Consider this with dr.B

Where I live now you find many so-called Saxon farm houses. The Saxons (Saksen in Dutch) used to live in this area, they were moving away from what is now Germany. They were pushed away from there by the Huns who attacked the late Roman empire. The Saxons moved westwards, together with the Angles, another tribe, and went as far as Britain. That explains the term Anglo-Saxon when we talk about Britain. I learned about this when I investigated the past of the place where I live now. The whole process of this move of the Saxons took a few hundred years, but when you read about it in history books it takes one paragraph or even one sentence: "The Saxons decided to move to Brittanica". Can you imagine one Saxon talking to another: "Let's move to Brittanica and build some farmhouses underway". In history books the timescale of events is often a few hundred years. Looking back it is easy to describe the whole picture, it makes sense. Looking forward that is much more ...

Welcome to my blog, my new voice to the world, a voice that can also listen. This first blog will be about the reasons for starting this blog. Read on to discover this reason and to find out what's in it for you. About 3 years ago I retired, after working for Philips for 29+ years. As you probably know, you fall into a big empty hole when you retire, because from then on life is useless. All retired people will of course deny that they are in that hole. They say that at last they have time to do all the things they always wanted to do. They are suddenly successful experts on the stock exchange market, they work as a volunteer for the local charity, they read all the books they wanted to read for a long time, they have a busy agenda babysitting the grandchildren or they have at last time to create a beautiful Japanese bonsai garden. Do not let them fool you, they are all trying to fill that hole, but they are bored to death. Literally. But they refuse to admit it.  Well, o...