Friday 18 March 2016

Time To Venture Forth ...

We haven't had any wet snow all week . No hail , either .

The shops are full of rabbit shaped buns , lamb shaped chunks of butter , chicken shaped slices of ham and chocolate-flavoured Advocaat to wash it all down with . Yes , it must be nearly Spring . Time for us all to rediscover the world .


 Sadly , most of us seemed to have missed last week's Street Fishing Leeuwarden bonanza , but never mind ... there's loads more to tempt us out this weekend .

Tomorow , a local care home has a workshop on worm hotels . There's a Freubel craft fair at the shopping center with a Shanty choir and workshops on making jewellery out of Nespresso cups  . Every village within a twenty mile radius has a jumble sale , birdwatching or birdbox making event .

There's an Archeology Day in the Historical Center with local metal detecting finds , talks galore , demonstrations on how to make mediĆ«val pottery and restore old metalwork  . Province-wide , there are klezmer concerts , brass band concerts , rockabilly bands and a nearby church has " Timeless , a tribute evening with ballads in the style of Adele "...

Despite looking like something out of  Monty Python ,


local band The Stammen will be singing covers of the Rolling Stones in a cafe ten miles up the road ... while ten miles in the other direction there's a jazzcrossover concert ( no , I don't know either ) and , on Sunday , Evensong in Easterein's Martinikerk will be sung by The Common Ladies while Bach's Mathaus Passion will be sung everywhere else .

I think I'll be going to the Archeology Day ... though the chance to see the lumberjacks singing  ' Let's Spend The Night together ' is tempting ...

4 comments:

Liz Hinds said...

I rather fancy the Nespresso jewellery and shanty choir. There's not that much to making a worm hotel, is there? Unless it's a 5* where mine was only a 2*.

Marcheline said...

You had me at "lamb shaped chunks of butter". We don't get any of that over here, nevermind chocolate advocaat! I have never even tried regular advocaat, which is surprising since it makes an appearance in "The Shining" (one of my favorite films) and "Call the Midwife" (one of my favorite BBC serieseseses). I must remedy that, and soon!

Lucille said...

You are spoilt for choice. I've only been to one ceilidh this spring and bought some regular shaped hot cross buns.

Patrick Lemke said...

Thankks great post