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

The phone is ringing. It’s my husband. I put the phone on silent, but instead it starts to vibrate. A plastic container with nuts becomes a temporary cradle. By the time I position it in the midst of cashew and macadamia nuts the phone has stopped ringing. Instead a missing call message stares back at [...]

Yesterday was a disaster on the Dutch roads. Everyone has somehwere to go as weekend started early with Queensday celebrations (today) and then the start of the May vacation. We were all stuck for hours in traffic and even the trains were not working properly which caused even further jams. Reinout, being the handyman with [...]

Still working on a business plan, so going to the funfair is out of the question. But Reinout & Sebastian just sent their report…sweet!

There was an email that stood out above all other emails from lat night. It simply read: “It was our wedding anniversary yesterday.” I stood there in disbelief having missed one of the most crucial days of our entire joint life. If you feel gutted, then this is the moment. I ran downstairs to apologise, [...]

Last night I had a bizarre encounter in a private chat on Facebook. Time was approaching midnight. As I was pretty tired, I occupied myself with googling some people in my immediate network, most notably my husband. To my pleasant surprise (and his horror) my blog comes up on top position on his name. At [...]

Victoria took some liberties while Reinout was sleeping off his jet lag After dressing him up and taking pictures, the monster woke up… A cross between Spiderman & a ski instuctor??? I guess Reinout is getting ready for his next trip….next the Alps

First of all I have to offer my apologies for my irregular blog entries. Several concerned friends has contacted me to check if I was alive, and as you can see I am. The last two weeks turned out to be anything but dull, and as a result of a compromised agenda stuffed with a [...]

My husband is in an excellent mood! Needless to say it makes me very happy too! I don’t know if it’s because of a clean house, a clean admin or a clean conscious. Perhaps it’s all three. My husband is, what you could call, a periodic administrator. Just like the periodic alcoholic abstaining from alcohol, [...]

I just woke up having the weirdest of dreams. I was working in an old building which was a cross between the office in Amsterdam and the local cigar shop in Haarlem. I had my own little room in the office where I was sitting working away when I lost my eye. Yes my right [...]

Who said the days between Christmas and New Year where lazy? Earlier this morning I got a call from my husband just checking in on how I was doing. “Fine”, I replied and with that we continued to chit chat about what the day had in store for both of us. My husband had a [...]