Blogs

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Reciprocity

Reciprocity

When trying to overcome the slug onslaught in my garden last year – or rather: when trying to come t…

Bulb field

In the name of the people

I carry a Dutch passport, as do both my parents. I was born and raised in the Netherlands. Bar the y…

Advertisement of plants in a garden centre that reads 'slugs don't like this'.

Slug ethics

There’s a slug in my garden, or more likely, lots of them, eating my dahlia. Holes in every leaf, sl…

The power of the word ‘and’

Even though I am currently not working, I am musing. A reader’s letter in the Volkskrant regarding t…

A red square (the symbol of the protests) pinned to a university sweater.

Staakt!!! Staakt!!! Staakt!!!*

If nothing else, the Netherlands – or at least some well-trained Dutch athletes – excels at relays. …

To blog or not to blog

‘The screw in the [moral] compass that allows the needle to move.’ That is the way I characterized a…