Adventures of a Cat Lady

  • Finishing off 2024

    The round up of 2024, highs, lows and a few things in between.

  • Why you should be boycotting the Dutch Olympic team this year at the 2024 Paris Olympics

    SOME READERS MAY FIND THIS POST DISTRESSING, AS IT CONTAINS DISCUSSION OF CHILD RAPE. Have you ever considered boycotting the Olympics? I think it’s fair to say that most of the population like the Olympics, from being massive fans attending the games to following the games on tv or reading it on news outlets. Generally…

  • Half way into 2024

    At the end of every year and then the beginning of the next year, I always say to myself, I must blog more! If I blogged as frequently as I thought about blogging, I would have at least one post a month. Sadly I see something shiney and then minutes, hours, days later I think…

  • 2023 Wrapped Up and Done

    Another year almost down, the older I get the shorter each year seems to feel. Ok, thats absolutely not true (but true). Jan-Mar always feels like a drag and you think, ‘when will this year end’. Spring arrives, things feel less dark and miserable. June arrives and you think, ‘what, already have way through the…

  • Gardening, the hobby of love and loathe

    “A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.” – Liberty Hyde Bailey There is truly nothing that I enjoy more than my garden in bloom each summer. There is something very satisfying all my hard…

  • 5 Years in the Netherlands and 2022

    Celebrating 5 years living in the Netherlands and looking back on 2022.

  • Saying a very cheerful good-bye to 2020!

    2020, what a year! Everyone likes to say what a horrific year it’s been; admittedly it has had its challenges but I’ve had a good year. It hasn’t been a total success, being in and out of lockdown for over 9 months now, saying ‘…I think you’re on mute’ over and over again to colleagues…

  • DIY Masks, the latest fashion accessory

    In the Netherlands, it was announced that from the 1st of December, masks are required to be worn in most places, grocery stores and anywhere ‘inside’, in short.  Masks are the latest thing that you literally can’t leave home without! I initially bought masks (I have more than I know what to do with) and…

  • Winter Spice Jelly – A deliciously delicate infused jam for winter

    Halloween has come and on and so have the cats outfits. The cats are pleased that torture will not come their way in the form of clothing for another year. Winter is here, the clocks have gone back, there is less day light and it seems like my body is preparing for hibernation mode, as…

  • Corona-Cation!

    It’s crazy to think we are 4 months from Christmas and basically 2021! What a year! I realised that in August, I celebrated one year of being a single homeowner. It’s amazing and yet truly scary. My house and I have a true love hate relationship, I love it but it hates me and likes…