Likeasponge is about learning Dutch and making a fool of yourself learning Dutch. It's also about the odd things different cultures do and how they are only odd to an outsider.
Pollster laureate One thing that puzzles me is why only one person in the Netherlands is allowed to conduct opinion polls. Any time you hear the word peiling ? poll ? on the news, they will always tell you that Maurice de Hond did it. Is he the pollster laureate? It doesn’t help if you translate his surname [..... Wed, 23 May 2012 08:29:34
Flying the flag School is having a ‘themaweek’ next week and the subject is Great Britain. Apart from hooligans, vandals and arsonists and, at the other extreme, over-thanking and over-pleasing, and maybe at the interface of the two, vandals who say and hooligans who say sorry, I am stumped when asked t... Fri, 11 May 2012 13:47:47
Chimes of doom and inner children It was clanging chimes of doom ? to quote Band Aid’s ‘Do they know it’s Christmas’ ? here this week as the children appeared with letters announcing the avondvierdaagse (see here or here for my annual avondvierdaagse moan), although looking back at last year’s avondvier... Fri, 20 Apr 2012 07:34:20
How did she know? The other day I’d arranged to pick up Daughter’s friend from school and give her a bit of lunch. When the children’s friends come to lunch I always have minor dilemmas about accidentally cooking up something dauntingly British. This time I had already considered the hagelslag eleme... Tue, 17 Apr 2012 03:54:13
String and rope The other day Son was packing an old suitcase to go on the Titanic. The suitcase doesn’t have a handle and, after he had endeavoured to weave a new handle out of string, we decided a length of rope was what he needed. Rope being man stuff , I asked Husband if he knew where any was. This led [.... Tue, 03 Apr 2012 11:41:35
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