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I have a clock widget with Minneapolis time installed on my computer just to avoid this problem.

Louis, I have no idea but I keep my rooms at a comfortable 25°C :-) (I know that many people find that a bit too warm)

The Netherlands was one of the first countries to go metric, but I have never seen the contents of a bottle stated in cm3. Is that a South American speciality? Also, I am a bit older than Louis and I was taught in school that room temperature was 16°C. My teacher told me that when he was young...

Today I saw for the first time sand instead of salt being used to keep bridges passable...

Every year, salt boxes are placed near bridges. This box is already empty...

Spring, however, is on its way. The daffodils are starting to push their leaves up (arrow). On my way to work there are some beds of daffodils that usually start flowering around Christmas. Not this year!

We had snow this morning too. Went out to put some jars in the glass recycling container...

Only hazardous for USA children :-)

Unilever and Henkel are both big companies that sell much more than detergents: margarine, glue and tea to name just a few. Have a look at their websites. Persil in the Netherlands comes from Henkel. We have it in liquid form and as megaperls. I don't like it because of the scent, but that is a...

Ah, another fan of the cast iron soleplate! When I got my vintage Rowenta, I first disassembled it for a good cleaning and I found that the heating element was a spiral wire like one sees in electric fires. The wire runs in a groove in the cast iron and can easily be removed as it is not...

There was a VéGé in my neighbourhood, but we never went there. It was a very small shop that also sold piggy banks, candle sticks, plates and other things in brown and green earthenware that looked like 17th century pieces (see image). I found that peculiar at the time and therefore I still...

Louis, I didn't see your reply until after I had posted mine on the Hillsdale movie. Yes, I have memories of older Dutch supermarkets (who hasn't?). The first supermarkets appeared in the 1960's and they were much smaller than the ones in the American movies. In my neighbourhood we had "Albert...

Yes that Hillsdale movie is also interesting with "The Farmer's Market" as "one of the gayest attractions" :-) It appears that in the USA, supermarkets were already very common at a time that hardly anyone in the Netherlands had heard about them. At that time "Albert Heijn", our best known...

Louis, I started using the "Chipknip" or "Chipper" as they were named by the Postbank when the euro was introduced so that I didn't have to fumble with al those unfamiliar coins (it felt like paying in a foreign country). Nowadays I don't use the "Chipknip" so much anymore because we can use...

My bicycle this evening...

My bicycle lock was frozen this morning. Had to hammer it open. Also brakes were not functioning properly. Still managed to get to work :-)

After watching the movie from Louis' link, I realised that a lot has improved for the supermarket cashier. Did they have to stand all day? I can't remember that. And then entering all prices by hand and all payments in cash... It also brought back memories of paying with cheques...

Is it still called "Giro" 555? I thought that since "Postbank" has become "ING" we have to call these accounts "betaalrekeningen" instead of "girorekeningen". For the non-Dutch: the "Postbank" was the successor of the state owned "Postcheque en Girodienst". Its accounts were called...

I had a W765 with dark brown panel.

Interesting to see that the transport rods haven't changed since I bought my Miele W765 in 1985. The provision for storing them on the backside is new for me.