I really did enjoy bringing old and new music to the attention of others who might be interested in unusual gems from the past. Of course, it is quite hard to […]
This is my submssion for the [Pay it forward Curation contest](https://steemit.com/contest/@thedarkhorse/curation-contest-week-16-of-paying-it-forward-07820bced897est) run by @thedarkhorse and @pifc. This week, I’m making a bit of a better use of the REP 55 level cap, it meant I could keep an eye out for any bloggers that I had previously discounted as over […]