Author: fran
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What makes a legend?
The documentary Federer Twelve Final Days (2024) had been on my watchlist for a while as part of a broader strategy to get out of my boreout. Today was the day. I expected an inspiring documentary about a sporting legend. Instead, it turned out to be an emotional account of the 12 days between his…
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Tiny house in tatters
Sometime during the summer of 2022: I read the email: ‘There are currently not enough places for the number of registrations. That is why we would like to hear what roles you want to fulfill within the communi-‘, ‘No,’ Bob shakes his head. “What, no?” “I’m not going to do that.” “Why not?” “No, that…
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My life among the retards
August 2023 (which I didn’t publish then because I was scared shitless about being completely honest with and about myself – which I still am but apparently a little bit braver and a little bit more lost as well which makes for a ‘yolo hereby’ kind of approach.): Of course, those retards aren’t really retards.…
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What I learned from the fungus zombie apocalypse
January 2024: Last Christmas holidays we binged The Last of Us, the zombie horror hit series with eye-candy Pedro Pascal. We were quite late to the party, as the series has been on display since February 2023 and judging by its popularity, everyone who reads this will probably already know what it is about, but…
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The rebellious hopeful act that is gardening
February 2024: Last month I visited garden Klein Boskoop in Stroe, on the edge of the Veluwe for an editorial piece in Buitenleven magazine. An ornamental garden designed and maintained by Sjaak and Ellen van Vliet, a now retired couple that used to own a tree nursery. The garden was initially a nursery for all…