20-week Scan Tuesday, 2nd October, 2007
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We’ve just recently had our 20-week scan, and it’s a girl! Everything is going fabulously. Unlike last time, this time Helen didn’t drink as much beforehand as they told her to.
20-week Ultrasound.
I know our picture is basically indistinguishable from virtually every other ultrasound I’ve ever seen – but nevertheless I somehow can’t help feeling that in some inexpressible way this one is especially beautiful.
Helen had to fill out some forms, and they asked for “Mother’s GP.” I thought “how on Earth are we supposed to know which doctor Helen’s mother goes to?” Eventually I got the idea, but the paradigm shift was yet one more of those little shocks.
Image credits: Mike on Flickr
NL96 Te Koop Monday, 1st October, 2007
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Several friends in Delft have told us that our old house on Nieuwe Langendijk is for sale. The other day I finally searched for it online, and it’s true. In fact, it has been for sale for months now, and the price has dropped since I first looked it up (not far enough obviously).
It’s amazing to see what they’ve done to make it so much nicer than when we were there – our dreadful huisbaas wouldn’t even fix the leaky bathroom ceiling. But now I see that ridiculous divider in the kitchen has gone, and so has the old exterior window which used to separate the kitchen and living room. Presumably the strange drain under the kitchen floor has also gone – no more surprise floods.
Inside Nieuwe Langendijk 96, since we left.
But what I really liked about seeing our old place advertised online was the photo they showed of the garden. The day we left we hid a dried gourd (kalebas) that we’d grown the previous summer, behind the leaves of the grape vine, hoping someone would get a surprise when the leaves fell in the autumn. And on the far left of the photo you can see the gourd still there – not yet covered by the spring foliage!
The garden of NL96, showing our gourd still hanging on the fence, at least 6 months after we left.
I hope whoever buys the place spends a minute or two puzzling over that gourd.
Image Credit: De Witte Woning Winkel
