We live very close to the square on which the main part of the Brussels Christmas market takes place every year. Yesterday morning as we were walking through, we spotted some recent additions… The fountain has been drained ready for the ice rink that will be installed over it in the coming weeks, and the…
Today is a public holiday in Belgium, for All Saints Day. It’s also a significant day for us because it’s the single day between Rasmus’ old word contract and the new. Yesterday he had a Belgian contract, a Belgian phone number, a Belgian car. Tomorrow he’ll have a Luxumbourgish contract, phone, (rental) car… This whole…
Last Thursday we had some friends round for dinner and we made beef burgers and chicken apple burgers for everyone. It was not the easiest of meals to bulk-cook but it was fun, and I got to try out a new bread recipe for the burger buns. I used this recipe from Smitten Kitchen because…
We gave my niece a very traditional baptism present at the weekend: a book of bible stories for children. Oh and a Donald Duck soft toy because everyone needs Donald Duck in their life from an early age. (Did you know his name is Anders And in Danish?) Her farmor and farfar (paternal grandparents) gave her a beautiful art print of…
This is my favourite photo from the weekend at my niece’s baptism. Little babies are so precious, there is so much promise, so much potential, so much beauty in this tiny little bundle of limbs. It reminds be of the famous poem Intimations of Immortality by William Wordsworth: Our birth is but a sleep and a…
When we got married two years ago in the UK, we organised an afternoon tea party reception in the Village Hall immediately after the wedding. We were having a big party the next week in Brussels so we didn’t want anything too big or too complicated, so we planned to make most of the food…