A Monday of blanc pages. You have to make do with what you have. And that isn’t much, after this weekend, when we forgot to bring our camera. And saw amázing things of course, but don’t blame the messenger – I am only in for the captions! And written updates, but it is Manic Monday and the editing department, is too in a state of blanc pages.
But a person I admire, once said: I don’t believe in inspiration. I believe in retyping a telephone book. If you don’t know what to write, this is the best start. Sure you’ll encounter a name that will ring a bell in your mind, in your imagination. So that’s how I shifted from my own white page to the White Pages (Oz online telephone book).
Loads of Dutch names; if they weren't all Frysk it would almost feel like home. Now what to say about Sietze de Vries and Durkje Offeringa from New South Wales, besides the fact that they probably once got here by boat, now buy their cauliflower and Dutch carrots at Woolworths supermarket and eat their ‘balletjessoep’ from Delftware?
Let’s browse further to Willem Jansen. Could he be offspring of the Willem Janszoon (c. 1570–1630): a Dutch navigator and colonial governor and the first European known to have seen the coast of Australia? Who knows, and if you want to catch up on your knowledge about this sailor bloke, you better move on to this Wikipage because I am leaving you now to read the pile of Libelles my mom send me.
And if anybody wants to give me a call: White Pages, It’s how we connect. Browse through till you hit another Dutchie under ‘N’.
Nieuwenhuis… got here by plane. Buys pine nuts, garlic and basil at Coles supermarket (Richard prefers homemade pesto linguine over ‘bloemkool met jappels’…. Yes, you can also find me listed as ‘Betty Draper’……) Now back to Libelle, my own personal Delftware.
And don’t forget to dial +61
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