<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8' ?>
<!--  If you are running a bot please visit this policy page outlining rules you must respect. http://www.livejournal.com/bots/  -->
<rss version='2.0' xmlns:lj='http://www.livejournal.org/rss/lj/1.0/' xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' xmlns:atom10='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'>
<channel>
  <title>Gnoe</title>
  <link>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/</link>
  <description>Gnoe - LiveJournal.com</description>
  <lastBuildDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:51:07 GMT</lastBuildDate>
  <generator>LiveJournal / LiveJournal.com</generator>
  <lj:journal>gnoegnoe</lj:journal>
  <lj:journalid>916040</lj:journalid>
  <lj:journaltype>personal</lj:journaltype>
  <atom10:link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/' />
  <image>
    <url>http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/63228561/916040</url>
    <title>Gnoe</title>
    <link>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/</link>
    <width>100</width>
    <height>100</height>
  </image>

<item>
  <guid isPermaLink='true'>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/22450.html</guid>
  <pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:51:07 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Oud &amp; nieuw (moving house)</title>
  <link>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/22450.html</link>
  <description>&lt;div style=&quot;float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/66186490@N00/250789975/&quot; title=&quot;Vuurwerk, originally uploaded by Peter van Uunen&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm1.static.flickr.com/99/250789975_a1c436c319_m_d.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Zo&apos;n nieuw jaar is een mooi moment voor bezinning. Ik doe niet echt aan goede voornemens, maar heb wel besloten om te stoppen met dat gehannes met twee dezelfde blogs... Tijd voor grote schoonmaak! Ik neem afscheid van Gnoe&apos;s journal hier op livejournal. Belangrijkste reden: dat niet-leden tegenwoordig reclame te zien krijgen bij mijn blog (tot nu toe bleef het gelukkig redelijk beschaafd, &apos;Japanse meisjes&apos; is het ergste wat ik heb gezien ;) Maar in &lt;a href=&quot;http://gnoegnoe.wordpress.com&quot;&gt;Gnoe&apos;s Graasland&lt;/a&gt; heb ik bovendien meer mogelijkheden, waarmee ik jullie verder niet zal vermoeien ;) Ik moet daar nog een beetje beter indelen en opschonen, maar wees alvast welkom! Volg Gnoe&apos;s graaswerk dus voortaan in Graasland op &lt;a href=&quot;http://gnoegnoe.wordpress.com&quot;&gt;http://gnoegnoe.wordpress.com&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mijn &lt;a href=&quot;http://gnoe.livejournal.com&quot;&gt;Museumlog&lt;/a&gt; gaat trouwens voorlopig nergens heen ;)&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot; /&gt;</description>
  <comments>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/22450.html</comments>
  <lj:mood>resolute</lj:mood>
  <lj:security>public</lj:security>
  <lj:reply-count>3</lj:reply-count>
</item>
<item>
  <guid isPermaLink='true'>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/22261.html</guid>
  <pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:16:56 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Gnoe&apos;s Bookcrossing Adventures</title>
  <link>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/22261.html</link>
  <description>&lt;table&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3203/2670847191_cf86c9f5fa.jpg?v=0&quot; alt=&quot;Trouschbaum&quot; title=&quot;Trouschbaum&quot; class=&quot;reflect&quot; width=&quot;250&quot; /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;In de zomer heb ik me maar eens op Google Maps geworpen en een &lt;a href=&quot;http://tinyurl.com/GnoesBXmap&quot; title=&quot;Google map of my releases&quot;&gt;kaart&lt;/a&gt; aangemaakt voor mijn losgelaten Bookcrossingboeken. Het boek dat ik voorafgaand daaraan releaste (&lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4997911&quot;&gt;My Young Years&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) vroeg er gewoon om. Dat was namelijk in &lt;a href=&quot;http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsenborn&quot;&gt;Elsenborn&lt;/a&gt; (in de Ardennen). Ja ook al is dat dichtbij, het blijft buitenland ;) De link met deze plek is dat ik in mijn jonge jaren al eens hier in de buurt was geweest: een themarelease dus. Bovendien is de Trouschbaum, waar ik het boek achterliet, een heel oud markeringsteken. De originele boom is echter omgevallen en dit exemplaar is dus relatief &lt;em&gt;young&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ik zet al mijn boeken nu met terugwerkende kracht op de kaart - een hele klus maar ik ben er bijna! Het was leuk geweest om ook foto&apos;s toe te voegen.. alleen maakt dat een release wel heel bewerkelijk. Bovendien hoort een releasefoto meer thuis in de journal entry van het boek op mijn &lt;a href=&quot;http://gnoe.bookcrossing.com/&quot;&gt;Bookcrossing boekenplank&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3247/2671667692_013052a32b.jpg?v=0&quot; alt=&quot;My Young Years gereleast in Trouschbaum&quot; title=&quot;My Young Years gereleast in Trouschbaum&quot; class=&quot;reflect&quot; width=&quot;150&quot; /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3238/2671667490_272aa24ee9.jpg?v=0&quot; alt=&quot;See von Bütgenbach&quot; title=&quot;&quot; class=&quot;reflect&quot; width=&quot;250&quot; /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Op mijn kaart vind je ook releases onder de noemer &apos;&lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;een vreemde eend in de bijt&lt;/span&gt;&apos;. Die boeken heb ik niet zelf losgelaten maar dat heeft mijn Bookcrossing-Monopolymaatje &lt;a href=&quot;http://frakke-per.bookcrossing.com/&quot;&gt;Frakke-Per&lt;/a&gt; gedaan. Samen vormen wij het team &lt;a style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot; href=&quot;http://www.iiwi.dds.nl/bookcrossing/monopoly/deelnemerkaarten/ouwe-gnoepers.html&quot;&gt;de Ouwe gnoepers&lt;/a&gt; in het &lt;a style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot; href=&quot;http://www.iiwi.dds.nl/bookcrossing/monopoly/speelbord.htm&quot;&gt;Monopolyspel&lt;/a&gt; dat is opgezet door &lt;a href=&quot;http://iiwi.bookcrossing.com&quot;&gt;iiwi&lt;/a&gt;. We hebben met z&apos;n allen erg veel lol in dit spel!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Afijn, in Elsenborn hebben we niet alleen een boek vrijgelaten maar ook heerlijk gewandeld: 10 km rond het meer van Bütgenbach en ook zoiets op het - voor publiek eigenlijk gesloten - Kamp Elsenborn. Heerlijk stil was het daar! Hee, misschien maak ik ook wel eens een &lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;map&lt;/span&gt; met mijn wandelingen... Zou daar een handige methode voor zijn, bijvoorbeeld door gps-data in te lezen? Alsof ik nog niet genoeg te doen heb, LOL!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3295/2670846949_2447588c6a.jpg?v=0&quot; alt=&quot;Militair kamp Elsenborn&quot; title=&quot;&quot; class=&quot;reflect&quot; width=&quot;250&quot; /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description>
  <comments>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/22261.html</comments>
  <category>ardennen</category>
  <category>web2.0</category>
  <category>elsenborn</category>
  <category>bookcrossing</category>
  <category>hiking</category>
  <lj:mood>nostalgic</lj:mood>
  <lj:security>public</lj:security>
  <lj:reply-count>0</lj:reply-count>
</item>
<item>
  <guid isPermaLink='true'>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/21780.html</guid>
  <pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:05:24 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Golden Oldie readalong: The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing</title>
  <link>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/21780.html</link>
  <description>&lt;table&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.bookcrossing.com/images/journalpics/104/68/10462168.jpg?date=11/12/2008 5:35:31 AM&quot; title=&quot;book cover&quot; width=&quot;120&quot; /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;I really have to get away from this computer and do some serious reading! I had planned to join the &lt;a style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot; href=&quot;http://thegoldennotebook.org/&quot;&gt;The Golden Notebook Readalong Project&lt;/a&gt; that started yesterday, but I haven&apos;t finished my current book yet (&lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;Hitsuji o meguru bōken&lt;/span&gt;, or: &lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;A Wild Sheep Chase&lt;/span&gt; by Haruki Murakami). I don&apos;t seem to get as much reading done as I used to these days :(&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Notebook&quot;&gt;The Golden Notebook&lt;/a&gt; (by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Lessing&quot;&gt;Doris Lessing&lt;/a&gt;, of course) was an important feminist book in its day, and I guess that&apos;s how it came on my wishlist &apos;to be read someday&apos;. But I haven&apos;t really felt like it up until now (and I still don&apos;t to be honest). I&apos;m afraid it will be difficult or boring... So I made it part of my personal &lt;a href=&quot;http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/2008/05/15/&quot;&gt;2008-2009 reading challenge&lt;/a&gt;. In the &apos;readalong project&apos; seven female writers will read The Golden Notebook for the first time and blog about it. People like me can have their say on the forum. (Oops, that will get me behind the computer again ;) Well, I should at least try to read this golden oldie from a writer that won last year&apos;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2007/index.html&quot;&gt;Nobel Prize in Literature&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am very grateful to &lt;a href=&quot;http://deepswamp.bookcrossing.com/&quot;&gt;Deepswamp&lt;/a&gt; from Sweden who made my challenge possible by sending me a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/3976423&quot;&gt;bookcrossing copy&lt;/a&gt; of The Golden Notebook.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description>
  <comments>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/21780.html</comments>
  <category>doris lessing</category>
  <category>haruki murakami</category>
  <category>personal challenge</category>
  <category>reading</category>
  <category>readalong</category>
  <category>bookcrossing</category>
  <lj:mood>hyper</lj:mood>
  <lj:security>public</lj:security>
  <lj:reply-count>0</lj:reply-count>
</item>
<item>
  <guid isPermaLink='true'>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/21718.html</guid>
  <pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:41:32 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Postcrossing is FUN!</title>
  <link>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/21718.html</link>
  <description>&lt;table&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign=&quot;top&quot; align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://flickr.com/photos/31663945@N03/2988916077/&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3154/2988916077_d5c8a7deca.jpg?v=0&quot; alt=&quot;A wish come true: postcard from Japan! JP-47073 by Gnoe&amp;#39;s Postcrossing.&quot; title=&quot;&quot; class=&quot;reflect&quot; height=&quot;203&quot; width=&quot;300&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;A dream come true: my second Postcrossing postcard came from Japan! I didn&apos;t even know I could receive another one until some more of the cards I&apos;ve sent are registered. I sent a &apos;thank you&apos; to Japan in return. And it&apos;s going well because I have also received a Florida Sunset from the US. All my cards can be found on a special Flickr page for &lt;a href=&quot;http://flickr.com/photos/31663945@N03&quot;&gt;Gnoe&apos;s Postcrossing&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://flickr.com/photos/31663945@N03/2999817008/in/set-72157608509737822/&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3192/2999817008_b52b596974.jpg?v=0&quot; alt=&quot;Florida Sunset US-277467 by Gnoe&amp;#39;s Postcrossing.&quot; title=&quot;&quot; class=&quot;reflect&quot; height=&quot;300&quot; width=&quot;200&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description>
  <comments>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/21718.html</comments>
  <category>kabuki</category>
  <category>usa</category>
  <category>florida</category>
  <category>japan</category>
  <category>sunset</category>
  <category>postcrossing</category>
  <category>postcard</category>
  <category>received</category>
  <lj:security>public</lj:security>
  <lj:reply-count>0</lj:reply-count>
</item>
<item>
  <guid isPermaLink='true'>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/21483.html</guid>
  <pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:51:15 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Mmmmm matcha cake!</title>
  <link>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/21483.html</link>
  <description>&lt;table&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://flickr.com/photos/12694964@N00/3019743554/&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3179/3019743554_39948ff718.jpg?v=0&quot; alt=&quot;Homemade matcha cake&quot; title=&quot;&quot; class=&quot;reflect&quot; height=&quot;263&quot; width=&quot;350&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;Eindelijk heb ik mijn eerste &lt;a style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot; href=&quot;http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matcha&quot;&gt;matcha&lt;/a&gt;-experiment uitgevoerd! Ik wilde al heel lang iets bakken met deze groene poederthee (die eigenlijk is bedoeld voor Japanse theeceremonies), maar eerst moest ik het ergens zien te scoren en daarna een goede gelegenheid vinden om ermee aan de slag te gaan. Die deed zich voor bij onze laatste &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cinema.nl/films/459826/twin-peaks&quot;&gt;Twin Peaks&lt;/a&gt; Marathon sessie! Voor onze eerste bijeenkomst van 2 jaar geleden experimenteerden we met de originele &lt;a style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot; href=&quot;http://www.lynchnet.com/tp/tpcard07.html&quot;&gt;Twin Peaks Cherry Pie&lt;/a&gt; waarvoor we &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisco&quot;&gt;Crisco&lt;/a&gt; nodig hadden en speciale zure kersen, zodat dit een toepasselijk moment leek voor een cake met bittere groene thee en zoete witte chocolade. Loopt het water u al in de mond? :) De foto bewijst dat het bakexperiment lukte en neem maar van mij aan dat-ie ook lekker was :) Dank dus aan &lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;La Tartine Gourmande&lt;/span&gt; voor het &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.latartinegourmande.com/2007/01/18/white-chocolate-and-matcha-tea-marbled-cake-marbre-au-chocolat-blanc-et-the-vert/&quot;&gt;recept&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wat zal ik volgende keer eens proberen te maken met mijn groene poederthee? Wie het weet mag het zeggen! En er kan ook worden nagedacht over een nieuw filmproject :)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description>
  <comments>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/21483.html</comments>
  <category>tv-series</category>
  <category>kersentaart</category>
  <category>film</category>
  <category>movie</category>
  <category>twin peaks</category>
  <category>green tea</category>
  <category>matcha</category>
  <category>white chocolat</category>
  <category>baking</category>
  <category>cake</category>
  <category>cherry pie</category>
  <category>crisco</category>
  <lj:music>Priscilla, Queen of the Desert</lj:music>
  <media:title type="plain">Priscilla, Queen of the Desert</media:title>
  <lj:mood>energetic</lj:mood>
  <lj:security>public</lj:security>
  <lj:reply-count>0</lj:reply-count>
</item>
<item>
  <guid isPermaLink='true'>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/20959.html</guid>
  <pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:39:02 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>My first Postcrossing postcard!</title>
  <link>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/20959.html</link>
  <description>&lt;div style=&quot;float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/31663945@N03/2986628235/&quot; title=&quot;Picture(s) of Finland FI-397915 on Shashinjutsu&amp;#39;s Flickr-page&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3224/2986628235_bbcf60710d_m.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Picture(s) of Finland FI-397915&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/31663945@N03/2986628235/&quot;&gt;Picture(s) of Finland FI-397915&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;br /&gt; originally uploaded by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/people/31663945@N03/&quot;&gt;Gnoe&apos;s Postcrossing&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Today I received my &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.postcrossing.com/postcards/FI-397915&quot;&gt;first postcard&lt;/a&gt;! Some kind of reward for finishing my grant request (in time ;) or consolation for the bad news I got (no, that had nothing to do with my job, LOL).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, I was very glad to find it in my mailbox! Now I have to wait until the cards I sent have been registered to get another one… Postcrossing is an exercise in patience!&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot; /&gt;</description>
  <comments>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/20959.html</comments>
  <category>finland</category>
  <category>suomi</category>
  <category>postcrossing</category>
  <category>postcard</category>
  <lj:mood>grateful</lj:mood>
  <lj:security>public</lj:security>
  <lj:reply-count>0</lj:reply-count>
</item>
<item>
  <guid isPermaLink='true'>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/20401.html</guid>
  <pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:24:19 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Post about Postcrossing!</title>
  <link>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/20401.html</link>
  <description>&lt;font type=&quot;arial&quot;&gt;I heard about &lt;a style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot; href=&quot;http://www.postcrossing.com&quot; title=&quot;Postcrossing website&quot;&gt;Postcrossing&lt;/a&gt; on the Dutch &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bookcrossing.com/forum/15&quot; title=&quot;Forum website&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Bookcrossing&lt;/span&gt; forum&lt;/a&gt; a while ago, but hadn&apos;t taken much notice. Then &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.proeven.net/&quot; title=&quot;Proeven.net weblog&quot;&gt;she&lt;/a&gt; told me about it last weekend when we had our final &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098936/&quot; title=&quot;Twin Peaks on IMDb&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Twin Peaks&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; marathon... Very enthusiastically! And from today I am officially a Postcrossing &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.postcrossing.com/user/Gnoe&quot; title=&quot;My profile on Postcrossing.com&quot;&gt;member&lt;/a&gt; :) This week I will send a postcard to another postcrosser in Finland. She likes to receive cards of buildings :) Well, I like historic stuff, so hopefully this a good one to send.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3169/2955206860_db9ef9bd4e.jpg?v=0&quot; alt=&quot;De Winkel van Sinkel in 1890 by you.&quot; title=&quot;&quot; class=&quot;reflect&quot; height=&quot;354&quot; width=&quot;500&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font type=&quot;arial&quot;&gt;The building on the card still exists. It used to be a department store called Winkel van Sinkel and now it&apos;s a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dewinkelvansinkel.nl/&quot; title=&quot;Building website&quot;&gt;grand café and night club&lt;/a&gt; under the same name. In September it also houses the yearly &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmfestival.nl/&quot; title=&quot;Film Festival website&quot;&gt;Dutch Film Festival&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winkel_van_Sinkel&quot; title=&quot;Winkel van Sinkel on Wikipedia&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; will show you how the building with its caryatids looks today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The picture on the postcard is from 1890 by a unknown photographer. It is viewed from our public library. I will try to make a picture from exactly the same spot, because I am really charmed by the idea of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rephotography&quot; title=&quot;Explanation of rephotography on Wikipedia&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;rephotography&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; as is done by Mark Klett and people from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/groups/tyrrelltoday/&quot; title=&quot;Flickr group pool&quot;&gt;Tyrrell Today&lt;/a&gt; Flickr pool that make new pictures that look like the images from the &lt;a style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot; href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/sets/72157604376512011&quot; title=&quot;Digitalised Tyrrell collection&quot;&gt;Tyrrell Collection&lt;/a&gt; of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/&quot; title=&quot;Website Powerhouse Museum&quot;&gt;Powerhouse Museum&lt;/a&gt; in Sydney. See this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2008/06/30/the-commons-on-flickr-finding-the-mosman-bay-falls&quot;&gt;great post &lt;/a&gt;and you&apos;ll probably be as amazed as I am :)&lt;br /&gt;(Seb Chan of the Powerhouse Museum &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.powerhoudemuseum.com/dmsblog/&quot; title=&quot;Seb Chans weblog&quot;&gt;digital media and museums blog&lt;/a&gt; gave an inspiring talk on the Museum Congres in Groningen as well!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And all this is getting crazier by the minute: did you know there even is a &lt;a style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot; href=&quot;http://www.intwinpeaks.com/&quot; title=&quot;Twin Peaks rephotography weblog&quot;&gt;Twin Peaks rephotography project&lt;/a&gt;? :)&lt;/font&gt;</description>
  <comments>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/20401.html</comments>
  <category>photography</category>
  <category>museum</category>
  <category>twin peaks</category>
  <category>postcrossing</category>
  <category>rephotography</category>
  <category>bookcrossing</category>
  <lj:music>Saint Etienne</lj:music>
  <media:title type="plain">Saint Etienne</media:title>
  <lj:mood>excited</lj:mood>
  <lj:security>public</lj:security>
  <lj:reply-count>3</lj:reply-count>
</item>
<item>
  <guid isPermaLink='true'>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/19879.html</guid>
  <pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:04:08 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Tiny Tom (of: de smaak van het verleden)</title>
  <link>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/19879.html</link>
  <description>&lt;table&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3277/2589975578_ccdeee4db0.jpg?v=0&quot; alt=&quot;Tiny Tom in de vensterbank&quot; title=&quot;Tiny Tom in de vensterbank&quot; class=&quot;reflect&quot; height=&quot;150&quot; /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;Ik heb een &lt;a style=&quot;font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;&quot; href=&quot;http://www.mrfothergills.com.au/au/tomato-tiny-tom-6714.aspx&quot;&gt;Tiny Tom&lt;/a&gt; gescoord: een mini-tomatenplantje om van te snoepen. Pure nostalgie, want 30 jaar geleden was ik daar helemaal weg van bij onze Indische buurvouw, mevrouw Brookman. Maar ik herinner me haar vooral door de geweldige &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;groentekoekjes&lt;/span&gt; die ze maakte. Iedereen denkt aan &lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;maïskoekjes&lt;/span&gt; als ik daarover vertel, maar nee – dat waren het dus níet! Ik weet nog precies hoe ze smaakten en zou dolgraag het recept willen hebben, maar jaren speuren op internet heeft mij nog niet verdergeholpen. En zelfs de dochter van mevrouw Brookman weet niet waarover ik het heb :( Gelukkig weet mijn broer het wel, anders zou ik nog aan mezelf gaan twijfelen :) Hij at laatst gefrituurde kervel en zweert nu dat dat in de groentekoekjes moet hebben gezeten. Misschien was het een soort maïskoekjesbeslag met kervel en willekeurige kliekjes groente? De Nederlands-Indische keuken bestaat immers voor een groot deel uit koken met restjes :) Dat past dus goed bij onze hedendaagse pogingen duurzaam te leven ;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;Mevrouw Brookman: klein (&apos;tiny&apos;), jampotglazen, heugafelttegels op de keukenvloer, een &lt;a href=&quot;ttp://www.jeugdsentimenten.net/2004/10/18/de-rolveger/&quot;&gt;rolveger&lt;/a&gt; en een formica keukentrap-annex-kruk waarop ik liedjes voor haar zong. Van &lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;Tante Hetty kookt spaghetti&lt;/span&gt; en &lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;Op het eiland van Sint Maarten woont de kat met zeven staarten&lt;/span&gt;, totdat ik te zelfbewust werd om zomaar bij de buren in de keuken te gaan zitten zingen :-o&lt;br /&gt;Oei, wat is het allemaal lang geleden!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En nu ik het toch over smaken uit mijn jeugd heb... Naast groentekoekjes zou ik ook graag nog eens een &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jeugdsentimenten.net/2003/11/19/drie-musketiers-chocoladereep/&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Driemusketeersreep&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; proeven, of &apos;&lt;a style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot; href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oWF2bSZjGM&quot;&gt;Freshen-up!&lt;/a&gt;&apos;; van die vierkante kauwgompjes met een vloeibare mint- of kaneelvulling. En dat voor iemand die al 15 jaar geen kauwgom heeft aangeraakt! :) Tja, een tomaatje is nou eenmaal gezonder...&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://home.wanadoo.nl/cmgs/logimage/Brookman197512.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Mevrouw Brookman&quot; title=&quot;De enige foto die ik heb van mevrouw Brookman&quot; height=&quot;350&quot; /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description>
  <comments>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/19879.html</comments>
  <category>nostalgie</category>
  <category>tribute</category>
  <category>cooking</category>
  <category>duurzaam</category>
  <lj:mood>nostalgic</lj:mood>
  <lj:security>public</lj:security>
  <lj:reply-count>4</lj:reply-count>
</item>
<item>
  <guid isPermaLink='true'>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/19530.html</guid>
  <pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 09:47:04 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Nieuw museumbericht!</title>
  <link>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/19530.html</link>
  <description>&lt;table&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gnoe.livejournal.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2359/2103575468_14441ab1da.jpg?v=0&quot; alt=&quot;Back to school ehm.. het museum&quot; title=&quot;Back to school ehm.. het museum&quot; class=&quot;reflect&quot; height=&quot;200&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td valign=&quot;top&quot; cellspacing=&quot;4&quot;&gt;Er staat weer een nieuw bericht in mijn &lt;a href=&quot;http://gnoe.livejournal.com/&quot;&gt;Museumlog&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description>
  <comments>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/19530.html</comments>
  <category>museum</category>
  <category>blog</category>
  <lj:mood>happy</lj:mood>
  <lj:security>public</lj:security>
  <lj:reply-count>0</lj:reply-count>
</item>
<item>
  <guid isPermaLink='true'>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/19383.html</guid>
  <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:19:27 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>The Big Read</title>
  <link>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/19383.html</link>
  <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://m03m.livejournal.com/49409.html&quot;&gt;M03m mentioned&lt;/a&gt; that &lt;strong&gt;The Big Read&lt;/strong&gt; reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of a top list of 100 books. I&apos;ll take up the challenge reprinting the list in my LJ so that those people who&apos;ve read only 6 can be tracked down and forced to read &lt;i&gt;our&lt;/i&gt; favourites!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://home.wanadoo.nl/cmgs/logimage/opdrachtcloudatlas_165.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Title page of Cloud Atlas signed by author&quot; /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;The rules that I followed...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Look at the list and bold those you have read.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Italicise those you intend to read.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Underline the books you LOVE.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Reprint this list in your own LJ.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;cutid1&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;1 Pride and Prejudice&lt;br /&gt;2 &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;The Lord of the Rings&lt;/u&gt; - JRR Tolkien&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3 &lt;strong&gt;Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling&lt;br /&gt;5 &lt;em&gt;To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; part of 2008&apos;s personal challenge!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6 &lt;strong&gt;The Bible&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; most of it anyway, when I was a kid&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7 &lt;strong&gt;Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8 &lt;strong&gt;Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman&lt;br /&gt;10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens&lt;br /&gt;11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott &lt;em&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; I did read her book Eight Cousins and that was enough...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;12 Tess of the D&apos;Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy&lt;br /&gt;13 &lt;em&gt;Catch 22 - Joseph Heller&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; it&apos;s on the bookshelf so I&apos;ll probably read it someday&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;14 Complete Works of Shakespeare&lt;br /&gt;15 &lt;strong&gt;Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;16 &lt;strong&gt;The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;17 &lt;em&gt;Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;18 &lt;em&gt;Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; I&apos;ve started and stopped but plan to try it again someday&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;19 &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;The Time Traveller&apos;s Wife&lt;/u&gt; - Audrey Niffenegger&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; loved it!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;20 Middlemarch - George Eliot&lt;br /&gt;21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell&lt;br /&gt;22 &lt;strong&gt;The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens &lt;em&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; I saw the tv-series... does that count? ;)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy&lt;br /&gt;25 The Hitch Hiker&apos;s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams&lt;br /&gt;26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh &lt;em&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; again: I saw the tv-series and that&apos;s great in itself! ;)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky&lt;br /&gt;28 &lt;em&gt;Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;em&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; also part of 2008&apos;s personal challenge!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;29 &lt;strong&gt;Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame&lt;br /&gt;31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy&lt;br /&gt;32 &lt;em&gt;David Copperfield - Charles Dickens&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; because of it&apos;s role in John Irving&apos;s The Ciderhouse Rules&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis&lt;br /&gt;34 &lt;strong&gt;Emma - Jane Austen&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;35 Persuasion - Jane Austen&lt;br /&gt;36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis&lt;br /&gt;37 &lt;strong&gt;The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;38 Captain Corelli&apos;s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres&lt;br /&gt;39 &lt;em&gt;Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden  &amp;gt;&amp;gt; waiting patiently on my bookshelf...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;40 &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;Winnie the Pooh&lt;/u&gt; - AA Milne&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;41 &lt;strong&gt;Animal Farm - George Orwell&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;42 &lt;strong&gt;The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; wouldn&apos;t recommend it though!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;43 &lt;strong&gt;One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; a long, long time ago&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;44 &lt;strong&gt;A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;45 &lt;strong&gt;The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery&lt;br /&gt;47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy&lt;br /&gt;48 &lt;strong&gt;The Handmaid&apos;s Tale - Margaret Atwood&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding&lt;br /&gt;50 &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;Atonement&lt;/u&gt; - Ian McEwan&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;em&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; one of my alltime favourites!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;51 &lt;strong&gt;Life of Pi - Yann Martel&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;em&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; didn&apos;t expect much of it but was possitively surprised!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;52 Dune - Frank Herbert&lt;br /&gt;53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons&lt;br /&gt;54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen&lt;br /&gt;55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth&lt;br /&gt;56 &lt;strong&gt;The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens&lt;br /&gt;58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley&lt;br /&gt;59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon&lt;br /&gt;60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez&lt;br /&gt;61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck&lt;br /&gt;62 &lt;strong&gt;Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;em&gt;I especially recommend the audiobook read by Jeremy Irons...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;63 &lt;strong&gt;The Secret History - Donna Tartt&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;64 &lt;em&gt;The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas&lt;br /&gt;66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac&lt;br /&gt;67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy&lt;br /&gt;68 Bridget Jones&apos; Diary - Helen Fielding&lt;br /&gt;69 Midnight&apos;s Children - Salman Rushdie&lt;br /&gt;70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville&lt;br /&gt;71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens&lt;br /&gt;72 Dracula - Bram Stoker&lt;br /&gt;73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett&lt;br /&gt;74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson&lt;br /&gt;75 Ulysses - James Joyce&lt;br /&gt;76 &lt;strong&gt;The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome&lt;br /&gt;78 Germinal - Emile Zola&lt;br /&gt;79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray&lt;br /&gt;80 &lt;strong&gt;Possession - AS Byatt&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;81 &lt;strong&gt;A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;82 &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;Cloud Atlas&lt;/u&gt; - David Mitchell&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;em&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; of course: Mitchell is one of my favourite authors!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;83 &lt;strong&gt;The Color Purple - Alice Walker&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;84 &lt;em&gt;The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro  &amp;gt;&amp;gt; part of my personal 2008 challenge and already on the bookshelf&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (but saw the movie)&lt;br /&gt;86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry&lt;br /&gt;87 &lt;em&gt;Charlotte&apos;s Web - EB White&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom&lt;br /&gt;89 &lt;strong&gt;Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton&lt;br /&gt;91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad&lt;br /&gt;92 &lt;strong&gt;The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;93 &lt;strong&gt;The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;em&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; great book but to say I &lt;/em&gt;loved it&lt;em&gt; would be inappropriate...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;94 &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;Watership Down&lt;/u&gt; - Richard Adams&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;em&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; several times!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole&lt;br /&gt;96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute&lt;br /&gt;97 &lt;strong&gt;The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare&lt;br /&gt;99 &lt;strong&gt;Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That sums up to a total of 35 that I&apos;ve read. Phew, nobody will force their favourite books upon me! But... would that be such a crime?</description>
  <comments>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/19383.html</comments>
  <category>meme</category>
  <category>bookcrossing</category>
  <category>books</category>
  <lj:mood>happy</lj:mood>
  <lj:security>public</lj:security>
  <lj:reply-count>0</lj:reply-count>
</item>
<item>
  <guid isPermaLink='true'>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/19189.html</guid>
  <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:55:55 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Goldilocks</title>
  <link>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/19189.html</link>
  <description>&lt;table&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width=&quot;350&quot;&gt;Op de fiets naar werk kom ik langs deze &apos;&lt;strong&gt;Gouden Boom&lt;/strong&gt;&apos;. &lt;br /&gt;Hij lijkt licht te geven, zelfs -of juist- als de zon niet schijnt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wie weet wat het is?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;~&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Cycling to work I pass this &lt;strong&gt;Golden Tree&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;It seems to shine, even -or especially- when the sun doesn&apos;t.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who knows what type of tree it is?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3260/2589975454_358fe385f1_m.jpg&quot; width=&quot;180&quot; height=&quot;240&quot; alt=&quot;Golden tree&quot; /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description>
  <comments>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/19189.html</comments>
  <category>green fingers</category>
  <category>worldwonder</category>
  <lj:mood>amazed</lj:mood>
  <lj:security>public</lj:security>
  <lj:reply-count>0</lj:reply-count>
</item>
<item>
  <guid isPermaLink='true'>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/18819.html</guid>
  <pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 13:30:54 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Prachtige lupinen</title>
  <link>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/18819.html</link>
  <description>&lt;table&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2356/2494577248_c8f3efe666_m.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Lupinen&quot; /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td valign=&quot;top&quot; width=&quot;350&quot;&gt;Niet alleen de &lt;a href=&quot;http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/17976.html&quot; title=&quot;Previous post about clematis&quot;&gt;clematis&lt;/a&gt; staat prachtig in bloei, we zijn ook erg gelukkig met onze lupine! Nooit geweten dat één plant verschillend gekleurde bloemen kan hebben. Marvelous :)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;</description>
  <comments>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/18819.html</comments>
  <category>green fingers</category>
  <lj:mood>amazed</lj:mood>
  <lj:security>public</lj:security>
  <lj:reply-count>0</lj:reply-count>
</item>
<item>
  <guid isPermaLink='true'>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/18526.html</guid>
  <pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 10:56:42 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Personal 2008 reading challenge</title>
  <link>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/18526.html</link>
  <description>&lt;table&gt;
    &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;I &lt;a href=&quot;http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/17657.html&quot; title=&quot;Previous post about promise&quot;&gt;promised&lt;/a&gt; to write about my &lt;strong&gt;2008 reading challenge&lt;/strong&gt;. I&apos;ll do it in English because I want this post to be available to international readers.&lt;br /&gt;        &lt;br /&gt;        My challenge is to read 12 of 13 titles from the longlist of the Dutch election for &lt;strong&gt;Best Foreign Book&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;i&gt;that were already on my wishlist&lt;/i&gt;. So I will choose twelve books out of the next listing:&lt;br /&gt;        &lt;br /&gt;        &lt;strong&gt;The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;        &lt;strong&gt;The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon&lt;/strong&gt;     &lt;font size=&quot;-1&quot; color=&quot;blue&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;read&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;        &lt;strong&gt;The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;        &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/6087850&quot; title=&quot;Book journal on Bookcrossing&quot;&gt;Possession&lt;/a&gt; by A.S. Byatt&lt;/strong&gt;     &lt;font size=&quot;-1&quot; color=&quot;blue&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;read&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;        &lt;strong&gt;The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;        &lt;strong&gt;New York Trilogy by Paul Auster&lt;/strong&gt;     &lt;font size=&quot;-1&quot; color=&quot;blue&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;read&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;        &lt;strong&gt;The Sea, the sea by Iris Murdoch&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;        &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5386786&quot; title=&quot;Book journal on Bookcrossing&quot;&gt;In Patagonia&lt;/a&gt; by Bruce Chatwin&lt;/strong&gt;     &lt;font size=&quot;-1&quot; color=&quot;blue&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;read&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;        &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/3976423&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;bookjournal&quot;&gt;The Golden Notebook&lt;/a&gt; by Doris Lessing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;        &lt;strong&gt;To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;        &lt;strong&gt;Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov&lt;/strong&gt;     &lt;font size=&quot;-1&quot; color=&quot;blue&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;read&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;        &lt;strong&gt;Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;        &lt;strong&gt;The Chosen by Chaim Potok&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;        &lt;br /&gt;        Up until now I&apos;ve read three of them and handling the fourth so I&apos;m not reaching my target of one book a month ;)&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    For four successive years now I have given myself a reading challenge. It usually just presents itself to me somewhere in the first few months :) &lt;br /&gt;        &lt;br /&gt;        &lt;b&gt;2005&lt;/b&gt; really had three challenges: first to read a book from each decade from 1900 until &apos;now&apos;. In that one I succeeded :)&lt;br /&gt;        &lt;br /&gt;        1900-1909: &lt;strong&gt;Van oude mensen, de dingen, die voorbijgaan... by Louis Couperus&lt;/strong&gt; (1906)&lt;br /&gt;        1910-1919: &lt;strong&gt;Dichtertje by Nescio&lt;/strong&gt; (1917)&lt;br /&gt;        1920-1929: &lt;strong&gt;The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder&lt;/strong&gt; (1927)&lt;br /&gt;        1930-1939: &lt;strong&gt;Scoop by Evelyn Waugh&lt;/strong&gt; (1938)&lt;br /&gt;        1940-1949: &lt;strong&gt;Eens was ik een mens (Se questo è un uomo) by Primo Levi&lt;/strong&gt; (1947)&lt;br /&gt;        1950-1959: &lt;strong&gt;Het stenen bruidsbed by Harry Mulisch&lt;/strong&gt; (1959)&lt;br /&gt;        1960-1969: &lt;strong&gt;De verzamelaar (The collector) by John Fowles&lt;/strong&gt; (1963)&lt;br /&gt;        1970-1979: &lt;strong&gt;Vanonder de koperen ploert by Hans Vervoort&lt;/strong&gt; (1975)&lt;br /&gt;        1980-1989: &lt;strong&gt;Strangers by Taichi Yamada&lt;/strong&gt; (1987)&lt;br /&gt;        1990-1999: &lt;strong&gt;The Samurai&apos;s Garden by Gail Tsukiyama&lt;/strong&gt; (1995)&lt;br /&gt;        2000-2009: &lt;strong&gt;Saturday by Ian McEwan&lt;/strong&gt; (2005)&lt;br /&gt;        &lt;br /&gt;        Secondly I wanted to read a total of 15,000 pages in 2005... I failed that; with 14,767 I was just a few pages short. Thankfully I did accomplish my third mission to finish all Bookcrossing books on Mount TBR (&lt;i&gt;To Be Read&lt;/i&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;        &lt;br /&gt;        In &lt;b&gt;2006&lt;/b&gt; I read 10 books with the numbers 0-9 in their titles:&lt;br /&gt;        0 - &lt;strong&gt;Less than zero by Bret Easton Ellis&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;        1 - &lt;strong&gt;One flew over the cuckoo&apos;s nest by Ken Kesey&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;        2 - &lt;strong&gt;The man who cast two shadows by Carol O&apos;Connell&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;        3 - &lt;strong&gt;Driedaagse reis (Three day road) by Joseph Boyden / The third man by Graham Greene&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;        4 - &lt;strong&gt;The fourth hand by John Irving&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;        5 - &lt;strong&gt;Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;        6 - &lt;strong&gt;Studio Zes (Studio Sex) by Liza Marklund&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;        7 - &lt;strong&gt;Seven up by Janet Evanovich&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;        8 - &lt;strong&gt;Eight cousins by Louisa May Alcott&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;        9 - &lt;strong&gt;The ninth life of Louis Drax by Liz Jensen&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;        &lt;br /&gt;        &lt;br /&gt;        And in 2007 I managed to read all books on the &lt;strong&gt;Best Dutch Book&lt;/strong&gt; shortlist that I hadn&apos;t already read before starting the challenge. Look at this &lt;a href=&quot;http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/14122.html&quot; title=&quot;Gnoe&amp;#39;s post on 2007&amp;#39;s reading challenge&quot;&gt;earlier post&lt;/a&gt; about which books I&apos;m talking. All Dutch titles of course...&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;-1&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;This post will be edited later on to add cover pics...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/font&gt;</description>
  <comments>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/18526.html</comments>
  <category>challenge</category>
  <category>books</category>
  <lj:music>Sezen Aksu</lj:music>
  <media:title type="plain">Sezen Aksu</media:title>
  <lj:mood>determined</lj:mood>
  <lj:security>public</lj:security>
  <lj:reply-count>0</lj:reply-count>
</item>
<item>
  <guid isPermaLink='true'>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/17976.html</guid>
  <pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 09:57:03 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Clematis in volle bloei</title>
  <link>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/17976.html</link>
  <description>&lt;table&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2079/2493758713_7f2d01ea5e_m.jpg&quot; width=&quot;180&quot; height=&quot;240&quot; alt=&quot;De clematis in volle bloei&quot; /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;Iedereen kan tot drie tellen :) Zo lang heeft het &lt;a href=&quot;http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/17265.html&quot; title=&quot;Previous post about countdown&quot;&gt;wachten&lt;/a&gt; geduurd tot de clematis eergisteren in volle bloei stond.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;</description>
  <comments>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/17976.html</comments>
  <category>green fingers</category>
  <lj:mood>amused</lj:mood>
  <lj:security>public</lj:security>
  <lj:reply-count>1</lj:reply-count>
</item>
<item>
  <guid isPermaLink='true'>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/17657.html</guid>
  <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 13:53:32 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Instant karma</title>
  <link>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/17657.html</link>
  <description>&lt;table&gt;
    &lt;tr&gt;
        &lt;td&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://home.wanadoo.nl/cmgs/logimage/possessioncover.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;book cover&quot; width=&quot;100&quot; /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
        &lt;td valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;Bookcrossing is instant karma! I just received a package from Taipei, containing &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/6087850&quot; title=&quot;book journal&quot;&gt;Possession&lt;/a&gt; by A.S. Byatt&lt;/strong&gt; as RABCK (&lt;em&gt;Random Act of BookCrossing Kindness&lt;/em&gt;). Thank you so much &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/6087850&quot; title=&quot;Dauw bookshelf on Bookcrossing&quot;&gt;Dauw&lt;/a&gt;! Your kindness followed just shortly after I had sent off &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5075207&quot; title=&quot;book journal&quot;&gt;Greenwich Killing Time&lt;/a&gt; to Canada, so like I said, it seems like instant karma :)&lt;br /&gt;        &lt;br /&gt;Possession is one of the books in my personal 2008 reading challenge. I thought I had already written a post about that but it seems not. Will do - soon - but for now I redirect all who want to know about this challenge to my &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bookcrossing.com/mybookshelf/Gnoe#2007&quot; title=&quot;Gnoe&amp;#39;s 2008 challenge on Gnoe&amp;#39;s bookshelf on Bookcrossing&quot;&gt;Bookcrossing bookshelf&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;        &lt;br /&gt;        At the moment I&apos;m halfway another challenge book: &lt;strong&gt;The amazing adventures of Kavalier &amp;amp; Clay&lt;/strong&gt; (by Michael Chabon). It&apos;s great! But 639 pages thick, so it will keep me busy for a little while longer. After that I plan to read Anne Enright&apos;s The gathering because it is this month&apos;s book for my virtual book club, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.boekgrrls.nl&quot; title=&quot;Boekgrrls website&quot;&gt;Boekgrrls&lt;/a&gt;. But after that... Possession it is!&lt;/td&gt;
    &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;</description>
  <comments>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/17657.html</comments>
  <category>challenge</category>
  <category>bookcrossing</category>
  <category>books</category>
  <lj:mood>grateful</lj:mood>
  <lj:security>public</lj:security>
  <lj:reply-count>0</lj:reply-count>
</item>
<item>
  <guid isPermaLink='true'>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/17102.html</guid>
  <pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 20:05:11 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>In een groen, groen knollenland</title>
  <link>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/17102.html</link>
  <description>&lt;table&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://home.wanadoo.nl/cmgs/logimage/groente.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;plaatje van groente&quot; width=&quot;250&quot; height=&quot;250&quot; /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Oeh, spannend: we hebben ons vandaag opgegeven voor de (kleine) &lt;strong&gt;groentetas&lt;/strong&gt; van &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aardvlo.nl/&quot; title=&quot;Website Aardvlo&quot;&gt;De Aardvlo&lt;/a&gt;! Dat is een biologisch-dynamische tuinderij in Amelisweerd (dus eigenlijk Bunnik maar DOMpeople zien dat gewoon als Utrecht ;) die bijvoorbeeld ook aan de &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.veldkeuken.nl/?content=page&amp;amp;id=1&quot; title=&quot;Website De Veldkeuken&quot;&gt;Veldkeuken&lt;/a&gt; levert waarover ik vast nog wel eens zal posten. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dit is weer een stapje in onze pogingen om &lt;strong&gt;duurzaam&lt;/strong&gt; te leven en (dus) koken. Hoef ik niet meer telkens naar de &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.infotalia.com/nl/gastronomie/kalender_groenten.asp&quot; title=&quot;Groentekalender bij Infotalia&quot;&gt;groentekalender&lt;/a&gt; te kijken om te weten welke groente in welk seizoen thuishoort - op de aanbiedingen bij de supermarkt moet je daarvoor vooral &lt;i&gt;niet&lt;/i&gt; afgaan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Door een deelname-overeenkomst met &lt;strong&gt;Tuinderij de Aardvlo&lt;/strong&gt; te tekenen word je als het ware aandeelhouder in de oogst van dit jaar. Oeps, dus we zitten er ook tot en met december aan vast! Dat wordt Googelen naar recepten als ik mijn knollen niet wegkrijg ;) En ik zal zeker ook aankloppen bij de &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kookgrrls.nl/&quot; title=&quot;Website Kookgrrls&quot;&gt;Kookgrrls&lt;/a&gt;. Ik maak mij nu al zorgen om de eerste rabarber die ik zal tegenkomen... Ik gruwelde daar als kind van! Maar nu zullen we de uitdaging moeten aangaan :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Het is spannend hoe we dit gaan volhouden. Jaren terug hebben we eens een &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.odin.nl/nl/index.htm&quot; title=&quot;Odin groente- en fruitpakket&quot;&gt;Odin groentepakket&lt;/a&gt; geprobeerd maar we hielden dat niet lang vol. Het scheelt misschien dat we daarmee in de winter begonnen: het minst aantrekkelijke seizoen. Bovendien kon je de tas maar op één dag ophalen en dat is nu bij de Aardvlo wat ruimer. Ik houd jullie op de hoogte!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;</description>
  <comments>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/17102.html</comments>
  <category>utrecht</category>
  <category>duurzaam</category>
  <category>food</category>
  <lj:mood>excited</lj:mood>
  <lj:security>public</lj:security>
  <lj:reply-count>0</lj:reply-count>
</item>
<item>
  <guid isPermaLink='true'>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/16749.html</guid>
  <pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:10:10 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Berichten uit het hiernamaals van dokter Von Siebold...</title>
  <link>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/16749.html</link>
  <description>&lt;table&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Philipp von Siebold&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sieboldhuis.org/index.aspx?local=nl&amp;amp;p=Siebold&quot; title=&quot;Biografie&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Philipp Franz von Siebold&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; was de eerste buitenlandse arts die, vanaf 1823, in Japan een praktijk mocht onderhouden en de oosterse geleerden mocht onderwijzen in de westerse geneeskunde. Als arts mocht hij geen geld ontvangen maar in plaats daarvan kreeg hij vaak mooie geschenken.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3145/2453899799_e4bfee6b74_m.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Old tea plant picture on Flikr&quot; /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Japanse verzameling&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eigenlijk is Von Siebold vooral bekend door zijn onderzoek naar de Japanse flora en fauna. In 1829 werd hij Japan uitgewezen op verdenking van spionage en hij vestigde zich toen in Leiden. De Nederlanders hadden in die tijd immers als enige handelscontact met Japan, vanaf het eiland Desjima in de baai van Nagasaki. Hier vandaan werd de Japanse cultuur bestudeerd en zo kon Von Siebold nog altijd Japanse planten, dieren en voorwerpen ontvangen. Een deel van de collectie die hij opbouwde is te bezichtigen in zijn voormalige woonhuis aan het Rapenburg in Leiden: het &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sieboldhuis.org/&quot; title=&quot;Website van het SieboldHuis&quot;&gt;SieboldHuis&lt;/a&gt;. Maar ook in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.natuurinformatie.nl/get?site=nnm.dossiers&amp;amp;view=natuurdatabase.nl&amp;amp;id=i001973&quot; title=&quot;Artikel over Von Siebold bij Naturalis&quot;&gt;Naturalis&lt;/a&gt;, het &lt;a href=&quot;http://145.18.162.53:81/c8&quot; title=&quot;Door Von Siebold verzamelde planten in Nationaal Herbarium&quot;&gt;Nationaal Herbarium&lt;/a&gt; en het &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rmv.nl/&quot; title=&quot;Collectiegeschiedenis van het Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde&quot;&gt;Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde&lt;/a&gt; zijn restanten te vinden. Eigenlijk had deze post dus ook in mijn &lt;a href=&quot;http://gnoe.livejournal.com/&quot; title=&quot;Gnoe&amp;#39;s Museumlog&quot;&gt;Museumlog&lt;/a&gt; gekund ;)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;

&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Blog from the dead&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maar wisten jullie nu dat Philip von Siebold &lt;em&gt;himself&lt;/em&gt; sinds half februari een &lt;a href=&quot;http://vonsiebold.blogspot.com/&quot; title=&quot;Von Siebold weblog op basis van zijn dagboek&quot;&gt;weblog&lt;/a&gt; bijhoudt? 182 jaar na dato schrijft hij dagelijks over zijn hofreis naar Edo. Mét afbeeldingen. Misschien was hij niet alleen de eerste westerse arts in Japan maar is hij ook de eerste blogger uit het hiernamaals? Of kennen jullie nog andere(n)?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Japanse markt&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tot slot nog een tip! In 2008 en 2009 zijn er verschillende &lt;a href=&quot;&quot; title=&quot;Agenda 400 jaar handel&quot;&gt;activiteiten&lt;/a&gt; naar aanleiding van 400 jaar handelsbetrekkingen tussen Nederland en Japan. Op zondag 25 mei is er daarom van 12-17 uur een Japanse markt op het gedeelte van het Rapenburg waar in 2000 onze koningin (toepasselijk dat ik dit schrijf op Koninginnedag aangezien Beatrix verder niet vaak in mijn journal zal voorkomen), met de Japanse keizer en keizerin van het SieboldHuis naar de Hortus Botanicus wandelde. Lees er meer over bij de &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sieboldhuis.org/index.aspx?local=nl&amp;amp;p=actueel&quot; title=&quot;Actueel bij het SieboldHuis&quot;&gt;actualiteiten&lt;/a&gt; op de website van het SieboldHuis. Om 13 uur kun je daar een gratis concert bijwonen van het Dejima Ensemble, mits je je op tijd hebt opgegeven. Ik ben zelf wel van plan om te gaan want ik wil graag nog eens naar de &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hortus.leidenuniv.nl/index.php3?c=9&quot; title=&quot;beschrijving herdenkingstuin&quot;&gt;Von Siebold herdenkingstuin&lt;/a&gt; in de hortus en ik moet voor 22 juni in het SieboldHuis ook nog de tentoonstelling &lt;em&gt;Kyoto dolls: zoektocht door de leefwereld van de geisha&lt;/em&gt; bezoeken (zoals gemeld op mijn lijstje te bezoeken tentoonstellingen).&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;</description>
  <comments>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/16749.html</comments>
  <category>museum</category>
  <category>japan</category>
  <lj:music>Almost blue ~ Elvis Costello</lj:music>
  <media:title type="plain">Almost blue ~ Elvis Costello</media:title>
  <lj:mood>happy</lj:mood>
  <lj:security>public</lj:security>
  <lj:reply-count>0</lj:reply-count>
</item>
<item>
  <guid isPermaLink='true'>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/16476.html</guid>
  <pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:54:00 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Hollandse Hanami</title>
  <link>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/16476.html</link>
  <description>&lt;table&gt;&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td rowspan=&quot;3&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3157/2445010849_b7e7631076.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;witte bloesem&quot; /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td rowspan=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Sakura-feest&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gisteren hebben wij hier ons eigen &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanami&quot; title=&quot;Hanami explained on Wikipedia&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hanami&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; gevierd: het feest van het &apos;bloesem kijken&apos;. In Japan wordt dat jaarlijks gevierd als de kersenbloesem bloeit. Wanneer dat moment precies is (eind maart-begin april), wordt nauwlettend in de gaten gehouden via speciale &lt;em&gt;sakura&lt;/em&gt;-voorspellingen na het weerbericht en op websites. Als het zo ver is trekt heel Japan naar buiten om met vrienden en familie of collega&apos;s te picknicken onder de kersenbloesem. De bloesem is maar kort op zijn top en staat daarom symbool voor de vergankelijkheid van de schoonheid en het leven.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Genji&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Het bloesemkijkfeest werd voor het eerst genoemd in de oudste roman van Japan &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Genji monogatari&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tale_of_Genji&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Tale of Genji&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;), van Murasaki Shikibu, ongeveer uit het jaar 1000. Een groot deel van dit (superdikke) boek heb ik in 2005 gelezen en daar ben ik blij om want ik herken daardoor veel in modernere Japanse literatuur, zoals boeken van &lt;strong&gt;Haruki Murakami&lt;/strong&gt; of &lt;strong&gt;Taichi Yamada&lt;/strong&gt; (welke auteurs ik graag lees). Maar dit terzijde.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Hanami&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wij hebben de mazzel dat we in een groene wijk van Utrecht wonen en omringd zijn door bloesembomen. Helaas zijn er afgelopen jaar een paar gekapt vanwege bomenziekte, maar daarvoor zijn andere (kleinere roze) in de plaats gekomen. We keken dus vol verwachting uit naar het moment dat alles hier in volle bloei zou staan. En deze week is het zo ver! Wat heerlijk dus dat we dit weekend mooi weer hebben, zodat we een Hollandse Hanami konden vieren in het park. Dat moest wel een beetje in Japanse stijl, dus met toepasselijke gerechten in de kleuren van kersenbloesem (roze en wit, groen voor het blad en bruin van de stam).&lt;/td&gt;

&lt;td&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2126/2445011181_b2c3f01b16_m.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;roze bloesem&quot; /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3065/2445010933_8a7bff0713_m.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alles voor de picknick&quot; /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2178/2445838618_296525132c_m.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;de picknick&quot; /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;h2&gt;De picknick&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Om te beginnen hebben we het traditionele &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dango&quot; title=&quot;Dango on Wikipedia, including picture of Hanami dango&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;dango&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; gemaakt, gestoomde balletjes van rijstemeel, kersensmaak en teriyakisaus. We hadden het nog nooit gegeten en wisten dus niet wat we daarvan konden verwachten. Ehm, hoewel ze naar ons idee wel zijn gelukt vonden we het eigenlijk niet te eten :\ De roze leken op grote hompen supertaaie kauwgom! Brrr, niet opgegeten dus. Tja, ieder bakavontuur kan mislukken. En gelukkig hadden we nog andere lekkere dingen!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Heerlijke Hollandse frambozen, de &lt;a href=&quot;http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/16212.html&quot; title=&quot;Gnoe&amp;#39;s post over Cakejes met een zwarte kont&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;black bottom cupcakes&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (ze smaken nog prima als ze uit de vriezer komen :), edamame oftewel gekookte sojabonen in de peul met zeezout (yummy), wasabi-erwtjes en sojacrackers, en Aziatische Sky Flakes toastjes voor de paddestoelen-cashewnotenpaté, een recept met &lt;em&gt;silken tofu&lt;/em&gt; dat we een aantal jaren terug in Toronto hebben gescoord.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Te drinken hadden we genmaicha thee en prosecco wijn met biologisch zwarte-bessensap, een soort kir royale dus :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Komende week komt er weer regen en wind, dus dan zal alle bloesem wel snel weg of lelijk zijn. Wat een geluk dat wij er nu volop van hebben genoten!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;</description>
  <comments>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/16476.html</comments>
  <category>hanami</category>
  <category>bento</category>
  <category>baking</category>
  <category>food</category>
  <category>spring</category>
  <category>picknick</category>
  <category>books</category>
  <lj:music>iTunes playlist met liedjes over bekende mensen</lj:music>
  <media:title type="plain">iTunes playlist met liedjes over bekende mensen</media:title>
  <lj:mood>relaxed</lj:mood>
  <lj:security>public</lj:security>
  <lj:reply-count>0</lj:reply-count>
</item>
<item>
  <guid isPermaLink='true'>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/16212.html</guid>
  <pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:22:00 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Cakejes met een zwarte kont</title>
  <link>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/16212.html</link>
  <description>&lt;table&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2248/2435790107_ae61f7d43e_m.jpg&quot; width=&quot;240&quot; height=&quot;180&quot; alt=&quot;Chocolate cream cheese cupcakes&quot; /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign=&quot;top&quot; cellspacing=&quot;20&quot;&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Black bottom cupcakes&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Om niet teveel met mijn neus achter een beeldscherm of in een boek te zitten, probeer ik ook wel eens andere hobby&apos;s uit. Zoals tuinieren (op het balkon), of bakken. En aangezien ik al een poosje mijn zinnen had gezet op deze &lt;a href=&quot;http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Black-Bottom-Cupcakes-I/Detail.aspx&quot; title=&quot;Cakerecept op allrecipes.com&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;black bottom cupcakes&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, werd het vandaag cakejes bakken. Het handige van &lt;a href=&quot;http://allrecipes.com/&quot; title=&quot;Website allrecipes.com&quot;&gt;allrecipes.com&lt;/a&gt; is dat je de Amerikaanse hoeveelheden met één druk op de knop kunt omzetten naar Nederlandse. Alleen in de beschrijving moet je dan even opletten. Maar oorspronkelijk was ik als een blok voor dit recept gevallen op het blog &lt;a href=&quot;http://culinarilyobsessed.blogspot.com/2007/12/blackbottom-goodness.html&quot; title=&quot;Culinary Obsessed&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Culinary Obsessed&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ik heb de tip van &apos;jworth&apos; op allrecipes opgevolgd en in plaats van water koffie gebruikt die ik van instant espresso maakte (Nescafé). Ook nam ik frambozenazijn in plaats van witte of appelazijn (beide had ik niet in huis) en heb ik gewoon chocolade in brokjes gehakt in plaats van &lt;em&gt;chocolate chips&lt;/em&gt;. Daarvoor nam ik wel een reep met minstens 77% cacao.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;

&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Cakevormpjes&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Het mooie was dat ik meteen mijn nieuwe hartvormpjes kon uitproberen (gekocht bij de Hema). En eigenlijk zijn die nog het beste gelukt! Nu is het zo dat je de siliconenvorm de eerste keer moet invetten en daarna niet meer. Argwanend als ik ben, wil ik dus eerst een tweede proefsessie uitvoeren voordat ik op grote schaal siliconenvormen ga inslaan. Maar bij een nieuw succes ga ik dat dus zeker doen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De andere cakejes heb ik nu met gewone metalen muffinvormen gemaakt, maar daarin wel papieren cakevormpjes gezet. Dat scheelt afwas, we hebben namelijk geen afwasmachine! En het staat ook leuker - deze &lt;em&gt;cups&lt;/em&gt; zijn wederom van de Hema, daar hebben ze nu eenmaal schattig spul (&lt;em&gt;kawaii!&lt;/em&gt; in het Japans).&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign=&quot;top&quot; cellspacing=&quot;20&quot;&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Zwarte kontjes&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wel, de cakejes waren heerlijk! Mooi donker van alle kanten en niet aangebrand, wat de titel misschien doet vermoeden ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ik heb een deel ingevroren (als ik alles ineens zou moeten opeten dan kregen we hier Amerikaanse taferelen qua taille-omvang), en ik ben benieuwd of die na ontdooien nog net zo goed smaken. Maar ik heb daar goede hoop op want ze waren de volgende dag misschien wel lekkerder dan toen ze warm uit de oven kwamen..!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2112/2435790389_77496fe16b_m.jpg&quot; width=&quot;180&quot; height=&quot;240&quot; alt=&quot;Hearts for a friend&quot; /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;</description>
  <comments>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/16212.html</comments>
  <category>baking</category>
  <category>food</category>
  <lj:mood>content</lj:mood>
  <lj:security>public</lj:security>
  <lj:reply-count>1</lj:reply-count>
</item>
<item>
  <guid isPermaLink='true'>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/15836.html</guid>
  <pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:32:46 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Wandelgrrls hiking from Rhenen to Veenendaal-West</title>
  <link>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/15836.html</link>
  <description>&lt;table&gt;&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/12694964@N00/2373189655/&quot; title=&quot;De Wandelgrrls doen NS-wandeling Elsterberg by shashinjutsu, on Flickr&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2152/2373189655_1fc2c90987_m.jpg&quot; width=&quot;240&quot; height=&quot;180&quot; alt=&quot;De Wandelgrrls doen NS-wandeling Elsterberg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Yesterday the Wandelgrrls took advantage of the fine weather and walked the &lt;strong&gt;NS-wandeling &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ns.nl/servlet/Satellite?cid=1086970332120&amp;amp;pagename=www.ns.nl/Tocht/TochtDetail&amp;amp;p=1069240372056&amp;amp;c=Tocht&quot; title=&quot;Description of, and possibility to download hike&quot;&gt;Elsterberg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (from Rhenen to Veenendaal-West). We had planned to do just 11 kilometers but when we got to the one and only bus-stop on the route, we really didn&apos;t feel like going home yet! So we decided to go all the way to Veenendaal-West (17,5 km in total). But first we had to take a break...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Luckily we were only a few meters from hostel Stay Okay Elst :) Although it only has catering facility for guests, the personnel was friendly enough to give our little group a cup of coffee and some peanut cookies :)) Thumbs up for Stay Okay Elst!&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3052/2374027762_de51416342_m.jpg&quot; height=&quot;180&quot; alt=&quot;De wandelgrrls blubberen richting Veenendaal-West&quot; /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;

&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;3&quot;&gt;And this might be a good moment to give some handy information to hikers who *do* want to stop after 11 km and want to check bus &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.http://www.9292ov.nl/&quot; title=&quot;OV-reisinfo&quot;&gt;departure times&lt;/a&gt; in advance (like we had wanted to but not been able to): the stop is called &apos;Eikelkamp&apos; in Elst. But you should consider that the last part of this hike is the most beautiful... We even saw a small deer but it was too shy to be photographed ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So we had a great afternoon. Because of last week&apos;s rain there was one difficult part where we had to manoeuvre our way through some slush. But thankfully none of us got wet feet :) It&apos;s a pity I cleaned my shoes this morning otherwise I could have made a picture of their horrible appearance ;)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;</description>
  <comments>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/15836.html</comments>
  <category>grrls</category>
  <category>hiking</category>
  <lj:mood>accomplished</lj:mood>
  <lj:security>public</lj:security>
  <lj:reply-count>1</lj:reply-count>
</item>
<item>
  <guid isPermaLink='true'>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/15211.html</guid>
  <pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:02:40 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Anniversary hike ;)</title>
  <link>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/15211.html</link>
  <description>&lt;div style=&quot;width:100%&quot;&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;float:left; width:20%;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://home.wanadoo.nl/cmgs/logimage/Utrechtpad10.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;float:right; width:80%;&quot;&gt;Last week my brother and I walked our tenth part of the Utrecht Path, from Amersfoort to the north of Baarn (14.6 kilometers - first time I&apos;ve used our gps LOL). It was quite cold and we didn&apos;t meet any fellow hikers, although it was nice walking weather anyway. People were probably put off because there wasn&apos;t any sun, like the days before that. We enjoyed the real Dutch landscape too, which was mostly polder land.&lt;/p&gt; 

&lt;p style=&quot;float:right; width:80%;&quot;&gt;We calculated that we have just four more walks to go and then our Utrecht Path project will be finished! It&apos;s been such a success that we decided to find a follow-up hiking project. We will probably choose the &apos;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wandelnet.nl/routes/streekpaden.asp?type=2&amp;amp;route=37&quot; title=&quot;Hike info on LAW website&quot;&gt;Groene Hart Pad&lt;/a&gt;&apos; (192 km, that&apos;s thirty more than our Utrecht Path), because it&apos;s another &apos;circle walk&apos; and it leads us through the area that we grew up in. We&apos;re nostalgic people ;)&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;</description>
  <comments>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/15211.html</comments>
  <category>utrechtpad</category>
  <category>hiking</category>
  <lj:music>New School ~ Neil &amp; Iraiza</lj:music>
  <media:title type="plain">New School ~ Neil &amp; Iraiza</media:title>
  <lj:mood>sick</lj:mood>
  <lj:security>public</lj:security>
  <lj:reply-count>0</lj:reply-count>
</item>
<item>
  <guid isPermaLink='true'>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/14726.html</guid>
  <pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:17:48 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Gnoe&apos;s reading in 2007</title>
  <link>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/14726.html</link>
  <description>&lt;font color=&quot;#831782&quot; size=&quot;+1&quot;&gt;Books I&apos;ve read in 2007...&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5040633&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;naar journal&quot;&gt;Rosalie Niemand&lt;/a&gt;, Elisabeth Marain (stopped reading)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5319839&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;The Geographer&apos;s Library&lt;/a&gt; *ring*, Jon Fasman&lt;br /&gt;Poppy Shakespeare, Clare Allen&lt;br /&gt;Max Havelaar, Multatuli&lt;br /&gt;Publieke werken, Thomas Rosenboom&lt;br /&gt;Dance with death, Barbara Nadel &lt;br /&gt;The Road, Cormac McCarthy&lt;br /&gt;Arthur &amp; George, Julian Barnes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/339657&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Narziss en Goldmund&lt;/a&gt; (en andere verhalen) *slow ray*, Hermann Hesse (stopped reading)&lt;br /&gt;Het huis van de moskee, Kader Abdolah&lt;br /&gt;Het Bureau (deel 1): Meneer Beerta, J.J. Voskuil&lt;br /&gt;The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks&lt;br /&gt;De brug, Geert Mak&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5484617&quot; target=&quot;_blank&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;De ontdekking van de hemel&lt;/a&gt;, Harry Mulisch&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5040572&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;En dan zou jij zeggen&lt;/a&gt;, Elisabeth Keesing&lt;br /&gt;Never let me go, Kazuo Ishiguro&lt;br /&gt;The shape of snakes, Minette Walters&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5075207&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Greenwich Killing Time&lt;/a&gt;, Kinky Friedman&lt;br /&gt;Het zijn net mensen, Joris Luyendijk&lt;br /&gt;De lijfarts, Maria Stahlie&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5024795&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;A cool million&lt;/a&gt;, Nathanael West&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4814261&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Het geheim van de krokodil&lt;/a&gt;, Alexander McCall Smith&lt;br /&gt;De grote bocht, Peter Delpeut&lt;br /&gt;Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami&lt;br /&gt;De uitvreter, Nescio&lt;br /&gt;The inheritance of loss, Kiran Desai&lt;br /&gt;Nooit meer slapen, W.F. Hermans&lt;br /&gt;Helpless, Barbara Gowdy&lt;br /&gt;Heden mosselen, morgen gij (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4985689&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;kort verhaal&lt;/a&gt;), Hans Vervoort&lt;br /&gt;Gods ingewanden (&lt;em&gt;Métaphysique des tubes&lt;/em&gt;), Amélie Nothomb&lt;br /&gt;Een heel huis vol, Boudewijn Büch&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4740572&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Everyman&lt;/a&gt;, Philip Roth&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4514288&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Bougainville&lt;/a&gt;, F. Springer &lt;em&gt;(thank you for this RABCK to Linniepinnie!)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Black dogs, Ian McEwan&lt;br /&gt;Een stoomfluit midden in de nacht (&lt;em&gt;Yonaka no kiteki ni tsuite&lt;/em&gt;), Haruki Murakami &lt;em&gt;(with special thanks to maupi!!!)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De Donkere Kamer van Damokles, W.F. Hermans&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/3530579&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Met angst en beven&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Stupeur et tremblements&lt;/em&gt;, ring), Amélie Nothomb&lt;br /&gt;A place of hiding, Elizabeth George&lt;br /&gt;Death in holy order, P.D. James&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5042832&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Asta&apos;s book&lt;/a&gt;, Barbara Vine&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4541922&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;In the country of men&lt;/a&gt;, Hisham Matar&lt;br /&gt;In search of the distant voice, Taichi Yamada&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;2007&quot;&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#831782&quot; size=&quot;+1&quot;&gt;Personal challenge for 2007&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#FF00FF&quot; size=&quot;+1&quot;&gt;YES!&lt;/font&gt; On the 3rd of December I&apos;ve accomplished my personal challenge to read all books of the Best Dutch Book shortlist that I hadn&apos;t already read!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Look at this &lt;a href=&quot;http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/14122.html&quot; title=&quot;challenge post&quot;&gt;earlier post&lt;/a&gt; to view bookcovers :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#831782&quot;&gt;✓&lt;/font&gt; Het huis van de moskee, Kader Abdolah &lt;font size=&quot;-2&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;PC&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#831782&quot;&gt;✓&lt;/font&gt; De Donkere Kamer van Damocles, W.F. Hermans &lt;font size=&quot;-2&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;PC of Maaike&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#831782&quot;&gt;✓&lt;/font&gt; Nooit Meer Slapen, W.F. Hermans &lt;font size=&quot;-2&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;PC of BX-er wolfram-nl&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#831782&quot;&gt;✓&lt;/font&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5484617&quot; target=&quot;_blank&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;De ontdekking van de hemel&lt;/a&gt;, Harry Mulisch &lt;font size=&quot;-2&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;BX-copy&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#831782&quot;&gt;✓&lt;/font&gt; Max Havelaar, Multatuli &lt;font size=&quot;-2&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;PC&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#831782&quot;&gt;✓&lt;/font&gt; De uitvreter, Nescio &lt;font size=&quot;-2&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;PC of BX-er nokawa&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#831782&quot;&gt;✓&lt;/font&gt; Publieke werken, Thomas Rosenboom &lt;font size=&quot;-2&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;PC of Maaike&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#831782&quot;&gt;✓&lt;/font&gt; Het Bureau, J.J. Voskuil &lt;font size=&quot;-2&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;PC of BX-er wolfram-nl&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;-2&quot;&gt;Books on the shortlist that I had already read before this challenge started:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Hersenschimmen, J. Bernlef &lt;br /&gt;Titaantjes/Dichtertje, Nescio&lt;br /&gt;De avonden, Gerard Reve&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With this challenge I was participating in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bookcrossing.com/forum/6/4711817/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;The SIY (Set It Yourself) Challenge&lt;/a&gt;. Ibis3 has made us a nice &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.readerofthestack.com/siy-challenge.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;challenge page&lt;/a&gt;. I am not sure if I would have been able to accomplish my goals for 2007 without participating in the challenge!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#831782&quot; size=&quot;+1&quot;&gt;Special rings and challenges I have participated in...&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Special rings &amp; rays&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4952791&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;De Bookcrossing theedoos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bookcrossing.com/journal/2712052&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Het Nederlandse BookCrossers Kattenjournaal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Challenges&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bookcrossing.com/forum/15/3991888&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Breng wat kleur in de wereld in januari!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bookcrossing.com/forum/15/4324570&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;De Nederlandse Release Challenge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bookcrossing.com/forum/23/3722117&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Movie Books Release Challenge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bookcrossing.com/forum/15/4379417&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Four Seasons Release Challenge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bookcrossing.com/forum/23/4231541&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;2007 History Challenge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bookcrossing.com/forum/23/4505453&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&apos;Words to Release By&apos; Challenge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bookcrossing.com/forum/6/4711817/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;The SIY (Set It Yourself) Challenge&lt;/a&gt;, 1st and 2nd edition. You can also find them at Ibis3&apos;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://bcreadalong.blogspot.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;readalong blog&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bookcrossing.com/forum/23/4556566/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Hiroshima Anniversary Peace Challenge&lt;/a&gt;.</description>
  <comments>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/14726.html</comments>
  <category>challenge</category>
  <category>bookcrossing</category>
  <category>books</category>
  <lj:security>public</lj:security>
  <lj:reply-count>0</lj:reply-count>
</item>
<item>
  <guid isPermaLink='true'>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/14435.html</guid>
  <pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:56:45 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>November bento&apos;s</title>
  <link>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/14435.html</link>
  <description>OMG I have this big bento backlog again! Of course our computer broke down (I won&apos;t tell you about the terrible service Apple gave us), but that&apos;s not really an excuse is it?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, I&apos;ll start off with bento #36: my &lt;strong&gt;Royal bento&lt;/strong&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;You might wonder why this bento is called &apos;royal&apos; since it&apos;s not particularly rich, nor are there any crown jewels on view. But it &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; contain a lot of orange stuff and Oranje (= orange) is our royal family&apos;s family name ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maybe you&apos;ll also notice that this bento is quite low on carbs. That&apos;s because I also brought two sandwiches. And since I always do that I will have to try to keep my bento&apos;s this way. But it&apos;s not easy!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/12694964@N00/2103667796/&quot; title=&quot;Royal bento 36 on Flickr&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2353/2103667796_babe11b521.jpg&quot; width=&quot;300&quot; height=&quot;400&quot; alt=&quot;Royal bento 36&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What Friday 23th November&apos;s bento contained...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Nigella&apos;s sticky chocolate pudding! (&lt;em&gt;yummy!&lt;/em&gt; GREAT recipe!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;cherry tomatoes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;radishes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;chives&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;star cress&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;pumpkin cheese stars&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;cucumber stars and leftover pieces&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;water cress&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;black olives in half an orange sweet bite&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;dressing and humus in containers&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;almost hiding is a laughing cow cheese wedge&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;completely hiding is an (orange ;) carrot&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;apple on the side&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the pudding hadn&apos;t been there I could have said this was a very healthy bento ;)&lt;br /&gt;No need to tell you I really enjoyed it :))&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;cutid1&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/12694964@N00/2103667610/&quot; title=&quot;&amp;#39;Mexican&amp;#39; bento 34 by shashinjutsu, on Flickr&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2354/2103667610_c7e3cb14fe_t.jpg&quot; width=&quot;100&quot; height=&quot;91&quot; alt=&quot;&amp;#39;Mexican&amp;#39; bento 34&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/12694964@N00/2103667724/&quot; title=&quot;Quick Indonesian bento 35 by shashinjutsu, on Flickr&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2380/2103667724_d16cf8896e_t.jpg&quot; width=&quot;83&quot; height=&quot;100&quot; alt=&quot;Quick Indonesian bento 35&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/12694964@N00/2103667844/&quot; title=&quot;Bento 37 by shashinjutsu, on Flickr&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2398/2103667844_9da8359b54_t.jpg&quot; width=&quot;77&quot; height=&quot;100&quot; alt=&quot;Bento 37&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/12694964@N00/2103667894/&quot; title=&quot;Herbivore bento 38 by shashinjutsu, on Flickr&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2299/2103667894_71a70d775f_t.jpg&quot; width=&quot;100&quot; height=&quot;75&quot; alt=&quot;Herbivore bento 38&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/12694964@N00/2102889745/&quot; title=&quot;Bento 39 by shashinjutsu, on Flickr&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2244/2102889745_198308f022_t.jpg&quot; width=&quot;100&quot; height=&quot;75&quot; alt=&quot;Bento 39&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Click on the thumbs to see larger images and their descriptions on Flickr.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are no December bento&apos;s yet... Next one will be #40!</description>
  <comments>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/14435.html</comments>
  <category>bento</category>
  <category>food</category>
  <lj:music>Hallo Spaceboy (12&quot; PSB remix) ~ David Bowie</lj:music>
  <media:title type="plain">Hallo Spaceboy (12&quot; PSB remix) ~ David Bowie</media:title>
  <lj:mood>content</lj:mood>
  <lj:security>public</lj:security>
  <lj:reply-count>0</lj:reply-count>
</item>
<item>
  <guid isPermaLink='true'>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/14122.html</guid>
  <pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2007 14:51:12 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Personal reading challenge 2007</title>
  <link>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/14122.html</link>
  <description>This year&apos;s personal reading challenge is to read all books on the Best Dutch Book (ever) shortlist that I haven&apos;t read yet. The election took place in March this year but the original website has unfortunately been deleted (already!) so there&apos;s no link to provide you with. Here&apos;s the list:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:GnaceAT-vlg9qM:http://www.kb.nl/dichters/bernlef/images/fd1985_1587.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;cover Hersenschimmen&quot; /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:YwNpQVcSKJ50zM:http://www.covercards.nl/upload_images/bc-20061205154417.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;cover Huis van de moskee&quot; /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:JVtv-1Qghd6aXM:http://www.derecensent.nl/images/hermans_kaft.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;cover Donkere kamer van Damocles&quot; /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:pQAM9UJK1tE8bM:http://www.recensieweb.nl/images/bookcovers/9023436652.gif&quot; alt=&quot;cover Nooit meer slapen&quot; /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:fIVXydx7IuXU0M:http://home.deds.nl/~mulisch/omslagen/hemel1_s.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;cover Ontdekking van de hemel&quot; /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://home.wanadoo.nl/cmgs/logimage/multatuli9789020405583.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;cover Max Havelaar&quot; /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:3gO1PYejdIKZHM:http://images.vpro.nl/img.db%3F30210129%2Bs(150)&quot; alt=&quot;cover De uitvreter&quot; /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:-90WHAgmc6-XSM:http://www.griffioen-grafiek.nl/swarte/Titaantjes.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;cover Titaantjes&quot; /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://home.wanadoo.nl/cmgs/logimage/dichtertje.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;cover Dichtertje&quot; /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://home.wanadoo.nl/cmgs/logimage/rosenboom9021476304.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;cover Publieke werken&quot; /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:kT5R5MR_XwBapM:http://www.recensieweb.nl/images/bookcovers/9028209514.gif&quot; alt=&quot;cover Het Bureau: meneer Beerta&quot; /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://home.wanadoo.nl/cmgs/logimage/reve9023424336.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;cover De avonden&quot; /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hersenschimmen&lt;/em&gt;, J. Bernlef&lt;br /&gt;Het huis van de moskee, Kader Abdolah&lt;br /&gt;De Donkere Kamer van Damocles, W.F. Hermans&lt;br /&gt;Nooit Meer Slapen, W.F. Hermans&lt;br /&gt;De ontdekking van de hemel, Harry Mulisch&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Max Havelaar&lt;/strong&gt;, Multatuli&lt;br /&gt;De uitvreter/&lt;em&gt;Titaantjes&lt;/em&gt;/&lt;em&gt;Dichtertje&lt;/em&gt;, Nescio&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Publieke werken&lt;/strong&gt;, Thomas Rosenboom&lt;br /&gt;Het Bureau, J.J. Voskuil&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;De avonden&lt;/em&gt;, Gerard Reve&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Titles in italic I had &lt;em&gt;already read&lt;/em&gt; before I started this challenge, bold titles are still &lt;strong&gt;to be read&lt;/strong&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The real contest was between Kader Abdolah and Harry Mulisch, and Mulisch finally won. It&apos;s interesting that an immigrant came so close to winning the prize for Best Dutch Book ever!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am now reading Publieke werken so I should be able to finish my challenge before the end of 2007. But because I had left some of the thicker books until last and I didn&apos;t feel much like picking them up, I am participating in an international &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bookcrossing.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;Bookcrossing&lt;/a&gt; challenge: the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.readerofthestack.com/siy-challenge.html&quot; target=&quot;blank&quot;&gt;SIY (Set It Yourself) challenge&lt;/a&gt;. It helps motivate to complete my challenge - I don&apos;t think I would have managed otherwise!</description>
  <comments>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/14122.html</comments>
  <category>challenge</category>
  <category>bookcrossing</category>
  <category>books</category>
  <lj:mood>tired</lj:mood>
  <lj:security>public</lj:security>
  <lj:reply-count>0</lj:reply-count>
</item>
<item>
  <guid isPermaLink='true'>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/14075.html</guid>
  <pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2007 14:04:36 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Moving makes hungry (bento&apos;s 32 and 33)</title>
  <link>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/14075.html</link>
  <description>Thursday and Friday were moving days in the office. For me, Friday was the first day at the new office. I brought a bento with side dishes since I didn&apos;t know yet how hungry I would be from all the hard labour, nor if I would be able to get any food around the building (it&apos;s not located near town anymore). But there seems to be a canteen that I can go check out next week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table&gt;&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2227/1965974930_78cd843a32.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Bento  #33 on Flickr&quot; /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Contents: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;corn with several herbs&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;boiled egg&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;pine nuts and sun-dried tomato for the pasta salad side dish&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;carrot&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;again a container of humus and mojo Palermo with capers (I am almost out of the mojo that my mother in law brought us from La Palma)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;mini crackers and bounty&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;salt &amp; pepper for the egg&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;sesame nibbles&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;nut mix&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;and two pickles rolled in fake meat slice.&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the side some yogurt with prune jelly (homemade by my mother in law).&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;cutid1&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2033/1965976002_88583f8105.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Bento  #32 on Flickr&quot; /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Contents of Thursday 8 November&apos;s bento: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;stir-fried spinach with corn and sesame&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;pasta salad&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;dried cranberries and bilberries&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;mustard cheese cubes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;yogurt coated dried apricots&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;sesame nibbles&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;smoked almonds&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;small crackers&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;a light coke&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;and a smint for a fresh breath afterwards.&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Notice the nuts, fruits and seeds theme? &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description>
  <comments>http://gnoegnoe.livejournal.com/14075.html</comments>
  <category>bento</category>
  <category>vegetarian</category>
  <lj:mood>awake</lj:mood>
  <lj:security>public</lj:security>
  <lj:reply-count>1</lj:reply-count>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>
