Elma Holmes...

After almost 15 years and two innocent people jailed my little sister has just solved the biggest crime story in the region ! Ok, she had a little help from some blue wearing officers (no smurfs) and this morning they arrested the suspect and this afternoon, Elma took the stand. Organising the press conference, introducing the case to the journalist and even a meeting with Holland biggest crime fighter Peter R de Vries. The police has never looked so smart !
Soon there will be an Elma fanclub and I am looking forward to see her pushing that moustache...congrats little sis!

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Eggs are creative too

At JuniorSenior we are always on the look out for new things, fun things, interesting things, basically things that make you say; cool ! fun ! nice ! Of course the majority comes from inside our company ;) but there are some other agencies that are taking up the challenges and this example is one I picked up recently at Sony and it is visually very strong and doesn’t need a lot to make its message clear, simple and well thought.

And a good message, we all need to relax now and than.

Delivery time, Peruvian style

Yesterday morning at 10.00 o’clock I received the long awaited delivery of the kitchen and many other stuff that I ordered in Genova. Unfortunately the delays of the work have made the access road rather Paris-Dakar and sliding down doesn’t seem to be an option, so you can imagine that I was slightly worried… A huge truck arrived and three tiny men got out of it.
Two looking like they played the flute in the street as part of the Peruvian whistle blowers that for long have graced our streets. Ooops, this looks like it will be difficult and I got even more worried when I showed them the access road and where it needed to be installed. They started straight to light a cigarette and discuss this among each other.

Than they opened the lift door and the started to unpack thing and the 2,50m fridge combination was staring like Goliath at two little Davids… But than my eyes almost popped out when the tiniest man turned its back on the fridge and carried, running down the steep access road, into the house!!! I couldn’t believe my eyes! They must have been doing Sherpa tracking in the mountains cos these two guys were unbelievable, asking each time to put more and more on their shoulders, head or back. Within 2 hours a huge trucks was empty and in between they cracked a number of jokes and managed to make several calls.

I was really impressed because they also put everything in the right place, had all the paper work sorted out and were never complaining about the quantity the weather of the work. (try that with the guys at the SNCF in France)

At the end I was really pleased that they did so much work and so quick in a situation that was easy for them and a little bonus was in order.
Next time when I will see them playing their bamboo pipes I will give them an extra euro and might even go for the cd…although, I shouldn’t stretch it too far…

Orange is everywhere

The European Championships are approaching and some people might start to notice that The Netherlands is quickly turning into a place of Orange. Houses are being painted orange, cars will be kitted out with orange features, the mayonnaise is produced orange and with thanks to my parents…M&Ms are adopting the same strategy and have produced oranges ones.

Taste wise there is of course no difference and they still don’t melt in your hand, but when you crock one in your mouth you can almost hear 40,000 people shouting and singing.

As with every football championship we have the best players and the best coach and we will as usual put in a bad performance and loose on penalties but I am happy cos those M&Ms are keeping the dream alive and my stomach filled. Oufff I just finished 300 grams and it feels a bit strange, my mum thinks that I will soon turn orange… A bit early bit it might come in handy soon…

Bordighera is da bomb!

Today there is a huge party in Bordighera. The reason? I have no clue but they are not kidding when they are building a party area… This morning they have taken all the ammunition that was left over from the Iraq war and installed it on the beach front. A number of serious looking chaps have been building strange looking pipes and boxes and another number of serious looking policemen have been keeping an eye on things.

Obviously wearing the full uniform that must be 50 degrees by now and drinking an espresso. It looks like tonite they will put in a good effort to clean Bordighera right off the map and at least get rid of the ‘weapons’ that obviously have been laying around in somebody’s garage and he was cleaning up or something. They will set light to it at 22.00 tonite and that could be my last blog…if I will be too close. It has been a pleasure…

The garden pimp feature of the year

The new garden needs to get designed and for this the use of Bos Inc has flown in. They have already provide me with the kit to create enough havoc in the garden to last me a while…

But I clearly instructed them to provide me with something that is memorable and that is a real feature in the garden. They have gone through great lengths and found this rather exquisite garden gnome to pimp my garden. Have a look at the picture and you will agree with me, this gnome rules! He even has a sign for deaf people and has a macho way of being a gnome, you can almost hear him saying, hey, what’s up !
He even provides a source of light when soaking up the sun and is therefore environmental friendly too!

I personally think that I am off for a great garden and that this part of the pimping exercise is a real hit. Having said so… when we had a closer look, his cool arm dropped off…sheer gnome pressure.

Garden Survival Kit

My parents have arrived with about 60 kilos of additional weight to them. This additional weight was part of the present for the new house and involved several stages of revealing it.

The initial stage covered all the tool to dig up the earth, the second stage was more subtle, smaller version of the first stage. The follow stage was a more useful stage, 20 kilo of earth and 20 kilo of some other type. These bags were obviously only bursting open when they arrived on my kitchen floor. Than the decorative stage, nice baskets and a tray to pimp the garden even further. Final stages, plants ! Yes, even that came from Holland. Strawberries and lavender and some other plants with strange leafs…

All has been professionally been put together and ready to get shipped over to its new ground.
The next phase will be designing the garden area and that will be a bit more difficult but well if you are be able to take half the garden center with you from Holland, I guess that this is just a little challenge.