remembering

seeing as I have a weeks' holiday I managed to go into town this morning, monday = market day in Gorinchem, it's nice to be able to do something different on a monday morning;  here's a picture of the canal along which you can see many houseboats, a common sight in the Netherlands

another bundle of joy, very fine cotton fabric wrapped around copper pipes and dipped into yesterday's  elderberry-dye
 when they were still tiny babies I used to call the boys  ' my bundle of joy' (bundeltje geluk), after they'd had a bath and were dressed in a body suit (rompertje)  I'ld wrap a cotton nappy arond their middle so they could wriggle their legs, in winter they'ld wear tiny vests, with the opening at the back and tiny socks.....