After Steven and I had taken my little cousin and her parents to the Sterrenwacht Limburg for the National Stargazing Days, we had promised her a private show in her garden with our ‘scope another night too. My dad, my stepmum and my aunt’s twin sister came round for this as well and luckily, we […]
The good stuff! As I said in my previous entry, we had snow in some parts of the Netherlands. Not the messy, slushy stuff. But the proper, thick 10 cm which is perfect for snowball fights – stuff. We stayed over at our friend’s house and in the morning we went for a walk […]
Ever since journalists started asking me how discovering Hanny’s Voorwerp changed my life, I’ve been writing an article about it in my head. I might never get round to actually putting it down on paper, but here’s just yet another example of something I wouldn’t have done if I hadn’t… I met my boyfriend eight […]
I’m not talking about a new Zooniverse project. We actually went on a search for (pre)dinosaur fossils last month! That’s what I’m doing here: My boyfriend Steven and one of his best friends, Roel, went to this quarry in Winterswijk before. You have to sign in with the Nederlandse Geologische Vereniging and you have to […]
I hope you had a lovely time! We did. It was the first Christmas with the boyfriend and we lived our motto: enjoying life. I even got that phrase on a necklace and I now have Bri’s latest CD! I also got cards from my students and in preparations, I labelled my little […]
