Yes she is!! It was a perfect day: no rain, not too cold, and good company 🙂

Somehow I missed the opening of the new week thread 😞 I just wanted to share I met Penguin yesterday 🙂 It was a lovely day, and this is us at the innergarden of Plantin Moretus Museum (Left me, right Penguin)....

It would be cheaper to send from the Netherlands, somehow Belgium Post is more expensive then the Dutch Post... 😞

I just checked the shippings: those alone will already be about 65 euros without additional custom charges, so I am not sure this will be the cheapest way for you as the Belgium Post consider this as a 'commercial activity' and I have to fill in a lot of custom forms.... I am afraid www.alibris.com wil be cheaper then me...

When dd has been born, my mom sewed a baptism dress from my weddingdress, so I don’t have the wedding dress, but I still have the baptism dress of dd. I hope that will be used in some future days.

How soon do you need it? DD has mathematics exam 29th april and it takes at least month before they publish the grades. If she passes, I'll sell LoF Trig, Calc & Stats so that could be 1 parcell. I only have no idea what the shippings are from me to you...

I set my Goodreads goal today at 104 books again. I would like to read more in English and hope to finish the Britt Tripp challenge this year.

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I read 117 books this year: https://www.goodreads.com/user_challenges/10151847 For 2019 I set my goals again on 104 books. I would like to read more in English, but I am not sure that will happen this year based on my last year experience...

@marbel @Melissa M I send you a Goodread friendship request. Although Loesje is my nickname, I use it there (and on Ravelry ) too, just for my overseas contacts.

I encourage everyone who want to join, to try. I am not every year a weekly poster, but I do read :-). A goal can also be 10 books a year ... or 2. Just how life happens.

Sounds great!!

Irvin Yalom is an author I like to read: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/909675.Irvin_D_Yalom And in Dutch quite some books are called 'Yemma', as that seems to be the word Maroccan authors use for their (older) mother. How that has been translated, and if Maroccan authors in other countries do the same I don't know.

Thank you! The song at the Scaffold is a thin book. The opera based on the play of the book has a very impressive ending in music (I think): With the Ladys Choir we sing a different song of it.

Thank you. We have no exams this month, as dd loves christmas and thinks exams are not unitable with that 🙂 The next exam will be at the end of january so we will have some breathing space. But we still have our regular lessons, as we hope to attempt German Written, Math & Science during March - June