Clearing & Cleaning

The tornado came and went in a couple of minutes. Cleaning up the debris is a different story. The plot looks as if a migrating elephant herd decided to have a jolly great pick-nick party right there.



After the woodworkers came with their machines, it's more like the Chinese roadmen started their preparations, or, for the Dutchies, the hsl-people passed by.



There's still a lot of rubbish to clear, and while clearing we also try to start rebuilding. Maud's friend (since 1973!) Kristien came over with her two boys Koen & Pieter to join the forces.



What is it with men that they immediately fall in love with machines, the bigger & noisier, the better? Kristien's lastborn Pieter got Bram's brother Ivan junior to teach him how to be a chainsaw-guy.



Except for Junior all of us are not used to manual labour, so he's the one who is just hungry, while the rest of us also is exhausted. Luckily Maud's mom organizes mountains of food and drinks to keep us going. Exhausted or not, nice food and actually attacking the ruins brings back happy faces. The wine Kristien brought might have something to do with that also...



This picture also introduces our new series 'What We Eat'. We're fed up with 'Where We Sleep', and everywhere people keep asking us 'what do you eat over there'.