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Been sitting in the garden drinking beer for afew days, very nice

Back to the grind tomorrow.

Been busy Gringo?

not too bad. We had a good day Monday & Tuesday with shipping to France (1st May celebrations)

Actually had quite a good week in the Uk with weddings etc. Prices are very good, and the range is getting better by the day, so it all helps. Had an early day yeasterday for my eldest lads birthday party. Went to the indoor ski slope at zoetermeer for an hour airboarding & an hour skiing/snowboarding with 10 kids aged 10 till 12. i'm glad i'm back at work for a rest

Going home to Maidenhead at the weekend to see mum and dad. Back to work on Monday.

Have another beer on me and try to forget about work until this evening

It will probably be quiet tomorrow with the bank holiday....

I see you have lived in Holland for ages now, I have been here for just over 2 years, dont speak hardly any Dutch yet, will have to get around to going to class to learn it, obviously you speak it well right?

Also with your kids, I have a 10 month old boy, wondering how he will grow up here, are your kids perfect in both languages? We have decided that I speak to him in English and the wife (whos Dutch) speaks in her language.

Hopefully that way he will grow up speaking both, did you do the same?

Anything you miss about home? I miss mostly the food, not roast sunday dinner for me

Its ok here, much the same really apart from they speak this weird language

been here for 19 years now.

My kids are 10 (nearly 11) and 7 years old. The eldest speaks very good English, but I almost never speak English at home. It's was just a habit that I always spoke Dutch at home. My neigbours are British & Spanish, and the kids are spoken to in english by their father & spanish by their mother, intermingled with Dutch from both parents and obviosly at school. I would recommend teaching english to kids as early as possible. They pick it up very easy.

As for the food, my shopping list every time I go to the UK is :

salt & vinegar crisps
salad cream
HP sauce
Chedder cheese
PG tips
Bisto
Chipolata sausages
Bacon

Some of these things you can buy here (bacon, sausages) , but they are so damned expensive, that I bulk buy in the uk, and freeze them.

I miss all of the above, but I can happily survive on Dutch grub.

dave and rachael's place called Jungle Jims in Leiden...they are an english couple living out there now and run a very good english shop. Good friends of mine from Basingstoke, mention me and you may get a discount or I may get a free beer next time I'm over

i'll give it a look. Leiden is just round the corner from where I work.

Cheers

Im about a 10 minute drive from Leiden, will have to check it out this weekend.

Most things I seem to have found food wise now, apart from some Heinz stuff (Saladcream).

I try to goto England everyother month to visit customers and family, so stock up at morrisons on the way back to the boat at Harwich.

Just miss me mums sunday roast mostly!