Second visit with A., sailing, laundry
Aug. 5th, 2023 11:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitoutGoal for the day is laundry. I sent T. over to make sure I had correctly identified the location, but he did not go into it and we did not know we needed a code and we did not know how much and what kind of change and then reception was closed. *sigh* We rechecked an hour later, still no joy so I found the piece of paper and used whatsapp. So. Many. Places. use Whatsapp to run a hotel or at least deal with random guest questions. That got me the code, and later some change. I got everyone’s laundry through except T.’s. He did his later, and got change from Supermarkt Feijen, and also bought a couple doughnuts and a pain a chocolat for A.’s breakfast.
We had lunch at Het Gouden Leeuw, albeit in stages. T. went first and then the three of us when R. got back from sailing in a rented falk (UFO). He took T. initially but it was nonstop bitching and no help so he dropped T. back and carried on alone. This was a smaller falk than the one at Koudum, so it was a bit easier to handle.
T. and I went out to Heerenveen and had a visit with A. She gave T. a 35 mm camera claiming it was from when she was 17, which makes zero sense — it is plastic, and looks to date from the mid 1980s. It was thoughtful and lovely. She also handed me clippings of death notices for Dirkje and Sjoerd; I have tucked them between health insurance and AAA cards in my wallet. I hope they make it home. I also have a framed photo of GV [ETA: now hanging in my dining room above a display cabinet so it made it home safely, if you were worried!]. I gave A. the last of my hotel chocolat, and 3 mandarins. I have not gotten around to buying anything special for her, but she is always very appreciative of little gifts of food, probably because they are an approximation to appropriate behavior from her younger years. I am obviously not actually that civilized.
We had hoped to go to Picknickers, however, it was pouring, and by the time I was looking at other options, I could only do reservations for tomorrow. I set up a reservation for Picknickers for dinner tomorrow at 6:45 pm. We are to visit A. at 3 pm. I’m going to try to drive over to Achlum with T. and anyone else who wants to go in the morning and maybe get photos of more grave monuments if the church yard is open. I do not expect the church itself to be open; I do not think it was in 2002, the last time I was there. We went to a different church not too far away instead, which was open on that trip.
We had lunch at Het Gouden Leeuw, albeit in stages. T. went first and then the three of us when R. got back from sailing in a rented falk (UFO). He took T. initially but it was nonstop bitching and no help so he dropped T. back and carried on alone. This was a smaller falk than the one at Koudum, so it was a bit easier to handle.
T. and I went out to Heerenveen and had a visit with A. She gave T. a 35 mm camera claiming it was from when she was 17, which makes zero sense — it is plastic, and looks to date from the mid 1980s. It was thoughtful and lovely. She also handed me clippings of death notices for Dirkje and Sjoerd; I have tucked them between health insurance and AAA cards in my wallet. I hope they make it home. I also have a framed photo of GV [ETA: now hanging in my dining room above a display cabinet so it made it home safely, if you were worried!]. I gave A. the last of my hotel chocolat, and 3 mandarins. I have not gotten around to buying anything special for her, but she is always very appreciative of little gifts of food, probably because they are an approximation to appropriate behavior from her younger years. I am obviously not actually that civilized.
We had hoped to go to Picknickers, however, it was pouring, and by the time I was looking at other options, I could only do reservations for tomorrow. I set up a reservation for Picknickers for dinner tomorrow at 6:45 pm. We are to visit A. at 3 pm. I’m going to try to drive over to Achlum with T. and anyone else who wants to go in the morning and maybe get photos of more grave monuments if the church yard is open. I do not expect the church itself to be open; I do not think it was in 2002, the last time I was there. We went to a different church not too far away instead, which was open on that trip.