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Been a bit quiet here since BF came over. He's still here being utterly adorable.
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Guess what? He could stay an extra two days! 
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That's good news!!!!! Enjoy, darling.
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Hey guys. It seems my last post here was to wish happy new year on 5th January. I remember reading Bonny's post about the Corona outbreak in the
nursing home where her boyfriend's grandmother lives and typed a reply, but somehow it didn't get posted. Anyway, I've caught up with what I
missed.
That riot in Eindhoven is freaky. Having been there it seems even freakier. It must have been pretty upsetting, Bonny. Those riots are orchestrated by
right wing extremist groups. They're totally hypocritical as pointed out by that article you posted. Looting the small businesses that they claim to
support against the deprivations of Corona lock downs.
It's not enough though, to throw labels like "right wing extremist" around and use fancy concepts like "ideologies" and so on. Close up, simple common
sense psychological analysis of these people shows that they are basically disaffected sociopaths that have adopted makeshift excuses like "it's dog
eat dog, man", to behave like complete assholes. It's like the term fascist, whatever deep analysis that implies, fascists are basically just jumped
up bullies.
Anyway, on a lighter note, I saw you're working on a guitar rebuilding project, Aqua. How's it going?
And, long time no chat, how are you both going in general?
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Hey Poly, glad to see you back. Life's pretty good, as far as I'm concerned. What about you?
The guitar project is going well. I've removed the frets, and started sanding the body. It should be done pretty quickly if the weather remains shiny.
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We've had pretty freaky weather here in the past two weeks: -10 (Celsius) one week and +19 the next. It feels like spring and two weeks ago I was
still clearing snow from the pavement.
Just waved goodbye to my boyfriend, who's going back up north. We had intended for him to stay until Wednesday because I had the weekend off and
Tuesday I was on leave due to dentist appointment, but since I had Thursday off as well, and a short working day on Friday, we could make it until
Sunday afternoon. This because the car has to be back Monday and there is a curfew here. (which I know is worse in France than it is out here, it's
9PM to 4:30AM. All the same it means he can't have dinner here because he wouldn't be back in time.)
I've never had BF stay here for so long, over a week. Quite refreshing. There isn't much to do here at the moment but we went on walks, played
computergames, watched some Baumgartner Restoration videos and Tod Browning's Freaks together.
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Bonny, if you don't mind my asking, why don't the two of you just live together? You've been together for quite a while, now, perhaps it's time for
you to move in?
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We're both somewhat stuck to the location where we live, due to work and family. Plus neither of us is earning at top capacity - house prices where I
live are towering and house prices where he lives may be affordable, but I'd have to learn to drive.
Watched Tod Browning's Freaks again with him of course, which was great fun. We rarely watch films together due to the distance, and I noted to him
that we have primarily watched cult films (others are Clue and Kung Fu Hustle).
Looked into Johnny Eck after it - he's the one without legs and who polishes his gun in the ending) - he was a Baltimore guy like FZ, a keen artist,
photographer and model builder. Together with his twin brother of normal stature Robert, he joined an illusionist in 1936 to perform with the ultimate
maiden-sawed-in-half trick. Robert would heckle the illusionist, who would then call him onstage to use in his next trick. During the trick Robert
would be swapped with Johnny and a midget in a suit that's just trousers - after the "sawing", Johnny would exclaim "I want my legs back!" after
which the "legs" would run off, with Johnny chasing them - sometimes even into the audience. They'd be joined and swapped with Robert, who'd storm off
angrily threatening to sue the illusionist.
I would have loved to see that!!
And here's the Johnny Eck-museum!
http://www.johnnyeckmuseum.com/
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Ok, I get it.
Freak is an awesome flick. I should watch it again. I didn't know about Johnny Eck, though .It must have been a cool variation of the trick. I, too,
would have loved to see that.
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Work's exhausting...
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Yes Aqua, life’s pretty good for me, certainly better than just “I can’t complain”. We’re currently enjoying some delicious home grown watermelon.
But, no Easter hay to lounge upon.
Remind me Bonny, it’s AirBNB you work for? So there‘a still a significant demand in spite of COVID?
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No, I work for the company behind Belvilla (nowadays that's Oyo Vacation Homes).
We are a link between home owners and people who want to rent a holiday home. Besides from our own website (belvilla.com) and our other brands, we
have over a thousand partners that work with us - travel agencies, and web partners like Booking.com, Trivago, Locasun, HomeAway, and also AirBNB,
AirBNB is a horrible site - we don't communicate our prices to the client because they pay more for ABB - ABB terminates all possible contact with a
client after two weeks and ABB clients tend to be the poorest informed about costs on site and such. Now that Corona is making itself known it's
shocking how many people book without looking into the restrictions of the country they're going to.
Within The Netherlands it's very well possible to have a stay in a holiday home - especially for a family it's a safe and comfortable way of staying
out - Belgians can still book within Belgium, the French within France... Germany and Austria are completely locked tourism-wise.
That said, I don't think this company will be around much longer, primarily due to mismanagement.
The demand is much lower of course, especially now it seems that this is the second Easter high season we miss.
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In good news my spider phobia is calming!
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Bonny, are you trying anything in particular to deal with your spider phobia or just toughing it out?
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Looking up a lot of information and studying them in their natural habitat, moving forward to the point I can hold any of the spiders which freak me
out but which aren't dangerous (notably Pholcus phalangioides, which are very frequent in my home and which scare me badly - partly because they have
the same colour and "stringy legness" as my own hair. I have gotten scared of my own hair thinking it was a spider. And vice versa.
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Whoa, has it been a week? I can barely think of anything that happened to me that's worth mentioning this week.
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Time flies so fast. I barely saw that week pass. But I managed to hurt my right shoulder and my left knee at work, and one of my co-workers has to
take the covid test cause he's apparently been in contact with someone who was in contact with someone who was in contact with... etc, etc.
And I'm bald again, no more hair on my face and head. 
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Sorry to hear about your injuries... I hope that your colleague's COVID free.
Enjoying a 3-day weekend. Think I'll do some more Excel classes.
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Julie's dad has been in care for a while and has just taken a turn for the worse, so he probably hasn't got very long. It's very difficult to get
clear cut information at this distance. We had a surprise visit from our eldest son this weekend, which was lovely. I've just entered a composition
competition - music appropriate for dance. The winning entry is then used in a choreographer competition. The winning composer and choreographer then
team up to produce a work for a performance by the Royal Academy Of Dance in 2022.
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I'm sorry to hear about Julie's dad... all the best to you two!
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