http://scanr.net dispatches Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:51:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en From time to time I feel the need to change the wallpaper. I do love Wordpress for its flexibility and a number of very good themes have been written for it. Alas, no theme is perfect, and I've gone through quite a lot of them. This one is a little ... http://scanr.net/tapetenwechsel/ Yeah, butter tea; it's an acquired taste. The great thing about it is that is very warming in winter, gives you a lot of calories instantly and can be easily prepared. I learned to make mine years ago and my teacher was very much into soda. The basic recipe is ... http://scanr.net/tea/ The first of september, only a few days away, will also mark the beginning of the month of elul in the jewish calendar. It's the month that leads up to the High Holidays (the autumn maneuvers, we used to say) and as such it is a time of introspection and ... http://scanr.net/new-2/ Hof van Twello's annual cook-out cum harvest festival "Preuvement" is on during the weekend at Hof van Twello. The ger will be up (much needed repairs will be made on the fly) and I'll be cooking with this year's produce from the permaculture garden. We'll fire up both the muurika ... http://scanr.net/cooking/ There is a high speed train service (think TGV) that runs between Amsterdam and Paris. From Rotterdam to Paris takes three hours, but it could be less. Because the northern part of HSL has been finished for two years now, but there is so much conflict over the purchase of ... http://scanr.net/commute/ Réculer pour mieux sauter, it's called in our house: stepping back in order to jump farther. And that's what I'm doing, resting after the viewfindering so to speak, breathing in, breathing out. I have a deep suspicion that I need to go slowly, that I need to rest in photographing ... http://scanr.net/reculer/ We made a short film about the Hof van Twello centre: [vimeo width="400" height="300"]http://vimeo.com/1601969[/vimeo] http://scanr.net/twello/ People close to me joke that on june 22nd I already start getting seasonally depressed because the days are getting shorter again. Now it's the end of august and I wake up when it's dark. That marks the beginning of autumn to me. Spring is my season, autumn most definitely ... http://scanr.net/autumn/ Emily Brontë, a poet who also wrote prose. He comes with western winds, with evening's wandering airs, With that clear dusk of heaven that brings the thickest stars; Winds take a pensive tone and stars a tender fire And visions rise and change which kill me with desire - Desire for nothing ... http://scanr.net/prisoner/ [youtube width="425" height="355"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyIXqhAZGLc[/youtube] From this year's barge sailing regattas: the Heerenveen skutsje wins the day in Earnewald. For two weeks every summer there are races: the 11 Frisian cities and a number of villages enter barges that have been adapted to regatta sailing and yet have to retain their traditional characteristics. ... http://scanr.net/sailing/