Hi. I’m still here. At the moment I’m struggling a bit to be the Queen of everything, with the end of the school year already in sight (!) But the universe has never really let me down before, so I have reasons to believe I’ll be doing just fine if I’ll just keep swimming. I’m [...]
Category Archives: Private
Apr
10
2013
March!
In MARCH I met-up with three Galaxy Zoo friends on three different occasions. Geoff visited me in Maastricht, Els joined me to the Belgian TV studios and I saw Graham at Patrick Moore’s remembrance in Selsey. Selsey beach on the first spring day of the year! And watching the balloons with Brian, Tim, Paul and [...]
Mar
31
2013
Vrolijk Pasen!
(Or Happy Easter). From me and the rest of the family. Little cousin V, who thinks I have ‘Princess Rapunzel hair’, took the picture of me (!) and we made a few drawings. Valesca’s daddy (my uncle Cor) joined our creative party with his seahorses, while mummy made an amazing lunch. I hope you all [...]
Mar
25
2013
Three Zooites (in Maastricht!)
I’m guessing most of my readers are well familiar with that term, but for newcomers: ‘Zooite’ is the title you get being a volunteer on (initially) Galaxy Zoo or (nowadays) any of the Zooniverse projects. I often use it to refer to my Zoo-friends; the people I met through the Zoo-forum a couple of years [...]
Mar
12
2013
Remembering Patrick
Monday the 4th of March marked Patrick’s 90th birthday, as I’m sure most of you readers out there know. With this ‘page out of my diary’, I’ll not go into great detail (as some memories are best kept in the heart rather than on the interwebs) but we did celebrate his life in Selsey. Together [...]