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White Polka Dots

Posted on by Marion Driessen

My Saturday in six words:

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AT WAR WITH WHITE POLKA DOTS

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This is a tin can I found at a jumble sale years ago. As you can imagine, my attention was drawn towards the name Driessen. And since my mother’s name is Annie, I just HAD to have it.

Trying to look thoroughly uninterested I picked it up and asked how much it cost. Two euro’s. Oh yes, that tin was going to be mine! As I was about to agree, my former boyfriend dragged me to the side and insisted I should haggle about the price. Haggle? For a couple of euro’s?! No way, somebody else might take off with my treasure! If I see something I like and I think it’s worth it, I just can’t haggle. I simply pay and go home with my trophy. Which I did 😉 This tin has been adorning my cupboard ever since, together with many others.

Yesterday and today, my darlin’ V-man has been painting the walls of my living room ivory white, and as a side effect, various objects were suddenly polka dotted white. The last two walls will be English red. It will make my small room even smaller, but I don’t mind. I have been following my man around with paper towels and cleaning rags. So it was a necessity an excellent opportunity to clean the top of my cupboards. Everything was covered in tiny white paint dots. On a thin layer of dust. And spiders. Empty shells of spiders. And other unidentified carcasses. Hey, I never said I was the perfect housewife! But the walls are refreshed now and my collection of tins shines once again.

Have a clean weekend 🙂

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Skyscrapers Dressed In Japanese Colors

Posted on by Marion Driessen

Tomorrow – April 4th, 2011 – skyscrapers in seven countries will light up in the colors of the Japanse flag, to show their solidarity with Japan and its fight against the effects of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear incidents.

This initiative was taken by the Empire State Building in New York, that adopts meaningful colors each night. The managers of the American skyscraper invited iconic skyscrapers of Canada, China, Great Britain, South Korea, Malaysia and New Zealand to join this initiative.


Empire State Building May 2010 during our trip to New York

With this action, they want to create consciousness for the efforts to help Japan after the disasters. The damage has been estimated at 300 billion US dollars – 6 percent of the gross national product of Japan.

The Japanese government is considering not to rebuild residential areas that were destroyed by the earthquake and tsunami of March 11, and in stead moving the inhabitants to upland – safer -areas. There will be resistance to this mass evacuation, since many people have lived in the coastal areas all their lives.

Over twelve thousand victims, three thousand injured and fifteen thousand people still missing. In stead of only the skyscrapers dressing in red and white, the whole world should. Awareness of people in need, in pain and fear needs to become our daily concern!