Fracas Noir – Susanne Waldau – te Brake ~ for better or worse

Directly live from Casa Waldau – te Brake, location livingroom Susanne is sitting at the dining room table working. Her husband is in his chair watching GhostWhisperer. During some exciting moment, where the lead character talks to a ghost, a loud and clear fart echoes throughout the room. Susanne bursts out: OMG! That’s discussing. You’re [...]

Saturday didn’t turn out bad at all. One would have thought with a blog post as my last, that World War III had broken out in the Waldau – te Brake mansion, but peace prevailed. I said my goodbyes and went into town on my own. It was cold, snowy, but my spirit was on [...]

Now I’m fucking pissed. Yes I am going to use this media to defend myself. Primarily against my husband. Yes, my husband agree that I set too high targets, that I don’t take any rest, that I don’t spend enough time with the family, that I didn’t give our son a hug this morning, that [...]

I’m home just before 7. With glossy mag under one arm and my Burberry bag doubling as my laptop case, I’m ringing the door. It’s too cold to start looking for keys which are deep under cover, underneath tissues, sunglasses, pens and other parafanelia rattling around. Reinout opens the door. He’s holding Sebastian and I [...]

Exactly a week after the New Year made it’s entree, I am ready to make my New Year’s Resolutions. It’s not so much about resolutions but about goals. In many ways they are similar to last year. Having said that it doesn’t mean I achieved anything in the last year. If last year was about [...]

Yesterday… Another jam packed day from beginning to end. I woke up slightly later as I slept next to nil the night before. Half an hour of browsing through the online news I got Sebastian and myself ready for the gym.  I had a great work out, which was needed as the scale pointed to [...]

It’s been a while since I listened to classical music. And yet it’s the music I keep coming back to. When I was really young, my interest fell upon liturgical music, Gregorian to be specific. I recall being seduced by the stark, clear voices of Enigma. Then opera became the favourite du jour, Puccini shining [...]

At 4.06 am sleep is still eluding me. I’ve tried whatever remedies I have at home, hot tea, hot tea laced with whiskey. Then whiskey straight up. My husband is finding it increasingly difficult to handle my sleepless nights. So do I. Because even though they’ve resumed again, relatively harmless some months ago, they have [...]

It wasn’t until today, the third of January I had time for reflection over the past year and set course for the year ahead. I love New Year, as it truly gives you a clean slate. The past is metaphorically buried in Old Year History, and after a while even that will turn into nostalgia. [...]

Dinner at Stempels in Haarlem: Instead of a starter & main course, we went gready and ordered 6 starters between us Food always puts a big smile on my face New Year Couple Sebastian was exploring the premises The most beautiful Christmas tree in Haarlem – 7 metres tall! A rare moment: Reinout is smiling [...]