Wil Eelsing

SON: Can I have a cookie?
ME: Ask nicer.
SON: May I please have a cookie?
ME: Like a Canadian.
SON: So sorry, could I please trouble you for one of your delicious cookies, good sir, eh? It’s okay if you say no. There’s probably a more deserving child.
ME: *hands over cookie*

Dutch pull out of Eurovision Song Festival due to Israel

Dutch pull out of Eurovision Song Festival due to Israel www.dutchnews.nl?p=260771

Tiger mosquito could soon be here to stay, warns minister

Tiger mosquito could soon be here to stay, warns minister www.dutchnews.nl?p=260786

No BONUS do soño lindo de hoxe, tráiovos a un pequecho de manul ou gato de pallas, un felino super raro e esquivo que vive en Siberia e no Tibet e que ten un sistema inmunitario súper delicado porque vive alonxadísimo de case todo o malo e é moi, moi esquivo. E currichísimo, tamen é!!

Photo of a teapot shaped like a blue and white patterned octopus, placed on a wood floor

Octopus Teapot by Japanese ceramic artist Keiko Masumoto #Womensart

Painting of a white woman in a long grey coat, red scarf and black hat walking to the left in a snowy rural setting with her two cats

Dee Nickerson, contemporary painter who explores themes of living in the countryside #WomensArt #FridayFeeling #ArtAdvent

'Manze's Mince Pies', Deptford by Michelle Heron
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Deep blue glass vessel shaped like a stylized animal with four legs, a pointed snout, and decorative ridges along its back, resembling a whimsical pig.

One of my most favourite glass vessels: A marvellous Roman vessel in the form of a pig, made of blue glass. It was used to hold ointment or perfume.
Found in a burial in Cologne. Dating late 2nd/early 3rd century AD

📷 Römisch-Germanisches Museum Köln

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Black and white photo of a living room setting with a tv set on a rolling cart. Sitting up on the lower shelf of the cart is a shorthaired tuxedo tabby cat which looks ginger to me. The cat looks brightly at the viewer.

Why would you watch tv when you have me? Photo from my collection, 1960.

Shells found in Spain could be among oldest known musical instruments Conch-shell trumpets discovered in Neolithic settlements and mines in Catalonia make tone similar to french horn, says lead researcher

Researchers suggest that 12 large shell trumpets found in Neolithic settlements and mines in Catalonia, dated to between the late fifth and early fourth millennia BC, may have been used as long-distance communication devices and as rudimentary musical instruments.

Een 700 jaar oude Sinterklaas op deze 5de december. Sint Nicolaas uit Aragon in Spanje in een 14de-eeuws tabernakel. Op de luiken scènes uit het leven van de Sint.
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya in Barcelona

Het zou me niet verbazen als er nog een neusafdruk van me op die etalageruiten zou zijn te vinden.

Back to work on the edition of twelve 16th Century mice armour today, starting with the body. #jeffdeboer #mousearmour #16thcenturyart #metalarts #miniatureartwork

Aspiration for today's vibes:

Catholic experts call for major inquiry into harm done to women - DutchNews.nl Catholic scholars and church representatives are calling for a comprehensive investigation into the harm women have suffered as a result of Catholic doctrine, Trouw reported on Monday. The call for…

Catholic scholars and church representatives are calling for a comprehensive investigation into the harm women have suffered as a result of Catholic doctrine.

Three killed, one injured in The Hague in police car chase crash

Three killed, one injured in The Hague in police car chase crash www.dutchnews.nl?p=260757

Door with studded with iron all over and two decorative hinges. Coumns either side and a fish-scaley style lintel. The later tympanum above has the Lamb of God carrying a banner.

#AdoorableThursday
Uniquely named St Mary de Crypt in Gloucester. 12th C door renewed w Agnus Dei #tympanum in 19th C. Nice fish scaly lintel. And some fitting #IronworkThursday too.

Fire Salamander (Salamandra salamandra): This amphibian is native to central Europe, notably forests & hilly areas, prefering deciduous forests. Striking photo by Louie Lajonque of a Salamander found in his swimming pool in the South of France! #FireSalamander #salamander #nature #france #wildlife

Manul, the Steppe Cat, pas in the air like he just don't care! Has a white belly.

Monochrome photograph featuring the back of a 1950s style light coloured car partly covered in snow on a snowy street with trees either side

Car in snow, c.1955 by prolific US photographer Vivian Maier #womensart

Photo of a small life-like model of a fox lying down facing left created with soft textile material, the model rests on the white hands of the artists, the background is white

Mikaela Bartlett, UK #artist who works in needle felt and sculpts creatures out of natural/dyed sheep and alpaca wool #WomensArt

'Victoria Station, 1918: The Green Cross Corps (Women's Reserve Ambulance), Guiding Soldiers on Leave' (1919) by Clare Atwood

(Imperial War Museums)

A museum display case with small white clay figurines arranged in a circle: several birds and two seated dogs on grey plinths surround a slightly taller nude female figure standing on a red pedestal at the back, with a few pottery fragments and a coin laid flat in the center on a grey surface against a neutral background.

Some 1,900 years ago a child was buried with an array of terracotta figurines in the #Roman town of Arae Flaviae, #Rottweil: 2 pigeons, 2 dogs, 2 roosters, a chicken, a duck, and a female figure, commonly identified as Iuventas, the personification of youth. Rather than....🧵1/2

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Dramatic studio portrait of a medium haired white kitten sitting up. It is on a black surface with a black background and looks like it's glowing.

Postcard from my collection, no date.

Eind november verscheen 'In afwachting van jullie terugkeer. De oorlogsgeschiedenis van de Haagse families Weijl en Cohen'. Liesbeth Molenberg en Brigitte Weusten schreven een indrukwekkend boek over hun families aan de hand van vele historische bronnen.
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