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I just have to tell you all how wonderful DutchOma is

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giddykipper · 10/09/2008 20:24

She has knitted DS a beautiful comfort blanket to replace the one he has loved to death. He has gone to sleep hugging it.

She's the best.

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LittleMyDancing · 10/09/2008 20:27

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

that's really lovely

now we all want one!

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DutchOma · 11/09/2008 09:29

Thank you Giddykipper and we'll have to see what can be done, LMD. There may soon be a second round of DutchOma offers. After my holiday.

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LittleMyDancing · 11/09/2008 09:35

Are you really a Dutch Oma, DutchOma? I used to live in Holland so your name always makes me smile.

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DutchOma · 11/09/2008 10:01

Yes, I really, really. I am the SubUrbanDryad's mother and Oma to her little boy.
So what do you want knitting then?
And where in Holland did you live? We are going on Sunday for a fortnight, to Ommen.

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LittleMyDancing · 11/09/2008 10:30

We lived in The Hague - I was born out there and we lived there until I was in my twenties.

Sadly, I don't speak much Dutch, as I went to an international school that spoke French first of all, and then to an English boarding school.

I can speak ein klein beetje Hollands

(but probably can't spell it to save my life)

I was teasing about the knitting

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DutchOma · 11/09/2008 13:15

I was born in the Hague too.
Klein beetje Nederlands is beter dan helemaal geen Nederlands. Maybe we'll get picked up for not using English, although I have got away with it elsewhere on the board.

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LittleMyDancing · 11/09/2008 13:44

I have however been left with a lifelong addiction to salted liquorice, and a deep disappointment that you can't buy vla or chocolade hagel very easily over here....

and those little sugar heart sweets, they only seem to exist over there!

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LittleMyDancing · 11/09/2008 13:45

oooo a fellow The Hague person! I was born in the Bronovo Ziekenhuis, apparently they've knocked that building down now

my dad still lives over there, so I get updates every so often.

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theSuburbanDryad · 11/09/2008 13:49

Yeah - she is pretty fab!! We're off to Holland on Sunday!

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theSuburbanDryad · 11/09/2008 13:49

LMD - there is a sweet shop near me (in High Wycombe) which sells "drop"!! Shall I bring you some back from Holland?!

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LittleMyDancing · 11/09/2008 14:15

oh that's very kind, but my dad keeps me supplied. and someone told me that you're not meant to eat them when pregnant, is that right?

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theSuburbanDryad · 11/09/2008 14:17

NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have never heard that.

I hope that doesn't apply to patat and frikandel as well, otherwise i might as well cancel my cabin on the boat!

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LittleMyDancing · 11/09/2008 14:22

ooo are you going on the boat!? I used to travel that way all the time - do you go Harwich to Hoek van Holland?

Oh, the memories....

Apparently too much drop can bring on early labour? Or that's what I was told

oh, hagel sandwiches, and poffertjes! I'd kill for a big plate of them with butter and icing sugar. Yum.

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Miaou · 11/09/2008 14:28

I have never been to Holland, but just to comment on the OP, yes she is fab isn't she - the blanket is beautiful, I have seen a pic!

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theSuburbanDryad · 11/09/2008 14:31

LMD - yes we're going on the night boat, as my thinking was that ds would sleep most of the way!! Harwich - Hoek van Holland it is, on the Stena line. Did you ever travel by Olau, think it was Sheerness - Vlissingen?

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LittleMyDancing · 11/09/2008 14:36

I went that way once, and got horribly confused at Vlissingen and nearly got on the wrong boat

Never again!

When I used to do it, it was run by Sealink though. That's going back a few years....

I'm very jealous, I hope you have a lovely time!

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theSuburbanDryad · 11/09/2008 14:38

I hope so too LMD! I am having a buggy dilemma at the moment!

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LittleMyDancing · 11/09/2008 15:02

a which buggy dilemma, or a buggy or not dilemma?

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theSuburbanDryad · 11/09/2008 15:13

No, I'll definitely need to take a buggy (ds walks very well at 20 months but has a tendency to run off when he sees things that interest him, or do Mission Impossible stunt when on reigns!) but out of the 2 buggies i have, one of them (this one) has broken straps and ds stands up in it and generally monkeys about, and the other one has no brakes and is not nearly so comfortable for ds or for me to push!

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theSuburbanDryad · 11/09/2008 15:14

(Sorry for thread hijack btw )

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LittleMyDancing · 11/09/2008 15:15

oh, that is a dilemma. I think I might lean in favour of straps when travelling, sometimes you just need to be sure that they're strapped in securely and can't get away!

No chance of buying new straps for the other one before Sunday?

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theSuburbanDryad · 11/09/2008 15:24

No, no chance. I bought some reins (or reigns? or is that what a king does?) but they don't keep him in well enough. The trouble is, it's the clips at the end of the straps which are broken, which is a design fault of the buggy, but no-one seems to sell it anymore, unless as a whole unit, so basically the entire pushchair is rendered useless - which is a PITA because it was an expensive one and is my only rear facing one for the new baby (due in Feb!)

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LittleMyDancing · 11/09/2008 15:51

Hmmm, that is a bummer. Surely someone somewhere must sell the clips on their own - but probably not before Sunday!

I think buggy manufacturers build in these bits that go wrong or become obsolete on purpose - they've brought out a better version of our Loola chassis now, with a single handle instead of two, whcih makes it easier to push with one hand, but you have to buy the whole pushchair, you can't just buy a chassis.

we have another baby expected in March, so was hoping to get the new chassis and keep the pushchair seat, carry cot and car seat from the old one. Looks like that won't happen. Tsk.

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DutchOma · 11/09/2008 17:06

LMD and SUD, the thing about 'drop' is that it is very salty and will bring your blood pressure up. Thar's why you shouldn't have too much of it.
The poffertjes:- I have a poffertjes pan and we bring the packets of Koopmans mix home and have them for a treat for Sunday tea. Do you do oliebollen for New Years Eve? Apparently hardly anybody does them any more in Holland, and I haven't for the past couple of years.
Bronovo ziekenhuis, no I don't think that's there any more, nor the Huishoudschool in the Laan van Meerdervoort where I went for a year. My grandfather worked at the Volharding, that was another hospital, don't think that's there any more either.
Oh well, what memories

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LittleMyDancing · 11/09/2008 17:14

But the saltiness is what makes it so gooooooooooooooooooood! I used to eat them by the ton when I was out there.....I liked the coin shape ones best. Dubbel zout!

Can you do that flicky thing that the poffertjes chef does with a fork to turn them over? I was always fascinated with that as a child. That, and the ten tons of icing sugar that he used to pile on each plate

We don't do oliebollen, I was never a big fan of those but my mum loved them, I think. My dad still sends all the grandchildren a chocolate letter for St Nicholas though

Ooooh and pepernoten!



Honest, I'm not all about the food. Really.

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