Did I ever say an engagement was an elephant, madam?

"Mum, what was life like when those Moluccan train hijacks were going on? Did you just continue taking the train and that?"

"Yes of course, I just took my knitting on the train to college."

"So you could stab the hijackers with a knitting needle?"

"Noo, so I'd have something to do in case we got hijacked."

As in the only man-made Dutch provence, risen from the fickle sea. And I didn't even go to Lowlands-land this time. It was very exciting.

- Saw hundreds of wind turbines.
- Went to a place called Schokland, so very funny because it sounds like the Dutch for Scotland, but it's actually a tiny strip of land that used to be an island but had Flevoland 'ingepolderd' around it.
- Went to Urk and bought a pound of fresh eal. Paid for it with my Danish eal skin purse. Had it with chips and mayo when we got home. DELICIOUS.
- Watched a 60s film on the making of Flevoland, evidently during the cinematic era of 'we have discovered the zoom': "Do the new Flevolanders want to live in flats? No! Every flevo labourer wants a door (cam zooms in on door), and a bell (zoom on bell) and a letterbox (zoom on letterbox)." Our reason for coming to Flevoland was my dad's old Society of Dutch Church History having a day of Church History Flevo Fun by the way.
- Went shopping with my mum in the biggest outlet centre in Dutchieland, and bought a lovely Olily bag for 15 euros (it once was 75, oh yes. I've always wanted something Olily.. the posh kids at school always wore it. I just thought the pattern was rather pretty as well though.)
- Bought Control and State of Play for next to nothing from the DVD outlet place. Rubbish Dutch cover but at least I'll have something to watch when knee-ing it up.

It's my mum's autumn holidays this week so I got quite a few more trips planned as well. I've decided I'm ringing the hospital on Monday though. I'm getting so fidgety not knowing!

and we're going shopping today! Yaaay! :D