that's My World, & ABC Wednesday, K of Krimpen

Two of the villages in the Krimpenerwaard ( the name of the polder) are called Krimpen. The larger of the two is called Krimpen a/d IJssel, it lies on the river IJssel. The smaller one is called Krimpen a/d Lek, because it is situated on the river Lek, which you have to cross to come in Kinderdijk, where the windmills are.The church has a steeple with a wind vane representing a whale, because the church is built near the place where the whalers started their voyage to the north of Europe, centuries ago.
Wikipedia says:"" Krimpen aan de Lek is a town on the Lek River in the municipality Nederlek, province South Holland, the Netherlands. It had 6607 inhabitants in 2008.

The name Krimpen comes from the archaic word "Krempener", meaning "river crossing". Therefore Krimpen aan de Lek means "Crossing on the Lek".

Krimpen aan de Lek is a quiet and scenic village with 3 elementary schools and two Protestant churches. The village is small but as any other village it has a shopping centre with a supermarket, a greengrocer, a butcher, two baker's shops, three hairdresser's, a beauty parlour, a florist, a shoeshop, a clothes shop( very fashionable), a florist, a photoshop with an adjoining postoffice, an optician, a toyshop with an office stationer's, two bicycle repairers, a pet shop and a drugstore. There are several pubs and three restaurants. We have a sportcentre, which is used for all kind of events. On Fridays there is a market.

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Weekend Reflections

 

Click to enlarge! A photo taken in the polder not far from where I live.

This is a new meme which gives us the opportunity to show our best photos of reflections. It is a meme that is started by James. You can join this meme at some time during the weekend. Just post your photo and go to James to tell him that you are on.

Sky Watch, Australia, Duststorm.

 
 
 
 

Photos taken by:Abe Garda jr, David Kelly, Clare Tokareff.

AUSTRALIA often has dust storms, but they are rare in Sydney and yesterday the city was almost brought to a standstill. I found these photos here. Queensland also suffered from the dust storm. I know that this is not the sky I see at the moment, but I am interested in Australia, as one of my daughters lives in Queensland. In the mean time the air is clear again and everybody is washing their cars!

Thank you Klaus, Sandy, Ivar, Wren, Fishing Guy & Louise
for this great meme, it's always a pleasure to participate, and see all the other skies around the world. If you want to see some real skies please click on the logo in the side bar.


 

that's My World,& ABC Wednesday J for Jigsaw Puzzle

If you click on the puzzle it falls apart and you can start making it!







A few years ago I got the address of jigsaw puzzles(click here) from
Patty Lincoln. Since that day I have done these puzzles daily! They are part of My World too. Thanks to Patty. I hope you will also discover this site and try out all the different puzzles. Enjoy!

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Sky Watch The weather in Europe

 
 
 

 
 

A chat with a complete stranger at a busstop.
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The sun was shining, so I didn't mind waiting for my bus. There was another passenger waiting, she looked at me and smiled. "Wonderful weather, isn't it?!" she said.
"Yea", I said, "These past few days have been great with really warm weather!" She said :"But the weather forecast for tomorrow says we are going to have rain and may be a thunderstorm". "Oh are we?" I felt disappointed. She smiled and answered:"At least today is great. Let's enjoy it, while we can!"

This chat happened in... the Netherlands, England, Germany, France, Denmark, Norway, Australia... It could have been anywhere in the world. We always agree with anybody about the weather. Fortunately!!

Thank you Klaus, Sandy, Ivar, Wren, Fishing Guy & Louise
for this great meme, it's always a pleasure to participate, and see all the other skies around the world. If you want to see some real skies please click on the logo in the side bar.

ABC Wednesday I for ILLEGAL

Peeling an orange in a hotel room is ILLEGAL.

Painting a horse is ILLEGAL.

Fishing for trout from the back of giraffe is ILLEGAL.

All these laws were once passed in the USA and in the UK.
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1.It's ILLEGAL to die in the Houses of Parliament!

I found this in my newspaper and thought it rather hilarious!

The law above is one of the top ten of the most ridiculous laws compiled by a panel of 4000 British people. Here are the other nine:
2.It is ILLEGAL and an act of treason to put a stamp with the image of the queen upside down on the envelope.
3.In Liverpool it's ILLEGAL if a woman walks about topless, unless she works in a shop of tropical fish.
4.It's ILLEGAL to eat pies on Boxingday.
5.If some one knocks on your door in Scotland asking if he may use your toilet, you are obliged to let him in. It's ILLEGAL to refuse this request.
6.A pregnant woman is permitted to answer nature's call wherever she wants, even in the helmet of a policeman.
7.The head of any dead whale, found on the British coast becomes the king's property, the tail goes to the queen. Any other decision is ILLEGAL.
8.It is ILLEGAL to keep silent to the tax inspector about the things you don't want to tell him.But it is legal to keep silent about the information you don't mind him to know.
9.It is ILLEGAL to enter the Houses of Parliament in armour.
10.It is not ILLEGAL to kill a Scotsman within the old walls of the City of York, but only if he carries bow and arrow

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It's ILLEGAL to take your clothes off while having a bath in a bathtub.

Today's Flowers

 
 
 
 

Please click on the photos to enlarge them!

TODAY'S FLOWERS was created
by LUIZ SANTILLI JR
Now it's managed by SANTILLI and DENISE BC Thank you, Luiz and Denise!To see more flowers click on the logo in the side bar.

911 Remember !

 

 

Let's not forget... 911.

Pray for Peace if you can pray. Or let your thoughts be with the people who endure injustice and are discriminated against.

 

 

ABC Wednesday H for History

Solomon had seven hundred porcupines!!







One of my students gave me these beauties!

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The following were answers provided by 6th graders during a history test. Watch the spelling! Some of the funniest answers are those that are misspelled...


1. Ancient Egypt was inhabited by mummies and they all wrote in hydraulics.They lived in the Sarah Dessert. The climate of the Sarah is such that all the inhabitants have to live elswhere.

2. Moses led the Hebrew slaves to the Red Sea where they made unleavened bread, which is bread made without ingredients. Moses went up on Mount Cyanide to get the Ten Commandments. He died before he ever reached Canada.

3 Solomon had three hundred wives and seven hundred porcupines.

4 The Greeks were a highly sculptured people, and without them we wouldn't have history. The Greek also had myths. A myth is a female moth.

5..Socrates was a famous Greek teacher who went around giving people advice. They killed him. Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock. After his death his career suffered a dramatic decline.

6 In the Olympic games, Greeks ran races, jumped, hurled biscuits, and threw the java.

7 Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of Gaul. The Ides of March murdered him because they thought he was going to be king. Dying, he gasped out "Tee hee, Brutus."

8 Joan of Arc was burnt to a steak and was canonized by Bernard Shaw.

9.Queen Elizabeth was the "Virgin Queen". As a queen she was a success . When she exposed herself before her troops they all shouted, "Hurrah!"

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that's My World The Port of Rotterdam

Click on slide for a better view!

Sunday morning, my daughter, grandson and I left on our bicycles for Krimpen a/d IJssel to catch the waterbus, which is a catamaran,to Rotterdam. We wanted to attend the Harbour Days. In Rotterdam we met with a friend and her two children. There were crowds everywhere, which made cycling a bit awkward for me. But we saw a lot of ships, among others the fabulous, big cruise ship "Grand Princess". We enjoyed the tour, even while the weather wasn't sunny. We couldn't complain though, because it was dry and not cold.
The port of Rotterdam is the largest in Europe. From 1962 to 2004, it was the world's busiest port; then it was superseded by Shanghai. Rotterdam is situated on the banks of the river Nieuwe Maas ('New Meuse'), one of the channels in the delta formed by the Rhine and Meuse rivers. The name Rotterdam derives from a dam in the Rotte river.



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